Uns anys abans que comenci la Segona Guerra Mundial, un jove anomenat Guido arriba a una ciutat de la Toscana (Arezzo) amb la intenció d'obrir una llibreria. On coneix a Daura i encara que és la promesa del feixista Ferruccio, es casa amb ella i té un fill. Al esclatar la guerra, els tres són internats en un camp d'extermini, on Guido farà l'impossible per fer creure al seu fill que la terrible situació que estan patint és tan sols un joc.
Un humil barber jueu té una semblança sorprenent amb el dictador de la nació Tomània, que promet tirar endavant i que culpa els jueus de la situació del país. El dictador ataca el país fronterer, però és confós amb el barber pels seus propis guàrdies, sent ingressat en un camp de concentració. Simultàniament, el pobre barber és confós amb el dictador...
El 1948, tres anys després del final de la Segona Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), quatre jutges, còmplices de la política nazi d'esterilització i neteja ètnica, seran jutjats a Nuremberg. Sobre Dan Haywood (Spencer Tracy), un jutge nord-americà retirat, recau la important responsabilitat de presidir aquest judici contra els crims de guerra nazis.
Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.
Berlín, abril del 1945. Una nació està a punt d'enfonsar-se. Als carrers de la capital alemanya s'hi lliura una batalla acarnissada. Les tropes soviètiques avancen ràpidament i ja tenen la ciutat pràcticament assetjada. Hitler s'ha atrinxerat al seu búnquer amb el seu cercle de confiança. Entre aquestes persones hi ha Traudl Junge, la secretària personal del Führer. Tot i que Berlín ja no pot resistir més, Hitler es nega a abandonar la ciutat, i tampoc vol negociar la capitulació amb les potències aliades. Ha perdut la noció de la realitat i continua pensant que pot guanyar la guerra. Quan per fi s'adona que no li queda cap sortida, prepara el seu últim comiat al costat de la seva dona, Eva Braun.
In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family’s set ways, inner conflict, and standing on his toes in a musical that questions masculinity, gender norms and conformity.
Durant un projecte setmanal, el professor Rainer Wenger ensenya als estudiants de la seva classe el tema de la forma de govern. Els estudiants es mostren escèptics davant de la idea que pogués tornar una dictadura com la del tercer reich a l'Alemanya dels nostres dies i que ja no hi ha perill que el nacionalsocialisme torni a fer-se amb el poder. El professor decideix començar un experiment amb els seus alumnes per demostrar com és de fàcil manipular les masses.
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human form. This first half of her two-part film opens with a renowned introduction that compares modern Olympians to classical Greek heroes, then goes on to provide thrilling in-the-moment coverage of some of the games' most celebrated moments, including African-American athlete Jesse Owens winning a then-unprecedented four gold medals.
North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.
In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg (Sebastian Koch), goes to a meeting with the Fuhrer in charge of exploding the place. However, Hitler survives and the officers are executed. This unsuccessful operation was called "Valkyrie Operation", and this realistic movie discloses this true event.
A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening gown. While Regina adapts readily to this new world, forming a strong bond with her father's cook, an African named Owuor.
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.
A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human form. Where the two-part epic's first half, Festival of the Nations, focused on the international aspects of the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin, part two, The Festival of Beauty, concentrates on individual athletes such as equestrians, gymnasts, and swimmers, climaxing with American Glenn Morris' performance in the decathalon and the games' majestic closing ceremonies.
In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.
Returned from exile where he accompanied his mother Caterina Sforza, Giovanni de 'Medici (1498-1526), becomes, under the name of Giovanni delle Bande Nere, captain of fortune at the service of the idea of a united Italy.
The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in Berlin to deliver a report he is given a day's leave, and on the stage of the cabaret theatre "Skala" sees the popular Danish singer Hanna Holberg. For Paul it is love at first sight. When Hanna visits friends after the end of the performance, he follows her, and speaks to her in the U-Bahn. After the party in her friends' flat, he accompanies her home and chance throws them further together when an air raid warning forces them to take cover in the air raid shelter. Hanna reciprocates Paul's feelings, but after a night spent together Paul has to return immediately to the front. There now follows a whole series of misunderstandings, and one missed opportunity after another. While Hanna waits in vain for some sign of life from Paul, he is flying on missions in North Africa. When he tries to visit her in her Berlin flat, she is giving a Christmas concert in Paris.
A young woman moves to Berlin to work as a press photographer.
He is considered to be one of the greatest German film stars, Hans Albers, known as "Der blonde Hans", a man made for the cinema. He was an actor, singer, idol of the Germans - and darling of the Nazis. Nevertheless, he could not protect his great love, the Jewess Hansi Burg. In 1938 she had to flee to London from anti-Semitism in Germany. But Albers himself stayed in Germany and continued to film, driven by a desire for a career and the call of money. In 1946, one year after the end of the Second World War, they meet again: Hansi Burg returns to the land of the murderers of her parents in the uniform of the British Army and visits Hans Albers in his villa on Lake Starnberg. He lives there with another woman. The rival has to go, then there is a tense debate. For a day and a night, the blonde Hans has to face uncomfortable questions and even more uncomfortable truths.
This drama is based on the childhood memories of Hans Jürgen Massaquoi, who was one of the few black native Germans in Nazi Germany. In 1935 at the age of nine, he lives with his German mother in a small flat in Hamburg's working class district Barmbek, while his father and grandfather had left the country. Although the boy is not persecuted by the Nazis and dreams of joining the Hitler Youth, his skin color makes him a target for racist abuse...