Direction: Laurence Rees

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Laurence Rees. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Nazis: A Warning from History (TV Miniseries)

1997 · Documentary · 292 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Laurence Rees · Tilman Remme

Plot An examination of how a cultured people could have allowed Hitler's rise to power.

7.9

380 votes

7.9

380 votes

Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' (TV Miniseries)

2005 · Documentary · 300 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Laurence Rees · Catherine Tatge

Cast Linda Ellerbee · Horst-Günter Marx · Klaus Mikoleit

Plot Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution', is a BBC six-episode documentary film series presenting the story of Auschwitz through interviews with former inmates and guards and re-enactments, first televised...

7.8

1K votes

7.8

1K votes

6.6

30 votes

The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

2012 · Documentary · 150 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Laurence Rees

Cast Adolf Hitler

Plot Adolf Hitler is one the most studied figures ever. How could this second-rate Austrian become as a mass leader and start the Second World War? In this documentary historian Laurence...

6.5

118 votes

6.5

118 votes

War of the Century (TV Miniseries)

1999 · Documentary · 200 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Laurence Rees

Plot In 1941, Nazi Germany, seemingly near invincible in its military might despite its failure to break the UK in the Battle of Britain, makes one of its most disastrous military...

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We Have Ways of Making You Think (TV Miniseries)

1992 · Documentary · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Laurence Rees

Plot Three-part series that reveals how propagandists use popular film and TV to manipulate the truth.

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