Hermann Göring starts out as a decorated World War One fighter pilot, one of the last commanders of the Red Baron's old squadron, before drifting into poverty in the chaos of Weimar Germany. This Timeline profile traces how that down-on-his-luck veteran attaches himself to Adolf Hitler's fledgling Nazi party and rises to become Reichsmarschall, founder of the Gestapo, and architect of the Luftwaffe. Archival photographs, wartime footage, and historian interviews chart his transformation into one of the regime's most extravagant figures: looting art collections across occupied Europe, building a lavish estate at Carinhall, and sliding into morphine addiction as his weight and his fortune both balloon. The film does not skip the darker machinery he built and ran, including his role in the Nazi war economy and persecution apparatus, and it follows him through to his capture, trial at Nuremberg, and death by suicide hours before his scheduled execution. It is a portrait of ambition curdling into monstrosity inside one man's career.