Hitler: The Comedy Years

Using exclusively archival footage, Erwin Leiser traces the rise and collapse of the Third Reich, from Adolf Hitler’s early years to the devastation of Europe and his suicide in 1945. The film draws heavily on material produced and preserved by the Nazi propaganda apparatus to confront the mechanisms, imagery, and consequences of total...

Runtime

3h 17m

Director

Erwin Leiser

Cast

Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Brüning, Claude Stephenson

Stories of 12 gay and lesbian survivors of Nazism and the Holocaust.

Runtime

1h 29m

Director

Jörg Fockele, Jens Golombek

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist reformer, now obsessed with the idea of power, he founds the National Fascist Party in 1921 and assumes political power in 1922, becoming the Duce, dictator of Italy. His success encourages Hitler to take power in Germany in 1933, openi...

Runtime

1h 41m

Cast

Bill Paterson, Stefano Fregni, Adrian Lyttleton

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the country folds, and then collapsed in facing the attack of the Nazi Germany. On June 1940, each day is a tragedy. For the first time, thanks to historic revelations, and to numerous never seen before images and documents and reenacted situa...

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

Christophe Weber

Cast

Adolf Hitler

Between 1933 and 1945 roughly 1200 films were made in Germany, of which 300 were banned by the Allied forces. Today, around 40 films, called "Vorbehaltsfilme", are locked away from the public with an uncertain future. Should they be re-released, destroyed, or continue to be neglected? Verbotene Filme takes a closer look at some of thes...

Runtime

1h 34m

Director

Felix Moeller

Cast

Johanna Liebeneiner, Margarethe von Trotta, Oskar Roehler