Heinrich Himmler

Acting

Heinrich Himmler

Born — Died

1900-10-07 — 1945-05-23

Place of birth

Munich, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

51 titles

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 ca…

Known for

Days That Shook the World poster
7.0

Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003. The programme features various milestones throughout history. It has been broadcast on the BBC, Discovery Channel UK, The History Channel and Viasat History. The series was also released on DVD by the Polish edition of Newsweek in 2007.

Days That Shook the World

2003

Apocalypse: The Second World War poster
8.4

A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters and private citizens. The series is shown in color, with the black and white footage being fully colorized, save for some original color footage. The only exception to the treatment are most Holocaust scenes, which are presented in the original black and white.

Apocalypse: The Second World War

2009

Night and Fog poster
8.3

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

Night and Fog

1956

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

Greatest Events of World War II in Colour poster
8.1

Using highly advanced colourisation techniques, critical moments from World War II, from Stalingrad to The Battle of Britain, are shown in a whole new light.

Greatest Events of World War II in Colour

2019

Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler poster
7.6

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was a mediocre who rose to power because of the blindness and ignorance of the Germans, who believed he was nothing more than an eccentric dreamer. But when the crisis of 1929 devastated the economy, the population, fearful of chaos and communism, voted for him. And no one defended democracy. As the dictatorship extended its relentless shadow, the leader claimed peace, but was preparing the Apocalypse.

Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler

2011

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

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

Hitler's Cosmic Conspiracy: UFOs, Alien Artifacts and the Nazi War Machine poster
NR

Explore the mysterious legend of the Thule society and the mystical "Vril" energy that the Nazi's claimed aided them in their pursuit for world power.

Hitler's Cosmic Conspiracy: UFOs, Alien Artifacts and the Nazi War Machine

2025

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

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

Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth poster
7.2

Countless people around the world know the pictures from Leni Riefenstahl's films, even if they have not seen them in their entirety. The work of the German director has burned itself into the collective memory. Even decades after the end of the Nazi era, she showed no remorse and presented herself as an apolitical, naive follower of the Nazi criminal regime. Her artistic service for the cinema was always recognized. But book author Nina Gladitz shows after decades of research that Hitler's favorite filmmaker was not only a follower, but also a perpetrator during the Third Reich, who instrumentalized other filmmakers such as the brilliant cinematographer Willy Zielke in order to gain fame for herself.

Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth

2020

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

Belgique nazie poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Belgique nazie

2021

2010s · 8 titles

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

Poland 1939: When German Soldiers Became War Criminals poster
8.0

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these circumstances, how is it that ordinary German soldiers suddenly became vicious killers, terrorizing the local population? Did everyone turn into something worse than wild animals? The true story of the first World War II offensive that marks in the history of infamy the beginning of a carnage and a historical tragedy.

Poland 1939: When German Soldiers Became War Criminals

2019

The Decent One poster
6.4

Through previously undiscovered private letters, photos and diaries that were found in the Himmler family house in 1945, the "The Decent One" exposes a unique and at times uncomfortable access to the life and mind of the merciless "Architect of the Final Solution" Heinrich Himmler.

The Decent One

2014

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

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

Hitler and the Apostles of Evil poster
7.4

This portrait that goes against the grain depicts the Führer as a lazy, isolated leader, cut off from reality, incapable of governing without his "apostles". They are Hitler's essential ministers, advisers, rivals, courtiers. They hate each other, and the Führer puts them in competition, often to get the worst out of them. The portraits of Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Albert Speer but also Rudolf Hoess, the commandant of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, and Doctor Joseph Mengele trace the rivalries, hatreds and predations that punctuate the entire frightening epic of Nazism. This documentary is composed of a selection of archive images and testimonies from descendants and specialists of this period.

Hitler and the Apostles of Evil

2015

The Nazi Gospels poster
6.3

The religious roots of Nazi ideology and practice.

The Nazi Gospels

2012

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

2000s · 6 titles

1990s · 1 titles

1970s · 4 titles

1960s · 4 titles

1950s · 3 titles

1940s · 3 titles

Series credits

Days That Shook the World poster
7.0

Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003. The programme features various milestones throughout history. It has been broadcast on the BBC, Discovery Channel UK, The History Channel and Viasat History. The series was also released on DVD by the Polish edition of Newsweek in 2007.

Days That Shook the World

2003

Apocalypse: The Second World War poster
8.4

A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters and private citizens. The series is shown in color, with the black and white footage being fully colorized, save for some original color footage. The only exception to the treatment are most Holocaust scenes, which are presented in the original black and white.

Apocalypse: The Second World War

2009

Greatest Events of World War II in Colour poster
8.1

Using highly advanced colourisation techniques, critical moments from World War II, from Stalingrad to The Battle of Britain, are shown in a whole new light.

Greatest Events of World War II in Colour

2019

Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler poster
7.6

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was a mediocre who rose to power because of the blindness and ignorance of the Germans, who believed he was nothing more than an eccentric dreamer. But when the crisis of 1929 devastated the economy, the population, fearful of chaos and communism, voted for him. And no one defended democracy. As the dictatorship extended its relentless shadow, the leader claimed peace, but was preparing the Apocalypse.

Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler

2011

Crusade in Europe poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Crusade in Europe

1949

Hitler's bodyguard poster
6.2

Adolf Hitler caused the deaths of fifty million people. An entire nation followed him to ruin. Over a tumultuous 12 years Adolf Hitler went from being a minor rabble-rousing politician, to supreme leader of Nazi Germany. He was hated by those he persecuted, and even by some of his own commanders - yet in twenty-five years no one managed to kill him. This program shows how Hitler's bodyguards helped him cheat death on many occasions. They expanded from a handful of thugs recruited to protect political meetings and fight opponents on the streets, to many thousands - including some of the most fearsome secret police and paramilitary forces the world has ever known.

Hitler's bodyguard

2010

WWII: The Lost Color Archives poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

WWII: The Lost Color Archives

2000

Apocalypse: The Fall of Hitler poster
7.8

Summer 1943: Hitler engages in a decisive battle in Kursk to win the war in the East. This is without counting on the pugnacity of the Red Army and the Allied intervention in the West. Month after month, the noose tightens on the Nazi tyrant who refuses to admit defeat and precipitates his country in its fall.

Apocalypse: The Fall of Hitler

2023

Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым

2016

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Deutschlands große Clans

2014

Eva Braun or the Banality of Evil poster
NR

Daniel Costelle and Isabelle Clarke have found at the NARA (National Archives in Washington DC) almost four hours of footage, mostly in colour, filmed by Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun between 1938 and 1944. It's an unbeleivable eyesight on Hitler's private life from the happy life in the "Eagle's nest" till his suicide in his bunker.

Eva Braun or the Banality of Evil

2007