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Nazis and Hitler on the Big and Small Screens

by theNeoplatonist • Created 9 years ago • Modified 4 years ago
Movies and tv series/stand-alones on Nazis and Nazism, including fact, fiction, and things in-between, as they feature in theNeoplatonist's valueless canon of personal opinion. In alphabetical order...
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  • Adolf Hitler in Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told (2013)

    1. Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told

    20135h 50m
    7.2 (6.8K)
    Adolf Hitler, born in Braunau, a man who will forever change the history of the world.
    DirectorDennis WiseStarsEva BraunWinston ChurchillCharles de Gaulle
    Health warning: don't watch this unless you're ready to have the (ahem) "politically correct" view punched in the face, shredded in the meat grinder, and fed to the Shoggoths. Then you have to decide who's telling the truth. Worth watching for shock value, if for no other reason. You have been duly warned.
  • Adolf Hitler in Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler (2011)

    2. Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler

    20112 epsTV Mini Series
    8.2 (2.1K)
    Chronicles Hitler's life as a failed painter and far-right activist up to his election as Chancellor of Germany, leading to his relentless rise to power, culminating in the beginning of World War II.
    StarsMathieu KassovitzRichard LinternDoug Rand
    Worth watching for the colorized footage.
  • Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)

    3. Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State

    20056 epsTV Mini Series
    8.6 (4.7K)
    The history of the Final Solution phase of the Nazi Holocaust, particularly with the most infamous of the death camps.
    StarsLinda HuntSamuel WestGert Heidenreich
    Apart from the specious justification of America's use of the atomic bomb on Japan, an eloquent presentation.
  • John Rabe (2009)

    4. John Rabe

    20092h 14m57Metascore
    7.2 (6.9K)
    A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
    DirectorFlorian GallenbergerStarsUlrich TukurDaniel BrühlSteve Buscemi
    John Rabe, the Good Nazi, who saved 200,000 Chinese lives during the Rape of Nanking by the Japanese.
  • Edward G. Robinson in Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)

    5. Confessions of a Nazi Spy

    19391h 44mApproved
    6.7 (2.3K)
    FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-war espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
    DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsEdward G. RobinsonGeorge SandersFrancis Lederer
    Perfect representation of American anti-Nazi views before America entered the war.
  • Kenneth Branagh and Stanley Tucci in Conspiracy (2001)

    6. Conspiracy

    20011h 36mRTV Movie
    7.6 (28K)
    At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
    DirectorFrank PiersonStarsClare BullusStanley TucciSimon Markey
    Watch this for the amazing acting.
  • Downfall (2004)

    7. Downfall

    20042h 36mR82Metascore
    8.2 (391K)
    Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
    DirectorOliver HirschbiegelStarsBruno GanzAlexandra Maria LaraUlrich Matthes
    Seems to capture the "human Hitler" better than any other work.
  • Adolf Hitler in Grey Wolf: Hitler's Escape to Argentina (2012)

    8. Grey Wolf: Hitler's Escape to Argentina

    20121h 30mNot Rated
    5.5 (362)
    Adolf Hitler the biggest criminal in history escaped from the ruins of Berlin and fled with his pregnant girlfriend Eva Braun to a life in the depths of Patagonia, Argentina where he died in 1962.
    DirectorGerrard WilliamsStarsDante VenesioMaria HellerMartin Gianola
    Gripping stuff, even if none of it should turn out to be true.
  • Hitler: A Profile (1995)

    9. Hitler: A Profile

    1995– 6 epsTV Mini Series
    7.7 (115)
    Documentary chronicling the life and times of one of history's most simultaneously repugnant and fascinating characters, German dictator Adolf Hitler.
    StarsDavid RitchieJ.A. Graf von KielmannseggWill Quadflieg
    Standard German film biography.
  • Hitler: A Career (1977)

    10. Hitler: A Career

    19772h 30mNot Rated
    7.5 (3.2K)
    This meticulously assembled film dissects the Third Reich with an analytical blade, charting Hitler's improbable rise, his mastery of crowd psychology and his consummate skill in exploiting others' weaknesses.
    DirectorsJoachim FestChristian HerrendoerferStarsGert WestphalStephen MurrayArtur Axmann
    And another one.
  • Robert Carlyle in Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)

    11. Hitler: The Rise of Evil

    20032 epsTV-14TV Mini Series
    7.2 (25K)
    A profile of the life of Adolf Hitler with a unique slant, as a child and his rise through the ranks of the National Socialist German Workers Party prior to World War II.
    StarsPeter StormareFriedrich von ThunPeter O'Toole
    Doesn't convey a realistic sense of what Hitler was like or why people followed him, but worth watching as a piece of drama.
  • Hitler's British Girl (2007)

    12. Hitler's British Girl

    200748mTV Movie
    7.2 (17)
    The story of Unity Mitford, the young and unsteady British aristocrat who fell for Hitler during the 1930s.
    DirectorRichard BondStarsRamon TikaramAdolf HitlerUnity Mitford
    Fascinating minor gem. The Mitfords were probably Britain's most colorful aristocratic family.
  • Hitler's Circle of Evil (2018)

    13. Hitler's Circle of Evil

    201810 epsTV-14TV Mini Series
    8.0 (5.5K)
    This is the story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich told like the drama it really was: through the personal relationships of the movers and shakers of the Nazi Party.
    StarsGuy WaltersAlisdair SimpsonJay Osborne
  • Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil (1985)

    14. Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil

    19852h 15mNot RatedTV Movie
    6.5 (911)
    The story of Helmut and Karl Hoffmann. Both come of age at the start of Hitler's power in Germany. Helmut joins the SS and eventually becomes a successful flag rank officer. Karl joins the SA and experiences the darker side of Nazism after the SA is disbanded and Karl is thrown into prison and later conscripted into the German army. Brother is pitted against brother until their relationship, and the Third Reich, stands in ruins
    DirectorJim GoddardStarsJohn SheaBill NighyLucy Gutteridge
    The only decent presentation of the downfall of Ernst Rohm.
  • John Gielgud, Rutger Hauer, Ian Holm, Blythe Danner, Derek Jacobi, Robert Vaughn, Trevor Howard, and Renée Soutendijk in Inside the Third Reich (1982)

    15. Inside the Third Reich

    19824hTV Movie
    7.2 (759)
    A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer (Rutger Hauer), Adolf Hitler's (Sir Derek Jacobi's) young architect and one-time confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. This movie is based on Speer's autobiography of the same name.
    DirectorMarvin J. ChomskyStarsRutger HauerJohn GielgudMaria Schell
    Engaging presentation of the friendship between Hitler and Speer. Historically a bit "jumpy" but the cast of actors is stellar and they acquit themselves well.
  • Udo Kier, Christopher Kirby, Götz Otto, Julia Dietze, and Peta Sergeant in Iron Sky (2012)

    16. Iron Sky

    20121h 33mR
    5.9 (98K)
    The Nazis set up a secret base on the dark side of the moon in 1945 where they hide out and plan to return to power in 2018.
    DirectorTimo VuorensolaStarsJulia DietzeChristopher KirbyGötz Otto
    Okay, I had to include this as a bit of light relief.
  • It Happened Here (1964)

    17. It Happened Here

    19641h 33mNot Rated
    6.7 (1.3K)
    In 1940, Germany invades Britain and transforms it into a Fascist state where some Britons collaborate and others resist. In 1944, Pauline, an apolitical Irish nurse becomes a reluctant player in the fight between the two sides.
    DirectorsKevin BrownlowAndrew MolloStarsPauline MurraySebastian ShawBart Allison
    Stunning what-if movie.
  • Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Burt Lancaster, Spencer Tracy, Montgomery Clift, Maximilian Schell, and Richard Widmark in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

    18. Judgment at Nuremberg

    19612h 59mApproved60Metascore
    8.3 (93K)
    Fictionalized depiction of the 1947 Judges' Trial, the third of 12 trials of Nazi war criminals conducted by the American occupying forces in Nuremberg, Germany, in which former judges of Nazi Germany were tried for their actions.
    DirectorStanley KramerStarsSpencer TracyBurt LancasterRichard Widmark
    I never knew Captain Kirk was involved in the Nuremberg trials until I watched this movie.
  • Oliver Masucci in Look Who's Back (2015)

    19. Look Who's Back

    20151h 56mNot Rated
    7.0 (52K)
    Adolf Hitler wakes up in the 21st century. He quickly gains media attention, but while Germany finds him hilarious and charming, Hitler makes some serious observations about society.
    DirectorDavid WnendtStarsOliver MasucciThomas M. KöpplMarc-Marvin Israel
    Funny, serious, and challenging, with an unexpected twist.
  • The Man Who Crossed Hitler (2011)

    20. The Man Who Crossed Hitler

    20111h 25mNot RatedTV Movie
    6.6 (371)
    In November 1930, brown-shirted storm troopers of Hitler's SA break into the Communist Eden Palace club, killing several members. Jewish lawyer Hans Litten prosecutes them and, at the suggestion of his boss Rudolf Olden, agrees to subpoena Hitler, who had supposedly renounced violence yet clearly supported the SA, to discredit him as a popular figure. Against the advice of his assistant Margot Furst Hans, prepares his case, even involving Stennes, a rival Nazi to Hitler. At the trial, Hans, the practiced lawyer, runs rings round Hitler, who is frequently unable to answer his questions. The Brown Shirts are convicted, but it is a Pyrrhic victory, for two years later Hitler will become chancellor, Hans will be arrested, and he will die in the Dachau concentration camp.
    DirectorJustin HardyStarsEd StoppardIan HartBill Paterson
    A youngish, sharp, and vibrant Hitler here...
  • John Cusack and Noah Taylor in Max (2002)

    21. Max

    20021h 46mR56Metascore
    6.4 (8.9K)
    A film studying the depiction of a friendship between an art dealer named Rothman and his student, Adolf Hitler.
    DirectorMenno MeyjesStarsJohn CusackNoah TaylorLeelee Sobieski
    Another what-if kind of offering focusing on the young(ish) Hitler.
  • Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy (1998)

    22. Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy

    19981h 44m
    7.1 (280)
    How Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime made use of ancient mysticism and occultism to win the war. The Nazi's also used occult mind control techniques to brainwash Germans to perceive themselves as the master-race.
    DirectorsTracy AtkinsonJoan BaranStarsMalcolm McDowellMichael KaterPeter Padfield
    More Himmler's than Hitler's vision of Nazism.
  • The Nazis: A Warning from History (1997)

    23. The Nazis: A Warning from History

    19976 epsTV Mini Series
    8.7 (1.8K)
    An examination of how a cultured people could have allowed Adolf Hitler's rise to power.
    StarsSamuel WestKarl Boehm-TettelbachJohannes Zahn
    Standard BBC piece.
  • The Nightmare Years (1989)

    24. The Nightmare Years

    19894 epsTV Mini Series
    6.8 (182)
    Based on the historical work "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", "The Nightmare Years" tells the story of William Shirer, American journalist who, during his days of correspondence as a foreign press in report in 1930s Germany, had to deal with the growing oppression of the Nazi regime, the increasing censorship of the press, and finally the prospect of world war. In the last days of peace, Shirer also struggles to have his German wife and child escape to the United States.
    StarsSam WaterstonMarthe KellerCecelia Kindelan
    William Shirer's account brought to life.
  • Alec Baldwin, Christopher Plummer, Brian Cox, and Jill Hennessy in Nuremberg (2000)

    25. Nuremberg

    20002 epsTV-14TV Mini Series
    7.3 (7.3K)
    The dramatized account of the war crime trials following the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
    StarsAlec BaldwinBrian CoxChristopher Plummer
    Brian Cox steals the show as Goering!

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