Germany at War: A list of German War Movies (WW II)
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- DirectorEduard von BorsodyStarsHedwig BleibtreuJoachim BrenneckeHeinz GoedeckeAt the Olympic games in Berlin 1936 Inge Wagner falls in love with Luftwaffenleutnant (Airforce Lieutenant) Herbert Koch. They want to marry, but he receives orders to go to Spain - incognito, without permission for any contacts to his friends and relatives. Inge is still waiting for him. After the beginning of WW II, German radio starts broadcasting the "Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmacht" - a program made of wishes from the soldiers. He hears the song, he wanted to hear, and so does Inge. A friend of Inge, who hopes she is willing to marry him, comes to the same squadron where Koch flies. Koch and Inge arrange a date at a Hamburg restaurant, but he and Ilse's friend are shot down the day before. In the hospital Koch finds out, that he and his friend love the same girl. He thinks they are already engaged and is willing to give her up.
- DirectorWolfgang StaudteStarsHildegard KnefElly BurgmerErna SellmerAfter returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during World War II.
- DirectorHelmut KäutnerStarsGert SchäferErich SchellowWinnie MarkusA car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich in Nazi Germany.
- DirectorHarald BraunStarsHildegard KnefWinnie MarkusSybille SchmitzA group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to cope with the tragic consequences of the war and their own actions.
- DirectorHans MüllerStarsPaul DahlkeHelmut HeyneKurt Langanke
- DirectorPaul MayStarsJoachim FuchsbergerHelen VitaPaul BösigerShortly before the outbreak of World War II: Private Asch and gunner Vierbein belong to the same unit but could not be more contrary.
- DirectorPaul MayStarsO.E. HasseRolf KutscheraEmmerich SchrenkWinter 1942: Like thousands of other German soldiers, Asch and Vierbein have ended up at the Eastern front.
- DirectorPaul MayStarsO.E. HasseHannes SchielGustav KnuthIn the spring of 1945, the German troops are practically defeated, and the battalion of Kowalski, major general von Plönnies and Asch is left to its own devices to a large extent.
- DirectorAlfred WeidenmannStarsO.E. HasseBarbara RüttingAdrian HovenBrief biopic of Wilhelm Canaris, army intelligence (Abwehr) chief of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1944.
- DirectorHelmut KäutnerStarsCurd JürgensViktor de KowaKarl JohnDuring WW2, German general Harry Harras is a test pilot and chief engineer for the Luftwaffe but his contempt for the Nazis and sabotage at the aircraft plant land him in hot water with the Gestapo.
- DirectorFalk HarnackStarsWolfgang PreissAnnemarie DüringerRobert FreitagA disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944.
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsBernhard WickiKarl Ludwig DiehlCarl WeryA dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed.
- DirectorLaslo BenedekStarsHilde KrahlTherese GiehseUrsula HerkingAs Germany's fortunes in the latter part of World War II wane, several young boys, in their enthusiasm to do something "for the fatherland", volunteer to fight with the German army in the East. Horrified at the news that their children are to be sent to the Russian front, the boys' mothers begin a desperate effort to get their sons back.
- DirectorHarald ReinlStarsAdrian HovenMarianne KochKarin Dor
- DirectorWerner KlinglerStarsMartin HeldNadja TillerWalter GillerIn 1944, Nazi agent Erich Gimpel is summoned by a German general staff that knows it is about to lose the war. This loyal officer is given a last chance mission: to go to the United States to spy on the progress of American research on the atomic bomb and try to hinder its completion. To assist him, he is joined by Billy Cole, an American deserter ready to collaborate. While the two men are landed by a submarine on the New York coast, Cole, an alcoholic, quickly proves to be uncontrollable.
- DirectorPaul MayStarsMartin HeldMarianne KochHardy KrügerFrance remains occupied by Germans who are under constant French Resistance attack and some German officers plan to pass information from Berlin Headquarters to Allied troops in an attempt to prevent a useless sacrifice of their soldiers. Among them is General Quade, who does not want to see the divisions under his command being annihilated after the Allied landing in Normandy. Captain Furstenwerth receives General Quade's mission to be the involuntary messenger of this information. He falls in love with the young French girl Yvonne and gets in touch with the Resistance.
- DirectorFrank WisbarStarsHansjörg FelmySabine BethmannMady RahlFour young German naval cadets begin their military service in 1940; only one of them will survive.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsClaus HolmMario AdorfHannes MessemerA serial killer strikes again during World War II in Germany. The wrong man is arrested and a detective hunts down the real killer, but justice in Nazi Germany is not so easily administered.
- DirectorAlfred WeidenmannStarsJoachim HansenMarianne KochHansjörg FelmyBiographic Movie of the German fighter ace, who was killed in a plane crash after over 150 kills in North Africa.
- DirectorGéza von RadványiStarsO.E. HasseEva BartokHannes MessemerAfter the battle of Stalingrad, battalions of German prisoners were taken to concentration camps. To the 5110/47 comes the military medical Fritz Böhler. He tries to improve the prisoners' conditions, sometimes risking his life.
- DirectorFrank WisbarStarsJoachim HansenWilhelm BorchertWolfgang PreissIn the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.
- DirectorWolfgang SchleifStarsAdrian HovenElisabeth MüllerPeter van EyckIn 1942 the Germans devised an operation to introduce in Egypt spies to provoke a rebellion against the British.
- DirectorHarald ReinlStarsDieter EpplerSabine SesselmannJoachim FuchsbergerIn 1939 German U-boat captain Günther Prien receives orders to infiltrate the British Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow and sink British warships.
- DirectorBernhard WickiStarsVolker BohnetFritz WepperMichael HinzIn 1945, Germany is being overrun, and nobody is left to fight but teenagers.
- DirectorRalph HabibStarsDawn AddamsPeter van EyckErnst Schröder1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies.
- DirectorKurt MeiselStarsKarlheinz BöhmChristian WolffKlaus KammerThree sailors survive a sinking but face a court martial when it is suspected they deserted before the order to abandon ship.
- DirectorFrank WisbarStarsSonja ZiemannGunnar MöllerErik SchumannIn 1945 with the advance of the red army millions of refugees fled from the east of Germany. The "Wilhelm Gustloff" loaded with 10,000 civilians and wounded soldiers was sank by a Soviet submarine in less than 55 minutes.
- DirectorFrank WisbarStarsHelmut GriemHorst FrankCarl LangeA German officer school, World War II. After an officer dies during an explosives demonstration a newly transferred officer is tasked by the commandant to investigate if it was an accident or if there is more.
- DirectorGerd OswaldStarsCurd JürgensClaire BloomHansjörg FelmyIn 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the Gestapo in a hotel room without any mental sustence of any kind to break him down to make him talk while a young ballerina, named Irene Adreny whom is the lover of the SS officer Berger playing mind games on von Basil, tries to intervene and help the poor intellectual keep his mind intact.
- DirectorDenys de La PatellièreStarsHardy KrügerLino VenturaMaurice BiraudDuring World War II, French commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.
- DirectorHarald PhilippStarsGert FröbeJoachim FuchsbergerGünter PfitzmannIn 1944 three German soldiers, Ferdinand, Willi and Paul, are ordered to infiltrate the USA, travel to Los Angeles and blow up an aircraft factory. Since two of them have family there they get distracted and reconsider their mission.
- DirectorLeopold LaholaStarsCharles MillotGötz GeorgeAnna Smolik
- DirectorJürgen RolandHerbert ViktorStarsHannes MessemerArmin DahlenPeter HerzogGermany, March 1945. A military prison warden is tasked to transport a group of prisoners to a penal unit at the western front. A rail ride through the country on the brink of collapse ensues.
- DirectorEdwin ZbonekStarsGötz GeorgeGünther UngeheuerAlexander AllersonEnd of the WWII, concentration camp somewhere in Poland. Prisoners have heard that Germans have plans to kill them all, before the Allies come. One of the prisoners escapes, and tries to find the Allies. A manhunt begins.
- DirectorWolfgang BeckerStarsJoachim HansenHorst FrankHarald JuhnkeThree soldiers find they can no longer handle the battlefield slaughter of World War II. They desert and make their way to a serene South Seas island hopeful that they can find peace.
- DirectorRainer ErlerStarsMartin HeldPascale PetitHenny AlmaTowards the end of World War II, the fictitious French mountain village of Molinette is occupied by German troops. Because of sleep aid, served by his French girlfriend Hélène, the German corporal Karl Küppers misses the departure of his company to Russia. With the help of the purposeful Frenchwoman he becomes Ortskommandant.
- DirectorAlberto De MartinoStarsFrederick StaffordDaniela BianchiCurd JürgensHolland. Spring 1945. Two armies face each other in the final confrontation of World War II. On the one hand are the powerful forces of the Allies, on the other, all that remains of the Third Reich. -Leigh Thomas
- DirectorArmando CrispinoStarsLee Van CleefJack KellyGiampiero AlbertiniDuring World War II, an Italian-American commando outfit disguised as an Italian Army unit is parachuted behind Axis lines in North Africa.
- DirectorKonrad WolfStarsJaecki SchwarzVasiliy LivanovAleksey EybozhenkoGregor Hecker, who fled Germany with his parents, returns to Germany as a lieutenant in the Red Army.
- DirectorVeljko BulajicStarsYul BrynnerHardy KrügerFranco NeroWorld War II drama about the 1943 battle around the Neretva River between Axis forces and Yugoslav partisan units.
- DirectorStipe DelicStarsRichard BurtonLjuba TadicVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicIn 1943, 20,000 Yugoslav partisans led by Tito find themselves encircled by 120,000 well-armed Axis troops in the mountains of Bosnia and must break out of encirclement.
- DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsJames CoburnMaximilian SchellJames MasonGerman commander Hauptmann Stransky places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner refuses to lie for him.
- DirectorAndrew V. McLaglenStarsRichard BurtonRod SteigerHelmut GriemIn 1944 a German sergeant gets involved in an anti-Hitler conspiracy, and saves the life of an American colonel.
- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsJürgen ProchnowHerbert GrönemeyerKlaus WennemannA German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
- StarsChristian RodeKurt ConradiBrigitte KarnerBased on the book by Kirst, this is the story of the investigation concerning the death of a young lieutenant at a German school for officers. The story takes place in the last year of WW2 and shows the intrigue and machinations between men and "wolves".
- DirectorOliver HirschbiegelStarsBruno GanzAlexandra Maria LaraUlrich MatthesTraudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
- DirectorGünther RittauStarsHerbert WilkHeinz EngelmannJoachim BrenneckeThis Nazi propaganda film follows the exploits of a German submarine as it prowls the North Atlantic.
- DirectorKarl RitterStarsCarl RaddatzHannes StelzerErnst von KlipsteinThis German propaganda film details the exploits of a group of Luftwaffe pilots flying Junkers Ju 87 "Stukas"--dive bombers--in the Battle of France in the early days of World War II.
- DirectorAlfred WeidenmannStarsWilly FritschHerbert HübnerDietmar SchönherrPropagandist coming-of-age drama from Nazi Germany. The head of an aircraft factory sends his irresponsible son Theo, who crashed his car, to the factory's apprentice school, where he bonds with fellow student Baumchen and teacher Roth.