Nazis and Hitler on the Big and Small Screens
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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- DirectorDennis WiseStarsEva BraunWinston ChurchillCharles de GaulleAdolf Hitler, born in Braunau, a man who will forever change the history of the world.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.
- StarsRichard LinternMathieu KassovitzDoug RandChronicles 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.Worth watching for the colorized footage.
- StarsLinda HuntSamuel WestGert HeidenreichThe history of the Final Solution phase of the Nazi Holocaust, particularly with the most infamous of the death camps.Apart from the specious justification of America's use of the atomic bomb on Japan, an eloquent presentation.
- DirectorFlorian GallenbergerStarsUlrich TukurDaniel BrühlSteve BuscemiA true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.John Rabe, the Good Nazi, who saved 200,000 Chinese lives during the Rape of Nanking by the Japanese.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsEdward G. RobinsonGeorge SandersFrancis LedererFBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-war espionage activities of the German-American Bund.Perfect representation of American anti-Nazi views before America entered the war.
- DirectorFrank PiersonStarsClare BullusStanley TucciSimon MarkeyAt 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.Watch this for the amazing acting.
- DirectorOliver HirschbiegelStarsBruno GanzAlexandra Maria LaraUlrich MatthesTraudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.Seems to capture the "human Hitler" better than any other work.
- DirectorGerrard WilliamsStarsDante VenesioMaria HellerMartin GianolaAdolf 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.Gripping stuff, even if none of it should turn out to be true.
- StarsDavid RitchieJ.A. Graf von KielmannseggWill QuadfliegStandard German film biography.
- 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.And another one.
- StarsPeter StormareFriedrich von ThunPeter O'TooleA 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.Doesn't convey a realistic sense of what Hitler was like or why people followed him, but worth watching as a piece of drama.
- DirectorRichard BondStarsRamon TikaramAdolf HitlerUnity MitfordThe story of Unity Mitford, the young and unsteady British aristocrat who fell for Hitler during the 1930s.Fascinating minor gem. The Mitfords were probably Britain's most colorful aristocratic family.
- StarsGuy WaltersAlisdair SimpsonJay OsborneThis 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.
- DirectorJim GoddardStarsJohn SheaBill NighyLucy GutteridgeThe 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 ruinsThe only decent presentation of the downfall of Ernst Rohm.
- DirectorMarvin J. ChomskyStarsRutger HauerJohn GielgudMaria SchellA 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.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.
- DirectorTimo VuorensolaStarsJulia DietzeChristopher KirbyGötz OttoThe 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.Okay, I had to include this as a bit of light relief.
- DirectorKevin BrownlowAndrew MolloStarsPauline MurraySebastian ShawBart AllisonIn 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.Stunning what-if movie.
- DirectorStanley KramerStarsSpencer TracyBurt LancasterRichard WidmarkIn 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes.I never knew Captain Kirk was involved in the Nuremberg trials until I watched this movie.
- DirectorDavid WnendtStarsOliver MasucciThomas M. KöpplMarc-Marvin IsraelAdolf 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.Funny, serious, and challenging, with an unexpected twist.
- DirectorJustin HardyStarsEd StoppardIan HartBill PatersonIn 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.A youngish, sharp, and vibrant Hitler here...
- DirectorMenno MeyjesStarsJohn CusackNoah TaylorLeelee SobieskiA film studying the depiction of a friendship between an art dealer named Rothman and his student, Adolf Hitler.Another what-if kind of offering focusing on the young(ish) Hitler.
- DirectorTracy AtkinsonJoan BaranStarsMalcolm McDowellMichael KaterPeter PadfieldHow 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.More Himmler's than Hitler's vision of Nazism.
- StarsSamuel WestAdolf BuchnerJutta RüdigerAn examination of how a cultured people could have allowed Adolf Hitler's rise to power.Standard BBC piece.
- StarsSam WaterstonPip TorrensFrances BarberBased 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.William Shirer's account brought to life.
- StarsAlec BaldwinBrian CoxChristopher PlummerThe dramatized account of the war crime trials following the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.Brian Cox steals the show as Goering!
- DirectorTracy AtkinsonJoan BaranDave FlittonStarsPatrick AllenMadjid BlavatskyRudolf GorslebenThis chilling series traces the occult origins of the Nazi party and follows them through to the death of the evil figure at its very heart.Again, the Himmler version of Nazism.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsAdrien BrodyThomas KretschmannFrank FinlayDuring WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsLiam NeesonRalph FiennesBen KingsleyIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.Based on a true story, but it has rather been jazzed up and semi-fictionalized.
- StarsSebastian FaulksSeries examining science and morality during the Third Reich; the practice of eugenics and euthanasia in Nazi occupied Europe.Interesting and unusual perspective.
- DirectorMarc RothemundStarsJulia JentschFabian HinrichsAlexander HeldA dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.Atmospheric re-creation of the places and events.
- StarsSebastian KochTobias MorettiDagmar ManzelA reassessment of the role Albert Speer played in the Third Reich. Speer, who was ultimately convicted at the Nuremburg trials and served a 20-year prison sentence, was known for designing many of the Third Reich's buildings and for being Hitler's minister for war production.Some spectacular acting here, especially the Speer-Hitler friendship. And a pretty convincing attempt to recreate the Nuremberg war-crime trials. Now I know why some of the defendants were wearing dark glasses...
- DirectorNicholas RentonStarsKen StottChristine TremarcoRon DonachieA young girl becomes the great love of the Nazi leader's life. It spans the years between 1929 and 1945, and focuses on Hitler's obsessive relationship with his niece Geli Raubal (Elaine Cassidy), which eventually led to the girl's suicide, then goes on to tell the story of how Eva Braun (Christine Tremarco) became his wife.Maybe not sucessful as a whole, historically, but gives us the best Gregor Strasser we've seen onscreen.
- DirectorBryan SingerStarsTom CruiseBill NighyCarice van HoutenA dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II.