When a documentary is called “The Meaning of Hitler,” there are two things you know off the bat. One is that the film probably won’t live up to that title — and doesn’t have to, because how could it?

"Hitler Goes Kaput," an inspired lunacy here at the market, catapults through the last days of Berlin, which heretofore have been Verboten as comedy in das film community. By Duane Byrge, The ...

Watch a clip from the documentary "The Meaning of Hitler," directed by Petra Epperlein, and Michael Tucker. Photo: IFC Films There’s some question as to whether Covid-19 will always be with us.

Time has a tendency to flatten history’s darkest chapters, reducing panic and persecution to footnotes and caricature. So it goes with Adolf Hitler, whose outsized image as a cartoon villain often ...

The tragic outcome of Nazi Germany is well-documented, and the last generation of survivors will soon be saying their final farewells, leaving behind only their stories, each one as powerful and as ...

Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker's documentary 'The Meaning of Hitler' delves into decades' worth of cultural fascination with the Nazi leader and its political ramifications today. By Sheri Linden ...

In a recent issue dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, The Book Review resurfaced its 1943 critique of Hitler’s political manifesto. By Gal Beckerman On Sunday, Oct. 17, 1943, ...

The spy novels of Alan Furst are set in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Their protagonists are usually oddballs and loners hoping either to forestall the catastrophe of a second European war or to ...

This docu-essay inspired by Sebastian Haffner’s 1978 book of the same title argues that Hitler was disturbingly ordinary. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2020 DOC NYC Film Festival. IFC Films releases the film in select theaters and on various digital and VOD platforms on Friday, August 12.