U.S. Becoming Just Like Nazi Germany

"...misuse of power in communist and socialist countries, i.e., Nazi Germany. I would just like to point out that..."

Aug. 29, 2007 Postmarks

Jojo Rabbit

Anti-hate satire in the ruins of the Reich finds heart and humor in the chaos

"...in the Shadows director to enter into. Set in Nazi Germany circa 1944 and featuring a slapstick führer (Waititi)..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Boot: The Director's Cut, Das

"...to see why. Set in the waning years of Nazi Germany's control of the Atlantic, Das Boot explodes the..."

April 25, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Where Hands Touch

Interracial romance against the rise of Nazi Germany

"...about a biracial girl (Stenberg) growing up in prewar Nazi Germany and falling in love with a member of..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review

The Book Thief

This print bestseller about a girl's coming of age amid the horrors of Nazi Germany is swaddled in maudlin melodrama in this film adaptation.

"...coming of age-cum-survival quest amid the apocalyptic insanity of Nazi Germany. Moreover, she’s minus a longbow, a scholarship to..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shanghai Ghetto

"...Shanghai Ghetto is a documentary about Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany who escaped to Shanghai, China, for the duration..."

May 30, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Locked Up Time

"...There is an obvious temptation to make comparisons to Nazi Germany, and perhaps it would be a terrible mistake..."

July 31, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Trailer Park Gets Dramatic

From Dallas to Germany, these features highlight global conflicts

"...One little girl is keeping a secret in Nazi Germany, a doctor in Dallas has a surprising patient,..."

Aug. 21, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Hitler's Hollywood

The Third Reich's cinematic propaganda machine exposed

"...more pointed than with the thousand movies commissioned through Nazi Germany's monopoly studio and state-run dream factory UFA GmbH...."

July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sisu

Gruesome guffaws in this Nazi-smashing Finnish action-comedy

"...say that there's a major flaw with super-violent, super-fun, Nazi-slaying action-comedy Sisu, but when it's something that the filmmakers..."

April 28, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The German Doctor

This Argentinian film uses the country’s dark history as a haven for escaped Nazi war criminals as fodder for this atmospheric tale.

"...that country’s dark history as a haven for escaped Nazi war criminals as fodder for its atmospheric tale. Set..."

May 16, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Film Unfinished

This fascinating documentary uses recently uncovered footage to piece together and decipher the ulterior meaning of a Nazi propaganda film recorded in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943.

"...Ghetto, which was shot in May 1942 by the Nazi film corps. It was overseen by the SS and..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Land of Mine

A viscerally intense anti-war film

"...the western coast of Denmark were crawling with defeated Nazi troops. Most of them were just forcibly conscripted young..."

March 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Architecture of Doom

"...about Hitler and his legacy, the Holocaust -- the Nazi sense of aesthetic purity, as opposed to mere politics,..."

Jan. 24, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Never Look Away

Art history drama set across and after the Third Reich has few lessons to teach

"...The Lives of Others, finds the filmmaker returning to Germany after the disappointment of his sophomore effort The Tourist,..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Labyrinth of Lies

German postwar drama looks at national psyche scarred by the Nazi era

"...After World War II, Germany was in ruins, with bombed-out cities and a national..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

This Oscar nominee from Germany chronicles the last desperate hours of Sophie Scholl, a real-life German university student who, in 1943 Munich, ran afoul of the gestapo while distributing anti-Nazi leaflets.

"...Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (an Oscar nominee from Germany for Best Foreign Film this year) chronicles the last..."

May 19, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

13 Minutes

A plot to blow Hitler up goes wrong

"...The latter is the better of Hirschbiegel’s Nazi-related output to date; you simply cannot top Bruno Ganz’s..."

July 28, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Inglourious Basterds

In this World War II movie, Quentin Tarantino weaves together multiple storylines that coalesce into a literally explosive finale that daringly rewrites history.

"...go wrong by sprinkling a whole mess of dead Nazis in your film, a truism that Tarantino takes to..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hart's War

"...the race issue and then throws in a lugubrious Nazi commandant and a tough-as-nails Army colonel to make things..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Harmonists

"...fall prey to the increasing machinations of the emerging Nazi party. It's the Backstreet Boys vs. Hitler, more or..."

April 2, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: President Know-Nothing

President Know-Nothing

"...The situations with Nazi Germany in the Thirties and Iraq in the early..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

Documentary about the effort to place children of European Jews during WWII within safe homes in England.

"...of the incendiary hatreds boiling just below surface of Germany and its soon-to-be satellite holdings, and willing to open..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lore

A German girl at the end of World War II leads her four siblings to safety while also confronting a world more complex than her Nazi upbringing equipped her for.

"...In Germany at the end of World War II, as the..."

March 8, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mother Night

"...An American who was raised by his parents in Germany between the wars, Howard finds himself reluctant to leave..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: Persistence of Revision

Fascism, Frank Capra, and how legend becomes history

"...Nazi Germany and fascist Italy allied with the Nationalists, supplying..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Tomorrow Is Better

Walter Meyer is more than just a survivor of Nazi Germany; Katherine Catmull reveals why.

"...rest of that book, Tomorrow Will Be Better: Surviving Nazi Germany (University of Missouri Press, 224 pp., $19.95 [paper]),..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Books Feature by Katherine Catmull

Transit

A contemporary retelling of life in occupied France has chilling modern resonances

"...dissection of the various complexities of his homeland of Germany (after 2012’s Barbara and 2014’s Phoenix). And while based..."

March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Rosenstrasse

Von Trotta puts a human face on 1943's Rosenstrasse uprising, one of the few public, and moreover, successful citizen protests against the power of the Nazi regime.

"...moreover, successful citizen protests against the power of the Nazi regime. Named for the street in Berlin that housed..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two

As horrifying as the war in Iraq is, the wages of peace could be worse, and for longer.

"...that this country is known for, and defeated the Nazi regime. ... PEACE through STRENGTH."..."

March 28, 2003 Column by Louis Black

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