Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution (Season 1)

Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution (2005) is a BBC documentary series you can watch online on iFILM. Director Laurence Rees spent years gathering testimony from survivors, former guards, and archivists to chart, episode by episode, how a Polish prison camp became the centre of industrial mass murder.

Six parts trace the mechanics without flinching: the early deportations of 1940, the construction of Birkenau, the arrival of Hungarian Jews in May 1944 when the platform ran day and night. Rees lets the witnesses speak in their own voices rather than smoothing events into a single authoritative narration. The result is layered — perpetrators and victims in the same frame, their accounts rarely aligning.

Released to mark sixty years since Soviet troops reached the gates in January 1945, the series remains a landmark of Holocaust documentation on television. Stream Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution (2005) online on iFILM.