WW2 DOCUMENTARIES
by gmscharnewski | created - 31 Jul 2011 | updated - 25 Jan 2022 | PublicLIST OF 2. WORLD WAR DOCUMENTARIES. ENJOY! Pending....
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1. The World at War (1973–1974)
TV-PG | 50 min | Documentary, History, War
A groundbreaking 26-part documentary series narrated by the actor Laurence Olivier about the deadliest conflict in history, World War II.
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Averell Harriman, Anthony Eden, Albert Speer
Votes: 29,181
2. The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
PG | 251 min | Documentary, History, War
An in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government's acceptance of the German invasion.
Director: Marcel Ophüls | Stars: Helmut Tausend, Marcel Verdier, Alexis Grave, Louis Grave
Votes: 4,095
3. The Nazis: A Warning from History (1997)
292 min | Documentary, History, War
An examination of how a cultured people could have allowed Adolf Hitler's rise to power.
Stars: Samuel West, Adolf Buchner, Jutta Rüdiger, Günther Ruschin
Votes: 1,722
4. Nürnberg und seine Lehre (1948)
Approved | 78 min | Documentary
The official U.S. government film about the 1st Nuremberg trial (The Trial of the Major Nazi War Criminals) which lasted from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946.
Director: Stuart Schulberg | Stars: Francis Biddle, Karl Dönitz, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick
Votes: 196
5. The War (2007)
TV-14 | 124 min | Documentary, History, War
A seven-part series focusing on the many ways in which the Second World War impacted the lives of American families.
Stars: Keith David, Katharine Phillips, Tom Hanks, Paul Fussell
Votes: 5,664
6. Survivors of the Holocaust (1996 TV Movie)
70 min | Documentary, History, War
This documentary blends personal accounts of what happened before, during and after WWII. One testimony tells of a sister sending tear-stained letters from the prison camp, while another ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Holzman | Stars: Steven Spielberg, Henry Rosmarin, Hellmuth Szprycer
Votes: 218
7. Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004)
92 min | Documentary, History
The history of Hollywood's handling of the Nazis and its later depiction of the Holocaust they perpetrated.
Director: Daniel Anker | Stars: Gene Hackman, Norma Barzman, Jack Benny, Michael Berenbaum
Votes: 663 | Gross: $0.02M
8. Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust (2004)
Unrated | 97 min | Documentary
Menachem Daum, the son of holocaust survivors, and a New York Orthodox Jew worries that both of his sons, full time yeshiva students who live with their families in Israel, are becoming ... See full summary »
Directors: Menachem Daum, Oren Rudavsky | Stars: Akiva Daum, Menachem Daum, Rifka Daum, Tzvi Dovid Daum
Votes: 167 | Gross: $0.05M
10. Schindler: The Real Story (1983 TV Movie)
79 min | Documentary
The true story of Oskar Schindler's exploits in which he saved a thousand Jews from the ovens of the death camps, told by first hand witnesses. The British Academy Award winning documentary... See full summary »
Director: Jon Blair | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Emilie Schindler, Oskar Schindler, Winston Churchill
Votes: 338
11. Night and Fog (1956)
TV-14 | 32 min | Documentary, Short, History
The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 21,455
12. Shoah (1985)
Not Rated | 566 min | Documentary, History, War
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
Director: Claude Lanzmann | Stars: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaïdl, Hanna Zaïdl
Votes: 10,547 | Gross: $0.02M
13. War of the Century (1999– )
200 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary examining Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
Stars: Samuel West, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Rolf Becker
Votes: 493
14. Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler (1962)
89 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The rise and fall of Nazi Germany in part through the use of classical allegory.
Director: Louis Clyde Stoumen | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 208
15. The Brave Fighters: Resistance Stories Near Hitler's Ukrainian Headquarters (2010)
60 min | Documentary, Action, History
During World War II, ordinary citizens rescued many lives near Hitler's Headquarters in Ukraine. These are their stories.
Director: Edward Halitsky | Stars: Roxanne Halitsky, Steve Halitsky
Votes: 11
16. They Drew Fire (2000 TV Movie)
56 min | Documentary
The story of World War II combat artists and their art.
Director: Brian Lanker | Stars: Jason Robards, Franklin Boggs, Howard Brodie, Manuel Bromberg
Votes: 35
17. Silent Wings: The American Glider Pilots of World War II (2007)
Not Rated | 113 min | Documentary, History, War
6,000 young Americans volunteered to fly large unarmed gliders into battle. Only a few returned.
Director: Robert Child | Stars: Walter Cronkite, Hal Holbrook, Andrew Rooney
Votes: 70
18. Untold Stories of World War II (1998 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 53 min | Documentary, History, War
Showcases 3 major events during World War 2 involving both the Europeans & Pacific conflicts. The Raids to destroy Nazi Germany's heavy water production based in Norway, plus the final ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Burns | Stars: Ron David, James Delgado, Knut Haugland, Claus Helberg
Votes: 59
19. In Our Own Hands (2000)
85 min | Documentary, War
The story of the only all-Jewish fighting force in World War II.
Director: Chuck Olin | Stars: Peter Thomas, Mike Nussbaum, Nicholas Rudall, Arie Amir
Votes: 50
20. The Last Days of World War II (1995 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary, History, War
The end of the Second World War in Europe, and the aftermath: war criminals to be brought to trial, stolen art treasures to be returned to their rightful owners.
Stars: Bill Ratner, Konstantin Akinsha, Kenneth Alford, Tom Allen
Votes: 86
21. World War II: The War Chronicles (1983– )
Documentary, History, War
Important campaigns and battles of the Second World War II are narrated.
Star: Patrick O'Neal
Votes: 32
22. World War II: Breadlines to Boomtimes (1994 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 180 min | Documentary
A rare look at how a nation of men and women mobilized to convert our economy into a war machine, emerging as the most powerful country in the world. Hosted by James B. Sikking. Includes: ... See full summary »
Director: Wesley Emerson | Star: James Sikking
Votes: 6
23. Churchill and the Cabinet War Rooms (1995 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Drama-documentary evoking what it was like to work closely with Churchill in the Cabinet War Rooms during the days of the Blitz and the later bombing raids on London.
Director: Andrew Johnston | Stars: John James Evanson, James Faulkner, Eve Matheson, David Tate
Votes: 29
24. Triumph of the Will (1935)
Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary, History
The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.
Director: Leni Riefenstahl | Stars: Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Max Amann, Martin Bormann
Votes: 18,319
25. Target for Tonight (1941)
Approved | 48 min | Documentary, Drama, War
The planning and implementation of an RAF night raid on Germany in World War II, concentrating on a low level mission by a Wellington bomber on an oil storage facility by the Rhine.
Director: Harry Watt | Stars: John Cobb, Richard Peirse, Percy Charles Pickard, Robert Saundby
Votes: 405
26. Hitler: A Career (1977)
Not Rated | 150 min | Documentary, History
This 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.
Directors: Joachim Fest, Christian Herrendoerfer | Stars: Gert Westphal, Stephen Murray, Artur Axmann, General Bergeret
Votes: 3,033
27. The Goebbels Experiment (2005)
Not Rated | 108 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Through archival footage and dramatic readings of his personal writings, the life of Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister, Josef Goebbels, is examined.
Director: Lutz Hachmeister | Stars: Udo Samel, Kenneth Branagh, Heinrich Brüning, Winston Churchill
Votes: 1,021 | Gross: $0.05M
28. Waffen SS: Hitler's Elite Fighting Force (1990 Video)
60 min | Documentary, War
Director: Michael Campbell | Stars: Richard Greenwood, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 124
29. The Last Steamship: The Search for the SS City of Medicine Hat (2010)
79 min | Documentary
A feature-length documentary which delves into the infamous history of the luxurious SS City of Medicine Hat, a 130 ft steamship which met her untimely end on June 7th, 1908 when she ... See full summary »
Director: Leanne Schinkel
Votes: 9
30. The Nazis Strike (1943)
Not Rated | 41 min | Documentary, Short, History
The official World War II US government account of Nazi international aggression leading up to the British and French declarations of war.
Directors: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak | Stars: Eduard Benes, Neville Chamberlain, Clementine Churchill, Winston Churchill
Votes: 964
31. Divide and Conquer (1943)
Not Rated | 57 min | Documentary, History, War
The World War II US Government account of the European theatre of the war from after the English and French entry to the fall of France.
Directors: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak | Stars: General Bergeret, Karl Brandt, Winston Churchill, Warren J. Clear
Votes: 832
32. Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II (1992 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary, War
An account of Black American soldiers in World War II who combated racism in the segregated military and on the home front. In April 1945, some Black American soldiers were among the first ... See full summary »
Directors: William Miles, Nina Rosenblum | Stars: Denzel Washington, Louis Gossett Jr., Leon Bass, Benjamin Bender
Votes: 98
33. Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, History, War
A gripping account of the prisoners uprising at the Nazi extermination camp of Sobibor in 1943.
Director: Claude Lanzmann | Stars: Yehuda Lerner, Francine Kaufmann, Claude Lanzmann
Votes: 596 | Gross: $0.03M
34. George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin (1994 TV Movie)
46 min | Documentary, Biography, War
Produced and narrated by George Stevens Jr., this short documentary uses footage taken by his father when he was in the Army Signal Corps and follows American troops from D-Day in June 1944 to the end of the European war.
Director: George Stevens Jr. | Stars: George Stevens Jr., Dick Kent, Ken Marthey, Ivan Moffat
Votes: 402
35. D-Day: The Total Story (1994 TV Movie)
Documentary, History, War
Director: Rob Lihani | Stars: Gerald McRaney, Stephen Ambrose, John Keegan
Votes: 74
36. D-Day: Code Name Overlord (1998)
180 min | Documentary
From the search to find the appropriate landing site, the planning of the landing, its execution and aftermath, this is the complete story.
Director: Lanny Lee | Star: Dale Reed
Votes: 39
37. Ten Days to D-Day (2004 TV Movie)
90 min | War, Documentary, Drama
Following the lives of ten characters through their letters and diaries in the ten days before D-Day. The mini-series contains documentary interviews with the people on which the book, and this mini-series were based.
Director: Marion Milne | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Kate Steavenson-Payne, Richie Gibson, Jonie Broom
Votes: 102
38. Das war unser Rommel (1953)
80 min | Documentary, War
Documentary about the German campaign in Africa in 1941/42 and the personality of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
Director: Horst Wiganko | Star: Erwin Rommel
Votes: 20
39. Rommel and the Plot to Kill Hitler (2006)
68 min | Documentary
How Field Marshal Erwin Rommel became implicated in the July 20, 1944 officers' plot against Hitler. A morality tale highlighting the dilemma of the modern soldier forced to choose between obeying orders and following his conscience.
Director: Nicholas Natteau | Stars: Yvonne Furneaux, Paul Gustavson, Stephan Jacobs, Steve Phillips
Votes: 19
40. Back to Normandy (2007)
Not Rated | 113 min | Documentary
A filmmaker returns to Normandy thirty years after a working on a movie based on a local homicide and tries to find the actors who worked on the project.
Director: Nicolas Philibert | Stars: Anne Borel, Claude Hébert, Nicolas Philibert, Nicole Picard
Votes: 159
41. Blitzkrieg (1962)
28 min | Documentary, Short, War
April - November 1940. With devastating speed Germany takes Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg. Italy declares war.
Stars: Budd Knapp, Lord Athlone, Lord Beaverbrook, John Buchan
Votes: 20
42. The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin (1997)
77 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Documentary on how composer Dmitri Shostakovich used his Fourth to Ninth Symphony as a silent protest against the crimes of Stalin.
Director: Larry Weinstein | Stars: Valery Gergiev, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Flora Litvinova, Graham Haley
Votes: 133
43. How I Worked Under Stalin, or Songs of the Oligarchs (1990)
67 min | Documentary
Director: Semyon Aranovich | Stars: Andrei Malenkov, Dmitry Sukhanov, Yuri Zhdanov
Votes: 23
44. The Speeches of Winston Churchill (1988 Video)
Documentary
Stars: Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, Alan Brooke, Clementine Churchill
45. The Occult History of the Third Reich (1991 Video)
Unrated | 210 min | Documentary, History
This 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.
Directors: Tracy Atkinson, Joan Baran, Dave Flitton | Stars: Patrick Allen, Madjid Blavatsky, Rudolf Gorsleben, Heinrich Himmler
Votes: 356
46. Das Dritte Reich - In Farbe (1998 TV Movie)
105 min | Documentary, War
Most of what we know about World War II comes from monochromatic images and pictures. But this documentary brings something different: it's a fascinating collage of colored images from that... See full summary »
Director: Michael Kloft | Stars: Ion Antonescu, Martin Bormann, Eva Braun, Winston Churchill
Votes: 286
47. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1968 TV Movie)
180 min | Documentary, History, War
"The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" exposes the darkest chapter in history, from Adolf Hitler's rise to power as a Nazi demagogue to his ultimate fatal mistakes. Researchers spent ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Kaufman | Stars: Richard Basehart, Ernst Hanfstaengl, Adolf Hitler, Erich Kempka
Votes: 301
48. Order Castles of the Third Reich (2000)
58 min | Documentary
This film explores the mystic castles of Hitler's SS and political soldiers. The enormous neo classic and medevil fortresses were typical of nazi architecture in the Third Reich and today ... See full summary »
Director: R.J. Adams
Votes: 11
49. To the Shores of Iwo Jima (1945)
PG | 20 min | Documentary, Short, War
Documentary short film depicting the American assault on the Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima and the massive battle that raged on that key island in the Allied advance on Japan.
Stars: Harlon Block, John H. Bradley, Rene A. Gagnon, Ira H. Hayes
Votes: 172
50. Heroes of Iwo Jima (2001 TV Movie)
94 min | Documentary, History, War
This heartrending documentary tells the story behind the most famous war photograph ever taken.
Director: Lauren Lexton | Stars: Gene Hackman, James Bradley
Votes: 79
51. The Battle of Russia (1943)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.
Directors: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak | Stars: Anthony Veiller, Ion Antonescu, Nikolay Cherkasov, Anthony Eden
Votes: 1,610
52.
Hors Série (1998– )
Episode:
La chaconne d'Auschwitz
(1999)
104 min | Documentary
Director: Michel Daeron | Stars: Helene Scheps, Violette Jacquet-Silberstein, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Flora Schrivjer-Jacobs
Votes: 34
53. Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
48 min | Documentary, History, War
The history of the Final Solution phase of the Nazi Holocaust, particularly with the most infamous of the death camps.
Stars: Samuel West, Linda Hunt, Gert Heidenreich, Horst Günter Marx
Votes: 4,653
54. The Nazi Officer's Wife (2003)
90 min | Documentary, History, War
Edith Han was an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced Edith and her mother into a Jewish ghetto. Edith was taken away to a labor camp, and when she returned ... See full summary »
Director: Liz Garbus | Stars: Edith Hahn Beer, Julia Ormond, Susan Sarandon
Votes: 340
55. In the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine (1997)
Not Rated | 66 min | Documentary, History
In the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine examines the step-by-step process that led the German medical profession down an unethical road to genocide.
Director: John Michalczyk | Stars: Donald Winning, Arthur Caplan, Donald Dietrich, Michael Grodin
Votes: 141
56. Secrets of the Nazi Criminals (1962)
57 min | Documentary, War
Documents the major trial of the Nazi war criminals and the violent acts that they were accused of.
Director: Tore Sjöberg | Stars: Claude Stephenson, Henning Skaarup, Mogens Wieth, Joseph Goebbels
Votes: 41
57. Tag der Freiheit - Unsere Wehrmacht (1935)
28 min | Documentary, Short
After German generals complained about the army's lack of presence in Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will", she produced this propaganda piece for them.
Director: Leni Riefenstahl | Stars: Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler, Werner von Blomberg
Votes: 1,860
58. Junges Europa - Filmschau der Hitlerjugend. Folge 1 (1942)
15 min | Short
Director: Alfred Weidenmann | Stars: Gunnar Möller, Hans Richter
59. Junges Europa - Filmschau der Hitlerjugend. Folge 7 (1944)
15 min | Short
Director: Alfred Weidenmann
60. Hitler's Generals (1996– )
672 min | Documentary, Biography, War
Portraits of important people in Nazi-Germany.
Stars: David Ritchie, Christian Brückner, Traudl Junge, Robert Jackson
Votes: 258
61. Im toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin (2002)
PG | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, War
Documentary featuring interview footage with Traudl Junge, one of Hitler's personal secretaries during WWII.
Directors: André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer | Star: Traudl Junge
Votes: 1,812 | Gross: $0.38M
62. Eva Braun: Her Life with Adolf Hitler (1996 Video)
48 min | Documentary, History, War
Documents the tale of a dim, middle-class teenager who comes to love the greatest mass murderer of all time. Includes movies Eva shot with a 16mm camera and narrated with excerpts from her diary.
Director: Ulli Lommel | Stars: Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 84
63. The Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality (2004)
90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
German historian Lothar Machtan proposed in his book that Hitler may have been gay and his desire to keep it a secret motivated many of his actions. This film details Machtan's explorations... See full summary »
Directors: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Gabriel Rotello | Stars: Marlene Sanders, Adolf Hitler, Lothar Machtan, Michael Bronski
Votes: 117
64. The Double-Headed Eagle: Hitler's Rise to Power 1918-1933 (1973)
Not Rated | 93 min | Documentary
Lutz Becker lets newsreels, home movies and other archive footage tell the tale of Hitler's rise to power after WWI.
Director: Lutz Becker | Stars: Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler, Buster Keaton, Josephine Baker
Votes: 129
65. Speer und er (2005– )
270 min | Biography, Drama, War
A 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 ... See full summary »
Stars: Sebastian Koch, Tobias Moretti, Dagmar Manzel, Susanne Schäfer
Votes: 800
Very good documentary/ drama about Albert Speers relationship with Hitler, and how did Speer get only 20 years in prison after the Nürnberg trial? Didnt he know about the holocaust? This and more important questions will be answered in this 4 hours and 30 min film.
66. The Bielski Brothers (1994)
50 min | Documentary
The Bielskis were the only Jewish family in their tiny village of Stankevich, and while Jews in Belorussia were persecuted under tsarist rule, the family managed to maintain a successful ... See full synopsis »
Director: Arun Kumar
Votes: 29
68. Paragraph 175 (2000)
Not Rated | 81 min | Documentary, History, Romance
Historian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175.
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | Stars: Rupert Everett, Klaus Müller, Karl Gorath, Pierre Seel
Votes: 2,192 | Gross: $0.07M
69. The Specialist (1999)
128 min | Documentary
The incredible trial of an appallingly ordinary man. Drawn entirely on the 350 hours of rare footage recorded during the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in 1961, in Jerusalem, this film about ... See full summary »
Director: Eyal Sivan | Stars: Adolf Eichmann, Gideon Hausner, Gabriel Bach, Avraham Lindwasser
Votes: 384 | Gross: $0.02M
70. Combat America (1943)
Not Rated | 62 min | Documentary, War
A documentary recounting the experiences of the 351st Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Forces, based in England during the Second World War . The group's air and ground crews are ... See full summary »
Stars: Clark Gable, William A. Hatcher, Philip J. Hulls, Kenneth L. Hulls
Votes: 151
71. The Soviet Story (2008)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, History, War
The Soviet Story offers an alternative history of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale.
Director: Edvins Snore | Stars: Jon Strickland, Vladimir Bukovsky, Vladimir Lenin, Norman Davies
Votes: 3,446
72. The Two Deaths of Adolf Hitler (1975 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, History, War
The Russians claimed that Hitler was still alive and was a British prisoner, at first. Then they said his corpse had been autopsied by themselves. Hitler's in-house people in the bunker ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Smith | Stars: Eric Porter, Lev Bezymenski, Traudl Junge, Heinz Linge
Votes: 38
Documentary.
74. The Secret Life of Adolf Hitler (1958 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 53 min | Documentary, Biography, History
1950's television documentary special that includes interviews with Hitler's sister Paula Wolf and a fellow prisoner who was incarcerated with Hitler, actual footage shot by the Nazi's and Eva Braun's rare home movies.
Director: Walter D. Engels | Stars: Westbrook Van Voorhis, Paula Wolf, Julius Schaub, Wilma Schaub
Votes: 137
75. My Favorite Hitler Youth (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 27 min | Short, Biography, Drama
In 1930s Germany, Friedrich Karl Nischwitz was a student at a military school for the Hitler Youth. After 4 years of beatings and humiliation by his classmates and elders, Fred finally ... See full summary »
Director: Mo Abersheid
Votes: 13
76. The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945 (1992)
Not Rated | 113 min | Documentary
In 1944, at least 170 German citizens were brought to trial and convicted as participants in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. This was not an isolated act, but rather the last of more ... See full summary »
Director: Hava Kohav Beller | Stars: John Dildine, Roland Freisler, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 111
77. Mein Kampf (1960)
Not Rated | 111 min | Documentary, Drama, War
"Mein Kampf" presents the rise and fall of the Third Reich, showing mainly the destruction of Poland and the life of Hitler, from when he was a mediocre student and frustrated aspirant of ... See full summary »
Director: Erwin Leiser | Stars: Paul Klinger, Claude Stephenson, Louis Arbessier, Jean-Claude Michel
Votes: 391
78. Killing Hitler (2003 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary, Drama, War
A drama-documentary about Operation Foxley, a 1944 British plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Director: Jeremy Lovering | Stars: Peter McDonald, Kate Ashfield, Kenneth Cranham, Keith Allen
Votes: 232
79. Sonata dlya Gitlera (1989)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Weaves together a bank of images from German and Soviet archive footage, drawing out a psychological dimension from the historical landscape at the end of World War II.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Star: Adolf Hitler
Votes: 256
80. The True Glory (1945)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary, War
A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen.
Directors: Garson Kanin, Carol Reed | Stars: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Leslie Banks, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle
Votes: 631
82. Göring - Eine Karriere (2006– )
156 min | Documentary, Biography
Stars: Richard Overy, Adolf Hitler, Emmy Göring
Votes: 28
83. Brødre i krig (2010)
55 min | Documentary, War
How much is a brother's life worth? Joining the Nazi party at the height of the Second World War? Or fighting for the German Army?
Bernhard Brekke had to go through with both of these ... See full synopsis »
Director: Øystein Rakkenes | Stars: Bernard Brekke, Erling Brekke
Votes: 9
84. Why We Fight (1942)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, War
The official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought.
Directors: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak | Stars: Walter Huston, Victor Bulwer-Lytton, Kai-Shek Chiang, Walter Darré
Votes: 2,408
85. My Private War (1990)
90 min | Documentary, War
Late in the 1980s, two documentary film makers found six German men, all in their 60s and 70s, who had been soldiers in the German invasion of the USSR in 1942. Each carried an 8mm camera ... See full summary »
Directors: Harriet Eder, Thomas Kufus | Star: Erich von Manstein
Votes: 202
86. Heroes of an American Town (2006 Video)
128 min | Documentary
This film profiles the exploits of the heroes of Tulare, California, including two-time Olympic Gold Medalist Bob Mathias. It also focuses on the B-17 monument "Preston's Pride," which is ... See full summary »
87.
World War II: The War Chronicles (1983– )
Episode:
North Africa... the Desert War
(1983)
21 min | Documentary, History, War
The birth of the Afrika Korps and it's leader Erwin Rommel who was to earn the pseudonym Desert Fox.
Director: Don Horan | Stars: Patrick O'Neal, Erwin Rommel
Votes: 10
88. The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993)
183 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary about the life and work of Leni Riefenstahl, a German film director most notorious for making the most effective propaganda films for the Nazis.
Director: Ray Müller | Stars: Leni Riefenstahl, Marlene Dietrich, Arnold Fanck, Walter Frentz
Votes: 3,052 | Gross: $0.45M
89. WWII in HD (2009)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, History, War
Follow the lives of soldiers who lived World War II, through previously unseen color footage.
Stars: Gary Sinise, Charles Scheffel, Ron Livingston, Rob Lowe
Votes: 2,412
90. The Stilwell Road (1945)
Not Rated | 51 min | Documentary, War
Documentary about the construction of the Stilwell Road - originally called The Ledo Road - a 478-mile passage from Assam, India, to Ledo, Burma, during World War II.
Stars: Ronald Reagan, Harold Alexander, John Allison, Claude Auchinleck
Votes: 100
91. Hôtel Terminus (1988)
Unrated | 267 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary about Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief of Lyon, and his life after the war.
Director: Marcel Ophüls | Stars: Klaus Barbie, Claude Lanzmann, Marcel Ophüls, Johannes Schneider-Merck
Votes: 1,589 | Gross: $0.34M
92. The Great Escapes of World War II (1997– )
Documentary, History, War
Stars: Edward Asner, Lucie Aubrac, Raymond Aubrac, Steve Hoza
Votes: 32
93.
National Geographic Explorer (1985– )
Episode:
Search for the Battleship Bismarck
(1989)
Documentary, History
National Geographic Explorer and Bob Ballard search the depths of the Atlantic for the remains of the German battleship Bismark.
Stars: Richard Kiley, Robert Ballard, Ludovic Kennedy, Johannes Zimmerman
Votes: 39
94. With the Marines at Tarawa (1944)
Approved | 18 min | Documentary, Short, War
Documentary short film depicting the harrowing battle between the U.S. Marines and the Japanese for control of the Pacific island of Tarawa.
Directors: Richard Brooks, Louis Hayward | Stars: Alexander Bonnyman Jr., John Borich, Merritt A. Edson, H.W. Hill
Votes: 305
95. Anne Frank Remembered (1995)
PG | 117 min | Documentary, Biography, War
Tells the story of the Frank family and paints a portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.
Director: Jon Blair | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Glenn Close, Isa Baschwitz, Mary Bos
Votes: 1,349 | Gross: $1.31M
96. The Champagne Safari (1995)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary
The story of Charles E. Bedaux, Franco-American industrial efficiency expert, adventurer, and Nazi collaborator.
Director: George Ungar | Stars: Jim Morris, Colm Feore, David Hemblen, Charles Bedaux
Votes: 49
97. San Pietro (1945)
Unrated | 32 min | Documentary, Short, War
Director John Huston documents the Battle of San Pietro Infine in December 1943.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Mark W. Clark, John Huston
Votes: 2,459
98. Reaching for the Skies (1987– )
History
A twelve part series, first broadcast on BBC 2, that tells the epic story of the aeroplane, in peace and war, from its first 12 second flight on the sand dunes of Kittyhawk to its supersonic flights at the edge of space.
Stars: Anthony Quayle, Chuck Yeager, John Young, Scott Crossfield
Votes: 64
99. Beyond the Barbed Wire: An Artist View of the Holocaust (2010)
Unrated | 68 min | Documentary, War
A man realizes his childhood dream after surviving 5 Nazi camps in Poland. An account of one of the most hidden underground art movements, shows how a creativity can heal, even in the most de-humanizing of conditions.
Director: Matthew Webber | Stars: Ben Altman, John Dobson, Fred Alan Wolf
Votes: 9
100. Speer (1998 TV Movie)
Director: Klaus Maria Brandauer | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Peter Simonischek
Votes: 13
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