Topic: Nazism
Explore the top movies, series, and documentaries on Nazism. Enjoy the must-watch titles that define this topic.
Schindler's List
1993 · Movie · 195 min. · United States
Direction Steven Spielberg
Cast Liam Neeson · Ben Kingsley · Ralph Fiennes · Caroline Goodall
Plot Oskar Schindler is a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils,...
8.6
171K votes
8.6
171K votes
Apocalypse: The Second World War (TV Miniseries)
2009 · Documentary · 320 min. · France
Direction Daniel Costelle · Isabelle Clarke
Cast Mathieu Kassovitz
Plot "Apocalypse: The Second World War" is a six-part French documentary about the Second World War. The documentary is comprised exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war...
8.6
14K votes
8.6
14K votes
The Great Dictator
1940 · Movie · 128 min. · United States
Direction Charles Chaplin
Cast Charles Chaplin · Paulette Goddard · Jack Oakie · Reginald Gardiner
Plot In the 1930s, Tomania falls under the control of dictator Adenoid Hynkel, who dreams of world domination. In the Jewish district of the capital lives a barber who looks so...
8.6
84K votes
8.6
84K votes
To Be or Not to Be
1942 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Carole Lombard · Jack Benny · Robert Stack · Stanley Ridges
Plot Joseph Tura and his wife Maria top the bill at a Warsaw theatre company. Young aviator Lieutenant Sobinski is madly in love with the girl and the two arrange to...
8.5
34K votes
8.5
34K votes
Life Is Beautiful
1997 · Movie · 117 min. · Italy
Direction Roberto Benigni
Cast Roberto Benigni · Nicoletta Braschi · Giorgio Cantarini · Marisa Paredes
Plot Guido - a charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colourful imagination and an irresistible sense of humour - has won the heart of the woman he loves and...
8.5
189K votes
8.5
189K votes
Shoah
1985 · Documentary · 566 min. · France
Direction Claude Lanzmann
Cast Simon Srebnik · Michael Podchlebnik · Motke Zaïdl · Hanna Zaïdl
Plot Claude Lanzmann directed this 9 1/2 hour documentary of the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage. He interviews survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis (whom he had to film...
8.4
4K votes
8.4
4K votes
Casablanca
1942 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Humphrey Bogart · Ingrid Bergman · Paul Henreid · Claude Rains
Plot Humphrey Bogart plays Richard "Rick" Blaine, a cynical but good-hearted American whose café is the gathering place for everyone from the French Police to the black market to the Nazis....
8.4
96K votes
8.4
96K votes
American History X
1998 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction Tony Kaye
Cast Edward Norton · Edward Furlong · Fairuza Balk · Stacy Keach
Plot Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) is a Southern Californian skinhead who must do time after committing a hateful murder. Once in jail, his mind opens and he sees the error of...
8.3
149K votes
8.3
149K votes
A Man Escaped
1956 · Movie · 99 min. · France
Direction Robert Bresson
Cast François Leterrier · Roland Monod · Charles Le Clainche · Maurice Beerblock
Plot April 1943, during WWII. Fontaine, a 27 years old young man who is a member of the French Resistance fighting against the nazis, is arrested by the Gestapo in order...
8.2
8K votes
8.2
8K votes
The Great Escape
1963 · Movie · 168 min. · United States
Direction John Sturges
Cast Steve McQueen · James Garner · Charles Bronson · Richard Attenborough
Plot The German high command has filtered out all of the allies' most talented escape artists and placed them in a POW camp specifically designed to foil any unwanted departures. But...
8.2
66K votes
8.2
66K votes
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961 · Movie · 186 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kramer
Cast Spencer Tracy · Burt Lancaster · Richard Widmark · Marlene Dietrich
Plot It has been three years since the most important Nazi leaders had already been tried. This trial is about four Judges who used their offices to conduct Nazi sterilization and...
8.2
12K votes
8.2
12K votes
Night and Fog
1955 · Documentary · 32 min. · France
Direction Alain Resnais
Plot This lyrical and graphic documentary--one of the first cinematic reflections on the Holocaust's horror--has deeply affected film's treatment of the Holocaust ever since, including Spielberg's "Schindler's List". Documentarian Alain Resnais...
8.2
5K votes
8.2
5K votes
The Pianist
2002 · Movie · 148 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roman Polanski
Cast Adrien Brody · Thomas Kretschmann · Maureen Lipman · Ed Stoppard
Plot The film is adapted from the autobiography of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew who detailed his survival during World War II. A composer and a pianist, he played the last...
8.2
149K votes
8.2
149K votes
Notorious
1946 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Alfred Hitchcock
Cast Cary Grant · Ingrid Bergman · Claude Rains · Louis Calhern
Plot A beautiful woman with a tainted past (Ingrid Bergman) is enlisted by American agent Devlin (Cary Grant) to spy on a ring of Nazis in post-war Rio. Her espionage work...
8.1
20K votes
8.1
20K votes
This Land is Mine
1943 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Jean Renoir
Cast Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Hara · George Sanders · Walter Slezak
Plot A mild-mannered schoolteacher in a Nazi occupied town during WWII finds himself being torn between collaboration and resistance.
8.0
4K votes
8.0
4K votes
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
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989 · Movie · 127 min. · United States
Direction Steven Spielberg
Cast Harrison Ford · Sean Connery · Alison Doody · Denholm Elliott
Plot It’s 1938 and Indy (Harrison Ford) receives word that his archaeologist dad, Professor Henry Jones (Sean Connery), has disappeared while on a quest for the Holy Grail. Indy embarks on...
7.8
118K votes
7.8
118K votes
Come and See
1985 · Movie · 136 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Elem Klimov
Cast Alexei Kravchenko · Olga Mironova · Liubomiras Laucevicius · Vladas Bagdonas
Plot During WWII, a Belarusian boy is thrust into the atrocities of war, fighting with a hopelessly unequipped Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces. Witnessing scenes of abject terror and...
7.8
5K votes
7.8
5K votes
Generation War (TV Miniseries)
2013 · Series · 270 min. · Germany
Direction Philipp Kadelbach
Cast Volker Bruch · Tom Schilling · Katharina Schüttler · Miriam Stein
Plot TV Miniseries (2013). 3 Episodes. It tells the story of five German friends, aged around 20, on their different paths through Nazi Germany and World War II. Level-headed, highly decorated...
7.8
13K votes
7.8
13K votes
Ivan's Childhood
1962 · Movie · 95 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast Nikolay Burlyaev · Valentin Zubkov · Yevgeni Zharikov · Stepan Krylov
Plot The film is centered around a 12 year old Russian boy, Ivan, whose parents died at the hands of Germans invading Russia during the Second World War. In striving single-mindedly...
7.8
7K votes
7.8
7K votes