Movies like Hitler: A Career (1977)
The best movies like Hitler: A Career (1977) are Triumph of the Will (1935), Riefenstahl (2024) and Genocide (1982). If Hitler: A Career hooked you with its documentary and history, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedNight and Fog (1956)8.3/10 from 596 votes
- NewestRiefenstahl (2024)Released 2024
- In GermanTriumph of the Will (1935)Also in German
Triumph of the Will (1935)
A showcase of German chancellor and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRiefenstahl (2024)
Explores Leni Riefenstahl's artistic legacy and her complex ties to the Nazi regime, juxtaposing her self-portrayal with evidence suggesting awareness of the regime's atrocities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGenocide (1982)
The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust could happen again. The history of European Jewish culture and events before and during the Holocaust are seen in newsreels, photographs, and animated segments. The words of the victims of the era are read, and footage from the liberation os a concentration camp is shown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & history
Night and Fog (1956)
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & history
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisShoah (1985)
Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & history
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisHitler's Hollywood (2017)
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed. (A sequel to From Caligari to Hitler, 2015.)
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & history
Downfall (2004)
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisBlack Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler (1962)
The rise and fall of Nazi Germany in part through the use of classical allegory.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & history
A Film Unfinished (2010)
Yael Hersonski's powerful documentary achieves a remarkable feat through its penetrating look at another film-the now-infamous Nazi-produced film about the Warsaw Ghetto. Discovered after the war, the unfinished work, with no soundtrack, quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record, despite its elaborate propagandistic construction. The later discovery of a long-missing reel complicated earlier readings, showing the manipulations of camera crews in these "everyday" scenes. Well-heeled Jews attending elegant dinners and theatricals (while callously stepping over the dead bodies of compatriots) now appeared as unwilling, but complicit, actors, alternately fearful and in denial of their looming fate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history & documentary
The Last Days (1998)
This Oscar-winning documentary recounts the harrowing stories of five Hungarian Jews who endured the horrors of the Holocaust and Hitler's reign.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFilmmakers for the Prosecution (2023)
In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collect filmed and recorded evidence of the horrors committed by the infamous Third Reich in order to prove Nazi war crimes during the Nuremberg trials (1945-46). The story of the making of Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, a paramount historic documentary, released in 1948.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & history
Final Account (2021)
A depiction of the last living generation of German participants in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary
Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977)
A structure-free, four-part examination of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Each part explores a different topic, from Hitler's cult of personality in propaganda to how said propaganda was associated with pre-Nazi German cultural, spiritual, and national heritage to the Holocaust and the ideology behind it, particularly from Himmler's point of view.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history
Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust" (2022)
Six million Jews died during World War II, both in the extermination camps and murdered by the mobile commandos of the Einsatzgruppen and police battalions, whose members shot men, women and children, day after day, obediently, as if it were a normal job, a fact that is hardly known today. Who were these men and how could they commit such crimes?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTo End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb (2023)
Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of war forever, led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and unleashed mass hysteria.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Day Hitler Died (2015)
The story of Hitler’s final hours told by people who were there. This special features exclusive forgotten interviews, believed lost for 65 years, with members of Hitler’s inner circle who were trapped with him in his bunker as the Russians fought to take Berlin. These unique interviews from figures such as the leader of the Hitler Youth Artur Axmann and Hitler’s secretary Traudl Junge, have never before been seen outside Germany. Using rarely seen archive footage and dramatic reconstruction, this special tells the story of Adolf Hitler’s final days in his Berlin bunker.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & history
The Bomb (2015)
Using masterfully restored footage from recently declassified images, The Bomb tells a powerful story of the most destructive invention in human history. From the earliest testing stages to its use as the ultimate chess piece in global politics, the program outlines how America developed the bomb, how it changed the world and how it continues to loom large in our lives. The show also includes interviews with prominent historians and government insiders, along with men and women who helped build the weapon piece by piece.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & history
My Enemy's Enemy (2007)
Reveals an alternate history of the post-war world. This is a version of history where, in contrast to what we are all told, fascist ideology prevailed. The story of Klaus Barbie, Nazi torturer, American spy, tool of repressive right-wing regimes, is symbolic of the real relationship that the "Western" governments had with fascism and makes us see the world as it is today - and the politicians that inhabit it - in a different way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & history
The Architecture of Doom (1989)
Featuring never-before-seen film footage of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, The Architecture of Doom captures the inner workings of the Third Reich and illuminates the Nazi aesthetic in art, architecture and popular culture. From Nazi party rallies to the final days inside Hitler's bunker, this sensational film shows how Adolf Hitler rose from being a failed artist to creating a world of ponderous kitsch and horrifying terror. Hitler worshipped ancient Rome and Greece, and dreamed of a new Golden Age of classical art and monumental architecture, populated by beautiful, patriotic Aryans. Degenerated artists and inferior races had no place in his lurid fantasy. As this riveting film shows, the Nazis went from banning the art of modernists like Picasso to forced euthanasia of the retarded and sick, and finally to the persecution of homosexuals and the extermination of the Jews.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary
The Fog of War (2003)
Former corporate whiz kid Robert McNamara was the controversial Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, during the height of the Vietnam War. Augmented by archival footage and cabinet conversation recordings, Errol Morris gives the conflicted McNamara a platform on which he attempts to confront his and the U.S. government's actions in Southeast Asia in light of the horrors of modern warfare, the end of ideology and the punitive judgment of history.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Bunker (1981)
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony (2022)
Never-before-heard trial testimony reveals shocking new details about World War II and the inner workings of the Nazi war machine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & history
Schindler (1983)
The true story of German-Czech businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-74) as told by some of the Jews — more than a thousand people — whose lives he saved from extermination during World War II.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & history
The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993)
This documentary recounts the life and work of one of most famous, and yet reviled, German film directors in history, Leni Riefenstahl. The film recounts the rise of her career from a dancer, to a movie actor to the most important film director in Nazi Germany who directed such famous propaganda films as Triumph of the Will and Olympiad. The film also explores her later activities after Nazi Germany's defeat in 1945 and her disgrace for being so associated with it which includes her amazingly active life over the age of 90.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (2002)
Documentarians Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer turn their camera on 81-year-old Traudl Junge, who served as Adolf Hitler's secretary from 1942 to 1945, and allow her to speak about her experiences. Junge sheds light on life in the Third Reich and the days leading up to Hitler's death in the famed bunker, where Junge recorded Hitler's last will and testament. Her gripping account is nothing short of mesmerizing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary
Goebbels and the Führer (2024)
As Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels creates films and pictures used to prepare the Germans for Total War and the Holocaust. When the war is lost, he conceives his last staging, the most radical propaganda act still possible to him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Goebbels Experiment (2005)
The Nazi propaganda mastermind behind Hitler speaks in first person as actor Kenneth Branagh reads pages of the diary kept by the chief of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, revealing the man's most inner thoughts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary
Hiroshima (2005)
The documentary recounts the world's first nuclear attack and examines the alarming repercussions. Covering a three-week period from the Trinity test to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the program chronicles America's political gamble and the planning for the momentous event. Archival film, dramatizations, and special effects feature what occurred aboard the Enola Gay (the aircraft that dropped the bomb) and inside the exploding bomb.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Gatekeepers (2012)
In an unprecedented and candid series of interviews, six former heads of the Shin Bet — Israel's intelligence and security agency — speak about their role in Israel's decades-long counterterrorism campaign, discussing their controversial methods and whether the ends ultimately justify the means.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParagraph 175 (2000)
During the Nazi regime, there was widespread persecution of homosexual men, which started in 1871 with the Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code. Thousands were murdered in concentration camps. This powerful and disturbing documentary, narrated by Rupert Everett, presents for the first time the largely untold testimonies of some of those who survived.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history & documentary
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Hitler: A Career?
The closest matches to Hitler: A Career are Triumph of the Will (1935), Riefenstahl (2024) and Genocide (1982). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Hitler: A Career?
People who watched Hitler: A Career most often go on to Triumph of the Will (1935), Riefenstahl (2024) and Genocide (1982).
What is the highest-rated movie like Hitler: A Career?
Night and Fog (1956), rated 8.3/10 by 596 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Hitler: A Career?
Riefenstahl (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there German movies like Hitler: A Career?
Yes: Triumph of the Will (1935), Riefenstahl (2024) and Hitler's Hollywood (2017).
How are movies similar to Hitler: A Career chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Hitler: A Career, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.