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.