The best Adolf Hitler’s documentary movies

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

20/04/1889- 30/04/1945
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Hitler: A Career

Hitler: A Career
7.5/10
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.

Triumph of the Will

Triumph of the Will
7.1/10
Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl's controversial masterwork is an artful work of propaganda showcasing German chancellor and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally. Edited from over 60 hours' worth of raw footage shot over the course of the rally's four days, the film is visually remarkable in the way it captures the event's enormous scale.

Uncle Tom

Uncle Tom
8.2/10
In a collection of intimate interviews with some of America's most provocative black conservative thinkers, Uncle Tom takes a unique look at being black in America. Featuring media personalities, ministers, civil rights activists, veterans, and a self-employed plumber, the film explores their personal journeys of navigating the world as one of America's most misunderstood political and cultural groups: The American Black Conservative. In this eye-opening film from Director Justin Malone and Executive Producer Larry Elder, Uncle Tom examines self-empowerment, individualism and rejecting the victim narrative. Uncle Tom shows us a different perspective of American History from this often ignored and ridiculed group.

The Corporation

The Corporation
8/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 10/09/2003
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.

Naqoyqatsi

Naqoyqatsi
6.4/10
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.

Night and Fog

Night and Fog
8.6/10
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Faces of Death

Faces of Death
4.2/10
  • Genre: DocumentaryHorror
  • Release: 10/11/1978
  • Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV-material to home-made super-8 movies. The common factor is death by some means.

Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress

Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
7.9/10
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war and the selfish interests of a few, belligerent politicians and captains of industry, damaging the welfare of the majority of mankind, impoverishing the weakest, greedily devouring the limited resources of the Earth.

Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations

Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
7.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 20/04/1938
  • Character: Self (uncredited)
The First part of Olympia, a documentary about the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin by German Director Leni Riefenstahl. The film played in theaters in 1938 and again in 1952 after the fall of the Nazi Regime.

Lasciateci Fare Vol. 1

Lasciateci Fare Vol. 1
8.8/10
In the last 250 years, free-market ideology has played a central role in the development of the logic and rhetoric that have influenced the daily life of populations throughout the Western world. It was cornered for a few decades during the twentieth century in favor of a social economy for the public interest, and then returned to the limelight in the last thirty years of the century to dominate the logics that drive world economies, doing the favor of the elites at the expense of 99%. Through the testimony of six people informed about the facts, Lasciateci Fare Vol. 1 offers a historical and ideological perspective through which to identify the fundamental problems of the economic mechanism on which Western societies are based.

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
7.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 03/03/1985
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.

The Lost Film of Nuremberg

The Lost Film of Nuremberg
7.7/10
In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collect filmed and recorded evidence of the horrors committed by the infamous Third Reich in order to prove Nazi war crimes during the Nuremberg trials (1945-46). The story of the making of Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, a paramount historic documentary, released in 1948.

Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty

Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty
7.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 20/04/1938
  • Character: Self
The Second part of Olympia, a documentary about the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin by German Director Leni Riefenstahl. The film played in theaters in 1938 and again in 1952 after the fall of the Nazi Regime.

National Geographic - Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring

National Geographic - Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
6.9/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 23/12/2001
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
A documentary about the influences on Tolkien, covering in brief his childhood and how he detested the onslaught of industry through the idyllic countryside, moving on to describe his fighting experience from WWI, and closing with a look at the Finnish inspiration for the scholar's self-invented languages of Elfish. In between are interviews with the cast of the films and some clips, by far the most from "The Fellowship of the Ring", but a few glimpses of Rohan riders (from "The Two Towers") are provided. Also, there are interviews with a range of the filmmakers.

The Most Dangerous Man in Europe

The Most Dangerous Man in Europe
6.7/10
  • Genre: DocumentaryHistory
  • Release: 29/01/2020
  • Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
Waffen-SS officer Otto Skorzeny (1908-75) became famous for his participation in daring military actions during World War II. In 1947 he was judged and imprisoned, but he escaped less than a year later and found a safe haven in Spain, ruled with an iron hand by General Francisco Franco. What did he do during the many years he spent there?

Sciences nazies

Sciences nazies
7.6/10
In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scientific community supported Nazism, distorted history to legitimize a hideous system and was an accomplice to its unspeakable crimes. The story of the Ahnenerbe, a sinister organization created to rewrite the obscure origins of a nation.

Genocide

Genocide
7.3/10
The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust could happen again. The history of European Jewish culture and events before and during the Holocaust are seen in newsreels, photographs, and animated segments. The words of the victims of the era are read, and footage from the liberation os a concentration camp is shown.

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

The Adventures of Errol Flynn
8/10
A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.

The Society of the Spectacle

The Society of the Spectacle
7.2/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/1973
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.

Schindler: The Documentary

Schindler: The Documentary
7.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/10/1983
  • Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The true story of Oskar Schindler's exploits in which he saved a thousand Jews from the ovens of the death camps, s told by first hand witnesses. The British Academy Award winning documentary that preceded Spielberg's "Schindler's List" by 10 years.

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