Episode Details

As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, World War II Movie Night does not only its first movie about the Holocaust but the first feature movie filmed at the actual Auschwitz camp. Willem Dafoe plays a real-life boxer in 1989's "Triumph of the Spirit." Although the movie had a strong pedigree and was braced to become an important cultural moment, TotS bombed and went strikingly unseen. What happened? Let's see if we can find out... Asides include the secret-life-and-unsolved-murder of Bob Crane.