The Archives of the Mossad

An outstanding firsthand account by the Mossad agents who planned and implemented the covert “Operation Eichmann”. Shot on location in Austria, Germany, Italy, Argentina, England and Israel, the film uses a mixture of documentary techniques and dramatic reenactments to retrace Eichmann's escape route from Germany after World War II. Isser Harrel, the former head of Israel's secret service, recounts how his agents captured the Nazi fugitive and brought him to trial in Jerusalem. Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Final Solution, was the first and last to be executed by the High Court of Israel.

The eerie recording of Josef Mengele's singing from his Brazilian hideout is made public for the first time in the opening of this film. The warrant for the arrest of Auschwitz's “Angel of Death” read like a catalogue of horror, but Mengele managed to elude justice, living in isolation in South America. Josef Mengele: The Final Account looks back at the crimes and life of the SS doctor who sent 400,000 people to the gas chambers in the horrifying pursuit of racial purification.

For many, the war was not over in May, 1945. Angels of Vengeance is the untold story of a small group of Jews who were determined to punish the perpetrators of the Holocaust. Under the leadership of Abba Kovner, a charismatic young poet and partisan, this band of avengers tracked down known Nazis and executed them without judge or jury. For the first time, the avengers tell how British and American intelligence unwittingly provided them with information crucial to their campaign of retribution.

In 1997, the District Attorney of Frankfurt consented to perform a DNA test on bones unearthed in 1973. This was to determine whether the remains were those of Martin Bormann, Hitler's right-hand man who allegedly disappeared at the end of WWII. With international focus on the return of this unsolved mystery, this film sifts through the rumours and theories and reveals possible answers to the question: what happened to Martin Bormann? The Disappearance of Martin Bormann explores the likelihood of Bormann's escape, the plausibility of a suicide and also presents new evidence suggesting a postwar life in Italy.

Shaheed probes the minds of suicide bombers who spearhead the psychological war of terror in the Middle East. The film examines the reasons why young men justify the sacrifice of their lives to become human bombs. The quest to become a “Shaheed”, or in English, “holy martyr” is analyzed in rare, intimate interviews with these men.

This is the story of Hussein Mikdad, a man who is sent to bestow mass death and destruction and becomes the only victim of his own bomb. It is the story of heroism, crime and punishment. Hussein Mikdad was a successful accountant in Beirut. His real dream, however, had always been to play a key role among the guerrilla fighters of the Hezbullah. In 1996, he was offered the ideal mission: to wind his way from Beirut through Europe and to be the first to penetrate the borders of Israel - all the while carrying plastic explosives in his suitcase. Trained by Iranians, his directive was twofold: the first, to recruit future suicide bombers and the second, in the words of his direct superior, to “cause a spectacle that everyone will talk about.” An exclusive interview with Hussein Mikdad.