“Right from the start, this involving documentary asks much of its audience and poses questions that are unnerving yet engrossing.” (New York Times)

“Imagine what it must be like to grow up as the child of a mass murderer.” That’s the first sentence spoken in David Evans’ searing and provocative What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy. While researching the Nuremberg trials, eminent human rights lawyer Phillippe Sands came across Niklas Frank and Horst von Wächter, the sons of two high-ranking Nazi officials who were indicted as war criminals for their roles in World War II. Sands was astonished to learn that the younger men held diametrically opposed views about their fathers. As the three take an emotional journey through Europe, this powerful film explores those feelings, the complicated connection between the two sons, and the story of Sands’ own grandfather, who escaped from the town where the fathers carried out mass killings. This unique view of the father-son relationship ultimately comes to difficult and unexpected conclusions.