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.

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?

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Military Intelligence. Schindler and Bonhoeffer are saints today, but the others, at least insofar as their resistance to the Nazis goes, are seldom remembered. Why? Perhaps because they were ...

Re-examining the Third Reich remains, even now, essential. Its lessons are too important to be deemed safely settled. But when Richard Evans argues that the task has “gained new urgency and importance ...

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 ...

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 ...