List of films made in the Third Reich
Encyclopedia
The List of German films of 1933–1945 are divided into this timeframe to reflect the period of Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...

, between the time that Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

 rose to power, January 30, 1933, and when Admiral
Admiral
Admiral is the rank, or part of the name of the ranks, of the highest naval officers. It is usually considered a full admiral and above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet . It is usually abbreviated to "Adm" or "ADM"...

 Karl Dönitz
Karl Dönitz
Karl Dönitz was a German naval commander during World War II. He started his career in the German Navy during World War I. In 1918, while he was in command of , the submarine was sunk by British forces and Dönitz was taken prisoner...

 surrendered to the Allies
Allies of World War II
The Allies of World War II were the countries that opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War . Former Axis states contributing to the Allied victory are not considered Allied states...

, May 8, 1945.

While not as highly regarded as the Weimar Republic
Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government...

 era films, the films of Nazi Germany, mainly made under control of Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels
Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. As one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism...

, hold a fascination for many, both as historical documents of one of the most important and disturbing periods of 20th century history
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

, as well as for their own artistic merit. While some of them are popular only within the Neo-Nazi
Neo-Nazism
Neo-Nazism consists of post-World War II social or political movements seeking to revive Nazism or some variant thereof.The term neo-Nazism can also refer to the ideology of these movements....

 subculture, comedies starring Heinz Rühmann
Heinz Rühmann
Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann was a popular German film actor.-Life and work:Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor throughout the 1930s and early 1940s...

 rank among the favourites of all Germans, and the documentaries
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 of Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl
Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens , a propaganda film made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party...

 have been influential, though controversial.

For an alphabetical list of articles on films of the era see :Category:Films of the Third Reich.

1933

Note: This year could count both as part of the Weimar
Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government...

 era and the Third Reich era
Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Carmen Lotte Reiniger
Lotte Reiniger
Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger was a German silhouette animator and film director.- Early life :Lotte Reiniger was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg, German Empire, on June 2, 1899...

 
Animation
Der Choral von Leuthen
Der Choral von Leuthen
Der Choral von Leuthen was a 1933 German film depicting Frederick the Great, directed by Carl Froelich. The screenplay was written by Johannes Brandt and Ilse Spath-Baron. The film starred Otto Gebühr, Olga Tschechowa and Elga Brink....

Carl Froelich
Carl Froelich
Carl August Froelich was a German film pioneer and film director.-Apparatus builder and cameraman:...

, Arzén von Cserépy 
Otto Gebühr
Otto Gebühr
Otto Gebühr was a German theatre and film actor, who appeared in 102 movies released between 1917 and 1962. He is noted for his performance as the Prussian king Frederick the Great in numerous films.-Life:...

, Olga Tschechowa 
War /History The Hymn of Leuthen; Depicting Friedrich the Great
Frederick II of Prussia
Frederick II was a King in Prussia and a King of Prussia from the Hohenzollern dynasty. In his role as a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire, he was also Elector of Brandenburg. He was in personal union the sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel...

's victory at Leuthen
Der Deutsche Reichstag zu Nürnberg Documentary From the German Reichstag to Nuremberg; Special report on the Nuremberg Rally
Nuremberg Rally
The Nuremberg Rally was the annual rally of the NSDAP in Germany, held from 1923 to 1938. Especially after Hitler's rise to power in 1933, they were large Nazi propaganda events...

Der schwarze Husar
Der schwarze Husar
Der schwarze Husar is a 1932 German comedy action film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Conrad Veidt, Mady Christians, Wolf Albach-Retty and Ursula Grabley...

Gerhard Lamprecht
Gerhard Lamprecht
Gerhard Lamprecht was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 63 films between 1920 and 1958. He also wrote for 26 films between 1918 and 1958...

 
Conrad Veidt
Conrad Veidt
Conrad Veidt was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari , The Man Who Laughs , The Thief of Bagdad and Casablanca...

, Mady Christians
Mady Christians
Marguerita Maria "Mady" Christians was an Austrian actress who achieved a successful acting career in theatre and film, in the United States until she was blacklisted during the McCarthy period....

 
Comedy/Action
Don Quichotte Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
-Biography:Pabst was born in Raudnitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary , the son of a railroad employee.Returning from the United States, he was in France when World War I began...

 
German language version
F.P.1
F.P.1
F.P.1 antwortet nicht, or F.P.1 Doesn't Respond was the name of a novel written by noted science fiction and fantasy writer/director Kurt Siodmak, best known as the creator of The Wolf Man....

Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl was an Austrian film director.-Life:Born in Vienna, Hartl began his film career at the Austrian Sascha-Film company of Alexander Kolowrat and from 1919 was assistant to the Hungarian director Alexander Korda...

 
Hans Albers
Hans Albers
Hans Philipp August Albers was a German actor and singer. He was the single biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1945 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century.- Life and work :...

, Sybille Schmitz
Sybille Schmitz
Sybille Schmitz was a German actress.-Biography:Schmitz attended an acting school in Cologne and got her first engagement at Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1927. Only one year later, she made her film debut with Freie Fahrt , which attracted her first attention from the critics...

, Georg John
Georg John
Georg John was a German stage and film actor.-Early life:Georg John was born in Schmiegel, Province of Posen, Imperial Germany.- Career :John began his career around 1900 in smaller stages and traveling theatres...

 
English version of the German 1932 film
I.F.1 ne répond plus
F.P.1
F.P.1 antwortet nicht, or F.P.1 Doesn't Respond was the name of a novel written by noted science fiction and fantasy writer/director Kurt Siodmak, best known as the creator of The Wolf Man....

Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl was an Austrian film director.-Life:Born in Vienna, Hartl began his film career at the Austrian Sascha-Film company of Alexander Kolowrat and from 1919 was assistant to the Hungarian director Alexander Korda...

 
French version of the German 1932 film
Flüchtlinge
Flüchtlinge
Flüchtlinge is a 1933 German film depicting Volga German refugees persecuted by the Bolsheviks on the Sino-Russian border in Manchuria in 1928.The film was directed by Gustav Ucicky and starred Hans Albers, Käthe von Nagy and Eugen Klopfer...

Gustav Ucicky
Gustav Ucicky
Gustav Ucicky was an acclaimed Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He was one of the more successful and acclaimed directors in Austria and Germany from the 1930s through to the early 1960s...

 
Historical Refugees; About the evacuation of the German settlement in China during the KMT
Kuomintang
The Kuomintang of China , sometimes romanized as Guomindang via the Pinyin transcription system or GMD for short, and translated as the Chinese Nationalist Party is a founding and ruling political party of the Republic of China . Its guiding ideology is the Three Principles of the People, espoused...

 revolution
Gretel zieht das große Los Carl Boese
Carl Boese
Carl Boese was a German film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed 158 films between 1917 and 1957.-Selected filmography:* The Golem: How He Came into the World * Paprika...

 
Comedy Gretel Wins the Jackpot
Hans Westmar. Einer von vielen. Ein deutsches Schicksal aus dem Jahre 1929
Hans Westmar. Einer von vielen. Ein deutsches Schicksal aus dem Jahre 1929
Hans Westmar. Einer von vielen. Ein deutsches Schicksal aus dem Jahre 1929 was the last of an unofficial trilogy of films commissioned by the Nazis shortly after coming to power in January 1933, celebrating their Kampfzeit - a mythologized history of their period in opposition, struggling to gain...


Franz Wenzler  Hans Westmar: One of Many. A German Destiny from the Year 1929; Thinly veiled propaganda film extolling Horst Wessel
Horst Wessel
Horst Ludwig Wessel was a German Nazi activist who was made a posthumous hero of the Nazi movement following his violent death in 1930...

. Based on the novel by Hanns Heinz Ewers
Hanns Heinz Ewers
Hanns Heinz Ewers was a German actor, poet, philosopher, and writer of short stories and novels. While he wrote on a wide range of subjects, he is now known mainly for his works of horror, particularly his trilogy of novels about the adventures of Frank Braun, a character modeled on himself...

.
Hitlerjunge Quex Hans Steinhoff
Hans Steinhoff
Hans Steinhoff was a German film director, best known for the films he made in the Nazi era. His most notable film was Ohm Krüger, for which he won the Mussolini Cup at the 1941 Venice Film Festival.-Filmography:*Hitlerjunge Quex...

 
Berta Drews, Heinrich George
Heinrich George
Heinrich George , born Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz, was a German stage and film actor.He had one of his first roles in the Fritz Lang directed film Metropolis and the first film version of Berlin Alexanderplatz...

 
nazi propaganda Hitler Youth Quex; Dramatic propaganda film extoling the Hitler Youth
Hitler Youth
The Hitler Youth was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. It existed from 1922 to 1945. The HJ was the second oldest paramilitary Nazi group, founded one year after its adult counterpart, the Sturmabteilung...

Hitlers Aufruf an das deutsche Volk
Hitler's Address to the German People; 26 min film of Hitler's February 10 address urging Germans to vote for the NSDAP in German election, 1933
German election, 1933
The German federal election, March 1933 to the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic was held on 5 March 1933. The Nazis registered a large increase in votes again emerging as the largest party by far, nevertheless they failed to obtain absolute majority...

Ich und die Kaiserin Friedrich Hollaender
Friedrich Hollaender
Friedrich Hollaender was a German film composer.He was born in London, where his father, operetta composer Victor Hollaender, worked at the Barnum & Bailey Circus...

 
Featuring Lilian Harvey
Lilian Harvey
Lilian Harvey was a British-born actress and singer, long-based in Germany, where she is best known for her role as Christel Weinzinger in Erik Charell's 1931 film Der Kongress tanzt.-Life:...

 & Conrad Veidt
Conrad Veidt
Conrad Veidt was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari , The Man Who Laughs , The Thief of Bagdad and Casablanca...

 
Musical comedy The Empress and I
Lachende Erben
Lachende Erben
Lachende Erben is a 1933 German comedy film. The premiere was on March 6, 1933....

Max Ophüls
Max Ophüls
Maximillian Oppenheimer — known as Max Ophüls — was an influential German-born film director who worked in Germany , France , the United States , and France again...

 
Featuring Lien Deyers  romantic comedy Laughing Heirs
Liebelei
Liebelei (film)
Liebelei is a German film directed by Max Ophüls. The film, based on a play of the same name by Arthur Schnitzler, describes an ill-fated love affair.-Plot:...

Max Ophüls
Max Ophüls
Maximillian Oppenheimer — known as Max Ophüls — was an influential German-born film director who worked in Germany , France , the United States , and France again...

 
Flirting
Meisterdetektiv Franz Seitz
Franz Seitz, Sr.
Franz Seitz, Sr. was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 59 films between 1920 and 1951. He was a member of the jury at the 16th Berlin International Film Festival. His son, Franz Seitz, Jr. was a film producer.-External links:...

 
Comedy Master Detective
Morgenrot Vernon Sewell
Vernon Sewell
Vernon Campbell Sewell was a British film director, screenwriter, producer writer and, briefly, an actor. Sewell was born in London, England in 1903. He was educated at Marlborough College. He directed over 30 films during his career, starting with Morgenrot in 1933...

, Gustav Ucicky
Gustav Ucicky
Gustav Ucicky was an acclaimed Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He was one of the more successful and acclaimed directors in Austria and Germany from the 1930s through to the early 1960s...

 
Morning Red; Premiered 2 February 1933, considered the first film of the Nazi era - IMDb
Der Page vom Dalmasse-Hotel
Victor Janson
Victor Janson
-Selected filmography:* So You Don't Know Korff Yet? * The Leghorn Hat * The Way to Freedom * Rembrandt * Peter Voss, der Millionendieb * The Marriage of Figaro * Professor Nachtfalter...

 
Comedy The Dalmasse Hotel Page Boy
S.A.-Mann Brand Franz Seitz
Franz Seitz, Sr.
Franz Seitz, Sr. was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 59 films between 1920 and 1951. He was a member of the jury at the 16th Berlin International Film Festival. His son, Franz Seitz, Jr. was a film producer.-External links:...

 
Brownshirt Brand; Dramatic propaganda film extoling the Stormtroopers
Sturmabteilung
The Sturmabteilung functioned as a paramilitary organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s...

S.O.S. Eisberg
S.O.S. Eisberg
SOS Eisberg is a German-U.S. coproduction, released by Universal Studios in both Germany and the U.S. The film is a dramatic mountain film directed by Arnold Fanck, and filmed in Engadin, Switzerland and in Greenland. The film premiered August 30, 1933 in Berlin. It was filmed simultaneously in...

Arnold Fanck
Arnold Fanck
Arnold Fanck was a pioneer of the German mountain film....

 
S.O.S. Iceberg
S.O.S. Eisberg
SOS Eisberg is a German-U.S. coproduction, released by Universal Studios in both Germany and the U.S. The film is a dramatic mountain film directed by Arnold Fanck, and filmed in Engadin, Switzerland and in Greenland. The film premiered August 30, 1933 in Berlin. It was filmed simultaneously in...

Tay Garnett
Tay Garnett
Tay Garnett was an American film director and writer.Born in Los Angeles, California, Garnett served as a naval aviator in World War I and entered films as a screenwriter in 1920. He was a gagwriter for Mack Sennett and Hal Roach, then joined Pathé and began to direct films in 1928...

 
English version of above
Der Sieg des Glaubens
Der Sieg des Glaubens
Der Sieg des Glaubens is the first documentary film directed by Leni Riefenstahl, who was hired despite opposition from Nazi officials that resented employing a woman — and a non-Party member too...

Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl
Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens , a propaganda film made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party...

 
Documentary Victory of Faith; propaganda film of 1933 Nazi Party Congress
Nuremberg Rally
The Nuremberg Rally was the annual rally of the NSDAP in Germany, held from 1923 to 1938. Especially after Hitler's rise to power in 1933, they were large Nazi propaganda events...

. One complete print survives - IMDb
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse is a 1933 German crime film directed by Fritz Lang. The movie is a sequel to Lang's silent film Dr. Mabuse the Gambler and features many cast and crew members from Lang's previous films. The film features Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Dr. Mabuse who is in an insane asylum...

Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute...

 
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse; Last Fritz Lang film made in Germany before the war
Le Testament du Dr. Mabuse
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse is a 1933 German crime film directed by Fritz Lang. The movie is a sequel to Lang's silent film Dr. Mabuse the Gambler and features many cast and crew members from Lang's previous films. The film features Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Dr. Mabuse who is in an insane asylum...

Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute...

, René Sti 
French version of the above
Der Tunnel
Der Tunnel (novel)
Der Tunnel is a novel by Bernhard Kellermann published in April 1913. The novel sold 100,000 copies in the six months after its publication, and it became one of the most successful books of the first half of the 20th Century. By 1939 its circulation had reached millions...

Curtis Bernhardt
Curtis Bernhardt
Curtis Bernhardt was a German film director born in Worms, Germany, under the name Kurt Bernhardt. Some of his American films were called "woman's films" including the Joan Crawford film Possessed . Bernhardt trained as an actor in Germany, and performed on the stage, before starting as a film...

 
French version: Le Tunnel
Viktor und Viktoria
Viktor und Viktoria
Viktor and Viktoria is a 1933 German musical comedy film directed by Reinhold Schünzel, starring Renate Müller as a woman pretending to be a female impersonator...

Reinhold Schünzel  Inspiration for Victor Victoria (1982)
Was Frauen träumen Géza von Bolváry
Géza von Bolváry
Géza von Bolváry was a Hungarian actor, screenwriter and film director, who worked principally in Germany and Austria.- Biography :...

 
Featuring Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre was an Austrian-American actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner.He caused an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M...

 
Romantic comedy What Women Dream
Zwei gute Kameraden Max Obal  Comedy Two Good Comrades; Set in First World War
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...


1934

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
La Chanson de l'adieu Albert Valentin, Géza von Bolváry
Géza von Bolváry
Géza von Bolváry was a Hungarian actor, screenwriter and film director, who worked principally in Germany and Austria.- Biography :...

 
Die Englische Heirat Reinhold Schünzel 
Es tut sich was um Mitternacht Robert A. Stemmle
Robert A. Stemmle
Robert Adolf Stemmle was a German screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 86 films between 1932 and 1967...

 
Ferien vom Ich Hans Deppe
Hans Deppe
-Selected filmography:Actor* The Victor * A Blonde's Dream * Two Hearts Beat as One * The Star of Valencia * A Door Opens * Our Flags Lead Us Forward * The Ambassador's Wife...

 
Der Firmling Karl Valentin
Karl Valentin
Karl Valentin was a Bavarian comedian, cabaret performer, clown, author and film producer. He had significant influence on German Weimar culture...

 
Die Freundin eines großen Mannes Paul Wegener
Paul Wegener
Paul Wegener was a German actor, writer and film director known for his pioneering role in German expressionist cinema.-Stage and early film career:...

 
The Girlfriend of a Great Man
Fräulein Frau Carl Boese
Carl Boese
Carl Boese was a German film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed 158 films between 1917 and 1957.-Selected filmography:* The Golem: How He Came into the World * Paprika...

 
Madame Woman
Das Gestohlene Herz Lotte Reiniger
Lotte Reiniger
Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger was a German silhouette animator and film director.- Early life :Lotte Reiniger was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg, German Empire, on June 2, 1899...

 
Animation
Gold
Gold (1934 film)
Gold is a 1934 science fiction film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Hans Albers.-Cast:* Hans Albers - Werner Holk* Friedrich Kayßler - Prof...

Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl was an Austrian film director.-Life:Born in Vienna, Hartl began his film career at the Austrian Sascha-Film company of Alexander Kolowrat and from 1919 was assistant to the Hungarian director Alexander Korda...

 
Hanneles Himmelfahrt Thea von Harbou
Thea von Harbou
Thea Gabriele von Harbou was a German actress, author and film director of Prussian aristocratic origin. She was born in Tauperlitz in the Kingdom of Bavaria.-Early work:...

 
Based on the play The Assumption of Hannele
The Assumption of Hannele
The Assumption of Hannele , also known simply as Hannele, is an 1893 play by the German playwright Gerhart Hauptmann. In contrast to Hauptmann's naturalistic dramas, The Assumption of Hannele adopts a more symbolist dramaturgy and includes a dream sequence. The play is the first in world literature...

by Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann was a German dramatist and novelist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.-Life and work:...

.
Heinz im Mond Robert A. Stemmle
Robert A. Stemmle
Robert Adolf Stemmle was a German screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 86 films between 1932 and 1967...

 
Heldentum and Todeskampf unserer Emden Louis Ralph
Louis Ralph
-Selected filmography:* The Queen Was in the Parlour * Ghost Train * Alraune * Artisten * Kongo-Express * The Golden City * I pagliacci -External links:...

 
The Heroic Fight to the Death of Our Ship 'Emden
Emden
Emden is a city and seaport in the northwest of Germany, on the river Ems. It is the main city of the region of East Frisia; in 2006, the city had a total population of 51,692.-History:...

Ich kenn' dich nicht und liebe dich Géza von Bolváry
Géza von Bolváry
Géza von Bolváry was a Hungarian actor, screenwriter and film director, who worked principally in Germany and Austria.- Biography :...

 
I Don't Know You and I love You
Im Schallplattenladen Hans H. Zerlett  Karl Valentin
Karl Valentin
Karl Valentin was a Bavarian comedian, cabaret performer, clown, author and film producer. He had significant influence on German Weimar culture...

, Liesl Karlstadt 
slapstick/comedy one of Valentin's classics based on his idea
Liebe und die erste Eisenbahn Hasso Preis Love and the First Railroad
Liebe, Tod und Teufel Heinz Hilpert, Reinhart Steinbicker  Love, Death and the Devil
Ein Mann will nach Deutschland Paul Wegener
Paul Wegener
Paul Wegener was a German actor, writer and film director known for his pioneering role in German expressionist cinema.-Stage and early film career:...

 
A Man wants to get to Germany
Muratti greift ein Oskar Fischinger
Oskar Fischinger
Oskar Fischinger was a German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter. He made over 50 short animated films, and painted c. 800 canvases, many of which are in museums, galleries and collections worldwide. Among his film works is Motion Painting No. 1 , which is now listed on the...

 
Animation
Der Schimmelreiter Hans Deppe, Curt Oertel Marianne Hoppe
Marianne Hoppe
Marianne Hoppe was a most distinguished German theatre and film actress.-Life and work:Born in Rostock, Marianne Hoppe became a leading lady of stage and films in Germany. She was born into a wealthy land owning family and was initially privately educated on her father's private estate...

, Mathias Wieman
Mathias Wieman
Mathias Wieman was a German stage-performer, silent-and-sound motion picture actor.-Early life:...

 
classic literature/drama
So ein Flegel
So ein Flegel
So ein Flegel is a German film based on the novel Die Feuerzangenbowle. It modifies the story by introducing the concept of two brothers Pfeiffer switching places: While the younger brother takes over his elder brother’s job, the older brother attends the younger one’s school...

Robert A. Stemmle
Robert A. Stemmle
Robert Adolf Stemmle was a German screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 86 films between 1932 and 1967...

 
Um das Menschenrecht
Um das Menschenrecht
Um das Menschenrecht is a 1934 German film directed by Hans Zöberlein and Ludwig Schmid-Wildy.- Cast :*Hans Schlenck as Hans, Frontkamerad*Kurt Holm as Fritz, Frontkamerad*Ernst Martens as Max, Frontkamerad*Beppo Brem as Girgl, Frontkamerad...

Hans Zoberlein  For the Rights of Man; Anti-Communism
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...

 propaganda paying homage to the Freikorps
Freikorps
Freikorps are German volunteer military or paramilitary units. The term was originally applied to voluntary armies formed in German lands from the middle of the 18th century onwards. Between World War I and World War II the term was also used for the paramilitary organizations that arose during...

Der Verlorene Sohn Luis Trenker
Luis Trenker
Luis Trenker was a German-language South Tyrolian film director, architect, and actor.-Biography:...

 
The Lost Son
Was bin ich ohne Dich Arthur Maria Rabenalt  When I am Without You

1935

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Alles um eine Frau Alfred Abel
Alfred Abel
Alfred Abel was a German film actor, director, and producer. He appeared in over 140 silent and sound films between 1913 and 1938...

 
All for a Woman
Amphitryon
Amphitryon
Amphitryon , in Greek mythology, was a son of Alcaeus, king of Tiryns in Argolis.Amphitryon was a Theban general, who was originally from Tiryns in the eastern part of the Peloponnese. He was friends with Panopeus....

Reinhold Schünzel  Musical Based on Greek mythology
April, April! Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirk was a Danish-German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s.-Life and work:...

 
Der alte und der junge König
Der alte und der junge König
Der alte und der junge König is a German historical film by Hans Steinhoff, made under Nazi rule in 1935....

Hans Steinhoff
Hans Steinhoff
Hans Steinhoff was a German film director, best known for the films he made in the Nazi era. His most notable film was Ohm Krüger, for which he won the Mussolini Cup at the 1941 Venice Film Festival.-Filmography:*Hitlerjunge Quex...

 
The Old and the Young King; The story of Friedrich Wilhelm I
Le Domino vert Henri Decoin
Henri Decoin
Henri Decoin was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 50 films between 1933 and 1964. He was also a swimmer who competed for France in the men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1908 Summer Olympics and the water polo tournament at the 1912 Summer Olympics.-Selected filmography:*...

, Herbert Selpin
Herbert Selpin
Herbert Selpin was a German film director and screenplay author.-Biography:Herbert Selpin was born on May 29, 1902 in Berlin. After his medical studies in the same city, Selpin worked as a dancer, boxer, librarian, and art seller before he obtained, in the mid-1920s, an internship at the Ufa film...

 
Dr. Todt - Berufung und Werk 36 minute film about Dr. Fritz Todt
Fritz Todt
Fritz Todt was a German engineer and senior Nazi figure, the founder of Organisation Todt. He died in a plane crash during World War II.- Life :Todt was born in Pforzheim to a father who owned a small factory...

 and the Siegfried Line
Siegfried Line
The original Siegfried line was a line of defensive forts and tank defences built by Germany as a section of the Hindenburg Line 1916–1917 in northern France during World War I...

Einer zuviel an Bord Gerhard Lamprecht
Gerhard Lamprecht
Gerhard Lamprecht was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 63 films between 1920 and 1958. He also wrote for 26 films between 1918 and 1958...

 
One Too Many on Board
Ein Falscher Fuffziger Carl Boese
Carl Boese
Carl Boese was a German film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed 158 films between 1917 and 1957.-Selected filmography:* The Golem: How He Came into the World * Paprika...

 
A Two-Face
Friesennot
Friesennot
Friesennot is a 1935 German film directed by Peter Hagen.The film is also known as Dorf im roten Sturm and Frisions in Distress .- Plot :...

Peter Hagen  Propaganda Frisians in Peril; Distributed by the National Socialist State Propaganda Directorate; anti-Communism
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...

 film
Henker, Frauen und Soldaten Johannes Meyer
Johannes Meyer
Johannes Meyer , was a Danish film actor.He debuted in the theater in 1905.-Filmography:*De blaa drenge - 1933*Så til søs - 1933*Flugten fra millionerne - 1934*Lynet - 1934*Nøddebo Præstegård - 1934...

 
Hangmen, Women and Soldiers
Hangmen, women and soldiers
Hangmen, Women and Soldiers is a propaganda film made by the German filmmaker Johannes Meyer in 1935. It was produced with the Bavaria film company in Munich. The screenplay was written by Max W...

Ich liebe alle Frauen Carl Lamac
Carl Lamac
Karel Lamač was a Czech film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. He directed 102 films between 1919 and 1953...

 
I Love All Women
Im Aufmarschgebiet der abessinischen Armee Martin Rikli  In the Staging Ground of the Abyssinian
Ethiopia
Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

 Army
; Related to the Second Italo-Ethiopian War (?)
La Kermesse héroïque Jacques Feyder
Jacques Feyder
Jacques Feyder was a Belgian actor, screenwriter and film director who worked principally in France, but also in the USA, Britain and Germany. He was a leading director of silent films during the 1920s, and in the 1930s he became associated with the style of poetic realism in French cinema...

 
Knockout - Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann Carl Lamac
Carl Lamac
Karel Lamač was a Czech film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. He directed 102 films between 1919 and 1953...

, Hans H. Zerlett 
Knockout - A Young Girl, a Younger Man
Komposition in Blau Oskar Fischinger
Oskar Fischinger
Oskar Fischinger was a German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter. He made over 50 short animated films, and painted c. 800 canvases, many of which are in museums, galleries and collections worldwide. Among his film works is Motion Painting No. 1 , which is now listed on the...

 
Animation Composition in Blue; In Gasparcolor
Gasparcolor
Gasparcolor was a color film system, developed in 1933 by the Hungarian chemist Dr. Bela Gaspar. It used a subtractive 3-color process on a single film strip, one of the earliest to do so....

Mazurka
Mazurka
The mazurka is a Polish folk dance in triple meter, usually at a lively tempo, and with accent on the third or second beat.-History:The folk origins of the mazurek are two other Polish musical forms—the slow machine...

Willi Forst
Willi Forst
Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer...

 
Das Mädchen Johanna Gustav Ucicky
Gustav Ucicky
Gustav Ucicky was an acclaimed Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He was one of the more successful and acclaimed directors in Austria and Germany from the 1930s through to the early 1960s...

 
That Girl Joanna
Papageno Lotte Reiniger
Lotte Reiniger
Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger was a German silhouette animator and film director.- Early life :Lotte Reiniger was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg, German Empire, on June 2, 1899...

 
Animation
Das Stahltier Willy Zielke  Documentary The Steel Animal
Tag der Freiheit: Unsere Wehrmacht Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl
Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens , a propaganda film made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party...

 
Documentary Day of Freedom - Our Wehrmacht
Wehrmacht
The Wehrmacht – from , to defend and , the might/power) were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the Heer , the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe .-Origin and use of the term:...

; propaganda film about the 1935 Nazi Party Congress
Nuremberg Rally
The Nuremberg Rally was the annual rally of the NSDAP in Germany, held from 1923 to 1938. Especially after Hitler's rise to power in 1933, they were large Nazi propaganda events...

Triumph des Willens
Triumph of the Will
Triumph of the Will is a propaganda film made by Leni Riefenstahl. It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, which was attended by more than 700,000 Nazi supporters. The film contains excerpts from speeches given by various Nazi leaders at the Congress, including portions of...

Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl
Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens , a propaganda film made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party...

 
Documentary Triumph of the Will; propaganda film about the 1934 Nazi Party Congress
Nuremberg Rally
The Nuremberg Rally was the annual rally of the NSDAP in Germany, held from 1923 to 1938. Especially after Hitler's rise to power in 1933, they were large Nazi propaganda events...

Das Erbe
Das Erbe
Das Erbe was a Nazi propaganda movie published in 1935. Produced by Harold Mayer under the aegis of the Nazi party's Office of Racial Policy and directed by Carl C. Hartmann, it aimed at legitimizing the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring , which allowed for sterilization...

Carl Hartmann  Short The Inheritance, propaganda for euthanasia and sterilization

1936

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Allotria Willi Forst
Willi Forst
Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer...

 
Berlin Reichshauptstadt 1936 Willi Forst
Willi Forst
Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer...

 
Color travelog
Erbkrank
Erbkrank
Erbkrank is a 1936 Nazi propaganda film.Directed by Herbert Gerdes, it was one of six propagandistic movies produced by the "NSDAP, Reichsleitung, Rassenpolitisches Amt" or the Office of Racial Policy, from 1935 to 1937 to demonize people in Germany diagnosed with mental illness and mental...

Herbert Gerdes
Herbert Gerdes
Herbert Gerdes directed the films Erbkrank , Alles Leben ist Kampf , Was du Ererbt , Schuld oder Schein , and Das Große Geheimnis ....

 
Propaganda Euthanasia
Euthanasia
Euthanasia refers to the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering....

 propaganda film
Fährmann Maria Frank Wisbar 
Fridericus
Fridericus
Fridericus is a 1937 German historical film directed by Johannes Meyer and starring Otto Gebühr, Hilde Körber and Lil Dagover. It is based on the life of Frederick II of Prussia.-Cast:* Otto Gebühr ... Friedrich II., König von Preußen...

Johannes Meyer
Johannes Meyer
Johannes Meyer , was a Danish film actor.He debuted in the theater in 1905.-Filmography:*De blaa drenge - 1933*Så til søs - 1933*Flugten fra millionerne - 1934*Lynet - 1934*Nøddebo Præstegård - 1934...

 
Propaganda Propaganda film; set during the Seven Years' War
Seven Years' War
The Seven Years' War was a global military war between 1756 and 1763, involving most of the great powers of the time and affecting Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines...

, it shows Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

 as the legitimate heir to Frederick the Great
Glückskinder Paul Martin
Paul Martin (director)
Paul Martin was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 60 films between 1932 and 1967.-Selected filmography:* Glückskinder * Die Tödlichen Träume * Die Privatsekretärin...

 
The Happy Children
Das Hofkonzert Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirk was a Danish-German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s.-Life and work:...

 
The Court Concert
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an...

Carl Lamac
Carl Lamac
Karel Lamač was a Czech film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. He directed 102 films between 1919 and 1953...

 
Mystery Der Hund von Baskerville; A Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...

 film
The Kaiser of California
The Kaiser of California
The Kaiser of California, better known as "The Emperor of California" , is a 1936 film that has the unique distinction of being the first western film made in Nazi Germany...

Luis Trenker
Luis Trenker
Luis Trenker was a German-language South Tyrolian film director, architect, and actor.-Biography:...

 
Western Der Kaiser von Kalifornien; About John Sutter
John Sutter
Johann Augus Sutter was a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall and the mill making team at Sutter's Mill, and for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, the...

, the owner of Sutters Mill; the only western
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

 set in the United States made in Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...

Kopfjäger von Borneo Baron Victor von Plessen  Documentary Headhunters of Borneo
Borneo
Borneo is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java Island, Indonesia, at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia....

; German-Dutch co-production
Neunzig Minuten Aufenthalt Harry Piel
Harry Piel
Born Hubert August Piel, Harry Piel in Munich, Germany was a prolific German actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer who was involved in over 150 films....

 
Savoy-Hotel 217 Gustav Ucicky
Gustav Ucicky
Gustav Ucicky was an acclaimed Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He was one of the more successful and acclaimed directors in Austria and Germany from the 1930s through to the early 1960s...

 
Das Schönheitsfleckchen Carl Froelich
Carl Froelich
Carl August Froelich was a German film pioneer and film director.-Apparatus builder and cameraman:...

, Rolf Hansen
Rolf Hansen (director)
Rolf Hansen was a German film director. He directed 20 films between 1936 and 1960.-Selected filmography:* Die grosse Liebe * Dr. Holl * Desires...

 
In Opticolor
Silhouetten Lotte Reiniger
Lotte Reiniger
Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger was a German silhouette animator and film director.- Early life :Lotte Reiniger was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg, German Empire, on June 2, 1899...

, Walter Reisch
Walter Reisch
Walter Reisch was an Austrian-born director and screenwriter. He also wrote lyrics to several songs featured in his films, one popular title is "Flieger, grüß mir die Sonne".-Selected filmography:...

 
Animation Animated feature film
Stadt Anatol Viktor Tourjansky  The Town of Anatol; Film concerning Balkan oil development
Stjenka Rasin Alexandre Volkoff 
Das Veilchen vom Potsdamer Platz J.A. Hübler-Kahla 
Vier Asse George Pal
George Pál
George Pal , born György Pál Marczincsak, was a Hungarian-born American animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre...

 
Animation
Zum Greifen nah Experimental 3-D film
3-D film
A 3-D film or S3D film is a motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth perception...


1937

Title Director Notes
Alles Leben ist Kampf
Alles Leben ist Kampf
Alles Leben ist Kampf is a National Socialist propaganda film produced in 1937, directed by Herbert Gerdes, and W. Hüttig....

Herbert Gerdes
Herbert Gerdes
Herbert Gerdes directed the films Erbkrank , Alles Leben ist Kampf , Was du Ererbt , Schuld oder Schein , and Das Große Geheimnis ....

All Life Is Struggle; advocates involuntary sterilization of the disabled and those with hereditary diseases
Die Ganz großen Torheiten Carl Froelich
Carl Froelich
Carl August Froelich was a German film pioneer and film director.-Apparatus builder and cameraman:...

All the Great Foolerie
Gasparone
Gasparone
Gasparone is an operetta in three acts by Carl Millöcker to a German libretto by Friedrich Zell and Richard Genée. The libretto was later revised by Ernst Steffan and Paul Knepler...

Georg Jacoby
Georg Jacoby
Georg Jacoby was a German film director and screenwriter. He was married to Marika Rökk from 1940 until his death; the actress Gabriele Jacoby is their daughter.-Selected filmography:...

Starring Marika Rökk
Marika Rökk
Marika Rökk was an Austrian-German singer, dancer and actress of Hungarian descent, who became famous in German films, notably in the Nazi era.- Life and work :...

Gewitterflug zu Claudia Erich Waschneck Stormy Flight to Claudia
La Habanera
La Habanera (film)
La Habanera is a 1937 German melodramatic feature film directed by Detlev Sierck . Zarah Leander, recently signed by UFA, is the main star in the lead role of Astrée Sternhjelm and performs its title song, "La Habanera"...

Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirk was a Danish-German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s.-Life and work:...

Zarah Leander
Zarah Leander
Zarah Leander was a Swedish actress and singer.Leander began her career in the late 1920s, and by the mid 1930s her success in Europe, particularly in Germany and the Scandinavian countries, led to invitations to work in the United States...

 falls in love with a Puerto Rican
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

 landowner
Der Herrscher
Der Herrscher
Der Herrscher is a 1937 German film directed by Veit Harlan. It was a propagandist demonstration of the Führerprinzip of Nazi Germany.-Plot:...

Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan was a German film director and actor.-Life and career:Harlan was born in Berlin. After studying under Max Reinhardt, he first appeared on the stage in 1915 and, after World War I, worked in the Berlin stage. In 1922 he married Jewish actress and cabaret singer Dora Gerson; the couple...

The Ruler; film extoling leadership principle; featuring Emil Jannings
Emil Jannings
Emil Jannings was a German actor. He was not only the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, but also the first person to be presented an Oscar...

Juden ohne Maske Walter Böttcher and Leo von der Schmiede The Jews Unmasked; 36 min Anti-Semitic documentary propaganda film
Kapriolen Gustaf Gründgens
Gustaf Gründgens
Gustaf Gründgens , born Gustav Heinrich Arnold Gründgens, was one of Germany's most famous and influential actors of the 20th century, intendant and artistic director of theatres in Berlin, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg...

romantic comedy with newly-wed Gustaf Gründgens and Marianne Hoppe
Marianne Hoppe
Marianne Hoppe was a most distinguished German theatre and film actress.-Life and work:Born in Rostock, Marianne Hoppe became a leading lady of stage and films in Germany. She was born into a wealthy land owning family and was initially privately educated on her father's private estate...

Man spricht über Jacqueline Werner Hochbaum The Man Who spoke About Jacqueline
Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl was an Austrian film director.-Life:Born in Vienna, Hartl began his film career at the Austrian Sascha-Film company of Alexander Kolowrat and from 1919 was assistant to the Hungarian director Alexander Korda...

The Man Who was Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...

starring Hans Albers
Hans Albers
Hans Philipp August Albers was a German actor and singer. He was the single biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1945 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century.- Life and work :...

 and Heinz Rühmann
Heinz Rühmann
Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann was a popular German film actor.-Life and work:Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor throughout the 1930s and early 1940s...

Mädchen für alles Carl Boese
Carl Boese
Carl Boese was a German film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed 158 films between 1917 and 1957.-Selected filmography:* The Golem: How He Came into the World * Paprika...

A Girl for Everything
Mein Sohn, der Herr Minister My Son the Minister
Mussolini in Deutschland Mussolini in Germany; 31-minute documentary propaganda film about Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....

's September 1937 visit to Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

Opfer der Vergangenheit
Opfer der Vergangenheit
Opfer der Vergangenheit was a Nazi propaganda film made in 1937. This movie was a sequel to Erbkrank , which showed horrific images of lunatics in German asylums in order to bolster public support for the planned T-4 Euthanasia Program for the mentally ill...

Gernot Bock-Stieber Victims of the Past; Euthanasia
Euthanasia
Euthanasia refers to the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering....

 propaganda film
Die Postkutsche This was the first experimental short movie in Agfacolor
Agfacolor
thumb|An Agfacolor slide dating from the early 1940s. While the colors themselves hold up well after 60 years, damages visible include dust and [[Newton's rings]].Agfacolor is a series of color photographic products produced by Agfa of Germany...

. It was shot on 35 mm reversal film.
Die Tochter des Samurai Arnold Fanck
Arnold Fanck
Arnold Fanck was a pioneer of the German mountain film....

 and Mansaku Itami
The Daughter of the Samurai aka Atarashiki tsuchi; German-Japanese co-production
Truxa Hans H. Zerlett
Sherlock Holmes und die graue Dame Erich Engels Sherlock Holmes and the Gray Lady
Unternehmen Michael
The Private's Job
The Private's Job is a 1937 German film directed by Karl Ritter.- Cast :*Heinrich George as Der Kommandierende General *Mathias Wieman as Maj. Zur Linden...

Karl Ritter Operation Michael
Operation Michael
Operation Michael was a First World War German military operation that began the Spring Offensive on 21 March 1918. It was launched from the Hindenburg Line, in the vicinity of Saint-Quentin, France...

Urlaub auf Ehrenwort Karl Ritter Leave on Parole
Weltraumschiff 1 startet... Anton Kutter
Anton Kutter
Anton Kutter was a German film director and screenwriter. He studied mechanical engineering at Stuttgart Technical University....

Wenn Frauen schweigen Fritz Kirchhoff When Women Remain Silent
Der zerbrochene Krug Gustav Ucicky
Gustav Ucicky
Gustav Ucicky was an acclaimed Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He was one of the more successful and acclaimed directors in Austria and Germany from the 1930s through to the early 1960s...

The Broken Jug ; featuring Emil Jannings
Emil Jannings
Emil Jannings was a German actor. He was not only the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, but also the first person to be presented an Oscar...

Zu neuen Ufern Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirk was a Danish-German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s.-Life and work:...

To New Shores
Festliches Nürnberg
Festliches Nürnberg
Festliches Nürnberg is a short 1937 propaganda film chronicling the Nazi Party rallies in Nuremberg, Germany in 1936 and 1937. The film was directed by Hans Weidemann.-Synopsis:...

Hans Weidemann Festive Nuremberg; 21 minute compilation of footage from the 1936 and 37 Nazi Party Congresses
Nuremberg Rally
The Nuremberg Rally was the annual rally of the NSDAP in Germany, held from 1923 to 1938. Especially after Hitler's rise to power in 1933, they were large Nazi propaganda events...


1938

Title Director Notes
Die Bauten Adolf Hitlers Albert Speer
Albert Speer
Albert Speer, born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, was a German architect who was, for a part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office...

Adolf Hitlers Constructions; 17-minute propaganda film about "racial aspects" of architecture
Der Berg ruft! Luis Trenker
Luis Trenker
Luis Trenker was a German-language South Tyrolian film director, architect, and actor.-Biography:...

The Mountain Calls!
Der Blaufuchs Viktor Tourjansky The Blue Fox starring Zarah Leander
Zarah Leander
Zarah Leander was a Swedish actress and singer.Leander began her career in the late 1920s, and by the mid 1930s her success in Europe, particularly in Germany and the Scandinavian countries, led to invitations to work in the United States...

Carmen, la de Triana
Carmen, la de Triana
Carmen, la de Triana is a 1938 Spanish-German musical film directed by Florián Rey and starring Imperio Argentina, Rafael Rivelles and Manuel Luna. It was a Spanish-language version of the 1938 film Nights in Andalusia based on the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet.-Cast:* Imperio Argentina ... ...

Florián Rey
Florián Rey
Florián Rey , born at La Almunia de Doña Godina, , 25 January 1894 - death at Benidorm , 11 April 1962 was the most successful Spanish film director in the 20's and 30's....

A Spanish-German version of Carmen
Carmen
Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies by Alexander Pushkin...

shot in Germany because of the war in Spain.
España heroica Paul Laven Heroic Spain; 86-minute documentary propaganda film about Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...

Gastspiel im Paradies Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl was an Austrian film director.-Life:Born in Vienna, Hartl began his film career at the Austrian Sascha-Film company of Alexander Kolowrat and from 1919 was assistant to the Hungarian director Alexander Korda...

Les Gens du voyage
Les Gens du voyage
Les Gens du voyage is a 1938 French-German film directed by Jacques Feyder.- Plot :Due to an accident at the Barlay Circus, animal trainer Flora finds Fernand, a former prison escapee, and refers him to manager, Edouard Barlay. The son of Flora , Marcel, does the acrobatics with the manager's...

Jacques Feyder
Jacques Feyder
Jacques Feyder was a Belgian actor, screenwriter and film director who worked principally in France, but also in the USA, Britain and Germany. He was a leading director of silent films during the 1920s, and in the 1930s he became associated with the style of poetic realism in French cinema...

Das Indische Grabmal
The Indian Tomb (1938 film)
The Indian Tomb is a 1938 German film directed by Richard Eichberg.- Cast :*Philip Dorn as Maharadscha von Eschnapur*Kitty Jantzen as Irene Traven*La Jana as Indira, eine indische Tänzerin...

Richard Eichberg
Richard Eichberg
Richard Eichberg was an German film director and producer. He directed 87 films between 1915 and 1949. He also produced 77 films between 1915 and 1950.He was born in Berlin, Germany and died in Munich, Germany....

The Indian Tomb
Kameraden auf See Heinz Paul Comrades at Sea
Der Maulkorb Erich Engel
Erich Engel
Erich Engel was a German film and theatre director.- Biography :Engel was born in Hamburg, where later he studied at the School of Applied Arts...

Nanu, Sie kennen Korff noch nicht? Fritz Holl So You Don't Know Korff Yet?
Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker
Olympia (1938 film)
Olympia is a 1938 Nazi propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl documenting the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. The film was released in two parts: Olympia 1. Teil — Fest der Völker and Olympia 2. Teil — Fest der Schönheit . It was the first documentary feature...

Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl
Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens , a propaganda film made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party...

Documentary of 1936 Summer Olympics
1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona, Spain on April 26, 1931, at the 29th IOC Session in Barcelona...

. Shows Opening Ceremonies, Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was an American track and field athlete who specialized in the sprints and the long jump. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, where he achieved international fame by winning four gold medals: one each in the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the...

 race, marathons
Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit
Olympia (1938 film)
Olympia is a 1938 Nazi propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl documenting the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. The film was released in two parts: Olympia 1. Teil — Fest der Völker and Olympia 2. Teil — Fest der Schönheit . It was the first documentary feature...

Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl
Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens , a propaganda film made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party...

Includes field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

, soccer, bicycling, equestrian
Equestrianism
Equestrianism more often known as riding, horseback riding or horse riding refers to the skill of riding, driving, or vaulting with horses...

, aquatic and gymnastic events
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...

, the Pentathlon
Pentathlon
A pentathlon is a contest featuring five different events. The name is derived from Greek: combining the words pente and -athlon . The first pentathlon was documented in Ancient Greece and was part of the Ancient Olympic Games...

, the Decathlon
Decathlon
The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word decathlon is of Greek origin . Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all. Performance is judged on a points system in each event, not...

 and Closing Ceremonies.
Pour le Mérite Karl Ritter In praise of war veterans rejecting the Weimar Republic and the illegal rearmament.
Le Récif de corail
Le Récif de corail
Le Récif de corail is a 1938 French language motion picture adventure drama directed by Maurice Gleize. The screenplay was written by Charles Spaak, based on novel by Jean Martet...

Maurice Gleize
Wort und Tat
Wort und Tat
Wort und Tat is a 10 minute-long Nazi propaganda film directed by Fritz Hippler, among others. It was released in 1938.The film is notable for the extensive use of montage to get its message across, in a style reminiscent of Sergei Eisensteins "Oktober".The film begins with a montage of clips...

Fritz Hippler
Fritz Hippler
Fritz Hippler was a German filmmaker who ran the film department in the Propaganda Ministry of the Third Reich, under Joseph Goebbels. He is most famous as director of the propaganda film Der ewige Jude ....

Words and Deeds; 10-minute documentary propaganda film shows economic progress of Germany under Hitler by a series of montages
Es leuchten die Sterne Hans H. Zerlett Musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 revue
Revue
A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century American popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932...

; released in the U.S. as The Stars Shine and in other countries under various titles

1939

Title Director Notes
Befreite Hände Hans Schweikart
Hans Schweikart
Hans Schweikart was a German film director, actor and screenwriter. He directed 28 films between 1938 and 1968. He wrote for the film The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi, which was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* The Comedians * The Marriage of Mr...

Freed Hands
Bel Ami
Bel Ami (1939 film)
Bel Ami is a German film version of Guy de Maupassant's novel Bel Ami directed by Willi Forst and released in 1939.- Plot :In Paris, in about 1900, George Duroy, just returned from Morocco, spends a night with the singer Rachel, who is rehearsing the song Bel Ami. Later at a party he tells the...

Willi Forst
Willi Forst
Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer...

La canción de Aixa Florián Rey
Florián Rey
Florián Rey , born at La Almunia de Doña Godina, , 25 January 1894 - death at Benidorm , 11 April 1962 was the most successful Spanish film director in the 20's and 30's....

Spanish-German film shot in Germany because of the war in Spain. A love story among Moors in Spanish Morocco
Spanish Morocco
The Spanish protectorate of Morocco was the area of Morocco under colonial rule by the Spanish Empire, established by the Treaty of Fez in 1912 and ending in 1956, when both France and Spain recognized Moroccan independence.-Territorial borders:...

.
Deutsches Land in Afrika Johannes Häussler German Land in Africa; documentary
Drei Unteroffiziere
Drei Unteroffiziere
-Cast:*Albert Hehn as Unteroffizier Erich Rauscher*Fritz Genschow as Unteroffizier Fritz Kohlhammer*Wilhelm König as Unteroffizier Struwe*Wilhelm Althaus as Hauptmann Gruber*Heinz Engelmann as Leutnant Strehl*Wolfgang Staudte as Hauptfeldwebel Kern...

Werner Hochbaum
Ein Lied verklingt In Agfacolor
Agfacolor
thumb|An Agfacolor slide dating from the early 1940s. While the colors themselves hold up well after 60 years, damages visible include dust and [[Newton's rings]].Agfacolor is a series of color photographic products produced by Agfa of Germany...

Es war eine rauschende Ballnacht Carl Froelich
Carl Froelich
Carl August Froelich was a German film pioneer and film director.-Apparatus builder and cameraman:...

It Was a Roaring Ball night
Hallo Janine! Carl Boese
Carl Boese
Carl Boese was a German film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed 158 films between 1917 and 1957.-Selected filmography:* The Golem: How He Came into the World * Paprika...

Irrtum des Herzens Bernd Hofmann and Alfred Stöger
D III 88 Herbert Maisch
Herbert Maisch
Herbert Maisch was a German film director.-Selected filmography:* Königswalzer * Boccaccio * Nights in Andalusia * Music in Salzburg -External links:...

Film from the perspective of a veteran officer about the November Revolution
Leinen aus Irland Heinz Helbig Linen from Ireland, a comic anti-Semitic film in which a Jew tries to import linen duty-free from Ireland
Das Lied der Wüste Paul Martin
Paul Martin (director)
Paul Martin was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 60 films between 1932 and 1967.-Selected filmography:* Glückskinder * Die Tödlichen Träume * Die Privatsekretärin...

Song of the Desert
Marionette
Marionette
A marionette is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings depending on regional variations. A marionette's puppeteer is called a manipulator. Marionettes are operated with the puppeteer hidden or revealed to an audience by using a vertical or horizontal control bar in different forms...

Carmine Gallone
Carmine Gallone
Carmine Gallone was an early acclaimed Italian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Considered one of Italian cinema's top early directors, he directed over 120 films in his fifty year career between 1913 and 1963.-Filmography:*Il bacio di Cirano *La donna nuda *Senza colpa! *Fior di...

Die Reise nach Tilsit
Die Reise nach Tilsit
Die Reise nach Tilsit is a German 1939 film directed by Veit Harlan. It is a sound remake of the silent film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, which was based on Hermann Sudermann's short story "Die Reise nach Tilsit"; Harlan maintained it was a true film, whereas Sunrise was only a poem, and it...

Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan was a German film director and actor.-Life and career:Harlan was born in Berlin. After studying under Max Reinhardt, he first appeared on the stage in 1915 and, after World War I, worked in the Berlin stage. In 1922 he married Jewish actress and cabaret singer Dora Gerson; the couple...

Il Sogno di Butterfly Carmine Gallone
Carmine Gallone
Carmine Gallone was an early acclaimed Italian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Considered one of Italian cinema's top early directors, he directed over 120 films in his fifty year career between 1913 and 1963.-Filmography:*Il bacio di Cirano *La donna nuda *Senza colpa! *Fior di...

Umwege zum Glück Fritz Peter Buch
Walfänger in der Antarktis Gerhard A. Donner Whaling Ship in the Antarctic; 55 minute documentary
Wasser für Canitoga Herbert Selpin
Herbert Selpin
Herbert Selpin was a German film director and screenplay author.-Biography:Herbert Selpin was born on May 29, 1902 in Berlin. After his medical studies in the same city, Selpin worked as a dancer, boxer, librarian, and art seller before he obtained, in the mid-1920s, an internship at the Ufa film...

Water for Canitoga; western
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

 set in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

Der Westwall
Der Westwall
Der Westwall is a 1939 film about the Siegfried Line directed by Fritz Hippler, the head of the film division within the Propagandaministerium...

Fritz Hippler
Fritz Hippler
Fritz Hippler was a German filmmaker who ran the film department in the Propaganda Ministry of the Third Reich, under Joseph Goebbels. He is most famous as director of the propaganda film Der ewige Jude ....

The West Wall; propaganda film about the Siegfried Line
Siegfried Line
The original Siegfried line was a line of defensive forts and tank defences built by Germany as a section of the Hindenburg Line 1916–1917 in northern France during World War I...

Mutterliebe Gustav Ucicky
Gustav Ucicky
Gustav Ucicky was an acclaimed Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He was one of the more successful and acclaimed directors in Austria and Germany from the 1930s through to the early 1960s...

Mother Love; propaganda film about family and race

1940

Title Director Notes
Achtung! Feind hört mit! Arthur Maria Rabenalt Beware! The Enemy Is Listening!
Bismarck
Bismarck (film)
Bismarck is a 1940 German historical film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Paul Hartmann, Friedrich Kayßler and Lil Dagover.- Plot summary :...

Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Wolfgang Georg Louis Liebeneiner was a German actor, film director and theater director.He was born in Liebau in Prussian Silesia. In 1928, he was taught by Otto Falckenberg, the director of the Munich Kammerspiele, in acting and directing...

Baumeisterin Chemie Hans Schipulle 17 min documentary
Deutsche Arbeitsstätten Svend Noldan German Work Places; 10 min documentary
Deutsche Panzer Walter Ruttmann
Walter Ruttmann
Walter Ruttmann was a German film director and along with Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling was an early German practitioner of experimental film....

German Tanks; 13 min documentary about Panzer
Panzer
A Panzer is a German language word that, when used as a noun, means "tank". When it is used as an adjective, it means either tank or "armoured" .- Etymology :...

s
Deutsche Waffenschmieden Walter Ruttmann
Walter Ruttmann
Walter Ruttmann was a German film director and along with Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling was an early German practitioner of experimental film....

German Weaponry; 12 min documentary
L'Entraîneuse
L'Entraîneuse
L'Entraîneuse is a 1940 French language motion picture drama directed by Albert Valentin. The screenplay was written by Charles Spaak...

Albert Valentin Nightclub Hostess
Der Ewige Jude Fritz Hippler
Fritz Hippler
Fritz Hippler was a German filmmaker who ran the film department in the Propaganda Ministry of the Third Reich, under Joseph Goebbels. He is most famous as director of the propaganda film Der ewige Jude ....

The Eternal Jew; Anti-Semitic documentary propaganda film
Fahrt ins Leben Bernd Hofmann Journey Into Life; Nazi film about 3 Merchant Navy
Navy
A navy is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake- or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions...

 Cadets.
Feinde Viktor Tourjansky Enemies; Film justifying the German Invasion of Poland
Invasion of Poland (1939)
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War in Poland and the Poland Campaign in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the start of World War II in Europe...

Kampf um Norwegen - Feldzug 1940
Kampf um Norwegen - Feldzug 1940
Kampf um Norwegen – Feldzug 1940 is a 1940 Nazi propaganda film directed by Martin Rikli and Dr. Werner Buhre under orders of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht. The documentary film follows the Invasion of Denmark and Norway in the spring of 1940....

Martin Rikli Battle for Norway - 1940 campaign; documentary propaganda film about the Norwegian Campaign
Norwegian Campaign
The Norwegian Campaign was a military campaign that was fought in Norway during the Second World War between the Allies and Germany, after the latter's invasion of the country. In April 1940, the United Kingdom and France came to Norway's aid with an expeditionary force...

Feldzug in Polen
Feldzug in Polen
Feldzug in Polen is a 69 minute documentary/Nazi propaganda film depicting the 1939 invasion of Poland and directed by Fritz Hippler...

Fritz Hippler
Fritz Hippler
Fritz Hippler was a German filmmaker who ran the film department in the Propaganda Ministry of the Third Reich, under Joseph Goebbels. He is most famous as director of the propaganda film Der ewige Jude ....

Campaign in Poland; documentary propaganda film about the 1939 invasion of Poland
Invasion of Poland (1939)
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War in Poland and the Poland Campaign in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the start of World War II in Europe...

Feuertaufe Baptism by Fire; propaganda film about Luftwaffe
Luftwaffe
Luftwaffe is a generic German term for an air force. It is also the official name for two of the four historic German air forces, the Wehrmacht air arm founded in 1935 and disbanded in 1946; and the current Bundeswehr air arm founded in 1956....

 in the 1939 invasion of Poland
Invasion of Poland (1939)
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War in Poland and the Poland Campaign in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the start of World War II in Europe...

Friedrich Schiller - Der Triumph eines Genies Herbert Maisch
Herbert Maisch
Herbert Maisch was a German film director.-Selected filmography:* Königswalzer * Boccaccio * Nights in Andalusia * Music in Salzburg -External links:...

Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...

 - the Triumph of a Genius
Der Fuchs von Glenarvon Max W. Kimmich
Max W. Kimmich
Max Wilhelm Kimmich was a German film director and screenwriter during the first half of the 20th century...

The Fox of Glenarvon; pro-Irish
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 film.
Das Herz der Königin
Das Herz der Königin
Das Herz der Königin is a 1940 German historical film, making selective use of the life story of Mary, Queen of Scots and her execution by Queen Elizabeth I for anti-British propaganda purposed, in the context of the Second World War going on at the time.The cast included* Zarah Leander, starring...

Carl Froelich
Carl Froelich
Carl August Froelich was a German film pioneer and film director.-Apparatus builder and cameraman:...

The Heart of the Queen starring Zarah Leander
Zarah Leander
Zarah Leander was a Swedish actress and singer.Leander began her career in the late 1920s, and by the mid 1930s her success in Europe, particularly in Germany and the Scandinavian countries, led to invitations to work in the United States...

 as Mary, Queen of Scots
Indianer Ernst R. Müller and Gerd Philipp Indians; 85 min documentary
Jud Süß
Jud Süß (1940 film)
Jud Süß is an antisemitic propaganda film produced in 1940 by Terra Filmkunst at the behest of Joseph Goebbels. The movie was directed by Veit Harlan, who wrote the screenplay with Eberhard Wolfgang Möller and Ludwig Metzger, and starred Ferdinand Marian and Harlan's wife Kristina Söderbaum.The...

Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan was a German film director and actor.-Life and career:Harlan was born in Berlin. After studying under Max Reinhardt, he first appeared on the stage in 1915 and, after World War I, worked in the Berlin stage. In 1922 he married Jewish actress and cabaret singer Dora Gerson; the couple...

The Jew Suss; dramatic anti-Semitic propaganda film
Kleider machen Leute Helmut Käutner based on the story by Swiss writer Gottfried Keller
Gottfried Keller
Gottfried Keller , a Swiss writer of German-language literature, was best known for his novel Green Henry .- Life and work :...

 starring Heinz Rühmann
Heinz Rühmann
Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann was a popular German film actor.-Life and work:Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor throughout the 1930s and early 1940s...

 and his wife Hertha Feiler
Hertha Feiler
Hertha Feiler was an Austrian actress.-Selected filmography:* Rembrandt * Quax in Afrika * Charley's Aunt * Vienna, City of My Dreams -External links:*...

Kora Terry
Kora Terry
Kora Terry is a 1940 German drama film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Marika Rökk, Will Quadflieg and Josef Sieber.-Cast:*Marika Rökk ... Kora Terry / Mara Terry* Will Quadflieg ... Michael Varany* Josef Sieber ... Karel Tobias - gen. Tobs...

Georg Jacoby
Georg Jacoby
Georg Jacoby was a German film director and screenwriter. He was married to Marika Rökk from 1940 until his death; the actress Gabriele Jacoby is their daughter.-Selected filmography:...

Der Marsch zum Führer Unknown The March to the Führer; documentary propaganda film about Hitler Youth
Hitler Youth
The Hitler Youth was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. It existed from 1922 to 1945. The HJ was the second oldest paramilitary Nazi group, founded one year after its adult counterpart, the Sturmabteilung...

 March to Nazi Party Congress
Nuremberg Rally
The Nuremberg Rally was the annual rally of the NSDAP in Germany, held from 1923 to 1938. Especially after Hitler's rise to power in 1933, they were large Nazi propaganda events...

Operette Willi Forst
Willi Forst
Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer...

 and Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl was an Austrian film director.-Life:Born in Vienna, Hartl began his film career at the Austrian Sascha-Film company of Alexander Kolowrat and from 1919 was assistant to the Hungarian director Alexander Korda...

 and Robert Naestelberger
Der Postmeister
Der Postmeister
Der Postmeister was a 1941 German film directed by Gustav Ucicky. Released during the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, it depicts Russians in a sympathetic light, unlike their depiction in such films as Friesennot before or GPU after.At the Venice Film Festival, it won the Mussolini Cup for best foreign...

Gustav Ucicky The Postmaster
Rosen in Tirol Géza von Bolváry
Géza von Bolváry
Géza von Bolváry was a Hungarian actor, screenwriter and film director, who worked principally in Germany and Austria.- Biography :...

Roses in Tyrol
German Tyrol
German Tyrol is a historical region in the Alps now divided between Austria and Italy. It includes largely ethnic German areas of historical County of Tyrol: the Austrian state of Tyrol and the province of South Tyrol but not the largely Italian-speaking province of Trentino .-History:German...

Die Rothschilds Erich Waschneck The Rothschilds; anti-semitic dramatic propaganda film
Stern von Rio Karl Anton
Karl Anton
Karl Anton was a German film director, screenwriter and film producer. He directed 58 films between 1922 and 1960.He was born in Prague, Czech Republic and died in Berlin, Germany.-External links:...

Star of Rio
Tierparadies Südamerika Werner Buhre and K. Krieg Animal Paradise South America; 66 min documentary
Thüringen, das grüne Herz Deutschlands J.C. Hartmann Thuringia: The Green Heart of Germany; 13 min documentary
Unser Fräulein Doktor Erich Engel
Erich Engel
Erich Engel was a German film and theatre director.- Biography :Engel was born in Hamburg, where later he studied at the School of Applied Arts...

Our Woman Doctor
Vom Bäumlein, das andere Blätter hat gewollt Heinz Tischmeyer animation
Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

; propaganda
Wunschkonzert
Wunschkonzert
Wunschkonzert is a 1940 German drama propaganda film by Eduard von Borsody. After Die grosse Liebe, it was the most popular film of wartime Germany, reaching the second highest gross.-Background:...

Eduard von Borsody
Eduard von Borsody
Eduard von Borsody was an Austrian cameraman, film editor, film director and screenplay writer.- Life :Eduard von Borsody began his film career as a cameraman...

Request Concert; musical romance set at the 1936 Summer Olympics
1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona, Spain on April 26, 1931, at the 29th IOC Session in Barcelona...


1941

Title Director Notes
Annelie Josef von Báky
Josef von Baky
Josef von Báky was a Hungarian filmmaker. He was also known as Josef v. Baky and József Baky. He was born in the town of Zombor in the Kingdom of Hungary in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, since 1920 Sombor in Yugoslavia., . He worked as an assistant to Geza von Bolvary.He worked as director or...

Story of a heroic World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 German mother.
Auf Wiedersehen, Franziska Helmut Käutner Goodbye, Franziska; film about a wife
Marianne Hoppe
Marianne Hoppe was a most distinguished German theatre and film actress.-Life and work:Born in Rostock, Marianne Hoppe became a leading lady of stage and films in Germany. She was born into a wealthy land owning family and was initially privately educated on her father's private estate...

 reminding her husband of his duty to go to war.
Bunte Kriechtierwelt Wolfram Junghans Documentary; in Agfacolor
Agfacolor
thumb|An Agfacolor slide dating from the early 1940s. While the colors themselves hold up well after 60 years, damages visible include dust and [[Newton's rings]].Agfacolor is a series of color photographic products produced by Agfa of Germany...

Carl Peters
Carl Peters (film)
Carl Peters is a 1941 German anti-British propaganda film, directed by Herbert Selpin and starring Hans Albers.It depicts Karl Peters, one of the founders of German East Africa....

Herbert Selpin
Herbert Selpin
Herbert Selpin was a German film director and screenplay author.-Biography:Herbert Selpin was born on May 29, 1902 in Berlin. After his medical studies in the same city, Selpin worked as a dancer, boxer, librarian, and art seller before he obtained, in the mid-1920s, an internship at the Ufa film...

A film about the pioneer instilling nationalistic ideology into the plot.
Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten Georg Jacoby
Georg Jacoby
Georg Jacoby was a German film director and screenwriter. He was married to Marika Rökk from 1940 until his death; the actress Gabriele Jacoby is their daughter.-Selected filmography:...

Women are better Diplomats; in Agfacolor
Agfacolor
thumb|An Agfacolor slide dating from the early 1940s. While the colors themselves hold up well after 60 years, damages visible include dust and [[Newton's rings]].Agfacolor is a series of color photographic products produced by Agfa of Germany...

Der Gasmann Carl Froelich
Carl Froelich
Carl August Froelich was a German film pioneer and film director.-Apparatus builder and cameraman:...

Die Englische Krankheit Kurt Stefan 13 min documentary anti-British
Anglophobia
Anglophobia means hatred or fear of England or the English people. The term is sometimes used more loosely for general Anti-British sentiment...

 propaganda film
Heimkehr
Heimkehr
Heimkehr is a 1941 German anti-Polish propaganda film directed by Gustav Ucicky.It received the rare honor "Film of the Nation," bestowed on films considered to have made an outstanding contribution to the national cause...

Gustav Ucicky
Gustav Ucicky
Gustav Ucicky was an acclaimed Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He was one of the more successful and acclaimed directors in Austria and Germany from the 1930s through to the early 1960s...

Homecoming; dramatic anti-Polish propaganda film
Ich klage an
Ich klage an
Ich klage an is a 1941 German pro-euthanasia propaganda film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner.It was banned by Allied powers after the war....

Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Wolfgang Georg Louis Liebeneiner was a German actor, film director and theater director.He was born in Liebau in Prussian Silesia. In 1928, he was taught by Otto Falckenberg, the director of the Munich Kammerspiele, in acting and directing...

I Accuse You; pro-euthanasia
Euthanasia
Euthanasia refers to the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering....

 propaganda film
Immer nur Du Karl Anton
Karl Anton
Karl Anton was a German film director, screenwriter and film producer. He directed 58 films between 1922 and 1960.He was born in Prague, Czech Republic and died in Berlin, Germany.-External links:...

Only Ever You; musical romantic comedy
Jenny und der Herr im Frack Paul Martin
Paul Martin (director)
Paul Martin was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 60 films between 1932 and 1967.-Selected filmography:* Glückskinder * Die Tödlichen Träume * Die Privatsekretärin...

Jenny and the Gentleman in Coattails; comedy; features brief nudity; involves philately
Philately
Philately is the study of stamps and postal history and other related items. Philately involves more than just stamp collecting, which does not necessarily involve the study of stamps. It is possible to be a philatelist without owning any stamps...

 (stamp collecting)
Kampfgeschwader Lützow Hans Bertram
Hans Bertram
Hans Bertram was a German screenwriter and film director. He wrote for ten films between 1938 and 1985. He also directed six films between 1939 and 1952. He was married to German actress Gisela Uhlen.-External links:...

Battle Squadron Lützow
LAH Im Einsatz LAH in Action; 39-minute propaganda film about 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
The Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler was Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard. Initially the size of a regiment, the LSSAH eventually grew into a divisional-sized unit...

Liebe ist zollfrei E.W. Emo comedy
Mamma Guido Brignone
Guido Brignone
Guido Brignone was an Italian film director. He was the father of actress Lilla Brignone.Brignone was born in Milan, Italy...

Mother; German-Italian co-production
Mein Leben für Irland Max W. Kimmich
Max W. Kimmich
Max Wilhelm Kimmich was a German film director and screenwriter during the first half of the 20th century...

My Life for Ireland; dramatic anti-British propaganda film
Menschen im Sturm
Menschen im Sturm
Menschen im Sturm is a 1941 German film. It was anti-Serbian propaganda and part of a concerted propaganda push against Serbs, attempting to split them from the Croats.-Synopsis:...

Fritz Peter Buch Men in the Storm; propaganda film justifing the German annexation of northern Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

, dramatizing the "oppression" of the Volksdeutsch community there
Ohm Krüger
Ohm Krüger
Ohm Krüger was a 1941 propaganda film, produced in Nazi Germany, about Paul Kruger in the Boer War. It was the first film to be awarded the 'Film of the Nation' award. It was re-released in 1944.-Plot:...

Hans Steinhoff
Hans Steinhoff
Hans Steinhoff was a German film director, best known for the films he made in the Nazi era. His most notable film was Ohm Krüger, for which he won the Mussolini Cup at the 1941 Venice Film Festival.-Filmography:*Hitlerjunge Quex...

about Paul Kruger
Paul Kruger
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger , better known as Paul Kruger and affectionately known as Uncle Paul was State President of the South African Republic...

, the South African leader in the Boer War
Second Boer War
The Second Boer War was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 between the British Empire and the Afrikaans-speaking Dutch settlers of two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State...

; features Emil Jannings
Emil Jannings
Emil Jannings was a German actor. He was not only the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, but also the first person to be presented an Oscar...

 and Gustaf Gründgens
Gustaf Gründgens
Gustaf Gründgens , born Gustav Heinrich Arnold Gründgens, was one of Germany's most famous and influential actors of the 20th century, intendant and artistic director of theatres in Berlin, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg...

; anti-British propaganda
Quax, der Bruchpilot Kurt Hoffmann
Kurt Hoffmann
Kurt Hoffmann was a German film director. He directed 48 films between 1938 and 1971. His film The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...

dramatic pro-Luftwaffe
Luftwaffe
Luftwaffe is a generic German term for an air force. It is also the official name for two of the four historic German air forces, the Wehrmacht air arm founded in 1935 and disbanded in 1946; and the current Bundeswehr air arm founded in 1956....

 and anti-individualist film with propaganda tendencies starring Heinz Rühmann
Heinz Rühmann
Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann was a popular German film actor.-Life and work:Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor throughout the 1930s and early 1940s...

...reitet für Deutschland Arthur Maria Rabenalt Riding for Germany; blacklisted film; director banned for 2 years by the Americans for this film about a tournament runner with blatant patriotic and nationalistic undertones.
Sechs Tage Heimaturlaub Jürgen von Alten
Sieg im Westen
Sieg im Westen
Sieg im Westen is a 1941 German propaganda film.It was produced by the Oberkommando des Heeres, the German Army High Command, rather than the Propaganda Ministry of Joseph Goebbels.Robert Edwin Hertzstein, The War That Hitler Won p281 ISBN 399-11845-4 Goebbels indeed sabotaged its release in...

Svend Noldan Victory in the West; documentary/propaganda film about Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg
For other uses of the word, see: Blitzkrieg Blitzkrieg is an anglicized word describing all-motorised force concentration of tanks, infantry, artillery, combat engineers and air power, concentrating overwhelming force at high speed to break through enemy lines, and, once the lines are broken,...

 in Western Europe
Sowjetparadies The Soviet Paradise, 14-minute anti-Soviet documentary propaganda film
Spätrupp Hallgarten Herbert Fredersdorf Hallgarten Patrol; soldier's death propaganda.
Stukas Karl Ritter pro-Luftwaffe
Luftwaffe
Luftwaffe is a generic German term for an air force. It is also the official name for two of the four historic German air forces, the Wehrmacht air arm founded in 1935 and disbanded in 1946; and the current Bundeswehr air arm founded in 1956....

 propaganda film; "Stuka" was a slang term for a German dive bomber
U-Boote westwärts
U-Boote westwärts
U-Boat Westwards was a 1941 German war film promoting the Kriegsmarine. It concerns a U-boat mission in the Second Battle of the Atlantic.- Plot :...

Günther Rittau
Günther Rittau
Günther Rittau was a German camera operator and film director.After study of science in Berlin, Rittau started his career in 1919 at the documentary-film department of Decla, later at Universum Film AG. He learned the job of camera operator "on the side". From 1924, he was active as a feature...

U-Boats Westward; about U-Boat
U-boat
U-boat is the anglicized version of the German word U-Boot , itself an abbreviation of Unterseeboot , and refers to military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in World War I and World War II...

s in the Battle of the Atlantic
Vertigine Guido Brignone
Guido Brignone
Guido Brignone was an Italian film director. He was the father of actress Lilla Brignone.Brignone was born in Milan, Italy...

Tragödie einer Liebe; Broken Love; German-Italian co-production

1942

Title Director Notes
Andreas Schlüter Herbert Maisch
Herbert Maisch
Herbert Maisch was a German film director.-Selected filmography:* Königswalzer * Boccaccio * Nights in Andalusia * Music in Salzburg -External links:...

A film about the sculptor Andreas Schlüter; subliminal Nazi propaganda throughout.
Anschlag auf Baku Fritz Kirchhoff Attack on Baku; anti-British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 propaganda.
Berlin-Wie Es War Berlin the Way it Was; 87 min documentary about pre-war Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

Boote mit Flügeln Nicholas Kaufmann 14 min documentary
Die Entlassung
Die Entlassung
Die Entlassung is a 1942 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner about the dismissal of Otto von Bismarck...

Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Wolfgang Georg Louis Liebeneiner was a German actor, film director and theater director.He was born in Liebau in Prussian Silesia. In 1928, he was taught by Otto Falckenberg, the director of the Munich Kammerspiele, in acting and directing...

The Dismissal; Sequel to Bismark (1940); features Emil Jannings
Emil Jannings
Emil Jannings was a German actor. He was not only the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, but also the first person to be presented an Oscar...

GPU Karl Ritter Anti-Communism
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...

 propaganda.
Die goldene Stadt
Die goldene Stadt
Die goldene Stadt , is a 1941 German film directed by Veit Harlan, starring Kristina Söderbaum, who won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and in Agfacolor.-Plot:...

Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan was a German film director and actor.-Life and career:Harlan was born in Berlin. After studying under Max Reinhardt, he first appeared on the stage in 1915 and, after World War I, worked in the Berlin stage. In 1922 he married Jewish actress and cabaret singer Dora Gerson; the couple...

The Golden City; in Agfacolor
Agfacolor
thumb|An Agfacolor slide dating from the early 1940s. While the colors themselves hold up well after 60 years, damages visible include dust and [[Newton's rings]].Agfacolor is a series of color photographic products produced by Agfa of Germany...

Der Große König Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan was a German film director and actor.-Life and career:Harlan was born in Berlin. After studying under Max Reinhardt, he first appeared on the stage in 1915 and, after World War I, worked in the Berlin stage. In 1922 he married Jewish actress and cabaret singer Dora Gerson; the couple...

The Great King; historical drama about King Frederick the Great of Prussia
Prussia
Prussia was a German kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well-organized and effective army. Prussia shaped the history...

Die Große Liebe
Die Große Liebe
Die grosse Liebe or Die große Liebe is a German drama film of the National Socialist period, made by Rolf Hansen, starring Zarah Leander and Viktor Staal...

Rolf Hansen
Rolf Hansen (director)
Rolf Hansen was a German film director. He directed 20 films between 1936 and 1960.-Selected filmography:* Die grosse Liebe * Dr. Holl * Desires...

The Great Love; featuring Zarah Leander
Zarah Leander
Zarah Leander was a Swedish actress and singer.Leander began her career in the late 1920s, and by the mid 1930s her success in Europe, particularly in Germany and the Scandinavian countries, led to invitations to work in the United States...

; highest grossing film of the Third Reich.
Himmelhunde Roger von Norman Sky Dogs; about a young glider pilot who becomes a military pilot; targeted toward youths.
Kleine Residenz Hans H. Zerlett
Männer, Meer und Stürme Heinrich Hauser and Hubert Schonger Men, Sea and Storm: A Film of the Romance and the Life Onboard a Segelship; 18 min documentary about Kriegsmarine
Kriegsmarine
The Kriegsmarine was the name of the German Navy during the Nazi regime . It superseded the Kaiserliche Marine of World War I and the post-war Reichsmarine. The Kriegsmarine was one of three official branches of the Wehrmacht, the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany.The Kriegsmarine grew rapidly...

Rembrandt Hans Steinhoff
Hans Steinhoff
Hans Steinhoff was a German film director, best known for the films he made in the Nazi era. His most notable film was Ohm Krüger, for which he won the Mussolini Cup at the 1941 Venice Film Festival.-Filmography:*Hitlerjunge Quex...

Rund um die Freiheitsstatue 15-minute Anti-American propaganda film. aka Round the Statue of Liberty,Corruption of America
Die Sache mit Styx Karl Anton
Karl Anton
Karl Anton was a German film director, screenwriter and film producer. He directed 58 films between 1922 and 1960.He was born in Prague, Czech Republic and died in Berlin, Germany.-External links:...

Die See ruft Hans Fritz Köllner Documentary
Sprung in den Feind Wilhelm Stöppler 22-minute propaganda film, showing the invasion of the Netherlands. The bridge of Moerdijk
Moerdijk
Moerdijk is a municipality and a town in the South of the Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant.- History :The municipality of Moerdijk was founded in 1997 following the merger of the municipalities of Fijnaart en Heijningen, Klundert, Standdaarbuiten, Willemstad and Zevenbergen. At that...

 is taken with Fallschirmjäger
Fallschirmjäger
are German paratroopers. Together with the Gebirgsjäger they are perceived as the elite infantry units of the German Army....

.
Das Tapfere Schneiderlein
Das tapfere Schneiderlein
Das tapfere Schneiderlein is an East German fantasy film directed by Helmut Spieß. It was released in 1956.-Cast:* Kurt Schmidtchen as Das Tapfere Schneiderlein* Christel Bodenstein as Traute* Horst Drinda as Prinz Eitel...

Hubert Schonger
Wiener Blut Willi Forst
Willi Forst
Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer...

Viennese Blood
Wir machen Musik Helmut Käutner We Make Music; musical comedy featuring Ilse Werner
Ilse Werner
Ilse Werner was an actress and singer. She was born to a Dutch father and a German mother and was a Dutch citizen by birth...

 and her whistling talent
Zwei in einer großen Stadt Volker von Collande Two in a Big City

1943

Title Director Notes
Alltag zwischen Zechentürmen Leo de Laforgue 15 minute documentary
Akrobat Schööön! Wolfgang Staudte
Wolfgang Staudte
Wolfgang Staudte , born Georg Friedrich Staudte, was a German film director, script writer and actor. He was born in Saarbrücken....

Asse zur See Hermann Stöß Documentary
Das Bad auf der Tenne Volker von Collande In Agfacolor
Agfacolor
thumb|An Agfacolor slide dating from the early 1940s. While the colors themselves hold up well after 60 years, damages visible include dust and [[Newton's rings]].Agfacolor is a series of color photographic products produced by Agfa of Germany...

Besatzung Dora
Besatzung Dora
Besatzung Dora is a 1943 German film about Luftwaffe men. It depicts a love triangle involving the two of them being overcome by their participation in battle together....

Karl Ritter The Crew of the Dora
Damals Rolf Hansen
Rolf Hansen (director)
Rolf Hansen was a German film director. He directed 20 films between 1936 and 1960.-Selected filmography:* Die grosse Liebe * Dr. Holl * Desires...

Deutschland - Italien - Ungarn. Ein Boxländerkampf im Kriegsjahr 1942 Germany-Italy-Hungary. Boxing Championships in war year 1942
Frauen sind keine Engel Women Are Not Angels
Geheimnis Tibet H.A. Lettow and Ernst Schäfer
Ernst Schäfer
Ernst Schäfer was a famous German hunter and zoologist in the 1930s, specializing in ornithology.-Biography:Schäfer is most famous for his three expeditions to Tibet in 1931, in 1934–1935, and in 1938–1939. The first two expeditions were led by the American Brooke Dolan II...

Secretive Tibet; documentary about SS
Schutzstaffel
The Schutzstaffel |Sig runes]]) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under Heinrich Himmler's command was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity during World War II...

 expedition to Tibet
Tibet
Tibet is a plateau region in Asia, north-east of the Himalayas. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas, and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people...

; aka Lhasa-Lo - Die verbotene Stadt - Lhasa-Lo - The Lost City
Germanin - Die Geschichte einer kolonialen Tat Max W. Kimmich
Max W. Kimmich
Max Wilhelm Kimmich was a German film director and screenwriter during the first half of the 20th century...

Germanin - The Tale of a Colonial Deed; about a doctor in Germany's former African colonies
Die Goldene Spinne Erich Engels The Golden Spider
Ich vertraue Dir meine Frau an Kurt Hoffmann
Kurt Hoffmann
Kurt Hoffmann was a German film director. He directed 48 films between 1938 and 1971. His film The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...

I Entrust My Wife to You
Immensee
Immensee (film)
Immensee is a 1943 German film directed by Veit Harlan. It is loosely based on a story by Theodor Storm.-Synopsis:Elizabeth marries a wealthy landowner to forget her unrequited love and grows to love him...

Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan was a German film director and actor.-Life and career:Harlan was born in Berlin. After studying under Max Reinhardt, he first appeared on the stage in 1915 and, after World War I, worked in the Berlin stage. In 1922 he married Jewish actress and cabaret singer Dora Gerson; the couple...

In Agfacolor
Agfacolor
thumb|An Agfacolor slide dating from the early 1940s. While the colors themselves hold up well after 60 years, damages visible include dust and [[Newton's rings]].Agfacolor is a series of color photographic products produced by Agfa of Germany...

Junker der Waffen-SS Young Men of the Armed SS
Karneval der Liebe Paul Martin
Paul Martin (director)
Paul Martin was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 60 films between 1932 and 1967.-Selected filmography:* Glückskinder * Die Tödlichen Träume * Die Privatsekretärin...

Carneval of Love
Der Kleine Grenzverkehr Hans Deppe
Hans Deppe
-Selected filmography:Actor* The Victor * A Blonde's Dream * Two Hearts Beat as One * The Star of Valencia * A Door Opens * Our Flags Lead Us Forward * The Ambassador's Wife...

based on a short story by Erich Kästner
Erich Kästner
Emil Erich Kästner was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known for his humorous, socially astute poetry and children's literature.-Dresden 1899–1919:...

Liebeskomödie Theo Lingen
Theo Lingen
Theo Lingen , born Franz Theodor Schmitz, was a German actor, director and screenwriter. He appeared in over 230 films between 1929 and 1978, and directed 21 films between 1936 and 1960.-Life and career:...

Love Comedy
Männer gegen Panzer
Männer gegen Panzer
Männer gegen Panzer is a 1943 German film, produced by Lehrfilm, which was used as a training film by the Wehrmacht....

Men Against Tanks
Ein Mann mit Grundsätzen? Géza von Bolváry
Géza von Bolváry
Géza von Bolváry was a Hungarian actor, screenwriter and film director, who worked principally in Germany and Austria.- Biography :...

A Man With Principles?
Maske in Blau Paul Martin
Paul Martin (director)
Paul Martin was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 60 films between 1932 and 1967.-Selected filmography:* Glückskinder * Die Tödlichen Träume * Die Privatsekretärin...

Mask in Blue
Münchhausen
Münchhausen (1943 film)
Münchhausen is a 1943 fantasy comedy film directed by Josef von Báky, a prominent director who remained in Germany under the Nazi regime. Despite being made in Nazi Germany, this film is noted for the way in which it was able to avoid the politics of the time...

Josef von Báky
Josef von Baky
Josef von Báky was a Hungarian filmmaker. He was also known as Josef v. Baky and József Baky. He was born in the town of Zombor in the Kingdom of Hungary in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, since 1920 Sombor in Yugoslavia., . He worked as an assistant to Geza von Bolvary.He worked as director or...

In Agfacolor
Agfacolor
thumb|An Agfacolor slide dating from the early 1940s. While the colors themselves hold up well after 60 years, damages visible include dust and [[Newton's rings]].Agfacolor is a series of color photographic products produced by Agfa of Germany...

, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Ufa
Universum Film AG
Universum Film AG, better known as UFA or Ufa, is a film company that was the principal film studio in Germany, home of the German film industry during the Weimar Republic and through World War II, and a major force in world cinema from 1917 to 1945...

 with impressive special effects; starring Hans Albers
Hans Albers
Hans Philipp August Albers was a German actor and singer. He was the single biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1945 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century.- Life and work :...

 and Ilse Werner
Ilse Werner
Ilse Werner was an actress and singer. She was born to a Dutch father and a German mother and was a Dutch citizen by birth...

Paracelsus
Paracelsus (film)
Paracelsus is a 1943 German drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, based on the life of Paracelsus.-Cast:* Werner Krauss - Paracelsus* Annelies Reinhold - Renata Pfefferkorn* Harry Langewisch - Pfefferkorn* Mathias Wieman - Ulrich von Hutten...

Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
-Biography:Pabst was born in Raudnitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary , the son of a railroad employee.Returning from the United States, he was in France when World War I began...

Romanze in Moll Helmut Käutner drama based on a story by Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents....

 starring Marianne Hoppe
Marianne Hoppe
Marianne Hoppe was a most distinguished German theatre and film actress.-Life and work:Born in Rostock, Marianne Hoppe became a leading lady of stage and films in Germany. She was born into a wealthy land owning family and was initially privately educated on her father's private estate...

 and Paul Dahlke
Paul Dahlke
Paul Victor Ernst Dahlke was a German stage and film actor.- Career :Dahlke was born in Gross Streitz near Köslin in Farther Pomerania. He visited school in Köslin, Stargard and passed his Abitur in Dortmund in 1922...

Titanic
Titanic (1943 film)
Titanic was a 1943 Nazi propaganda film made during World War II in Berlin by Tobis Productions for UFA, which was later banned from Nazi Germany by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. The film used the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a setting for an attempt to discredit British and American...

Werner Klingler
Werner Klingler
Werner Klingler was a German film director and actor. He directed 29 films between 1936 and 1968.He was born in Stuttgart, Germany and died in Berlin, Germany.-Selected filmography:* Titanic...

Scherzo - Verwitterte Melodie
Verwitterte Melodie
Verwitterte Melodie, or Weather-beaten Melody, is a 1943 animated short, made in Nazi Germany. It was written mainly by cartoonist Hans Fischerkoesen, although the sole credits often went to Horst von Möllendorff...

Hans Fischerkoesen
Hans Fischerkoesen
Hans Fischerkoesen, also known as Hans Fischerkösen or Hans Fischer, was a German commercial animator. At the 1st Berlin International Film Festival Fischerkoesen's film Blick ins Paradies won the Bronze Medal award.- Filmography :* Radau Brüder * Spiel der Wellen *...

Weather-beaten Melody; animation
Josef Thorak, Werkstatt und Werk Hans Cürlis and Arnold Fanck
Arnold Fanck
Arnold Fanck was a pioneer of the German mountain film....

A 14 minute film about Nazi sculptor Josef Thorak
Josef Thorak
Josef Thorak was an Austrian-German sculptor.In 1922 Thorak's reputation increased when he created Der sterbende Krieger, a statue in memory to the dead of World War I of Stolpmünde.In 1933 and in following years, Thorak joined Arno Breker as one of the two "official sculptors" of the Third Reich...

Die Wirtin zum Weißen Rößl Karl Anton
Karl Anton
Karl Anton was a German film director, screenwriter and film producer. He directed 58 films between 1922 and 1960.He was born in Prague, Czech Republic and died in Berlin, Germany.-External links:...


1944

Title Director Notes
Arno Breker
Arno Breker
Arno Breker was a German sculptor, best known for his public works in Nazi Germany, which were endorsed by the authorities as the antithesis of degenerate art....

Hans Cürlis and Arnold Fanck
Arnold Fanck
Arnold Fanck was a pioneer of the German mountain film....

13 min documentary
Atlantik-Wall Arnold Fanck
Arnold Fanck
Arnold Fanck was a pioneer of the German mountain film....

19-minute propaganda film about the Atlantic Wall
Atlantic Wall
The Atlantic Wall was an extensive system of coastal fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the western coast of Europe as a defense against an anticipated Allied invasion of the mainland continent from Great Britain.-History:On March 23, 1942 Führer Directive Number 40...

Das war mein Leben Paul Martin
Paul Martin (director)
Paul Martin was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 60 films between 1932 and 1967.-Selected filmography:* Glückskinder * Die Tödlichen Träume * Die Privatsekretärin...

That Was My Life
Degenhardts, Die Werner Klingler
Werner Klingler
Werner Klingler was a German film director and actor. He directed 29 films between 1936 and 1968.He was born in Stuttgart, Germany and died in Berlin, Germany.-Selected filmography:* Titanic...

Engel mit dem Saitenspiel, Der Heinz Rühmann
Heinz Rühmann
Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann was a popular German film actor.-Life and work:Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor throughout the 1930s and early 1940s...

Es fing so harmlos an Theo Lingen
Theo Lingen
Theo Lingen , born Franz Theodor Schmitz, was a German actor, director and screenwriter. He appeared in over 230 films between 1929 and 1978, and directed 21 films between 1936 and 1960.-Life and career:...

Es lebe die Liebe Erich Engel
Erich Engel
Erich Engel was a German film and theatre director.- Biography :Engel was born in Hamburg, where later he studied at the School of Applied Arts...

Feuerzangenbowle, Die
Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944 film)
is a 1944 German film, directed by Helmut Weiss and is based on the book of the same name. It follows the book closely as its author, Heinrich Spoerl, also wrote the script for the movie...

Helmut Weiss comedy with Heinz Rühmann
Heinz Rühmann
Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann was a popular German film actor.-Life and work:Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor throughout the 1930s and early 1940s...

 in his most famous role as Hans Pfeiffer "with three fs"
Frau meiner Träume, Die Georg Jacoby
Georg Jacoby
Georg Jacoby was a German film director and screenwriter. He was married to Marika Rökk from 1940 until his death; the actress Gabriele Jacoby is their daughter.-Selected filmography:...

Woman of My Dreams In Agfacolor
Agfacolor
thumb|An Agfacolor slide dating from the early 1940s. While the colors themselves hold up well after 60 years, damages visible include dust and [[Newton's rings]].Agfacolor is a series of color photographic products produced by Agfa of Germany...

Die Goldene Gans
Die Goldene Gans
Die Goldene Gans is an East German film. It was released in 1964....

Lotte Reiniger
Lotte Reiniger
Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger was a German silhouette animator and film director.- Early life :Lotte Reiniger was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg, German Empire, on June 2, 1899...

The Golden Goose; animation
Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

Große Freiheit Nr. 7
Große Freiheit Nr. 7
Große Freiheit Nr. 7 is a 1944 German musical drama film directed by Helmut Käutner. It was named after Große Freiheit , a street next to Hamburg's Reeperbahn road in the St...

Helmut Käutner Große Freiheit
Große Freiheit
The Große Freiheit is a cross street on the North Side to Hamburg's Reeperbahn road in the St. Pauli quarter. It is part of the so called red light district or Kiez.-History:...

 [Great Freedom] is the name of a Hamburg street. Then censored Agfacolor
Agfacolor
thumb|An Agfacolor slide dating from the early 1940s. While the colors themselves hold up well after 60 years, damages visible include dust and [[Newton's rings]].Agfacolor is a series of color photographic products produced by Agfa of Germany...

 film with Hans Albers
Hans Albers
Hans Philipp August Albers was a German actor and singer. He was the single biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1945 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century.- Life and work :...

Junge Adler Alfred Weidenmann
Alfred Weidenmann
Alfred Weidenmann was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 36 films between 1942 and 1984.-Selected filmography:* Der Stern von Afrika * Sacred Waters * Adorable Julia...

Young Eagles
Kleine Muck, Der Franz Fiedler
Franz Fiedler
Franz Fiedler was a photographer.Fiedler was born in Prostějov, near Olomouc in Moravia. Fiedler was a pupil of Hugo Erfurth...

Kleine Sommermelodie, Eine Volker von Collande A Little Summer Melodie
Opfergang
Opfergang
Opfergang is a 1944 German film directed by Veit Harlan. It is based on Rudolf G. Binding's work of the same title, with alterations for propaganda purposes.-Synopsis:...

Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan was a German film director and actor.-Life and career:Harlan was born in Berlin. After studying under Max Reinhardt, he first appeared on the stage in 1915 and, after World War I, worked in the Berlin stage. In 1922 he married Jewish actress and cabaret singer Dora Gerson; the couple...

In Agfacolor
Agfacolor
thumb|An Agfacolor slide dating from the early 1940s. While the colors themselves hold up well after 60 years, damages visible include dust and [[Newton's rings]].Agfacolor is a series of color photographic products produced by Agfa of Germany...

Orient-Express Viktor Tourjansky
Panorama
Panorama (German news series)
Panorama was a quarterly colour newsreel series that focused on "human interest" stories in 1944. It only lasted for that year, since the Third Reich fell in the spring of 1945, before another installment could be produced...

Monthly news human interest
Human interest story
A human interest story is a feature story that discusses a person or people in an emotional way. It presents people and their problems, concerns, or achievements in a way that brings about interest or sympathy in the reader or viewer....

 series; in color
Scharfschütze in der Geländeausbildung Sniper training film
Der Schneemann
Der Schneemann
Der Schneemann, also known as The Snowman, Snowman in July or The Magic Snowman, is a 1944 animated short film, created in Germany under the Nazi regime. It was written by cartoonist Horst von Möllendorff and animated by Hans Fischerkoesen...

Hans Fischerkoesen
Hans Fischerkoesen
Hans Fischerkoesen, also known as Hans Fischerkösen or Hans Fischer, was a German commercial animator. At the 1st Berlin International Film Festival Fischerkoesen's film Blick ins Paradies won the Bronze Medal award.- Filmography :* Radau Brüder * Spiel der Wellen *...

The Snowman; Animation in Agfacolor
Agfacolor
thumb|An Agfacolor slide dating from the early 1940s. While the colors themselves hold up well after 60 years, damages visible include dust and [[Newton's rings]].Agfacolor is a series of color photographic products produced by Agfa of Germany...

Schrammeln
Schrammeln
- Cast :*Marte Harell as Die Fiakermilli*Hans Holt as Joseph Schrammel*Hans Moser as Anton Strohmayer*Paul Hörbiger as Hans Schrammel*Fritz Imhoff as Georg Dänzer*Paula Pfluger as Theresa Schrammel*Inge Egger as Barbara Strohmeyer*Helli Servi as Franzi...

Géza von Bolváry
Géza von Bolváry
Géza von Bolváry was a Hungarian actor, screenwriter and film director, who worked principally in Germany and Austria.- Biography :...

Ein Schöner Tag Philipp Lothar Mayring A Beautiful Day
Theresienstadt:Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt
Theresienstadt (film)
Theresienstadt. Ein Dokumentarfilm aus dem jüdischen Siedlungsgebiet was a black and white projected Nazi propaganda film shot in the concentration camp of Theresienstadt....

Kurt Gerron
Kurt Gerron
Kurt Gerron was a German Jewish actor and film director.-Life:Born Kurt Gerson into a well-off merchant family in Berlin, he initially studied medicine but was called up for military service in World War I. Seriously wounded he qualified as a military doctor of the German Army...

Propaganda film about how "well" the Jews were treated in concentration camps
Nazi concentration camps
Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps throughout the territories it controlled. The first Nazi concentration camps set up in Germany were greatly expanded after the Reichstag fire of 1933, and were intended to hold political prisoners and opponents of the regime...

 subtitled: The Fuhrer Gives the Jews a City
Vom Einsatz der Ordnungspolizei
Ordnungspolizei
The Ordnungspolizei or Orpo were the uniformed regular police force in Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1945. It was increasingly absorbed into the Nazi police system. Owing to their green uniforms, they were also referred to as Grüne Polizei...

 in allen Fronten des Krieges
On the Action of the Order Police in All Fronts of the War

1945

Title Director Notes
Dumme Gänslein, Das Hans Fischerkoesen
Hans Fischerkoesen
Hans Fischerkoesen, also known as Hans Fischerkösen or Hans Fischer, was a German commercial animator. At the 1st Berlin International Film Festival Fischerkoesen's film Blick ins Paradies won the Bronze Medal award.- Filmography :* Radau Brüder * Spiel der Wellen *...

The Silly Little Goose, Animation
Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

Das kleine Hofkonzert
Das kleine Hofkonzert
Das kleine Hofkonzert is a musical comedy in three acts "from the world of Carl Spitzweg", music by Edmund Nick, libretto by Paul Verhoeven and Toni Impekoven...

Paul Verhoeven
Paul Verhoeven (Germany)
Paul Verhoeven was a German actor, writer, and film and theatre director.He had 13 siblings and the family lived in modest circumstances.He directed and acted in over 50 films, and wrote over 20 film scripts, the first of which was Das kleine Hofkonzert in 1935, an operetta with music by Edmund...

The Little Court Concert; In Agfacolor
Agfacolor
thumb|An Agfacolor slide dating from the early 1940s. While the colors themselves hold up well after 60 years, damages visible include dust and [[Newton's rings]].Agfacolor is a series of color photographic products produced by Agfa of Germany...

Hochzeit im Korallenmeer
Hochzeit im Korallenmeer
Svatba v korálovém moři is a 1943 Czechoslovak animated short film. It was written, animated and directed by a group of Czech cartoonists including Jiří Brdečka, Jaroslav Kándl, Eduard Hofman, Břetislav Pojar, Václav Bedřich, Stanislav Látal, Jaroslav Doubrava and Josef Kluge in German-occupied...

Horst von Möllendorff
Horst von Möllendorff
Horst von Möllendorff was a German cartoonist who was "drafted" to work for the Nazi's animated short industry. He was hired as a result of former commercial animator Hans Fischerkoesen not being able to come up with adequate story ideas for his short films...

Wedding in the Coral Sea
Kolberg
Kolberg (film)
Kolberg is a 1945 German propaganda film directed by Veit Harlan and Wolfgang Liebeneiner. It opened on January 30, 1945 simultaneously in Berlin and to the crew of the naval base at La Rochelle. It was also screened in the Reich chancellery after the broadcast of Hitler's last radio address on...

Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan was a German film director and actor.-Life and career:Harlan was born in Berlin. After studying under Max Reinhardt, he first appeared on the stage in 1915 and, after World War I, worked in the Berlin stage. In 1922 he married Jewish actress and cabaret singer Dora Gerson; the couple...

propaganda film in Agfacolor
Agfacolor
thumb|An Agfacolor slide dating from the early 1940s. While the colors themselves hold up well after 60 years, damages visible include dust and [[Newton's rings]].Agfacolor is a series of color photographic products produced by Agfa of Germany...

Das Leben geht weiter Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Wolfgang Georg Louis Liebeneiner was a German actor, film director and theater director.He was born in Liebau in Prussian Silesia. In 1928, he was taught by Otto Falckenberg, the director of the Munich Kammerspiele, in acting and directing...

Life Continues
Shiva und die Galgenblume Hans Georg Andres and Michaela Krützen In Agfacolor
Agfacolor
thumb|An Agfacolor slide dating from the early 1940s. While the colors themselves hold up well after 60 years, damages visible include dust and [[Newton's rings]].Agfacolor is a series of color photographic products produced by Agfa of Germany...


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Note: The year of these films may be unknown or they may span multiple years.
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Die Deutsche Wochenschau
Die Deutsche Wochenschau
Die Deutsche Wochenschau is a series of German newsreels from 1940 until the end of World War II.After the invasion of Poland , the Nazis consolidated four separate newsreel production efforts into one...

The German Weekly Show; newsreel
Newsreel
A newsreel was a form of short documentary film prevalent in the first half of the 20th century, regularly released in a public presentation place and containing filmed news stories and items of topical interest. It was a source of news, current affairs and entertainment for millions of moviegoers...

 series
Die Frontschau
Die Frontschau
The Front Show is a series of World War II era German military training films shown to German soldiers before being shipped off to the Eastern Front...

Fritz Hippler
Fritz Hippler
Fritz Hippler was a German filmmaker who ran the film department in the Propaganda Ministry of the Third Reich, under Joseph Goebbels. He is most famous as director of the propaganda film Der ewige Jude ....

The Front Show; Series of technical films shown to soldiers before they were sent to the Eastern Front
Eastern Front (World War II)
The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of World War II between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland, and some other Allies which encompassed Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945...


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Tiefland
Tiefland (film)
Tiefland is a 1954 film that Leni Riefenstahl scripted, directed, acted in, and edited. It was produced by Leni Riefenstahl and Josef Plesner. It is based on the opera Tiefland and the original play Terra baixa by Àngel Guimerà...

Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl
Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens , a propaganda film made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party...

Filmed 1940-44 the movie was completed after World War II and released 1954

See also

  • Nazism and cinema
  • Department of Film (Nazi Germany)
    Department of Film (Nazi Germany)
    The Department of Film was one of five departments that comprised the Central Party Propaganda Office of the NSDAP, established by Adolf Hitler in 1933 as part of the Reichspropagandaleitung. The Central Party Propaganda Office was separate from the official government Ministry of Public...

  • Cinema of Germany
    Cinema of Germany
    Cinema in Germany can be traced back to the late 19th century. German cinema has made major technical and artistic contributions to film.Unlike any other national cinemas, which developed in the context of relatively continuous and stable political systems, Germany witnesses major changes to its...

  • List of films set in Berlin
  • List of films made in France 1919-1940
  • List of World War II films
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