Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial

1h

Documentary

Drama

Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial, is a BBC documentary film series consisting of three one-hour films that re-enact the Nuremberg War Trials of Albert Speer, Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess. They were broadcast on BBC Two in 2006 to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the trials.

Production Companies

Discovery

BBC

Episodes

Cast

Albert Speer

1. Albert Speer

1h

25th Sep 2006

Episode one questions whether the “nazi who said sorry”, whose actions were the most far reaching and significant of the trial, was a troubled soul seeking forgiveness of the German people or the mastermind of a cynical strategy that fooled the world?

Hermann Goering

2. Hermann Goering

1h

2nd Oct 2006

Episode two questions whether Hitler’s chosen successor could succeed where he had failed by re-igniting Nazi pride from the witness box.

Rudolf Hess

3. Rudolf Hess

1h

9th Oct 2006

Episode three explores the mind of one of the most fanatical of all Nazis and the insight that gives into the psychology of dictatorship.

First air date

25th Sep 2006

Last air date

9th Oct 2006

Status

Ended

Type

Miniseries

Original language

en

Networks