Documentary | Nazi Germany (1932-45)
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- DirectorRaymond LeyStarsHerbert KnaupUlrich TukurAxel Milberg
- DirectorRobert MugnerotStarsDoug RandThe plot of the documentary reveals the role of Azerbaijan and its people in defeating Nazism and the strategic importance of the Azerbaijani oil during the war.
- DirectorVanessa LapaStarsTobias MorettiSophie RoisAntonia MorettiA documentary that uses a cache of letters, diaries and documents to reveal the life of SS-leader Heinrich Himmler.
- StarsAdolf HitlerJoseph GoebbelsRudolf HessFollow the Führer's rise to power, which was as unforeseeable as it was catastrophic.
- DirectorDennis WiseStarsEva BraunWinston ChurchillCharles de GaulleAdolf Hitler, born in Braunau, a man who will forever change the history of the world.
- StarsTony CallDan BittnerGeoffrey CantorTHIRD REICH: THE RISE & FALL tells the story of Hitler's Germany through rarely seen films of the people who were there. Immersive and evocative, it takes viewers inside the Germany of the 20s, 30s, and early 40s, through the use of rare and never-before-seen home movies, Nazi propaganda films and other contemporaneous material. The narrative consists of personal recollections culled from German's diaries, journals and letters. The end result is an intimate, richly nuanced and authentic portrait of the Third Reich and its people.
- StarsAlisdair SimpsonGreg StebnerRolf von SydowNazi collaborators, driven by greed, survival instincts or ideology, from Jewish leaders offering labor to politicians aiding Nazis against their countrymen, unraveling their complex motivations during WWII.
- StarsRobert PowellStephan GrothgarHeinz LingeThe story of Adolf Hitler, his large security detail and the numerous threats faced, both real and imagined.
- DirectorKevin MacdonaldStarsRaymond AubracRobert BadinterKlaus BarbieA look at the history of one-time Gestapo commander Klaus Barbie, infamously known as "The Butcher of Lyon." This documentary's main focus will be on Barbie's post-war activities, in which he became a counter-intelligence agent who worked for the same countries that pursued him during WWII.
- DirectorJean-Christoph CaronJörg Müllner
- DirectorMalte LudinStarsHanns LudinMalte LudinAdolf HitlerFamily drama and historical truth collide in this film about the painful legacy cast by Hanns Ludin, a prominent Nazi executed for war crimes in 1947. In this documentary, Hanns Ludin's son, filmmaker Malte Ludin, breaks 60 years of silence and repression, investigating his father's dark deeds and interviewing his still-denying sisters. The film is an intimate look at the descendants of a Nazi perpetrator, most of whom refuse to accept the history of their family and of Nazi Germany more generally.
- DirectorMichael KloftStarsEva BraunBernd Freytag von LoringhovenHedda GoebbelsThe story of Adolf Hitler's final days in the bunker in 1945.
- DirectorAndré HellerOthmar SchmidererStarsTraudl JungeDocumentary featuring interview footage with Traudl Junge, one of Hitler's personal secretaries during WWII.
- StarsSiegfried WestphalManfred RommelWinrich Behr3-part series examining the life of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel. Interviews from surviving soldiers who fought under Rommel and against Rommel in the British Army. The series examines the myth and the truth about Rommel's military career and legacy.
- DirectorTilman RemmeStarsArchduke Franz FerdinandEva BraunHerbert DöhringWhat shaped Adolf Hitler, the man who will bring endless suffering to countless people in WWII?
- DirectorMichael KloftStarsIon AntonescuMartin BormannEva BraunMost of what we know about World War II comes from monochromatic images and pictures. But this documentary brings something different: it's a fascinating collage of colored images from that period, filmed in 8mm and 16mm. All the footage was gathered from private collectors, soldiers, tourists, state institutions, even footage shot by Hitler's private pilot and there's also images captured by Eva Braun, Hitler's companion. Most of the images were recently discovered, some of them hidden for more than 40 years and they were all remastered and put together by director Michael Kloft.
- DirectorWilly LindwerStarsGabriel BachYehuda BauerAdolf EichmannThis documentary examines the events leading up to the 1942 Wannsee conference which organized the "final solution" to destroy European Jews.
- DirectorFrédéric RossifStarsPhilippe MeyerA two-part TV documentary on World War II, made exclusively from archive footage.
- DirectorMarcel OphülsStarsKlaus BarbieClaude LanzmannMarcel OphülsA documentary about Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief of Lyon, and his life after the war.
- DirectorHeinz SchirkStarsDietrich MattauschGerd BöckmannFriedrich G. BeckhausAt 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.
- DirectorJoachim FestChristian HerrendoerferStarsGert WestphalStephen MurrayArtur AxmannThis 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.
- DirectorLutz HachmeisterStarsUdo SamelKenneth BranaghHeinrich BrüningThrough archival footage and dramatic readings of his personal writings, the life of Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister, Josef Goebbels, is examined.
- DirectorMichael VerhoevenThe popular reaction to a German museum exhibit detailing the war crimes and atrocities committed by Nazi Germany's regular armed forces is explored.
- DirectorKaren ThomasStarsSigourney WeaverScott SubionoSewell WhitneyEight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-overs, archival footage, and film clips to examine Berlin's vital filmmaking in the 1920s; then it follows a producer, directors, composers, editors, writers, and actors to Hollywood: some succeeded and many found no work. Among those profiled are Erich Pommer, Joseph May, Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, and Peter Lorre. Once in Hollywood, these exiles helped each other, housed new arrivals, and raised money so others could escape. Some worked on anti-Nazi films, like Casablanca. The themes and lighting of German Expressionism gave rise in Hollywood to film noir.
- StarsAdolf Hitler
- StarsAdolf HitlerAmong the most feared fighting formations of World War II, the men of the Wafften SS were renowned for exceptional fighting qualities, but also for atrocities committed against POWs and civilians. Discover how the Waffen SS expanded under Himmler's leadership from being Hitler's bodyguard to an elite fighting formation with as many as 39 divisions. Follow the exploits of the Waffen SS through a dozen major campaigns fought in France, the Balcans, Russia and Western Europe. Learn about their eventual defeat, and the rulings against them at Nuremberg.
- DirectorBob CarruthersStarsMike LeightonHeinrich HimmlerAdolf HitlerThis powerful film revisits the sites most closely associated with Heinrich Himmler and traces the development of his warped ideology. Heinrich Himmler was the creator of the infamous Gestapo, the Waffen SS and the concentration camp network. He was inspired by mystic visions, runes, horoscopes and a longing for a heroic German past. The occult roots of the Third Reich are discussed.
- StarsBob CarruthersRobin LenmanChris ReadHistorians comment on the use of Joseph Goebbels' effective use of Nazi propaganda with archive footage of Germany during the period leading up to and during World War Two.
- DirectorFritz HipplerLeni RiefenstahlStarsÉdouard DaladierAnthony Eden1st Earl of Halifax Edward WoodThe first blitzkrieg, Hitler's invasion of Poland, is traced in this original Nazi propaganda film from 1940.
- DirectorFritz HipplerStarsFelix SteinerHerbert GilleKarl UllrichThe 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking or SS Division Wiking was an infantry and later an armoured division among the thirty-eight Waffen-SS divisions of Nazi Germany active 1941-1945. It was recruited from foreign volunteers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, the Netherlands and Belgium under the command of German officers. Historian Eleonore Lappin, from the Institute for the History of Jews in Austria, has documented several cases of war crimes committed by members of Wiking in her work The Death Marches of Hungarian Jews Through Austria in the Spring of 1945.
- DirectorFritz HipplerPart of the Nazi's Die Frontschau (The Front Show) film series, the film depicts the Nazi German assault on Baronowice in the what was then Soviet East Poland.
- DirectorFritz HipplerExperience the American Journey through our country's visual heritage in this historical recording provided by the National Archives of the United States.