Region: Germany
A Bridge Too Far
- Director: Richard Attenborough
- Release Date: 1977
- Production Country: United States, United Kingdom
Sent to execute a complex and dangerous mission involving blowing up a number of bridges, the British commander of the Allied forces must deal with logistical nightmares and strategic defeats, complications about which his commanders had been warned before the mission was launched, but through which he now must accomplish his task and get his men home safely.
A Yank in the R.A.F. (The Eagle Flies Again)
- Director: Henry King
- Release Date: 1941
- Production Country: United States
Ace pilot Tim Baker takes a job ferrying newly made bombers from the U.S. to Britain, where he runs into his old girlfriend who, because of her belief in the necessity to fight Hitler, has joined up as a nurse in the British forces. Wanting to impress her, Tim joins the Royal Air Force, where he gradually begins to understand, after several missions, what the war is all about.
Aimée & Jaguar
- Director: Max Färberböck
- Release Date: 1999
- Production Country: Germany
Left behind in Berlin with the children when her husband goes to war, Lily is not adverse to entertaining the occasional gentleman in her flat, but it isn't until she meets the lovely and intriguing journalist Felice that Lily discovers just how passionate and consuming love can be; however, the one secret Felice keeps from Lily is the one that will eventually destroy their happiness.
All Quiet on the Western Front
- Director: Lewis Milestone
- Release Date: 1930
- Production Country: United States
Young German boys are recruited to fight for the glory of the Fatherland, but once they arrive at the front, their experiences prove that warfare is anything but glorious.
Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin (A Woman in Berlin)
- Director: Max Färberböck
- Release Date: 2008
- Production Country: Germany, Poland
The Soviet army has "liberated" Berlin from Hitler's rule, yet this appears only to mean that no German woman is safe from rape at the hands of her liberators; as Anna, a young German journalist, records in her diary, she and her friends do not ask one another "whether" but "how often," while the chaos of war threatens to overwhelm Soviets and Germans alike.
Attila the Hun
- Director: Dick Lowry
- Release Date: 2001
- Production Country: United States, Lithuania
Though orphaned as a child, Attila shows exceptional skill in battle and leadership and rises to not only command his own people, but also unite the banners of numerous tribes under his command. And while Attila can respect the genius of Rome's military strategies, it doesn't mean he is going to back away from a battle that will win him a new home for his people.
Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'
- Director: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge
- Release Date: 2005
- Production Country: United Kingdom
Interviews with soldiers and survivors, archival film footage, computer-generated imagery, and re-enactments provide a unique look at the history of Auschwitz, the most infamous of World War II Nazi death camps; both the camp itself and the larger story of Hitler's Final Solution comprise the larger story.
Band of Brothers
- Director: Phil Alden Robinson, Richard Loncraine, Mikael Salomon, David Nutter, Tom Hanks, David Leland, David Frankel, Tony To
- Release Date: 2001
- Production Country: United Kingdom, United States
The men of E Company from the U.S. 101st Airborne Division come together, experiencing life, death, joy, and sorrow as they serve their country in the battlefields of Europe.
Battle of the Bulge
- Director: Ken Annakin
- Release Date: 1965
- Production Country: United States
Lt. Colonel Kiley has photographic proof from his last recon flight that German Panzer divisions are massing in the Belgian woods, and it looks like their first target will be a fuel depot essential to the Allied battle plan--but no one at Allied headquarters will believe him. Meanwhile, the Germans have their own issues with inexperienced soldiers and what just might be an overly complicated plan.
Beneath Hill 60
- Director: Jeremy Sims
- Release Date: 2010
- Production Country: Australia
A reluctant Australian miner is recruited to be the head of a secret battalion of explosives and tunneling experts in support of the British Army on the Western Front, but the massive, leaking labyrinth of tunnels beneath Hill 60 proves to be a daunting project, one in which his success supporting the British army might mean sacrificing his own—and the lives of the rest of his fellow tunnelers'.
Cabaret
- Director: Bob Fosse
- Release Date: 1972
- Production Country: United States
A proper British professor and a hedonistic cabaret singer befriend each other in Berlin, eventually becoming lovers, but then both Brian and Sally find themselves falling for handsome, suave Maximillian, only to realize that neither of their lifestyles would allow them to remain with him.
Civilisation (Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark)
- Director: Michael Gill, Peter Montagnon, Ann Turner
- Release Date: 1969
- Production Country: United Kingdom
British art historian, Kenneth Clark, surveys the history of Western Civilization, highlighting what he believes are its defining moments and greatest achievements.
Conspiracy
- Director: Frank Pierson
- Release Date: 2001
- Production Country: United Kingdom, United States
In 1942, Nazi leaders had already begun to "deal" with the Jewish population in Eastern Europe, but not everyone is on board with enacting the "Final Solution" on the Jewish populations in Germany.
Das Boot (The Boat)
- Director: Wolfgang Petersen
- Release Date: 1981
- Production Country: Germany
During World War II, a U-boat crew in the Atlantic contend with the Allies, the sea, and each other.
Das Goebbels-Experiment (The Goebbels Experiment)
- Director: Lutz Hachmeister
- Release Date: 2005
- Production Country: Germany, United Kingdom
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's mastermind of propaganda, kept copious diaries that, when paired with German archival footage, expose a mind far more disturbed and disturbing than even his role as spin-master of the Third Reich would suggest.
Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)
- Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
- Release Date: 2006
- Production Country: Germany
Assigned to spy on an acclaimed playwright and his actress girlfriend, a Stasi agent finds himself captivated by the couple and their obvious love for one another. His duty is to observe and report, but the agent must eventually decide if he is going to remain only an observer, or if he is going to step out and involve himself in the lives of others.
Das schreckliche Mädchen (Nasty Girl)
- Director: Michael Verhoeven
- Release Date: 1990
- Production Country: West Germany
Sonya finds resistance in her community when she chooses her hometown's Nazi past as the topic for a high school paper and she struggles tries to write an accurate report about a past her community would rather rewrite than research.
Days of Glory
- Director: Jacques Tourneur
- Release Date: 1944
- Production Country: United States
Nina, a Russian ballet dancer, is separated from her troupe and falls in with a group of partisans led by the handsome—yet ruthless—Vladiimir. Vladimir comes to admire the spirited dancer, who is doing her best to adapt, but Nina cannot bring herself to accept his "enthusiastic" devotion to their task, especially when it involves the deaths of his fellow partisans.
Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew)
- Director: Fritz Hippler
- Release Date: 1940
- Production Country: Germany
After the invasion of Poland, Nazi filmmakers produced a documentary presenting their view of Polish Jewry: filthy, depraved, licentious–the exact 'opposite' of the 'pure' Aryan race.
Der letzte Mann (The Last Laugh)
- Director: F.W. Murnau
- Release Date: 1924
- Production Country: Germany
An elderly man is unjustly transferred from his prestigious position as a doorman at an exclusive hotel and struggles to deal with the disdain of his neighbors as well as his own despair at being assigned to work in the laundry room.