When they start losing family members and neighbors due to WWII and the Nazi government's policies, a quiet married couple becomes disillusioned and begins spreading leaflets against the government - a crime punishable by death.
Basada en hechos reales, sobre la figura de Wilhelm Franz Canaris, veterano de las dos Guerras Mundiales conocido con el sobrenombre de El Pequeño Almirante debido a su baja estatura. Con la subida al poder del nazismo, Canaris llega a jefe de inteligencia de la Kriegsmarine y la Wehrmacht. Pero el horror que le produce conocer en primera persona el trato que se les da a los judíos lo lleva a facilitar información incompleta a Hitler y evitar, así, que éste inicie determinadas campañas bélicas. Debido a sus conocimientos de español, Canaris viaja a España para tratar de convencer a Franco de aliarse con Alemania en la Guerra, pero Canaris le aconseja al dictador español que se mantenga al margen
The plot revolves around a gang of criminals, mostly former guards of Auschwitz, who print and distribute counterfeit U.S. currency in Berlin after World War II.
The story of Johann Friedrich Böttger, an apothecary’s apprentice and alchemist’s assistant. Fleeing from the Prussian King, he goes to Saxony, where King Frederick August the Strong takes him to a fortress and demands that he create gold. Böttger is equipped with everything he would need for the task, but he has known for a while that actual gold production is a myth and instead experiments with porcelain—white porcelain, as the Chinese are said to possess. In 1709, he finally succeeds in surprising the King with the "white gold," the first white porcelain made in Europe, he hopes for freedom.