The Nightmare Years (1989)

About this title: The Nightmare Years was a surprisingly underadvertised three-part miniseries, originally telecast over the TNT cable network. The production was based on a book by William L. Shirer, who in the mid-1930s was an American news correspondent in Berlin. In Part 1 (telecast September 17, 1989), Shirer (Sam Waterston) and his wife Tess (Marthe Keller) arrive in Germany just as the Third Reich is beginning to take hold. Attempting to relay information of Hitler's oppressiveness to the outside world, Shirer finds himself the constant target of censorship. This 2-hour episode ends with the German ... read more

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