Movies and TvShows featuring "pope-pius-xii" theme.

A historical drama based on the true events of World War II, Amen. follows the efforts of a German officer and a Jesuit priest to expose the atrocities being committed by the Nazi regime, including the genocide of Jews in concentration camps like Auschwitz and Treblinka.

During World War II, an Irish Catholic priest named Hugh O'Flaherty risks his life to hide and protect Jews in Rome, Italy. He collaborates with a resistance group and uses the Vatican as a safe haven. Despite constant dangers and threats from the SS, O'Flaherty continues his mission to save lives.

Rome, 1943. The city is occupied by the Nazis. The lives of thousands of Jews are in danger, and in Vatican City, a neutral state within the borders of Rome, Pope Pius XII is struggling to save the city from hunger and destruction.

The story of Sister Pascalina Lehnert, who was the personal confidant and secretary to Pope Pius XII for forty years, when he was the papal nuncio in Germany, and then for his whole pontificate. The Pope had great confidence in her wisdom, energy, and loyalty, and she became known as "the most powerful woman in the history of the Vatican."

Why was Pope Pius XII, head of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958 silent about the extermination of the Jews by the Nazis? Accused of a complacent approach to the fascist horror in Europe during the Second World War, present-day Pope Francis opened the Vatican archives from the time in 2020.

The Vatican opened once-secret records on Pope Pius XII on March 2020. This gave researchers a brand new insight into the Catholic Church during the Nazi era. What did the Pope know about the Holocaust?

While Nazi ideology dominated Europe, Adolf Hitler used all dogmas to divert them to his advantage and feed the cult of his personality. How did the Führer manage to transform the Bible, the Church and Christ himself into instruments of power, winning the support of the Germans? This documentary traces the rise of a little-known theological organization: the “German Christians”, which became the most powerful propaganda tool of the Third Reich.

While Nazi ideology dominated Europe, Adolf Hitler used all dogmas to divert them to his advantage and feed the cult of his personality. How did the Führer manage to transform the Bible, the Church and Christ himself into instruments of power, winning the support of the Germans? This documentary traces the rise of a little-known theological organization: the “German Christians”, which became the most powerful propaganda tool of the Third Reich.