• StatusEnded
  • Rating8.5
  • Created by:Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, Lynn Novick
  • Production
    CompaniesFlorentine Films
  • GenreDocumentary
  • Episode
    Runtime132mins
  • First Air
    Date2022-09-18
  • NetworksPBS

Overview

Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, this documentary series examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States, and race laws in the American south.

Casts

Peter Coyote

Meryl Streep

Werner Herzog

Paul Giamatti

Liam Neeson

Adam Arkin

Joe Morton

Elliott Gould

Matthew Rhys

Bradley Whitford