Topic: Nazism
Explore the top movies, series, and documentaries on Nazism. Enjoy the must-watch titles that define this topic.
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
Broken Silence (TV Miniseries)
2002 · Documentary · 300 min. · Argentina
Direction Pavel Chukhrai · Vojtech Jasný · Marcel Lozinski · Luis Puenzo
Cast Jack Fuchs · Liza Zajak-Novera · Robert Lamberg · Benjamin Mehl
7.8
46 votes
7.8
46 votes
Inglourious Basterds
2009 · Movie · 146 min. · United States
Direction Quentin Tarantino
Cast Brad Pitt · Christoph Waltz · Mélanie Laurent · Diane Kruger
Plot During the time of WWII, U.S. soldiers who are about to be executed, are offered a chance at reprieve. It all begins in German-occupied France, where Shoshanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent)...
7.8
152K votes
7.8
152K votes
Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Steven Spielberg
Cast Harrison Ford · Karen Allen · Paul Freeman · Ronald Lacey
Plot It is 1936. Archaeology professor Indiana Jones is recruited by the US government to find the Lost Ark of the Covenant, which once contained the tablets upon which the Ten...
7.8
132K votes
7.8
132K votes
Cabaret
1972 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction Bob Fosse
Cast Liza Minnelli · Michael York · Helmut Griem · Joel Grey
Plot It is the city of Berlin in 1931, a time when political unrest racks the country, the economy has been destroyed, and millions of unemployed roam the streets. Enter into...
7.8
31K votes
7.8
31K votes
The Train
1964 · Movie · 133 min. · United States
Direction John Frankenheimer
Cast Burt Lancaster · Paul Scofield · Jeanne Moreau · Michel Simon
Plot Oberst von Waldheim wants to bring modern paintings, the ones the Nazis called "degenerate", out of Paris before the Allied Forces liberate Paris. He is able to persuade his bosses...
7.8
6K votes
7.8
6K votes
General della Rovere
1959 · Movie · 132 min. · Italy
Direction Roberto Rossellini
Cast Vittorio De Sica · Hannes Messemer · Sandra Milo · Giovanna Ralli
Plot Genoa, 1943. Grimaldi is a swindler, pretending to be a colonel in the Italian army to get money from the family of people put into jail by the Nazis. Once...
7.7
2K votes
7.7
2K votes
The Bridge
1959 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Bernhard Wicki
Cast Folker Bohnet · Fritz Wepper · Michael Hinz · Frank Glaubrecht
Plot A group of German boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht...
7.7
3K votes
7.7
3K votes
Triumph Over Violence
1965 · Documentary · 138 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mikhail Romm
Cast Mikhail Romm
7.7
335 votes
7.7
335 votes
Hangmen Also Die!
1943 · Movie · 131 min. · United States
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Brian Donlevy · Walter Brennan · Anna Lee · Gene Lockhart
Plot An apocryphal version of the assassination of the Nazi leader and Czech "protector" Reinhard Heydrich by a resistance fighter in World War II. The story follows the assassin as he...
7.7
3K votes
7.7
3K votes
The Sorrow and the Pity
1969 · Documentary · 251 min. · France
Direction Marcel Ophüls
Plot From 1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Marcel Ophüls mixes archival footage with 1969 interviews of a German officer and of collaborators and resistance fighters from...
7.6
265 votes
7.6
265 votes
Till We Meet Again
1944 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast Ray Milland · Barbara Britton · Walter Slezak · Lucile Watson
7.5
91 votes
7.5
91 votes
Nazi Concentration Camps
1945 · Documentary · 60 min. · United States
Direction George Stevens
Plot The official documentary, made from footage that was recorded by U.S. troops during the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. It was used as evidence at the Nuremberg trials. The camps...
7.5
245 votes
7.5
245 votes
The Last of the Unjust
2013 · Documentary · 220 min. · France
Direction Claude Lanzmann
7.5
425 votes
7.5
425 votes
The Damned
1969 · Movie · 164 min. · Italy
Direction Luchino Visconti
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Ingrid Thulin · Helmut Griem · Helmut Berger
Plot A family's decline coincides with Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s and serves as an allegory for German society as a whole in this intoxicating work from Luchino Visconti....
7.5
5K votes
7.5
5K votes
Holocaust (TV Miniseries)
1978 · Series · 475 min. · United States
Direction Marvin J. Chomsky
Cast Michael Moriarty · Joseph Bottoms · Fritz Weaver · James Woods
Plot "Holocaust" follows each member of the Jewish Family Weiss throughout Hitler's reign in Germany. One by one, the family members suffer the horrible fate of extermination under Anti-Semitic Nazi Law...
7.5
2K votes
7.5
2K votes
Triumph of the Will
1935 · Documentary · 110 min. · Germany
Direction Leni Riefenstahl
Cast Adolf Hitler · Josef Goebbels
Plot Triumph of the Will is a propaganda film with elements of a documentary by the German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, chronicling the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg. It is one...
7.5
5K votes
7.5
5K votes
The Fifth Seal
1976 · Movie · 116 min. · Hungary
Direction Zoltán Fábri
Cast Lajos Öze · László Márkus · Ferenc Bencze · Sándor Horváth
Plot The story takes place in the twilight of World War II: the five protagonists are buddies who try to have as much fun as possible without treading on anyone's toes.
7.4
185 votes
7.4
185 votes
Babi Yar. Context
2021 · Documentary · 120 min. · Ukraine
Direction Sergei Loznitsa
Cast Vladimir Mijailovich Artobolevski · Hans Isenmann · Dina Pronicheva
Plot Nazi troops massacre 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in September 1941.
7.4
76 votes
7.4
76 votes
The Wave
2008 · Movie · 110 min. · Germany
Direction Dennis Gansel
Cast Jürgen Vogel · Frederick Lau · Jennifer Ulrich · Max Riemelt
Plot A high-school teacher assigned the thankless task of teaching autocracy as part of the school's project week decides to spice up his lessons by conducting a decidedly unorthodox experiment in...
7.4
82K votes
7.4
82K votes