Global List of Propaganda Movies
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1. Tourist (2021)
99 min | Action
December 2020. Former police officer Grisha Dmitriev arrives in the Central African Republic with a small group of Russian instructors. Grisha's assignment does not seem complicated, ... See full summary »
Director: Andrey Shcherbinin | Stars: Aleksey Shevchenkov, Aleksandr Baranovskiy, Vladimir Petrov, Evgeniy Terskikh
Votes: 393
2. Lion of the Desert (1980)
PG | 173 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar.
Director: Moustapha Akkad | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger, Irene Papas
Votes: 17,370 | Gross: $3.27M
3. Raza (1942)
113 min | Biography, Drama, History
When the Spanish Republic is declared in 1931, three brothers go separate ways. One, a priest, is killed by leftists. One, a member of the government, betrays his family's traditional ... See full synopsis »
Director: José Luis Sáenz de Heredia | Stars: Alfredo Mayo, Ana Mariscal, José Nieto, Blanca de Silos
Votes: 686
4. Clash of Loyalties (1983)
170 min | Drama, War
This movie is about the 1920 revolution in Iraq against the English occupation.
Director: Mohamed Shukri Jameel | Stars: Oliver Reed, Ghazi Al-Takritee, James Bolam, Youssef El Ani
Votes: 425
5. Al-ayyam al-tawila (1980)
150 min | Action, Drama, History
In 1959 underground revolutionaries try to assassinate Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Kassem in Baghdad. News reports claim they have failed, and at first the revolutionaries lay low, but as ... See full summary »
Directors: Tewfik Saleh, Terence Young, Khairiya A-Mansour | Stars: Saddam Kamel, Nada Siham, Mohsin al-Azzawi, Ibrahim Jalai
Votes: 91
6. 27 Guns (2018)
Action, Adventure, Biography
27 Guns is a biopic based on true events of Uganda's liberation struggle. It tells the story of a young man and his unlikely group of young idealists who leave all to fight for salvation of... See full summary »
Director: Natasha Museveni Karugire | Stars: Arnold Mubangizi, Diana Museveni Kamuntu, Sezi J Nuwewenka, Godwin Ahimbisibwe
Votes: 27
7. Serangan Fajar (1981)
210 min | Drama, War
Director: Arifin C. Noer | Stars: Amoroso Katamsi, Bagong Kussudiardjo, Dani Marsuni, Abduh Mursid
Votes: 348
8. Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI (1984)
220 min | Drama, History, Horror
G30S/PKI is abbreviation of Gerakan 30 September which is a movement and political coup in Indonesia by the Communist Party of Indonesian (PKI). As a result, six generals and one first officer were kidnapped and killed.
Director: Arifin C. Noer | Stars: Bram Adrianto, Syu'bah Asa, Ade Irawan, Amoroso Katamsi
Votes: 565
9. Janur Kuning (1979)
180 min | Drama, War
Janur Kuning follows the Indonesian revolutionaries six-hour assault on Yogyakarta, under Suharto, in a show of force against the Dutch army.
Director: Alam Rengga Surawidjaja | Stars: Sutopo H.S., Deddy Sutomo, Kaharudin Syah, Dicky Zulkarnaen
Votes: 364
10. Djakarta 1966 (1982)
135 min | Drama
Director: Arifin C. Noer | Stars: Ikranagara, Rahmat Kartolo, Amoroso Katamsi, Omar Khayyam
Votes: 228
11. The Message (1976)
PG | 177 min | Biography, Drama, History
This epic historical drama chronicles the life and times of Prophet Muhammad and serves as an introduction to early Islamic history.
Director: Moustapha Akkad | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Michael Ansara, Johnny Sekka
Votes: 50,831
12. Opolchenochka (2019)
132 min | War
Spring-summer 2014. Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine. Radically-minded local residents, who consider what is happening in the country as a threat to their usual existence, form ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksey Kozlov | Stars: Vilen Babichev, Anatoliy Falynskiy, Aleksandr Fastovskiy, Mikhail Golubovich
Votes: 215
13. Reis (2017)
108 min | Biography, Drama
A drama about the early life of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, focusing on his childhood in Istanbul, his political career as the mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998, and his short imprisonment in 1999.
Director: Hüdaverdi Yavuz | Stars: Orhan Aydin, Özlem Balci, Volkan Basaran, Reha Beyoglu
Votes: 74,065
14. Granit (2021)
100 min | Action
Mozambique requests from Russia is being helped in the fight against militants of the "Islamic State" and a special group led by a commander with the call sign Granit is coming to the country.
Director: Denis Neymand | Stars: Aleksandr Baranovskiy, Oleg Chernov, Evgeniy Dobryakov, Sergey Garusov
Votes: 125
15. Crimea (I) (2017)
99 min | Action, Drama
This is a story of love, faith and honor, the strength of spirit and true friendship against the backdrop of the real events of the Crimean spring of 2014.
Director: Aleksey Pimanov | Stars: Roman Kurtsyn, Evgeniya Lapova, Pavel Kraynov, Pavel Trubiner
Votes: 33,609
16. Krym. Put na Rodinu (2015 TV Movie)
145 min | Documentary
This documentary examines the Russian invasion of the Crimean Peninsula.
Director: Sergey Kraus | Stars: Vasiliy Aksyonov, Andrei Kondrashov, Natalya Poklonskaya, Vladimir Putin
Votes: 837
17. The Crimean Bridge. Made with Love! (2018)
102 min | Romance
A hot summer and a gentle sea. Crimean Bridge (Crimea) is being built in Kerch. Dima, a young and daring builder, has a hobby: from every change of female students-archeologists choose the ... See full summary »
Director: Tigran Keosayan | Stars: Aleksey Demidov, Alyona Khmelnitskaya, Sergey Nikonenko, Irina Rozanova
Votes: 1,189
18. The Balkan Line (2019)
130 min | Action, War
After the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Yugoslav army pulls out of Kosovo region, leaving Serbian people at the mercy of the Albanian UCK terrorists. A small band of soldiers must take over the Slatina airport, and hold it until the Russian peacekeepers arrive.
Director: Andrey Volgin | Stars: Anton Pampushnyy, Milena Radulovic, Gosha Kutsenko, Ravshana Kurkova
Votes: 10,527
19. Oleg's Choice (2016 TV Movie)
75 min | Documentary, War
Oleg's Choice is a rare immersion into the private lives and thoughts of Russian combatants who have chosen to fight on the separatists side in Ukraine. Since the summer of 2014, thousands ... See full summary »
Directors: Elena Volochine, James Keogh
Votes: 21
20. Donbass. Okraina (2019)
96 min | Drama, History, Thriller
People with different beliefs find themselves in the epicenter of a military conflict, but in order to survive, they will have to unite.
Director: Renat Davletyarov | Stars: Gela Meskhi, Evgeniy Mikheev, Sergey Kholmogorov, Ulyana Pokhlebaeva
Votes: 404
21. Ukraine on Fire 2 (2022– )
Documentary, Drama, War
'Ukraine on Fire 2' is one-minute docu-series about the Russia's war on Ukraine.
Stars: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Valerii Fedorovych Zaluzhnyi, Vitali Klitschko, Svyatoslav Vakarchuk
Votes: 121
22. Ukraine on Fire (2016)
95 min | Documentary
Ukraine. Across its eastern border is Russia and to its west-Europe. For centuries, it has been at the center of a tug-of-war between powers seeking to control its rich lands and access to the Black Sea. 2014's Maidan Massacre triggered a bloody uprising that ousted president Viktor Yanukovych and painted Russia as the perpetrator by Western media. But was it? "Ukraine on Fire" by Igor Lopatonok ... See full summary »
Director: Igor Lopatonok | Stars: Oliver Stone, Vladimir Putin, Victor Yanukovich, Vitaliy Zakharchenko
Votes: 4,228
23. Revealing Ukraine (2019)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary
"Revealing Ukraine" by Igor Lopatonok continues investigations on of the ongoing Ukrainian crisis following "Ukraine on Fire". In addition, it analyzes the current political backstage and its dangerous potential for the world.
Director: Igor Lopatonok | Stars: Oliver Stone, Viktor Medvedchuk, Oksana Marchenko, Vladimir Putin
Votes: 2,917
24. The Last Frontier (2020)
136 min | Action, Drama, War
A film about the feat of the Podolsk cadets in October 1941 near Moscow. The cadets of the Podolsk artillery-infantry schools are ordered to take up defenses on the Ilyinsky line.
Director: Vadim Shmelyov | Stars: Artyom Gubin, Lubov Konstantinova, Igor Yudin, Aleksey Bardukov
Votes: 1,871
25. Panfilov's 28 Men (2016)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Drama, History
In November 1941, remaining squad of Soviet soldiers must stop a column of Nazi Germany tanks.
Directors: Kim Druzhinin, Andrey Shalopa | Stars: Maksim Abrosimov, Sergey Agafonov, Pavel Aseev, Ivan Batarev
Votes: 6,000
26. The Battle of Kosovo (1989)
117 min | Drama, History, War
On June 28th 1389, at Kosovo Polje, an army of the Serbian Prince Lazar made a stand against the advancing Ottoman forces of Sultan Murad.
Director: Zdravko Sotra | Stars: Milos Zutic, Gorica Popovic, Vojislav 'Voja' Brajovic, Zarko Lausevic
Votes: 2,780
27. Vukovar Poste Restante (1994)
Unrated | 96 min | Drama, Romance, War
This movie describes the violent break-up of former Yugoslavia from the Serbian point of view, using the story of ethnicly mixed couple in war-torn city of Vukovar as metaphore.
Director: Boro Draskovic | Stars: Mirjana Jokovic, Boris Isakovic, Svetlana Bojkovic, Predrag Ejdus
Votes: 858
28. Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)
115 min | Drama, History, War
During the war in Bosnia, two childhood friends eventually become enemies, as the tragic and devastating circumstances of the war put them on the opposite sides and expose the most gruesome and cruel aspects of the human nature.
Director: Srdjan Dragojevic | Stars: Dragan Bjelogrlic, Nikola Kojo, Dragan Maksimovic, Zoran Cvijanovic
Votes: 17,758
29. The Knife (1999)
135 min | Drama
In attempt to find out who he is and where his roots lie, Alija Osmanovic discovers something far deeper and more important. He slowly discovers an evil that follows him as his destiny ... See full summary »
Director: Miroslav Lekic | Stars: Zarko Lausevic, Bojana Maljevic, Aleksandar Bercek, Ljiljana Blagojevic
Votes: 3,689
30. Bismarck (1940)
118 min | Biography, Drama
A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Paul Hartmann, Friedrich Kayßler, Lil Dagover, Käthe Haack
Votes: 238
31. Die Entlassung (1942)
110 min | Drama, History
A sequel to 1940's "Bismarck", Bismarck is dismissed by an under-pressure Wilhelm II. Then the treaty with Russia is in peril as the leader is left with the dilemma of who could complete Bismarck's work.
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Emil Jannings, Margarete Schön, Christian Kayßler, Theodor Loos
Votes: 106
32. Alarm in Peking (1937)
89 min | Crime, Drama
A man is caught in the 1900 Boxer Rebellion in China.
Director: Herbert Selpin | Stars: Gustav Fröhlich, Leny Marenbach, Peter Voß, Herbert Hübner
Votes: 16
33. Anschlag auf Baku (1942)
91 min
Competition between the British and the Germans to help the Russians with oil fields around Baku, after the Great War.
Director: Fritz Kirchhoff | Stars: Boris Alekin, Günther Ballier, Paul Bildt, Otto Braml
Votes: 15
34. Besatzung Dora (1943)
91 min | Drama, History, War
Luftwaffe pilots Joachim and Franz both love Marianne - their jealousy threatens to compromise the vital teamwork aboard their recon plane. Sergeant Otto, a farm boy, loses his love Mathilde when she discovers she hates agricultural work.
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Hannes Stelzer, Hubert Kiurina, Josef Dahmen, Georg Thomalla
Votes: 61
35. Blutsbrüderschaft (1941)
104 min | Drama
During the last days of WWI Lieutenant Colonel Klaus Olden desperately tries to hold a lost post with his unit. Help appears in the form of pilot Jochen Wendler. The two men form a blood brotherhood.
Director: Philipp Lothar Mayring | Stars: Hans Söhnker, Ernst von Klipstein, Anneliese Uhlig, Rudolf Platte
Votes: 17
36. Carl Peters (1941)
110 min | Biography, Drama, History
Film about the exploits of famed German explorer Dr. Carl Peters.
Director: Herbert Selpin | Stars: Hans Albers, Karl Dannemann, Fritz Odemar, Herbert Hübner
Votes: 62
37. D III 88 (1939)
103 min | Action, Drama, War
Flashbacks portray the heroics of two German fighter pilots in WWI and then the two are shown heading out to attack the British navy at the start of WWII.
Directors: Herbert Maisch, Hans Bertram | Stars: Christian Kayßler, Otto Wernicke, Heinz Welzel, Hermann Braun
Votes: 54
38. For the Rights of Man (1934)
118 min | Drama, History
This Nazi propaganda film tells about the "freikorps" movement in post-World War I Germany. Freikorps were armed extreme-right-wing paramilitary groups, often composed of street thugs, ... See full summary »
Directors: Hans Zöberlein, Ludwig Schmid-Wildy | Stars: Hans Schlenck, Kurt Holm, Ernst Martens, Beppo Brem
Votes: 12
39. Three Non-Coms (1939)
90 min | Drama
One of three military warrant officer comrades falls for a young actress but his friends rescue him from neglecting his larger duty, to serve his country on the verge of war.
Director: Werner Hochbaum | Stars: Albert Hehn, Fritz Genschow, Wilhelm König, Wilhelm Althaus
Votes: 22
40. Falschmünzer (1940)
86 min
A quartet of cosmopolitan forgers working out of Switzerland is thwarted by the Nazi SD before Germany's financial system would be weakened.
Director: Hermann Pfeiffer | Stars: Kirsten Heiberg, Rudolf Fernau, Karin Himboldt, Hermann Brix
Votes: 13
41. Enemies (1940)
91 min | Drama, Romance, War
Nazi propaganda film about a German laborer named Keith who works in a sawmill in Poland near the German border in 1939. When local anti-German sentiment leads to lynchings, lovely Anna hides Keith in her tavern.
Director: Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: Brigitte Horney, Willy Birgel, Reinhold Lütjohann, Karl-Heinz Peters
Votes: 18
42. Flüchtlinge (1933)
87 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Propaganda film detailing the plight of ethnic Germans, known as "Volga Germans", in the Soviet province of Manchuria.
Director: Gustav Ucicky | Stars: Hans Albers, Käthe von Nagy, Eugen Klöpfer, Ida Wüst
Votes: 66
43. Menschen im Sturm (1941)
80 min
A propaganda movie trying to justify the Nazi invasion of Serbia with supposed violence of Serbs against the little German born community living among them. Serbia, March, 1941. Serbian ... See full summary »
Director: Fritz Peter Buch | Stars: Gustav Diessl, Olga Tschechowa, Hannelore Schroth, Siegfried Breuer
Votes: 18
44. Flucht ins Dunkel (1939)
86 min
A drama of intrigue and sabotage set during WWI, this Nazi supported production was banned in post WWII Germany.
Director: Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Stars: Hertha Feiler, Joachim Gottschalk, Ernst von Klipstein, Paul Hoffmann
45. Fronttheater (1942)
95 min | Drama, War
The very successful actress Lena Andres marries Dr. Paul Meinhardt. For his sake she gives up her acting career.
Director: Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Stars: Heli Finkenzeller, René Deltgen, Lothar Firmans, Wilhelm Strienz
Votes: 27
46. Der 5. Juni - Einer unter Millionen (1942)
99 min
After the death of his father, war volunteer Eickhoff is treated harshly by his superior officer, Schulz. Schulz believes this to be the legacy of his fallen friend Eickhoff because he wanted to make his son an officer.
Director: Fritz Kirchhoff | Stars: Carl Raddatz, Joachim Brennecke, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Gisela Uhlen
Votes: 9
47. G.P.U. (1942)
99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Olga, a Russian refuge from Bolshevik terror has joined the Soviet secret police, the G.P.U. to find the man who killed her parents. Meanwhile a young Baltic couple are caught up in the ... See full summary »
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Laura Solari, Will Quadflieg, Marina von Ditmar, Andrews Engelmann
Votes: 74
48. Der Herrscher (1937)
103 min | Drama
Mathias Clausen is a self-made businessman who is forced to do a great deal of soul-searching when his wife unexpectedly dies.
Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Emil Jannings, Paul Wagner, Hannes Stelzer, Hilde Körber
Votes: 85
49. Himmelhunde (1942)
70 min | Drama, History, War
In this Nazi propaganda film, young Germans at a Hitler Youth camp engage in a program to learn how to build and fly gliders.
Director: Roger von Norman | Stars: Malte Jaeger, Waldemar Leitgeb, Albert Florath, Lutz Götz
Votes: 19
50. Himmelstürmer. Geburt und Geschichte des Fliegens. (1941)
100 min | Documentary
Director: Walter Jerven | Star: Alfred Braun
51. Our Flags Lead Us Forward (1933)
87 min | Drama
In the depths of the Great Depression and in the waning days of the crumbling Weimar Republic, a poor Berlin youth is torn between loyalty to his unemployed Communist father and his ever-growing fascination of the Hitler Youth movement.
Director: Hans Steinhoff | Stars: Heinrich George, Berta Drews, Jürgen Ohlsen, Hermann Speelmans
Votes: 1,822
52. I accuse (1941)
110 min | Drama
In this pro-euthanasia melodrama, a successful doctor is forced to make a heart-wrenching decision after his beautiful young wife is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Heidemarie Hatheyer, Paul Hartmann, Mathias Wieman, Margarete Haagen
Votes: 184
53. Jakko (1941)
77 min | Drama
In this Nazi propaganda film, a troubled young boy joins the Hitler Naval Youth, where he finds meaning and purpose in his life.
Director: Fritz Peter Buch | Stars: Martin Affelt, Franz Berghaus, Günther Clemm, Inge Cupel
Votes: 21
54. Jud Süß (1940)
98 min | Drama
Infamous anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Ferdinand Marian, Kristina Söderbaum, Heinrich George, Werner Krauss
Votes: 3,367
55. Jungens (1941)
Drama
The leader of a Hitler Youth group arrives in a village to organize the local teenagers into a Hitler Youth branch.
Director: Robert A. Stemmle | Stars: Albert Hehn, Hilde Sessak, Eduard Wandrey, Kurt Fischer-Fehling
Votes: 15
56. Kadetten (1939)
94 min | Drama, War
During the 18th century's Seven-Year War, a group of young Prussian army cadets are captured by Russian soldiers. After enduring brutal treatment, the cadets come up with a plan to escape ... See full summary »
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Mathias Wieman, Carsta Löck, Andrews Engelmann, Theo Shall
Votes: 40
57. Comrades at Sea (1938)
89 min | War
Military drama involving a German torpedo boat and a steamer captured by Russians during the Spanish Civil War, with some romance on the side between a young Nazi lieutenant and a dark Hispanic beauty engaged to his commanding officer.
Director: Heinz Paul | Stars: Theodor Loos, Ingeborg Hertel, Julius Brandt, Carola Höhn
Votes: 18
58. Kampfgeschwader Lützow (1941)
97 min | War
German propaganda film, telling a story of a bomber crew, taking part in invasion on Poland and attacks on the British shipping.
Director: Hans Bertram | Stars: Christian Kayßler, Hermann Braun, Heinz Welzel, Hannes Keppler
Votes: 39
59. Burning Hearts (1945)
111 min | Drama, History, Romance
During Napoleon's German campaign, the city of Kolberg is isolated from Prussian forces. Residents organize resistance against the French army besieging and bombarding the city, refusing to surrender.
Directors: Veit Harlan, Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Heinrich George, Kristina Söderbaum, Horst Caspar, Gustav Diessl
Votes: 757
60. Kopf hoch, Johannes! (1941)
90 min | Drama
The exploits of a young German youth during World War II in Argentina.
Director: Viktor de Kowa | Stars: Albrecht Schoenhals, Dorothea Wieck, Klaus Detlef Sierck, Gunnar Möller
Votes: 55
61. Mein Sohn, der Herr Minister (1937)
81 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Hans Brausewetter, Heli Finkenzeller, Françoise Rosay, Hans Moser
Votes: 24
62. Ohm Krüger (1941)
124 min | Biography, War
Rousing biopic of Paul Kruger, the Boer guerilla fighter turned statesman and first president of South Africa.
Directors: Hans Steinhoff, Karl Anton, Herbert Maisch | Stars: Emil Jannings, Lucie Höflich, Werner Hinz, Ernst Schröder
Votes: 285
63. Pour le Mérite (1938)
122 min | War
This Nazi propaganda film chronicles the rise of the German Air Force ("Luftwaffe") from World War I until Adolf Hitler took power in 1933.
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Paul Hartmann, Herbert A.E. Böhme, Albert Hehn, Paul Otto
Votes: 49
64. Ride to Freedom (1937)
92 min | Drama, History
A Polish captain serving Alexander during the Czarist rule of Warsaw in 1830 gives up his love for a Russian lady and joins his compatriots in the liberation struggle.
Director: Karl Hartl | Stars: Willy Birgel, Viktor Staal, Hansi Knoteck, Ursula Grabley
Votes: 15
65. Robert und Bertram (1939)
87 min | Comedy
Two vagabonds escape from jail and steal jewelry at a wedding to help a poor innkeeper pay his debts.
Director: Hans H. Zerlett | Stars: Rudi Godden, Kurt Seifert, Carla Rust, Fritz Kampers
Votes: 38
66. Die Rothschilds (1940)
97 min | Biography, Drama
Anti-semitic Nazi propaganda "biography" of the Rothschilds, a German Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.
Director: Erich Waschneck | Stars: Erich Ponto, Carl Kuhlmann, Albert Lippert, Ludwig Linkmann
Votes: 1,668
67. Der Stammbaum des Dr. Pistorius (1939)
83 min
Director: Karl Georg Külb | Stars: Ernst Waldow, Käthe Haack, Heinz Wieck, Carsta Löck
68. Stukas (1941)
101 min | Drama, War
This German propaganda film details the exploits of a group of Luftwaffe pilots flying Junkers Ju 87 "Stukas"--dive bombers--in the Battle of France in the early days of World War II.
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Carl Raddatz, Hannes Stelzer, Ernst von Klipstein, Albert Hehn
Votes: 189
69. Togger (1937)
99 min
The international Reuler Group has its hand in every game, using questionable means to gain ever more power. Only the chief editor Togger of the newspaper "Neue Tag" has the courage to attack the machinations of the firm.
Director: Jürgen von Alten | Stars: Paul Hartmann, Renate Müller, Heinz Salfner, Paul Otto
Votes: 20
70. U-Boote westwärts! (1941)
100 min | Drama, War
This Nazi propaganda film follows the exploits of a German submarine as it prowls the North Atlantic.
Director: Günther Rittau | Stars: Herbert Wilk, Heinz Engelmann, Joachim Brennecke, Wilhelm Borchert
Votes: 82
71. The Private's Job (1937)
82 min | Drama, War
During the Great War, German soldiers are persuaded to die heroically in order to take a French village held by the British.
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Heinrich George, Paul Otto, Mathias Wieman, Ernst Karchow
Votes: 50
72. Über alles in der Welt (1941)
85 min | Drama
It was made as a propaganda film designed to promote Nazi Germany's war aims in the Second World War. Following the outbreak of war, Germans abroad face persecution from the British and French authorities.
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Paul Hartmann, Hannes Stelzer, Fritz Kampers, Carl Raddatz
Votes: 42
73. Venus vor Gericht (1941)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A sculptor, an enemy of modern art, sets an example. He sculpts a statue of Venus in the style of the Greek antiquity and buries it in a forest. When it's dug up in 1930, it's considered to be a 2 000 year old, antique statue.
Director: Hans H. Zerlett | Stars: Hannes Stelzer, Hansi Knoteck, Paul Dahlke, Siegfried Breuer
Votes: 24
74. Triumph of the Will (1935)
Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary, History
The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.
Director: Leni Riefenstahl | Stars: Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Max Amann, Martin Bormann
Votes: 18,319
75. S.A.-Mann Brand (1933)
94 min | Drama
This Nazi propaganda film tells the story of a young truck driver who is having trouble making ends meet until he is exposed to the teachings of Adolf Hitler, and he joins the S.A., aka ... See full summary »
Director: Franz Seitz | Stars: Heinz Klingenberg, Wera Liessem, Rolf Wenkhaus, Hedda Lembach
Votes: 121
76. Hans Westmar (1933)
95 min | Biography
Student Hans is so appalled by decadent Berlin and the schemes of the Communist Party that he inspires the Nazi cohorts of his fellow storm troopers to actively fight the Communists who in turn conspire to assassinate him.
Director: Franz Wenzler | Stars: Emil Lohkamp, Paul Wegener, Heinrich Heilinger, Irmgard Willers
Votes: 1,474
77. Junge Adler (1944)
107 min | Drama
Propagandist coming-of-age drama from Nazi Germany. The head of an aircraft factory sends his irresponsible son Theo, who crashed his car, to the factory's apprentice school, where he bonds with fellow student Baumchen and teacher Roth.
Director: Alfred Weidenmann | Stars: Willy Fritsch, Herbert Hübner, Dietmar Schönherr, Gerta Böttcher
Votes: 53
78. Der Sieg des Glaubens (1933)
61 min | Documentary
Der Sieg des Glaubens (English: The Victory of Faith, Victory of Faith, or Victory of the Faith) (1933) is the first propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl. Her film recounts the ... See full summary »
Director: Leni Riefenstahl | Stars: Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler
Votes: 1,929
79. Die vier Musketiere (1934)
119 min
Four former frontline soldiers from the Great War, reunited during the end of the Weimar Republic, are persuaded by another German who has just returned from Depression America,that they are lucky to see Hitler coming to power.
Director: Heinz Paul | Stars: Fritz Kampers, Paul Westermeier, Erhard Siedel, Hans Brausewetter
80. Request Concert (1940)
103 min | Musical, Romance, War
At the Olympic games in Berlin 1936 Inge Wagner falls in love with Luftwaffenleutnant (Airforce Lieutenant) Herbert Koch. They want to marry, but he receives orders to go to Spain - ... See full summary »
Director: Eduard von Borsody | Stars: Hedwig Bleibtreu, Joachim Brennecke, Heinz Goedecke, Paul Hörbiger
Votes: 175
81. Der Rebell (1932)
65 min | Drama
A young medical student returns to his Tyrolean home to find out that Napoleon's troops have taken over the area and that his mother and sister have been murdered.
Directors: Curtis Bernhardt, Edwin H. Knopf, Luis Trenker | Stars: Luis Trenker, Luise Ullrich, Victor Varconi, Ludwig Stössel
Votes: 88
82. Dawn (1933)
75 min | Drama, War
In 1915, Captain Liers, commander of a submarine is leaving his hometown, where he, his 2nd officer and the radio-operator, who is married there, spend their shore leave. Liers two brothers... See full summary »
Director: Gustav Ucicky | Stars: Rudolf Forster, Fritz Genschow, Adele Sandrock, Camilla Spira
Votes: 163
83. Furlough on Parole (1938)
87 min | Drama, War
Berlin, 1918. During six hours' leave, German soldiers see their (un)faithful wives, meet their teachers, experience first love, and two of them are confronted with the leftist revolutionary movement. Will they return and do their duty?
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Ingeborg Theek, Iwa Wanja, Rolf Möbius, Fritz Kampers
Votes: 56
84. Spähtrupp Hallgarten (1941)
100 min
Two German soldiers in the Norwegian Campaign.
Director: Herbert B. Fredersdorf | Stars: René Deltgen, Paul Klinger, Maria Andergast, Gustav Waldau
Votes: 18
85. The Making of a King (1935)
91 min | Drama
The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.
Director: Hans Steinhoff | Stars: Emil Jannings, Werner Hinz, Leopoldine Konstantin, Claus Clausen
Votes: 113
86. An Enemy of the People (1937)
102 min | Drama
Dr. Stockmann discovers that the mineral spring in the spa is polluted by toxic waste. But the affair is hushed because the thriving economy of the resort is in danger. To silence him Stockmann is declared an enemy of the people.
Director: Hans Steinhoff | Stars: Heinrich George, Herbert Hübner, Franziska Kinz, Carsta Löck
Votes: 22
87. Fridericus (1937)
97 min | Drama
In 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighboring states, and after numerous near defeats, eventually brings a victorious army back to Berlin.
Director: Johannes Meyer | Stars: Otto Gebühr, Hilde Körber, Lil Dagover, Agnes Straub
Votes: 86
88. Robert Koch: The Battle Against Death (1939)
113 min | Biography, Drama, History
The young country doctor Dr. Robert Koch is desperate seeking a cure for a tuberculosis epidemic costing many children in his district life.
Director: Hans Steinhoff | Stars: Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss, Viktoria von Ballasko, Raimund Schelcher
Votes: 95
89. Friedrich Schiller - Der Triumph eines Genies (1940)
102 min | Drama
Friedrich Schiller - The triumph of a genius.
Director: Herbert Maisch | Stars: Heinrich George, Lil Dagover, Horst Caspar, Friedrich Kayßler
Votes: 88
90. Andreas Schlüter (1942)
111 min | Drama, History
Director: Herbert Maisch | Stars: Valy Arnheim, Paul Dahlke, Peter Elsholtz, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Votes: 27
91. Diesel (1942)
109 min | Biography, History
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Willy Birgel, Hilde Weissner, Paul Wegener, Josef Sieber
Votes: 36
92. Geheimakte W.B.1 (1942)
91 min | Drama, War
Nazi propaganda film showing the development of the German navy's submarine fleet.
Director: Herbert Selpin | Stars: Alexander Golling, Eva Immermann, Richard Häussler, Herbert Hübner
Votes: 8
93. Wien 1910 (1943)
92 min | Biography, Drama
One of a series of biography films from WWII Germany, this about early 20th century Austrian politician Karl Lueger, who helped modernize Vienna but whose Christian Social party ,espousing anti Semitism, inspired a young Adolf Hitler.
Director: E.W. Emo | Stars: Rudolf Forster, Heinrich George, Lil Dagover, Carl Kuhlmann
Votes: 22
95. Frisians in Peril (1935)
97 min | Drama
The peaceful life of a village of Frisions by the river Volga is troubled by the arrival of a troop of Red Guards led by the inhuman commissary Tschernoff.Not only content to mistreat the ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Hagen | Stars: Friedrich Kayßler, Helene Fehdmer, Valéry Inkijinoff, Jessie Vihrog
Votes: 28
96. Heimkehr (1941)
94 min | Drama
This Nazi propaganda film attempts to justify the invasion of Poland--and thus the start of World War II--by "showing" how the ethnic Germans in Poland were discriminated against and ... See full summary »
Director: Gustav Ucicky | Stars: Paula Wessely, Peter Petersen, Attila Hörbiger, Ruth Hellberg
Votes: 118
97. Hangmen, Women and Soldiers (1935)
Drama, Romance, War
A German WWI aviator leaves what he sees as a decadent homeland and gets involved in Russia against the Communists.
Director: Johannes Meyer | Stars: Hans Albers, Charlotte Susa, Jack Trevor, Ernst Dumcke
Votes: 13
98. Um Freiheit und Liebe (1937)
90 min
Konrad, an idealistic Polish student who courts disaster for his loved ones through his constant harangues against Russian impression. When his mother promises the authorities that Konrad will cease his protests, he is bound to obey her.
Director: Fritz Peter Buch | Stars: Lucie Höflich, Werner Hinz, Claire Winter, Viktoria von Ballasko
99. Die goldene Spinne (1943)
88 min | Drama, War
Soviet spies try to discover the secrets of a new German tank.
Director: Erich Engels | Stars: Franz Arzdorf, Wilhelm Bendow, Traute Bengen, Hermann Brix
Votes: 29
100. Heldentum und Todeskampf unserer Emden (1934)
Documentary, Drama, War
A dramatization of the exploits of a German cruiser "Emden" during the Great War and of its captain, Von Mueller.
Director: Louis Ralph | Stars: Louis Ralph, Willy Kaiser-Heyl, Werner Fuetterer, Fritz Greiner
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