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1. The Young Karl Marx (2017)
Not Rated | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
The early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussels and London.
Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps, Olivier Gourmet
Votes: 7,302 | Gross: $0.13M
2. Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975)
108 min | Drama
Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her annoying ... See full summary »
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm
Votes: 2,214
3. Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (1932)
71 min | Drama
During Great Depression, a family is evicted from their apartment and with no other option they move to a tent camp called Kuhle Wampe.
Director: Slatan Dudow | Stars: Hertha Thiele, Ernst Busch, Martha Wolter, Adolf Fischer
Votes: 828
4. Berlin 1933 - Tagebuch einer Großstadt (2023)
Documentary, History
Using extracts from individuals' diaries and some film records, this documentary series tells the story of the changes that occurred in Berlin (and Germany) during the pivotal year of 1933.
Stars: Tobias Büchner, Konstantin Achmed Bürger, Sophie Diernberger, August Diernberger
Votes: 74
5. Ernst Thälmann - Führer seiner Klasse (1955)
140 min | Biography, Drama, History
The second part of the Ernst Thälmann films encompasses the time period between 1930 and Thälmann's murder in 1944. It shows Thälmann's battle to achieve a united front with all German ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Maetzig | Stars: Günther Simon, Hans-Peter Minetti, Karla Runkehl, Paul R. Henker
Votes: 138
6. Ernst Thälmann - Sohn seiner Klasse (1954)
124 min | Biography, Drama, War
This historical-biographical film begins in the first days of November 1918 on the western front. News comes to the soldiers of a revolutionary uprising in Kiel. Young Thälmann, a soldier ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Maetzig | Stars: Günther Simon, Hans-Peter Minetti, Erich Franz, Erika Dunkelmann
Votes: 146
7. Ein Tag - Bericht aus einem deutschen Konzentrationslager 1939 (1965 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama
Germany, January 1939: a day in a concentration camp. Subjected to harsh military discipline the hungry prisoners are digging a huge hole and filling it up again. Several are tortured, die of exhaustion, in the electric fence, or are shot.
Director: Egon Monk | Stars: Harald Eggers, Eberhard Fechner, Willem Fricke, Norbert Friese
Votes: 66
8. Wehner - Die unerzählte Geschichte (1993 TV Movie)
207 min | Biography, Drama
Director: Heinrich Breloer | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Heinz Baumann, Helmut Ahner, Wibke Bruhns
Votes: 50
9. Der Fall Liebknecht-Luxemburg (1969 TV Movie)
185 min | Drama, War
Director: Theo Mezger | Stars: Edith Heerdegen, Richard Lauffen, Harry Buckwitz, Martin Benrath
Votes: 30
10. Wilhelm Pieck - Sohn seines Volkes (1975)
58 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Wolfgang Bartsch | Stars: Wilhelm Pieck, Leonid Brezhnev, Johannes Dieckmann, Friedrich Ebert
11.
Rise of the Nazis (2019–2023)
Episode:
Politics
(2019)
Documentary, History
Delving into the corridors of power where Germany's top political mastermind sees an opportunity to use the popularity of the Nazis for his own ends.
Director: Julian Jones | Stars: Stephan Malinowski, Mike Jackson, Richard John Evans, Helena Kennedy
Votes: 139
12.
Rise of the Nazis (2019–2023)
Episode:
The First Six Months in Power
(2019)
Documentary, History
At the start of 1933, Hitler is the chancellor of Germany but he does not have absolute power. He sets his sights on dismantling the German state.
Director: Julian Jones | Stars: Richard John Evans, Richard Overy, Ash Sarkar, Heike B. Görtemaker
Votes: 125
13.
Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler (2011)
Episode:
La menace
(2011)
TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History, War
Hitler's charismatic speeches may have won the impoverished but would the National Socialist Party risen to power without the Great Depression?
Director: Isabelle Clarke | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Richard Lintern, Doug Rand, Hans Baur
Votes: 147
14.
Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler (2011)
Episode:
Le Führer
(2011)
TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History, War
Was the support of a politically polarized minority of the population all Hitler needed to maneuver the Nazi party from a position of moderate influence to control of the government or was there more?
Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Richard Lintern, Doug Rand, Hans Baur
Votes: 140
15.
Traitor/Patriot (2022)
Episode:
The Romeo Project
(2022)
Documentary, History, War
Gabrielle Kleim was one of many women working in West Germany targeted by "Romeo Spies." Duped into sharing intelligence for love at the behest of the "Man Without a Face", East German HVA Chief Marcus Wolf.
Directors: Maria Berry, Marek Bures | Stars: James M. Olson, Paul Maddrell, H. Keith Melton, David Charney
16.
Hitler's Circle of Evil (2018)
Episode:
Rise of Antisemitism
(2018)
TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Himmler, Goebbels and Göring fight for their position within in the party while its influence grows in Germany.
Director: Chris Roberts | Stars: Nigel Jones, Michael Lynch, Guy Walters, Toby Thacker
Votes: 209
17.
Hitler's Circle of Evil (2018)
Episode:
Regrouping
(2018)
TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, History
It's 1923, Hitler is imprisoned and he has little support. His career seems at an end until he and Rudolf Hess think of a new way to get power.
Director: Matthew Hinchcliffe | Stars: Guy Walters, Nigel Jones, Michael Lynch, Richard Overy
Votes: 228
18.
Hitler's Circle of Evil (2018)
Episode:
The Fall of Rohm
(2018)
TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The financial crisis in the USA makes the Nazis look good. But in order to keep their new supporters they need to cleanse the party.
Director: Matthew Hinchcliffe | Stars: Guy Walters, Richard Overy, Toby Thacker, Michael Lynch
Votes: 215