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- Downfall (2004) The film titled Der Untergang was directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel and happened to be nominated for the Academy Award for the best foreign picture.
- The Great Dictator (1940) Movies about Hitler aren’t usually supposed to be funny, but trust Charlie Chaplin to take up the task. In a scathing satire which is perhaps Chaplin’s best work, he criticizes fascism, characters of both Hitler and Mussolini, and the persecution of Jews.
- The Last Ten Days (1955) Directed by George Wilhelm Pabst, this Austrian German film follows a simple enough plot. It recounts the last ten days of Hitler’s life- from his birthday to his suicide.
- Inglourious Basterds (2009) Directed by Quentin Tarantino, this movie delivered on its promise – it was unlike any war movie we’d ever seen. While the plot itself does not deal directly with Hitler – it focuses on the fight against Nazi occupation in Paris.
1. Hitler: The Rise of Evil. 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. I agree with many of the negative reviews posted here, for reasons I will go into later on.
Sep 25, 2024 · Lists about the Hitler's Germany, which Der Führer ruled through fascism from 1933 to 1945. Explore this curated list of the best movies about Nazis and Nazi Germany, including Schindler's List, The Pianist, and more - ranked by viewers.
Downfall: Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. With Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes. 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.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Oliver Hirschbiegel
- 2005-04-08
- The Zookeeper’s Wife
- The Windermere Children
- The Boy in The Striped Pajamas
- The Boat Is Full
- Naked Among Wolves
- The Counterfeiters
- Divided We Fall
- Escape from Sobibor
- Kapo
- Playing For Time
‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ is based on Diane Ackerman’s eponymous nonfiction novel. Directed by Niki Caro, the film showcases actual events and follows Polish couple Jan (Johan Heldenbergh) and Antonina Żabiński (Jessica Chastain) as they rescue and protect around 300 Jews during the Invasion of Poland (World War II) by hiding them in their Warsaw Zoo....
Michael Samuels’s ‘The Windermere Children’ is based on the experiences of the child survivors of the Holocaust. The film is set in 1945 and follows a group of children as they are taken to Calgarth Estate in Lake Windermere, England, where they shall begin their new lives. While the trauma is made clear, there is also an underlying sense of loss o...
Although some critics panned Mark Herman’s British venture for overt commercialism and alleged departure from reality, it is undeniable that ‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas’ is an important human document narrating the horrors of the Holocaust. The film tries to explore the brutalities of a Nazi Extermination Camp through the eyes of two 9-year-old...
While all of Europe plunged into World War II, there was one country that wanted nothing to do with it. Switzerland closed itself from whatever its neighbors were fighting over and remained silent and unattached even in its aftermath. While it prizes itself for saving its people from the horrors of war, it isn’t completely blameless when it comes t...
Based on the book of the same name by Bruno Apitz, Philipp Kadelbach’s German drama is set in the Buchenwald concentration camp. The prisoners of the camp rescue a young boy from a Polish ghetto and hide him amongst themselves. They are perfectly aware of the fate that awaits them if the soldiers find out about it. But more than what happens to the...
The winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2007, Stefan Ruzowitzky’s ‘The Counterfeiters’ is based on the life of a man called Adolf Burger. He forged documents for fellow Jews to save them from deportation. When caught by the police, he was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Owing to his unique talent, the Nazis f...
‘Divided We Fall’ is an Academy Award-nominated film that follows the story of a Czech couple who reluctantly allow a young Jewish man to find refuge in their house after he escapes from a concentration camp. The tension in the home is heightened by their own marital problems as well as the frequent visits of a Nazi co-worker who has grown suspicio...
‘Escape from Sobibor’ is a Golden Globe-winning film that is based on the mass escape of Jewish prisoners from the Sobibor concentration camp. When Jews are brought to the camp, they are asked to choose their particular trades. Those left with nothing to contribute are killed in gas chambers. When the prisoners realize that they are in a death camp...
When faced with an impossible situation, a person will do anything to survive. ‘Kapo’ tells one such story of survival. At the center of this Academy Award-nominated film is a 14-year-old girl named Edith. Her parents perish in the concentration camps, but she survives with the help of the camp doctor. She assumes the identity of a non-Jewish girl ...
Daniel Mann’s ‘Playing for Time’ tells the story of Fania Fenelon, a famous French singer. Because of being Jewish, she was sent to the concentration camps. ‘Playing for Time’ is the story of her time in Auschwitz. When recognized as a famous musician, Fania is allowed to join a group of the female orchestra that plays for the Nazis. The members of...
Dec 5, 2019 · From comedic portrayals to sympathetic ones, these movies about Adolf Hitler contain controversial depictions of the dictator who led Nazi Germany.
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Downfall (German: Der Untergang) is a 2004 historical war drama film written and produced by Bernd Eichinger and directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. It is set during the Battle of Berlin in World War II, when Nazi Germany is on the verge of total defeat, and depicts the final days of Adolf Hitler (portrayed by Bruno Ganz).
