World war II

A multi-layered drama that skillfully explores how both feelings and memories stay locked away in post-reunification East Germany.

When Germany surrenders in 1945, two reckless teenagers put their families' escape on the line to save their friendship.

Haunting anti-war parable about collaboration in the Nazi-occupied Baltics, based on the controversial work of author Rūta Vanagaitė.

The film BLACK SUN illuminates the importance of myths and occult beliefs in the ideology of the "Third Reich".

Rosa von Praunheim's search for his own roots interweaves his personal life story with the larger historical context of the Second World War.

A war crime was committed in their home village and consistently hushed up. The two brothers search for clues leaves us stunned and angry.

This sensitive animated film tells of the horrors endured by cartoonist Josep Bartoli in an internment camp.

This documentary tells the incredibly shocking story of how a Nazi officer became a top politician and UN Secretary General.

Anja Salomonowitz portrays three women from her family who as children lived through WWII but whose memories of that time diverge.

At the age of 19, Raja was deported to Nazi Germany and was forced to do labor on a Bavarian farm. This documentary is her story.

The Wehrmacht massacre at Oradour in 1944, filmed with Philppe Noiret and Romy Schneider in 1975. Hated by the German critics, loved by the French.

April 1945: Gregor Hecker, 19 years of age, reaches the outskirts of Berlin as part of the Red Army's scouting team.

Set during the rise of the Nazi regime, Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in Berlin.

Based on the novella "Der Russenpelz" by Friedrich Wolf, Roland Gräf's feature film was made by the artistic working group "Roter Kreis".

At the beginning of the last century, Arno Breker was one of the great hopes of young German sculpture, esteemed by the painter Max Liebermann.

At the end of the Second World War, the German capital was filled with an underground labyrinth of bunkers. These are the stories of the people who stayed ...

The coming-of-age drama by Michal Rogalski tells how everyday life in the WW2 grey zone between normality and terror looked like...

A filmmaker discovers evidence of a Wehrmacht massacre in Italy in his grandfather's estate and investigates the case himself.

Film journalist Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed.

The testimonies of former Wehrmacht soldiers collected by Ruth Beckermann are still horrifying today.

In Wehrmacht-occupied Poland, two intellectuals flee to a country estate and play a perverse game with its inhabitants.

Fritz Bauer was a public prosecutor, a leading investigator of Nazi history and a pioneer of German civil society.

In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But ...

A boy playing with a toy gun in the woods is pulled into an altered reality.