Season 1
Synopsis
The Devil Next Door (2019), Season 1 — a five-episode Netflix documentary, watch online on iFILM. John Demjanjuk, a retired Ohio autoworker and grandfather, is extradited to Israel and put on trial as Ivan the Terrible — the most feared guard at the Treblinka death camp.
The series follows the full arc of the case. Treblinka survivors testify in person, identifying the man in the courtroom decades after the war. The defense challenges the credibility of aging eyewitness memory and contests the authenticity of an identity card pulled from KGB records. Then the Berlin Wall falls. Documents from Eastern European archives begin to surface, and what had looked like a clear verdict becomes something far more complicated.
Five episodes build a portrait of a legal case where certainty keeps slipping through everyone's hands. The documentary earns its ambiguity rather than manufacturing it — this is a story about how justice works, and sometimes doesn't, when the crimes are fifty years old. Stream The Devil Next Door Season 1 all episodes online on iFILM.
5 episodes
S1·E1The Devil Lives in Cleveland
Is he a grandfather from Cleveland or the matzo Ivan the terrible. War crimes from ww2 still being sought and prosecuted all these years later.
S1·E2Nightmares of Treblinka
Survivors of Treblinka death camp testify against John Demjanjuk and accuse him of being Ivan the Terrible while his attorneys find ways to question the credibility of testimonies against him.
S1·E3The Conspiracy
The defense tries to discredit crucial testimony of a Treblinka death camp survivor, challenges the genuineness of an ID card obtained from KGB records, and makes a startling discovery in a McDonald's trash dump.
S1·E4Facing the Hangman
Just as a much-awaited verdict is delivered, the fall of the Berlin Wall leads to release of new evidence from KGB, throwing a hard twist into the John Demjanjuk's trial.
S1·E5The Final Twist
The final verdict is delivered by the Supreme Court of Israel in John Demjanjuk's trial, but more twists await.
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