In the spring of 1933, the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda stages a march by members of the Stormtroopers at the Brandenburg Gate with a film camera. The resulting motion picture reenacts the night in which Hitler assumed power in Germany. The Third Reich is only a few months old and already the Nazi…
The man in the back row hadn’t said a word in 40 minutes. He sat with his legs crossed, a plain gray jacket over his shoulders, and a dark cap pulled low enough that anyone glancing at him might have assumed he was a janitor who’d wandered in through the wrong door. He had a…
the 23rd of November 1939 there are storm clouds over Europe [Music] 200 generals are summoned by their fuhrer in the space of just a year the Vermont has already conquered the sudeten land Czechoslovakia and Poland but Hitler won’t stop at that he makes no bones about it continue the war he orders attack…
Elvis’s hand trembled as he reached toward the guitar hanging on the wall. The worn wood, the faded finish, the crude modifications. Everything was exactly as he remembered. But it was the initials carved into the headstock that made his heart stop completely. Two letters roughly carved with a pocketk knife by a boy who…
It’s the 2nd of November 1944, and as US B-17s fly overhead Lieutenant Günther Andreas speeds down the runway of the Brandis airfield in his interceptor. It’s a very special aircraft — the Me 163 Komet, the only rocket-powered aircraft to ever see combat, and at this time, it’s the fastest plane in the…
Elvis Presley. The four-minute audition that almost killed rock and roll. 4 minutes. That’s all it took for one man to nearly destroy the career of the biggest entertainer in history [music] before it even started January 4th, 1954. A 19-year-old truck driver sat crying in a beat up Lincoln Continental outside Sun Records in…
In 1931, the city of Berlin was awarded the auspicious task of hosting the 1936 Summer Olympic Games. What no one could have predicted was that these games would be used as a tool for some of the slickest propaganda by one of the most tyrannical regimes the world has ever seen. By the early…
He was only 18, a poor southern boy with calloused hands, secondhand clothes, and a voice that didn’t fit anywhere. He grew up believing in God, hard [music] work, and dreams too big for his small town. People said he was different, too shy to lead, too strange to blend in, and far too bold…
NARRATOR: February 15, 1944, Central Pacific. USS Enterprise is steaming toward the Caroline Islands. She’s not alone. On either side of her, stretching nearly as far as the eye can see, are eight other aircraft carriers, six battleships, 10 cruisers, and dozens of destroyers. 500 miles ahead of these ships, at the heart of the…
Elvis stood at the microphone, his fingers frozen on the guitar strings. The opening chords of That’s All Right should have been flowing by now, but something had stopped him cold. Behind him, the small crowd at Dwiey’s Blues Corner grew restless. their Saturday night energy buzzing with anticipation. But Elvis couldn’t move, couldn’t breathe…
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