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The List of German films of 1933–1945 are divided into this timeframe to reflect the period of Nazi Germany, between the time that Hitler rose to power, January 30, 1933, and when Admiral Karl Dönitz surrendered to the Allies, May 8, 1945.
While not as highly regarded as the Weimar Republic era films, the films of Nazi Germany, mainly made under control of Joseph Goebbels, hold a fascination for many, both as historical documents of one of the most important and disturbing periods of 20th century history, as well as for their own artistic merit. While some of them are popular only within the Neo-Nazi subculture, comedies starring Heinz Rühmann rank among the favourites of all Germans, and the documentaries of Leni Riefenstahl have been influential, though controversial.
For an alphabetical list of articles on films of the era see Category:Films of the Third Reich.
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| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carmen | Lotte Reiniger | Animation | ||
| Der Choral von Leuthen | Carl Froelich, Arzén von Cserépy | Otto Gebühr, Olga Tschechowa | War /History | The Hymn of Leuthen; Depicting Friedrich the Great's victory at Leuthen |
| Der Deutsche Reichstag zu Nürnberg | Documentary | From the German Reichstag to Nuremberg; Special report on the Nuremberg Rally | ||
| Der schwarze Husar | Gerhard Lamprecht | Conrad Veidt, Mady Christians | Comedy/Action | |
| Don Quichotte | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | German language version | ||
| F.P.1 | Karl Hartl | Hans Albers, Sybille Schmitz, Georg John | English version of the German 1932 film | |
| I.F.1 ne répond plus | Karl Hartl | French version of the German 1932 film | ||
| Flüchtlinge | Gustav Ucicky | Historical | Refugees; About the evacuation of the German settlement in China during the KMT revolution | |
| Gretel zieht das große Los | Carl Boese | Comedy | Gretel Wins the Jackpot | |
| Hans Westmar. Einer von vielen. Ein deutsches Schicksal aus dem Jahre 1929 |
Franz Wenzler | Hans Westmar: One of Many. A German Destiny from the Year 1929; Thinly veiled propaganda film extolling Horst Wessel. Based on the novel by Hanns Heinz Ewers. | ||
| Hitlerjunge Quex | Hans Steinhoff | Berta Drews, Heinrich George | nazi propaganda | Hitler Youth Quex; Dramatic propaganda film extoling the Hitler Youth |
| Hitlers Aufruf an das deutsche Volk |
Hitler's Address to the German People; 26 min film of Hitler's February 10 address urging Germans to vote for the NSDAP in German election, 1933 | |||
| Ich und die Kaiserin | Friedrich Hollaender | Featuring Lilian Harvey & Conrad Veidt | Musical comedy | The Empress and I |
| Lachende Erben | Max Ophüls | Featuring Lien Deyers | romantic comedy | Laughing Heirs |
| Liebelei | Max Ophüls | Flirting | ||
| Meisterdetektiv | Franz Seitz | Comedy | Master Detective | |
| Morgenrot | Vernon Sewell, Gustav Ucicky | Morning Red; Premiered 2 February 1933, considered the first film of the Nazi era - IMDb | ||
| Der Page vom Dalmasse-Hotel |
Victor Janson | Comedy | The Dalmasse Hotel Page Boy | |
| S.A.-Mann Brand | Franz Seitz | Brownshirt Brand; Dramatic propaganda film extoling the Stormtroopers | ||
| S.O.S. Eisberg | Arnold Fanck | |||
| S.O.S. Iceberg | Tay Garnett | English version of above | ||
| Der Sieg des Glaubens | Leni Riefenstahl | Documentary | Victory of Faith; propaganda film of 1933 Nazi Party Congress. One complete print survives - IMDb | |
| The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | Fritz Lang | Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse; Last Fritz Lang film made in Germany before the war | ||
| Le Testament du Dr. Mabuse | Fritz Lang, René Sti | French version of the above | ||
| Der Tunnel | Curtis Bernhardt | French version: Le Tunnel | ||
| Viktor und Viktoria | Reinhold Schünzel | Inspiration for Victor Victoria (1982) | ||
| Was Frauen träumen | Géza von Bolváry | Featuring Peter Lorre | Romantic comedy | What Women Dream |
| Zwei gute Kameraden | Max Obal | Comedy | Two Good Comrades; Set in First World War |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Chanson de l'adieu | Albert Valentin, Géza von Bolváry | |||
| Die Englische Heirat | Reinhold Schünzel | |||
| Es tut sich was um Mitternacht | Robert A. Stemmle | |||
| Ferien vom Ich | Hans Deppe | |||
| Der Firmling | Karl Valentin | |||
| Die Freundin eines großen Mannes | Paul Wegener | The Girlfriend of a Great Man | ||
| Fräulein Frau | Carl Boese | Madame Woman | ||
| Das Gestohlene Herz | Lotte Reiniger | Animation | ||
| Gold | Karl Hartl | |||
| Hanneles Himmelfahrt | Thea von Harbou | Based on the play The Assumption of Hannele by Gerhart Hauptmann. | ||
| Heinz im Mond | Robert A. Stemmle | |||
| Heldentum and Todeskampf unserer Emden | Louis Ralph | The Heroic Fight to the Death of Our Ship 'Emden | ||
| Ich kenn' dich nicht und liebe dich | Géza von Bolváry | I Don't Know You and I love You | ||
| Im Schallplattenladen | Hans H. Zerlett | Karl Valentin, Liesl Karlstadt | slapstick/comedy | one of Valentin's classics based on his idea |
| Liebe und die erste Eisenbahn | Hasso Preis | Love and the First Railroad | ||
| Liebe, Tod und Teufel | Heinz Hilpert, Reinhart Steinbicker | Love, Death and the Devil | ||
| Ein Mann will nach Deutschland | Paul Wegener | A Man wants to get to Germany | ||
| Muratti greift ein | Oskar Fischinger | Animation | ||
| Der Schimmelreiter | Hans Deppe, Curt Oertel | Marianne Hoppe, Mathias Wieman | classic literature/drama | |
| So ein Flegel | Robert A. Stemmle | |||
| Um das Menschenrecht | Hans Zoberlein | For the Rights of Man; Anti-Communism propaganda paying homage to the Freikorps | ||
| Der Verlorene Sohn | Luis Trenker | The Lost Son | ||
| Was bin ich ohne Dich | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | When I am Without You |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alles um eine Frau | Alfred Abel | All for a Woman | ||
| Amphitryon | Reinhold Schünzel | Musical | Based on Greek mythology | |
| April, April! | Douglas Sirk | |||
| Der alte und der junge König | Hans Steinhoff | The Old and the Young King; The story of Friedrich Wilhelm I | ||
| Le Domino vert | Henri Decoin, Herbert Selpin | |||
| Dr. Todt - Berufung und Werk | 36 minute film about Dr. Fritz Todt and the Siegfried Line | |||
| Einer zuviel an Bord | Gerhard Lamprecht | One Too Many on Board | ||
| Ein Falscher Fuffziger | Carl Boese | A Two-Face | ||
| Friesennot | Peter Hagen | Propaganda | Frisians in Peril; Distributed by the National Socialist State Propaganda Directorate; anti-Communism film | |
| Henker, Frauen und Soldaten | Johannes Meyer | Hangmen, Women and Soldiers | ||
| Ich liebe alle Frauen | Carl Lamac | I Love All Women | ||
| Im Aufmarschgebiet der abessinischen Armee | Martin Rikli | In the Staging Ground of the Abyssinian Army; Related to the Second Italo-Ethiopian War (?) | ||
| La Kermesse héroïque | Jacques Feyder | |||
| Knockout - Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann | Carl Lamac, Hans H. Zerlett | Knockout - A Young Girl, a Younger Man | ||
| Komposition in Blau | Oskar Fischinger | Animation | Composition in Blue; In Gasparcolor | |
| Mazurka | Willi Forst | |||
| Das Mädchen Johanna | Gustav Ucicky | That Girl Joanna | ||
| Papageno | Lotte Reiniger | Animation | ||
| Das Stahltier | Willy Zielke | Documentary | The Steel Animal | |
| Tag der Freiheit: Unsere Wehrmacht | Leni Riefenstahl | Documentary | Day of Freedom - Our Wehrmacht; propaganda film about the 1935 Nazi Party Congress | |
| Triumph des Willens | Leni Riefenstahl | Documentary | Triumph of the Will; propaganda film about the 1934 Nazi Party Congress | |
| Das Erbe | Carl Hartmann | Short | The Inheritance, propaganda for euthanasia and sterilization |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allotria | Willi Forst | |||
| Berlin Reichshauptstadt 1936 | Willi Forst | Color travelog | ||
| Erbkrank | Herbert Gerdes | Propaganda | Euthanasia propaganda film | |
| Fährmann Maria | Frank Wisbar | |||
| Fridericus | Johannes Meyer | Propaganda | Propaganda film; set during the Seven Years' War, it shows Hitler as the legitimate heir to Frederick the Great | |
| Glückskinder | Paul Martin | The Happy Children | ||
| Das Hofkonzert | Douglas Sirk | The Court Concert | ||
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Carl Lamac | Mystery | Der Hund von Baskerville; A Sherlock Holmes film | |
| The Kaiser of California | Luis Trenker | Western | Der Kaiser von Kalifornien; About John Sutter, the owner of Sutters Mill; the only western set in the United States made in Nazi Germany | |
| Kopfjäger von Borneo | Baron Victor von Plessen | Documentary | Headhunters of Borneo; German-Dutch co-production | |
| Neunzig Minuten Aufenthalt | Harry Piel | |||
| Savoy-Hotel 217 | Gustav Ucicky | |||
| Das Schönheitsfleckchen | Carl Froelich, Rolf Hansen | In Opticolor | ||
| Silhouetten | Lotte Reiniger, Walter Reisch | Animation | Animated feature film | |
| Stadt Anatol | Viktor Tourjansky | The Town of Anatol; Film concerning Balkan oil development | ||
| Stjenka Rasin | Alexandre Volkoff | |||
| Das Veilchen vom Potsdamer Platz | J.A. Hübler-Kahla | |||
| Vier Asse | George Pal | Animation | ||
| Zum Greifen nah | Experimental 3-D film |
| Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Alles Leben ist Kampf | Herbert Gerdes | All Life Is Struggle; advocates involuntary sterilization of the disabled and those with hereditary diseases |
| Die Ganz großen Torheiten | Carl Froelich | All the Great Foolerie |
| Gasparone | Georg Jacoby | Starring Marika Rökk |
| Gewitterflug zu Claudia | Erich Waschneck | Stormy Flight to Claudia |
| La Habanera | Douglas Sirk | Zarah Leander falls in love with a Puerto Rican landowner |
| Der Herrscher | Veit Harlan | The Ruler; film extoling leadership principle; featuring Emil Jannings |
| Juden ohne Maske | Walter Böttcher and Leo von der Schmiede | The Jews Unmasked; 36 min Anti-Semitic documentary propaganda film |
| Kapriolen | Gustaf Gründgens | romantic comedy with newly-wed Gustaf Gründgens and Marianne Hoppe |
| Man spricht über Jacqueline | Werner Hochbaum | The Man Who spoke About Jacqueline |
| Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war | Karl Hartl | The Man Who was Sherlock Holmes starring Hans Albers and Heinz Rühmann |
| Mädchen für alles | Carl Boese | A Girl for Everything |
| Mein Sohn, der Herr Minister | My Son the Minister | |
| Mussolini in Deutschland | Mussolini in Germany; 31-minute documentary propaganda film about Benito Mussolini's September 1937 visit to Munich | |
| Opfer der Vergangenheit | Gernot Bock-Stieber | Victims of the Past; Euthanasia propaganda film |
| Die Postkutsche | This was the first experimental short movie in Agfacolor. It was shot on 35 mm reversal film. | |
| Die Tochter des Samurai | Arnold Fanck and Mansaku Itami | The Daughter of the Samurai aka Atarashiki tsuchi; German-Japanese co-production |
| Truxa | Hans H. Zerlett | |
| Sherlock Holmes und die graue Dame | Erich Engels | Sherlock Holmes and the Gray Lady |
| Unternehmen Michael | Karl Ritter | Operation Michael |
| Urlaub auf Ehrenwort | Karl Ritter | Leave on Parole |
| Weltraumschiff 1 startet... | Anton Kutter | |
| Wenn Frauen schweigen | Fritz Kirchhoff | When Women Remain Silent |
| Der zerbrochene Krug | Gustav Ucicky | The Broken Jug ; featuring Emil Jannings |
| Zu neuen Ufern | Douglas Sirk | To New Shores |
| Festliches Nürnberg | Hans Weidemann | Festive Nuremberg; 21 minute compilation of footage from the 1936 and 37 Nazi Party Congresses |
| Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Die Bauten Adolf Hitlers | Albert Speer | Adolf Hitlers Constructions; 17-minute propaganda film about "racial aspects" of architecture |
| Der Berg ruft! | Luis Trenker | The Mountain Calls! |
| Der Blaufuchs | Viktor Tourjansky | The Blue Fox starring Zarah Leander |
| Carmen, la de Triana | Florián Rey | A Spanish-German version of Carmen shot in Germany because of the war in Spain. |
| España heroica | Paul Laven | Heroic Spain; 86-minute documentary propaganda film about Spanish Civil War |
| Gastspiel im Paradies | Karl Hartl | |
| Les Gens du voyage | Jacques Feyder | |
| Das Indische Grabmal | Richard Eichberg | The Indian Tomb |
| Kameraden auf See | Heinz Paul | Comrades at Sea |
| Der Maulkorb | Erich Engel | |
| Nanu, Sie kennen Korff noch nicht? | Fritz Holl | So You Don't Know Korff Yet? |
| Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker | Leni Riefenstahl | Documentary of 1936 Summer Olympics. Shows Opening Ceremonies, Jesse Owens race, marathons |
| Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit | Leni Riefenstahl | Includes field hockey, soccer, bicycling, equestrian, aquatic and gymnastic events, the Pentathlon, the Decathlon and Closing Ceremonies. |
| Pour le Mérite | Karl Ritter | In praise of war veterans rejecting the Weimar Republic and the illegal rearmament. |
| Le Récif de corail | Maurice Gleize | |
| Wort und Tat | Fritz Hippler | Words and Deeds; 10-minute documentary propaganda film shows economic progress of Germany under Hitler by a series of montages |
| Es leuchten die Sterne | Hans H. Zerlett | Musical revue; released in the U.S. as The Stars Shine and in other countries under various titles |
| Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Befreite Hände | Hans Schweikart | Freed Hands |
| Bel Ami | Willi Forst | |
| La canción de Aixa | Florián Rey | Spanish-German film shot in Germany because of the war in Spain. A love story among Moors in Spanish Morocco. |
| Deutsches Land in Afrika | Johannes Häussler | German Land in Africa; documentary |
| Drei Unteroffiziere | Werner Hochbaum | |
| Ein Lied verklingt | In Agfacolor | |
| Es war eine rauschende Ballnacht | Carl Froelich | It Was a Roaring Ball night |
| Hallo Janine! | Carl Boese | |
| Irrtum des Herzens | Bernd Hofmann and Alfred Stöger | |
| D III 88 | Herbert Maisch | Film from the perspective of a veteran officer about the November Revolution |
| Leinen aus Irland | Heinz Helbig | Linen from Ireland, a comic anti-Semitic film in which a Jew tries to import linen duty-free from Ireland |
| Das Lied der Wüste | Paul Martin | Song of the Desert |
| Marionette | Carmine Gallone | |
| Die Reise nach Tilsit | Veit Harlan | |
| Il Sogno di Butterfly | Carmine Gallone | |
| Umwege zum Glück | Fritz Peter Buch | |
| Walfänger in der Antarktis | Gerhard A. Donner | Whaling Ship in the Antarctic; 55 minute documentary |
| Wasser für Canitoga | Herbert Selpin | Water for Canitoga; western set in Canada |
| Der Westwall | Fritz Hippler | The West Wall; propaganda film about the Siegfried Line |
| Mutterliebe | Gustav Ucicky | Mother Love; propaganda film about family and race |
| Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Achtung! Feind hört mit! | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Beware! The Enemy Is Listening! |
| Bismarck | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | |
| Baumeisterin Chemie | Hans Schipulle | 17 min documentary |
| Deutsche Arbeitsstätten | Svend Noldan | German Work Places; 10 min documentary |
| Deutsche Panzer | Walter Ruttmann | German Tanks; 13 min documentary about Panzers |
| Deutsche Waffenschmieden | Walter Ruttmann | German Weaponry; 12 min documentary |
| L'Entraîneuse | Albert Valentin | Nightclub Hostess |
| Der Ewige Jude | Fritz Hippler | The Eternal Jew; Anti-Semitic documentary propaganda film |
| Fahrt ins Leben | Bernd Hofmann | Journey Into Life; Nazi film about 3 Merchant Navy Cadets. |
| Feinde | Viktor Tourjansky | Enemies; Film justifying the German Invasion of Poland |
| Kampf um Norwegen - Feldzug 1940 | Martin Rikli | Battle for Norway - 1940 campaign; documentary propaganda film about the Norwegian Campaign |
| Feldzug in Polen | Fritz Hippler | Campaign in Poland; documentary propaganda film about the 1939 invasion of Poland |
| Feuertaufe | Baptism by Fire; propaganda film about Luftwaffe in the 1939 invasion of Poland | |
| Friedrich Schiller - Der Triumph eines Genies | Herbert Maisch | Friedrich Schiller - the Triumph of a Genius |
| Der Fuchs von Glenarvon | Max W. Kimmich | The Fox of Glenarvon; pro-Irish film. |
| Das Herz der Königin | Carl Froelich | The Heart of the Queen starring Zarah Leander as Mary, Queen of Scots |
| Indianer | Ernst R. Müller and Gerd Philipp | Indians; 85 min documentary |
| Jud Süß | Veit Harlan | The Jew Suss; dramatic anti-Semitic propaganda film |
| Kleider machen Leute | Helmut Käutner | based on the story by Swiss writer Gottfried Keller starring Heinz Rühmann and his wife Hertha Feiler |
| Kora Terry | Georg Jacoby | |
| Der Marsch zum Führer | Unknown | The March to the Führer; documentary propaganda film about Hitler Youth March to Nazi Party Congress |
| Operette | Willi Forst and Karl Hartl and Robert Naestelberger | |
| Der Postmeister | Gustav Ucicky | The Postmaster |
| Rosen in Tirol | Géza von Bolváry | Roses in Tyrol |
| Die Rothschilds | Erich Waschneck | The Rothschilds; anti-semitic dramatic propaganda film |
| Stern von Rio | Karl Anton | Star of Rio |
| Tierparadies Südamerika | Werner Buhre and K. Krieg | Animal Paradise South America; 66 min documentary |
| Thüringen, das grüne Herz Deutschlands | J.C. Hartmann | Thuringia: The Green Heart of Germany; 13 min documentary |
| Unser Fräulein Doktor | Erich Engel | Our Woman Doctor |
| Vom Bäumlein, das andere Blätter hat gewollt | Heinz Tischmeyer | animation; propaganda |
| Wunschkonzert | Eduard von Borsody | Request Concert; musical romance set at the 1936 Summer Olympics |
| Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Annelie | Josef von Báky | Story of a heroic World War II German mother. |
| Auf Wiedersehen, Franziska | Helmut Käutner | Goodbye, Franziska; film about a wife reminding her husband of his duty to go to war. |
| Bunte Kriechtierwelt | Wolfram Junghans | Documentary; in Agfacolor |
| Carl Peters | Herbert Selpin | A film about the pioneer instilling nationalistic ideology into the plot. |
| Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten | Georg Jacoby | Women are better Diplomats; in Agfacolor |
| Der Gasmann | Carl Froelich | |
| Die Englische Krankheit | Kurt Stefan | 13 min documentary anti-British propaganda film |
| Heimkehr | Gustav Ucicky | Homecoming; dramatic anti-Polish propaganda film |
| Ich klage an | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | I Accuse You; pro-euthanasia propaganda film |
| Immer nur Du | Karl Anton | Only Ever You; musical romantic comedy |
| Jenny und der Herr im Frack | Paul Martin | Jenny and the Gentleman in Coattails; comedy; features brief nudity; involves philately (stamp collecting) |
| Kampfgeschwader Lützow | Hans Bertram | Battle Squadron Lützow |
| LAH Im Einsatz | LAH in Action; 39-minute propaganda film about 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler | |
| Liebe ist zollfrei | E.W. Emo | comedy |
| Mamma | Guido Brignone | Mother; German-Italian co-production |
| Mein Leben für Irland | Max W. Kimmich | My Life for Ireland; dramatic anti-British propaganda film |
| Menschen im Sturm | Fritz Peter Buch | Men in the Storm; propaganda film justifing the German annexation of northern Slovenia, dramatizing the "oppression" of the Volksdeutsch community there |
| Ohm Krüger | Hans Steinhoff | about Paul Kruger, the South African leader in the Boer War; features Emil Jannings and Gustaf Gründgens; anti-British propaganda |
| Quax, der Bruchpilot | Kurt Hoffmann | dramatic pro-Luftwaffe and anti-individualist film with propaganda tendencies starring Heinz Rühmann |
| ...reitet für Deutschland | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Riding for Germany; blacklisted film; director banned for 2 years by the Americans for this film about a tournament runner with blatant patriotic and nationalistic undertones. |
| Sechs Tage Heimaturlaub | Jürgen von Alten | |
| Sieg im Westen | Svend Noldan | Victory in the West; documentary/propaganda film about Blitzkrieg in Western Europe |
| Sowjetparadies | The Soviet Paradise, 14-minute anti-Soviet documentary propaganda film | |
| Spätrupp Hallgarten | Herbert Fredersdorf | Hallgarten Patrol; soldier's death propaganda. |
| Stukas | Karl Ritter | pro-Luftwaffe propaganda film; "Stuka" was a slang term for a German dive bomber |
| U-Boote westwärts | Günther Rittau | U-Boats Westward; about U-Boats in the Battle of the Atlantic |
| Vertigine | Guido Brignone | Tragödie einer Liebe; Broken Love; German-Italian co-production |
| Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Andreas Schlüter | Herbert Maisch | A film about the sculptor Andreas Schlüter; subliminal Nazi propaganda throughout. |
| Anschlag auf Baku | Fritz Kirchhoff | Attack on Baku; anti-British propaganda. |
| Berlin-Wie Es War | Berlin the Way it Was; 87 min documentary about pre-war Berlin | |
| Boote mit Flügeln | Nicholas Kaufmann | 14 min documentary |
| Die Entlassung | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | The Dismissal; Sequel to Bismark (1940); features Emil Jannings |
| GPU | Karl Ritter | Anti-Communism propaganda. |
| Die goldene Stadt | Veit Harlan | The Golden City; in Agfacolor |
| Der Große König | Veit Harlan | The Great King; historical drama about King Frederick the Great of Prussia |
| Die Große Liebe | Rolf Hansen | The Great Love; featuring Zarah Leander; highest grossing film of the Third Reich. |
| Himmelhunde | Roger von Norman | Sky Dogs; about a young glider pilot who becomes a military pilot; targeted toward youths. |
| Kleine Residenz | Hans H. Zerlett | |
| Männer, Meer und Stürme | Heinrich Hauser and Hubert Schonger | Men, Sea and Storm: A Film of the Romance and the Life Onboard a Segelship; 18 min documentary about Kriegsmarine |
| Rembrandt | Hans Steinhoff | |
| Rund um die Freiheitsstatue | 15-minute Anti-American propaganda film. aka Round the Statue of Liberty,Corruption of America | |
| Die Sache mit Styx | Karl Anton | |
| Die See ruft | Hans Fritz Köllner | Documentary |
| Sprung in den Feind | Wilhelm Stöppler | 22-minute propaganda film, showing the invasion of the Netherlands. The bridge of Moerdijk is taken with Fallschirmjäger. |
| Das Tapfere Schneiderlein | Hubert Schonger | |
| Wiener Blut | Willi Forst | Viennese Blood |
| Wir machen Musik | Helmut Käutner | We Make Music; musical comedy featuring Ilse Werner and her whistling talent |
| Zwei in einer großen Stadt | Volker von Collande | Two in a Big City |
| Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Alltag zwischen Zechentürmen | Leo de Laforgue | 15 minute documentary |
| Akrobat Schööön! | Wolfgang Staudte | |
| Asse zur See | Hermann Stöß | Documentary |
| Das Bad auf der Tenne | Volker von Collande | In Agfacolor |
| Besatzung Dora | Karl Ritter | The Crew of the Dora |
| Damals | Rolf Hansen | |
| Deutschland - Italien - Ungarn. Ein Boxländerkampf im Kriegsjahr 1942 | Germany-Italy-Hungary. Boxing Championships in war year 1942 | |
| Frauen sind keine Engel | Women Are Not Angels | |
| Geheimnis Tibet | H.A. Lettow and Ernst Schäfer | Secretive Tibet; documentary about SS expedition to Tibet; aka Lhasa-Lo - Die verbotene Stadt - Lhasa-Lo - The Lost City |
| Germanin - Die Geschichte einer kolonialen Tat | Max W. Kimmich | Germanin - The Tale of a Colonial Deed; about a doctor in Germany's former African colonies |
| Die Goldene Spinne | Erich Engels | The Golden Spider |
| Ich vertraue Dir meine Frau an | Kurt Hoffmann | I Entrust My Wife to You |
| Immensee | Veit Harlan | In Agfacolor |
| Junker der Waffen-SS | Young Men of the Armed SS | |
| Karneval der Liebe | Paul Martin | Carneval of Love |
| Der Kleine Grenzverkehr | Hans Deppe | based on a short story by Erich Kästner |
| Liebeskomödie | Theo Lingen | Love Comedy |
| Männer gegen Panzer | Men Against Tanks | |
| Ein Mann mit Grundsätzen? | Géza von Bolváry | A Man With Principles? |
| Maske in Blau | Paul Martin | Mask in Blue |
| Münchhausen | Josef von Báky | In Agfacolor, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Ufa with impressive special effects; starring Hans Albers and Ilse Werner |
| Paracelsus | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | |
| Romanze in Moll | Helmut Käutner | drama based on a story by Guy de Maupassant starring Marianne Hoppe and Paul Dahlke |
| Titanic | Werner Klingler | |
| Scherzo - Verwitterte Melodie | Hans Fischerkoesen | Weather-beaten Melody; animation |
| Josef Thorak, Werkstatt und Werk | Hans Cürlis and Arnold Fanck | A 14 minute film about Nazi sculptor Josef Thorak |
| Die Wirtin zum Weißen Rößl | Karl Anton |
| Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Arno Breker | Hans Cürlis and Arnold Fanck | 13 min documentary |
| Atlantik-Wall | Arnold Fanck | 19-minute propaganda film about the Atlantic Wall |
| Das war mein Leben | Paul Martin | That Was My Life |
| Degenhardts, Die | Werner Klingler | |
| Engel mit dem Saitenspiel, Der | Heinz Rühmann | |
| Es fing so harmlos an | Theo Lingen | |
| Es lebe die Liebe | Erich Engel | |
| Feuerzangenbowle, Die | Helmut Weiss | comedy with Heinz Rühmann in his most famous role as Hans Pfeiffer "with three fs" |
| Frau meiner Träume, Die | Georg Jacoby | Woman of My Dreams In Agfacolor |
| Die Goldene Gans | Lotte Reiniger | The Golden Goose; animation |
| Große Freiheit Nr. 7 | Helmut Käutner | Große Freiheit [Great Freedom] is the name of a Hamburg street. Then censored Agfacolor film with Hans Albers |
| Junge Adler | Alfred Weidenmann | Young Eagles |
| Kleine Muck, Der | Franz Fiedler | |
| Kleine Sommermelodie, Eine | Volker von Collande | A Little Summer Melodie |
| Opfergang | Veit Harlan | In Agfacolor |
| Orient-Express | Viktor Tourjansky | |
| Panorama | Monthly news human interest series; in color | |
| Scharfschütze in der Geländeausbildung | Sniper training film | |
| Der Schneemann | Hans Fischerkoesen | The Snowman; Animation in Agfacolor |
| Schrammeln | Géza von Bolváry | |
| Ein Schöner Tag | Philipp Lothar Mayring | A Beautiful Day |
| Theresienstadt:Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt | Kurt Gerron | Propaganda film about how "well" the Jews were treated in concentration camps subtitled: The Fuhrer Gives the Jews a City |
| Vom Einsatz der Ordnungspolizei in allen Fronten des Krieges | On the Action of the Order Police in All Fronts of the War |
| Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Dumme Gänslein, Das | Hans Fischerkoesen | The Silly Little Goose, Animation |
| Das kleine Hofkonzert | Paul Verhoeven | The Little Court Concert; In Agfacolor |
| Hochzeit im Korallenmeer | Horst von Möllendorff | Wedding in the Coral Sea |
| Kolberg | Veit Harlan | propaganda film in Agfacolor |
| Das Leben geht weiter | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Life Continues |
| Shiva und die Galgenblume | Hans Georg Andres and Michaela Krützen | In Agfacolor |
Note: The year of these films may be unknown or they may span multiple years.
| Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Die Deutsche Wochenschau | The German Weekly Show; newsreel series | |
| Die Frontschau | Fritz Hippler | The Front Show; Series of technical films shown to soldiers before they were sent to the Eastern Front |
| Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Tiefland | Leni Riefenstahl | Filmed 1940-44 the movie was completed after World War II and released 1954 |
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