World War II Collection

Downfall

Based on the book INSIDE HITLER'S BUNKER by Joachim Fest and UNTIL THE FINAL HOUR by Traudl Junge and Melissa Müller

Elsa Morante’s La Storia

Based on Elsa Morante’s bestselling novel that is one of the most iconic and critically acclaimed of the 20th century, published in two dozen languages.

Führer and Seducer

Director Joachim A. Lang (MACK THE KNIFE) puts an end to the underestimation and trivialization of Goebbels’ Nazi propaganda without ever diminishing the responsibility of millions of Germans for the crimes of the Third Reich.

The Fox

Based on the true story of an extraordinary friendship between a young soldier and a fox cub.

The Turncoat

Event series in tradition of GENERATION WAR. Based on the bestseller by Siegfried Lenz. Directed by Academy Award Winner Florian Gallenberger.

The Forger

Based on a true story. By living in plain sight of the Nazis and forging passports for countless Jewish people, Cioma not only tries to survive, he wants to live!

The Counterfeiters

Oscar®-winning feature by Stefan Ruzowitzky about the true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, counterfeiter extraordinaire, bohemian and concentration camp prisoner, who set up an organized counterfeit operation.

Atlantic Crossing

Based on the true story of Norwegian Crown Princess Martha, who fights to save her country, ATLANTIC CROSSING offers a unique and never-before-seen perspective on the tragic events of World War II. Starring two-time Emmy® nominee Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks) and Sofia Helin (The Bridge).

In Darkness

ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE - Best Foreign Language Film

Generation War

Highly acclaimed International Emmy® winner and Band-of-Brother-style series about five adolescents within the turmoil of WWII, marking “a new era in German television" (Der Spiegel).

The Invisibles

Based on their life stories: Four young Jews survive the Nazi Terror in Berlin by becoming invisible in plain sight

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Based on Judith Kerr’s bestselling novel. From the director of the Academy Award winning “Nowhere in Africa”.

Nazi Hunter - Journey Into Darkness

Based on true events: After WW2, a British war crime unit torn between a desire for revenge and the call for justice investigates the murder of twenty Jewish children by the Nazis.

Tell Me Who I Am

Based on the global bestseller “Dime Quién Soy” by Julia Navarro with more than one million copies sold in 18 countries - now a Peacock Original.

Friends Forever

Hitler is planning to attend a church concert where young Alex is lead soloist - when Alex learns that he’s Jewish.

Süskind

SÜSKIND tells the true story of Jewish resistance hero Walter Süskind who worked for the Jewish Council in Amsterdam during the Second World War. By playing a cat-and-mouse game withhigh-ranking SS officer, Aus der Fünten, he managed to save almost a thousand Jewish children from deportation.

Rommel

Inspired by the tumultuous events in the last seven months of Field Marshal Rommel’s life, a controversial film that casts a new light on a popular wartime figure.

Operation Valkyrie

Claus von Stauffenberg and the events surrounding the tragically failed attempt on Hitler's life on July 20, 1944.

False Freedom

1945. When high-ranking Nazi Viktor's wife dies, he needs someone to take care of his daughter. Why not Eva, an Auschwitz survivor? The trio looks forward to a new life in Argentina, but the past refuses to lie still...

Line of Separation

Spanning almost two decades from the end of WWll through to the Iron Curtain: the story of a small German town smack dab on the border between East and West, torn between capitalism and communism - where everyone has something to hide, change or forget.

Summer of '44

The touching story of five boys being teenagers in the last months of World War II.

Labyrinth of Peace

High-budget portrait of an industrial family dynasty. Inspired by true yet little-known events in post-WWII “neutral” Switzerland. From the producers of European box-office hit HEIDI.

The People vs. Fritz Bauer

In 1957, the Hessian attorney general Fritz Bauer receives crucial evidence on the whereabouts of SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann. Bauer, himself Jewish, wants to take war criminals to court - yet he is facing fierce German determination to repress its sinister past. But Bauer is not bend on revenge for the holocaust - he is concerned with the German future.

Not All Were Murderers

The true story of a Jewish boy and his mother, who managed to survive in Berlin during World War II.

Hindenburg - The Last Flight

His efforts in trying to prevent the Hindenburg disaster are in vain - but young airship captain Merten Kröger unveils an outrageous conspiracy.

Defenders of Riga

The epic story of a threatened nation, a heroic struggle, and an immortal love: Home after WWl, a young soldier finds that the decisive battle for the heart of his beloved and the newly-founded Republic of Latvia still lies ahead.

The King's Choice

Erik Poppe's commanding take on the true events that turned a brave man into the people's king

Dresden - The Inferno

An inhuman regime... A doomed city... A love that braves an apocalypse...

Le Grand Cahier

Based on Agota Kristof’s famous novel.

The Keeper

An extraordinary love story between a young English woman and a German PoW, who together overcome prejudice, outrage and personal tragedy.

Trenker and Riefenstahl

1948: Legendary mountaineer Luis Trenker offers Eva Braun's diaries to a Hollywood agent. Director Leni Riefenstahl sues to have them verified, because they claim that she was Hitler's mistress.

13 Minutes

A stunning, emotional portrait of the resistance fighter who tried to assassinate Hitler in the Munich Bürgerbräukeller on November 8th 1939.

Berlin '36

Based on the true story of Jewish high jumper Gretel Bergmann who unwittingly became the biggest threat to the Nazi Party in 1936.

March of Millions

A flight from horror. A journey into uncertainty. A trek towards a new life. The story of an unparalleled mass exodus that cost untold lives and displaced 12 million people.

Labyrinth of Lies

Based on true events of the investigations that lead to the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials in the 1960ies that eventually tackled the murders and sentenced Nazi criminals to prison.

Two Lives

A former East German spy in Norway has built her entire life on a fake identity but slowly all the lies and deceit are unraveled and she stands to lose everything.

Unknown Soldier

On one of the lesser-known battlegrounds of WW ll, yet of enormous magnitude to the small nation of Finland, a company of Finnish soldiers endures the grim horrors of war.

The Light of Hope

The story of Elisabeth Eidenbenz, responsible for saving the lives of countless mothers and their children in occupied France during World War II.

My Best Enemy

Clothes make the man. Only through remarkable presence of mind does the Jewish gallery owner Victor Kaufmann manage to exchange his concentration-camp clothing for an SS uniform and pull off the daring feat of outliving Adolf Hitler.

The Round Up

The destiny of three Jewish families who, after the 1942 raid, are put into French camps and are later deported to concentration camps.

My Fuehrer

December 1944: The war is almost lost and a depressed and bed-wetting Führer is playing battleship while taking a bath. In desperation to mobilise the masses with a last powerful speech, the only person to help is his fomer Jewish drama teacher. After DOWNFALL the truly, truest and most definitely last HITLER spoof from Germany for more than a while.

The Bridge

The Oscar-nominated classic by Berhard Wicki: An unrelenting account of teen-age boys drafted into the German army in 1945, as last resort effort to stem Allied invasion.

Laconia

Off the coast of West Africa, a German submarine sinks the British troop transporter "Laconia". Against his orders, German commander Hartenstein has the survivors rescued. Even when his ship gets attacked, he continues to help the allied castaways. But the resulting truce on high sea cannot last...

Bride Flight

A lavish romantic drama that charts the lives of three different women from different backgrounds, forever changed when they emigrate to New Zealand as war brides.

Lili Marleen

One of Fassbinder's greatest commercial successes, Lili Marleen was also one of his last films. Lili Marleen is the story of a song and its singer, a tale about an impossible love.

Death Is My Trade

The disturbing biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss, responsible for the extermination of millions.

The Devil's General

His outspoken criticism of the Nazi regime lands a famed Luftwaffe general between a rock and a hard place: He finds himself caught between the enmity of fanatic SS officials and being used, albeit unwillingly, as a symbol for the resistance.

The Devil Strikes at Night

During World War II, a police inspector hunts down the real serial killer, but the wrong man is still convicted.

Those Days

Seven stories of lives turned upside down by the ravages of World War ll.

De Gaulle

Relive 20th century history through the portrait of a statesman as he faces the test of power. French General and President Charles de Gaulle: The private story of the man who shaped a nation he loved.

PIUS XII

Rome, 1943. The city is occupied by the Nazis. In Vatican City, a neutral state within the borders of Rome, Pope Pius XII is struggling to save the city from hunger and destruction, even going so far as to forge a dangerous alliance with a German general who helps save the lives of many Jews.

Adidas vs. Puma - That's the Name of the Game!

The gripping story of a family feud, a battle of brothers, a war of brands: the story of Adidas against Puma.

The Weight Of Steel

Inspired by true events, an epic clash between conscience and commerce and two strong and very different personalities results in a moral turning point for post-war Germany.

Never Look Away

An emotional roller-coaster ride across three periods of German history from Oscar®-winning director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Nominated for two Academy Awards.

One Step To Freedom

The true story of the Swiss police chief who disobeyed orders and risked his life by allowing all Jews to cross the border from Austria in 1938.

Black Bread

A story of an awakening of an adolescent’s moral consciousness and the discovery of sexuality, depicted on the background of a murder that stuns the population of a small Spanish post-civil-war village and brings to light all of its long and well hidden secrets.

The Other Child

When Fiona Barnes was sent away to the Beckett family in the countryside during WWII, a little orphan boy, Brian, simply attached himself to her and became part of her life. Brian’s fate continues to cast its shadow on a tormented family...

The Devil's General

His outspoken criticism of the Nazi regime lands a famed Luftwaffe general between a rock and a hard place: He finds himself caught between the enmity of fanatic SS officials and being used, albeit unwillingly, as a symbol for the resistance.

Hotel Europa

Based on true events which shaped Germany between the wars. The untold story of a generation. The chronicles of a hotel frequented by Charlie Chaplin, Konrad Adenauer, and Adolf Hitler.

The Auschwitz Report

The true story of two Slovak Jews, who finally manage to escape the Auschwitz concentration camp and find themselves up against allies that don’t believe their harrowing report.

From Hilde, With Love

The stirring new film by multi-award-winning German auteur Andreas Dresen (STOPPED ON TRACK, CLOUD 9, GRILL POINT) features BABYLON BERLIN star Liv Lisa Fries in an all-consuming performance.