Historian Ian Buruma chronicles the lives of ordinary Berliners — including his own father — during World War II. Stay Alive is about the past, but has powerful lessons for the present.
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How Charlie Chaplin used his uncanny resemblance to Hitler to fight fascism
It’s been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world’s most popular performers to take a stand against fascism on film.
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Leni Riefenstahl made movies for Hitler. A new documentary digs through her archives
Adolf Hitler commissioned filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to make propaganda about Nazi Germany. She lived to be 101 years old and denied knowing about the Holocaust.
