Heinrich Himmler

Acting

Heinrich Himmler

Born 1900-10-07 · Munich, Germany

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and later the Minister of the Interior, Himmler oversaw all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo (Secret State Police). Serving as Reichsführer and later as Commander of the Replacement (Home) Army and General Plenipotentiary for the entire Reich's administration (Generalbevollmächtigter für die Verwaltung), Himmler rose to become one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany as well as one of the persons most directly responsible for the Holocaust. As overseer of the concentration camps, extermination camps, and Einsatzgruppen (literally: task forces, often used as killing squads), Himmler coordinated the killing of some six million Jews, between 200,000 and 500,000 Roma, many prisoners of war, and possibly another three to four million Poles, communists, or other groups whom the Nazis deemed unworthy to live or simply "in the way", including homosexuals, people with physical and mental disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses and members of the Confessing Church. Shortly before the end of the war, he offered to surrender both Germany and himself to the Western Allies if he were spared prosecution. After being arrested by British forces, he committed suicide before he could be questioned.

Acting credits

Night and Fog poster
8.3

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Night and Fog

1956

Secrets of the Nazi Criminals poster
10.0

Documents the major trial of the Nazi war criminals and the violent acts that they were accused of.

Secrets of the Nazi Criminals

1963

Wizards poster
6.2

After the death of his mother, evil mutant wizard Blackwolf discovers long-lost military technologies. Full of ego and ambition, Blackwolf claims his mother's throne, assembles an army, and sets out to brainwash and conquer Earth. Meanwhile, Blackwolf's gentle twin brother, the bearded sage Avatar, calls upon his own magical abilities to foil Blackwolf's plans for world domination — even if it means eliminating his own flesh and blood.

Wizards

1977

All Against All poster
7.0

This richly illustrated historical documentary investigates the mechanism of nationalist feelings that radicalise. It shows how fascism was on the rise even a decade before the founding of the NSB, due to a number of anti-democratic initiatives led by a millionaire with a predilection for one-legged women, a market vendor, a cleric, and an artist. Historians, writers and collectors of fascist curios reveal how an initially marginal and fragmented movement grew into a radical populist party.

All Against All

2019

Hitler: A Career poster
7.4

A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.

Hitler: A Career

1977

Dawn of the Nazis poster
6.0

How Germany was when its people entered the nightmare of World War II? Despair and fear lead a hungry population to follow the chilling call of just one man to world domination. A real-life horror story, an ominous tale of violence and deception, which takes place from 1919 to 1934. (Entirely made up of restored, colorized archival footage.)

Dawn of the Nazis

2017

Saddam and the Third Reich poster
NR

The key individuals of the Iraqi-Nazi connection.

Saddam and the Third Reich

2005

The Goebbels Experiment poster
6.4

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.

The Goebbels Experiment

2005

Distant Journey poster
6.9

Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, their romance turns into a struggle for survival.

Distant Journey

1949

Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate poster
7.1

A glittery nightclub in 1920s Berlin becomes a haven for the queer community in this documentary exploring the freedoms lost amid Hitler’s rise to power.

Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate

2023

The March on Rome poster
6.5

The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire world in the dark years to come.

The March on Rome

2022

No artwork available
7.0

A film about the Nuremberg Party Congress of the NSDAP in 1929.

Der Nürnberger Parteitag der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei

1929

Triumph Over Violence poster
7.5

Romm pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into absolute horror about fascism and nazism in the 1920s–1940s Europe, but also to a firm conviction that nothing of the sort should be allowed to happen again anywhere in the world.

Triumph Over Violence

1965

The Victory of Faith poster
5.4

Follows the Fifth Nazi Party Rally (Nuremberg, 30 August–3 September 1933) and shows the then close relationship between Adolf Hitler and Ernest Rõhm.

The Victory of Faith

1933

Himmlerin kanteleensoittaja poster
NR

"Himmlers Kantele Player" - about Finnish student, who decides to leave University of Sorbonne and walk from Paris to Helsinki in the spring of 1935. On his way, in Germany, he meets Heinrich Himmler, who is attracted by a traditional Finnish instrument, kantele. Himmler employs Yrjö as researcher to the Ahnenerbe institute to find the Aryan roots from the runic singing culture of Finnish Carelia.

Himmlerin kanteleensoittaja

2014

Ghosts of Alderney: Hitler's Island Slaves poster
NR

Visual artist Piers Secunda seeks out Hitler's Island Slaves. Meeting families of survivors, Secunda finds new forensic evidence of murder, brutality and a British government cover-up following the Nazi reign of terror on British soil.

Ghosts of Alderney: Hitler's Island Slaves

2025

To Arms, We Are Fascists! poster
7.0

Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of modern Italian history from 1911 to 1961, centering on the conditions leading to Fascism and the post-WWII reaction to the Fascist experience.

To Arms, We Are Fascists!

1962

Hitler's Evil Science poster
7.0

In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scientific community supported Nazism, distorted history to legitimize a hideous system and was an accomplice to its unspeakable crimes. The story of the Ahnenerbe, a sinister organization created to rewrite the obscure origins of a nation.

Hitler's Evil Science

2019

So war der deutsche Landser poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

So war der deutsche Landser

1955

Adolf Hitler - Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer: Dokumente der Zeitgeschichte poster
4.8

The film begins with the First World War and ends in 1945. Without exception, recordings from this period were used, which came from weekly news reports from different countries. Previously unpublished scenes about the private life of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were also shown for the first time. The film was originally built into a frame story. The Off Commentary begins with the words: "This film [...] is a document of delusion that on the way to power tore an entire people and a whole world into disaster. This film portrays the suffering of a generation that only ended five to twelve. " The film premiered in Cologne on November 20, 1953, but was immediately banned by Federal Interior Minister Gerhard Schröder in agreement with the interior ministers of the federal states of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Adolf Hitler - Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer: Dokumente der Zeitgeschichte

1953

Portrait of Anton Adriaan Mussert poster
8.0

Documentary about the leader of the fascist party in The Netherlands, from 1931 till 1945. This architect called Anton Mussert was shot in 1946 after having been convicted for high treason and aiding the enemy.

Portrait of Anton Adriaan Mussert

1970

The Battle of France poster
8.5

A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.

The Battle of France

1964

Stolen Children poster
NR

June 1941, during World War II. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler orders the mass abduction of particularly well-bred young children from Poland and the occupied territories of the Soviet Union in order to be educated in German culture, by both state schools and German families…

Stolen Children

2020

Swastika poster
6.8

Comprised of footage shot during the Nazi regime, including propaganda, newsreels, broadcasts and even some of Eva Braun's colorized personal home movies, we explore the way in which the Third Reich infiltrated the lives of the German population, from 1933 to 1945.

Swastika

1974