Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and served as head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler from 1934 to 1945. Hitler is most remembered for his central leadership role in the rise of fascism in Europe, World War II and the Holocaust. A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the precursor of the Nazi Party (DAP) in 1919, and became leader of NSDAP in 1921. He attempted a coup d'état known as the Beer Hall Putsch, which occurred at the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall in Munich on 8–9 November 1923. Hitler was imprisoned for one year due to the failed coup, and wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (in English "My Struggle"), while imprisoned. After his release on 20 December 1924, he gained support by promoting Pan-Germanism, antisemitism and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and propaganda. He was appointed chancellor on 30 January 1933, and transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. Nazi forces engaged in numerous violent acts during the war, including the systematic murder of as many as 17 million civilians, including an estimated six million Jews targeted in the Holocaust and between 500,000 and 1,500,000 Roma, added to the Poles, Soviet civilians, Soviet prisoners of war, people with disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other political and religious opponents. In the final days of the war, during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, Hitler married his long-time mistress Eva Braun. To avoid capture by Soviet forces, the two committed suicide less than two days later on 30 April 1945 and their corpses were burned.
Known For
Pearl Harbor
(2001)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Great Raid
(2005)
Self (archive footage)
The Bloody Hundredth
(2024)
Self - Leader of the Nazis (archive footage)
Elephant
(2003)
Self (archive footage)(uncredited)
The House That Jack Built
(2018)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Come and See
(1985)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Einstein and the Bomb
(2024)
Self (archive footage)
Monsieur Verdoux
(1947)
Self (archive footage)
Bowling for Columbine
(2002)
Self (archive footage)
To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb
(2023)
Self (archive footage)
Death Ship
(1980)
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Night and Fog
(1956)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
BloodRayne: The Third Reich
(2010)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Roaring Twenties
(1939)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Unity
(2015)
Self (archive footage)
Wizards
(1977)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Full Filmography
Acting
Der Nürnberger Parteitag der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei
(1929)
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Hitlers Aufruf an das deutsche Volk
(1933)
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Blutendes Deutschland
(1933)
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The Victory of Faith
(1933)
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Germany Awakens - A Document of the Rebirth of Germany
(1933)
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Hakenkreuz am Stahlhelm
(1933)
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Hitler's Reign of Terror
(1934)
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Triumph of the Will
(1935)
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Day of Freedom
(1935)
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Mussolini in Deutschland
(1937)
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Festive Nuremberg
(1937)
Self
Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty
(1938)
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Word and Deed
(1938)
Self (archive footage)
Gestern und heute
(1938)
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Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
(1938)
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Inside Nazi Germany
(1938)
Self (archive footage)
Ich habe meine Pflicht getan
(1939)
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Hitler: Beast of Berlin
(1939)
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The Four Just Men
(1939)
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The Roaring Twenties
(1939)
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Schiff 754
(1939)
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The Fight For Peace
(1939)
Self (archive footage)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
(1939)
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The March to the Führer
(1940)
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Campaign in Poland
(1940)
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Band Waggon
(1940)
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Night Train to Munich
(1940)
Himself (archive footage)
Hoch der Lambeth Valk
(1941)
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Battle of Brains
(1941)
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Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler In Action
(1941)
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
(1942)
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
The World at War
(1942)
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United We Stand
(1942)
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Winning Your Wings
(1942)
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Reunion in France
(1942)
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Desert Victory
(1943)
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Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi
(1943)
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December 7th
(1943)
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Mission to Moscow
(1943)
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Theresienstadt
(1944)
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Know Your Ally: Britain
(1944)
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The Negro Soldier
(1944)
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Hitler Youth
(1945)
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Monsieur Verdoux
(1947)
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Will It Happen Again?
(1948)
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Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
(1948)
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Distant Journey
(1949)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Autant en emporte l'histoire - La vie privée d'Hitler et d'Eva Braun
(1949)
Himself
Herrliche Zeiten
(1950)
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Adolf Hitler - Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer: Dokumente der Zeitgeschichte
(1953)
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Halfway to Hell
(1953)
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Night and Fog
(1956)
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Mein Kampf
(1960)
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Hitler an der Macht
(1960)
Self (archive footage)
Life of Adolf Hitler
(1961)
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The Smashing of the Reich
(1961)
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After Mein Kampf?
(1961)
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The Aegean Tragedy
(1961)
Self (archive footage)
Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
(1962)
Self (archive footage)
To Arms, We Are Fascists!
(1962)
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Look at Life: Eagle's Nest
(1962)
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Secrets of the Nazi Criminals
(1963)
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The Battle of France
(1964)
Triumph Over Violence
(1965)
Self (archive footage)
Rita the Field Marshal
(1967)
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Monument
(1967)
Self (archive footage)
A Wall in Jerusalem
(1968)
Self (archive footage)
The Girls
(1968)
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Czechoslovakia 1968
(1969)
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Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution
(1969)
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Plastic Jesus
(1971)
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Double Headed Eagle: Hitler's Rise to Power 1918-1933
(1973)
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
(1974)
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Swastika
(1974)
Self (archive footage)
The Society of the Spectacle
(1974)
Self (archive footage)
The Black Gestapo
(1975)
Self (archive footage)
The Memory of Justice
(1976)
Self (archive footage)
A Special Day
(1977)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Red Nights of the Gestapo
(1977)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Wizards
(1977)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
ViennaFilm 1896-1976
(1977)
Self (archive footage)
Hitler: A Career
(1977)
Self (archive footage)
Faces of Death
(1978)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)
(1978)
Himself
Death Ship
(1980)
Self (archive footage)
Showbiz Goes to War
(1982)
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Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
(1982)
Self (archive footage)
Genocide
(1982)
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Ace of Aces
(1982)
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Jasenovac: The Cruelest Death Camp of All Times
(1983)
Himself (archive footage)
The Camps of Death
(1983)
Self (archive footage)
The Home Movies of Eva Braun
(1983)
Self (archive footage)
Zelig
(1983)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Schindler
(1983)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Opus pro smrtihlava
(1984)
Self (archive footage)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
(1985)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Memory of the Camps
(1985)
Self (uncredited archive footage)
Come and See
(1985)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
True Gore
(1987)
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Hitler Sucks
(1988)
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The World at War: The Making of the Series
(1989)
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Death in Focus
(1989)
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Sonata for Hitler
(1989)
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Blood in the Face
(1991)
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The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945
(1991)
Self (archive footage)
The Gestapo: Hitler's Secret Police
(1991)
Self (archive footage)
In Search of Dr. Seuss
(1994)
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The Last Days of World War II
(1995)
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The Russian German War
(1995)
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Le Petit Vingtième : le siècle de Tintin
(1995)
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Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
(1995)
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The Champagne Safari
(1995)
Self (archive footage)
The Ogre
(1996)
Self (archive footage)
A Web of War
(1996)
Self (archive footage)
The Astors: High Society
(1996)
Self (archive footage)
Hitler's Forgotten Victims
(1997)
Self (achive footage)
Human Remains
(1998)
Self (archive footage)
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
(1999)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
War of the Century - When Hitler Fought Stalin
(1999)
Self (Archive)
The Hitler Youth
(1999)
Self (archive footage)
Sunshine
(1999)
Self - 1936 Berlin Olympic Games (archive footage) (uncredited)
Die Reichsautobahn - Strassen des Führers
(2000)
Self (archive footage)
Nazi America: A Secret History
(2000)
Self (archive footage)
Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
(2001)
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Pearl Harbor
(2001)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Urlaub im Dritten Reich - Kraft durch Freude
(2001)
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Naqoyqatsi
(2002)
Self (archive footage)
The Tramp and the Dictator
(2002)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
:03 from Gold
(2002)
Self (archive footage)
Bowling for Columbine
(2002)
Self (archive footage)
Adolf & Eva
(2002)
Self (archive footage)
The Corporation
(2003)
Self (archive footage)
Elephant
(2003)
Self (archive footage)(uncredited)
Stalin: Man of Steel
(2003)
Self (archive footage)
Hitler: The Unknown Soldier 1914-1918
(2004)
Self (archive footage)
Hitler's Germany in Color
(2004)
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The Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality
(2004)
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Hitler & Stalin: Roots of Evil
(2004)
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Die NSDAP
(2004)
Self (archive footage)
Letters from Karelia
(2004)
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Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis
(2005)
Self (archive footage)
The Great Raid
(2005)
Self (archive footage)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
(2005)
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Hitler in Colour
(2005)
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Fascism in Colour
(2006)
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Hitler's Museum
(2006)
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Exploring Hitler's Mountain
(2006)
Die Chroniken des Adolf Hitler
(2006)
Self (archive footage)
Hitler: The Comedy Years
(2007)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Slipstream
(2007)
Adolf Hitler (self) (archival footage)
Stealing Klimt
(2007)
Self (archive footage)
Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed
(2007)
Self (archive footage)
I Served the King of England
(2007)
Self (archive footage)
Sputnik Mania
(2007)
Self (archive footage)
In Love with Adolf Hitler
(2007)
Self (archive footage)
Hitler und Mussolini - Eine brutale Freundschaft
(2007)
Self (archive footage)
Hitlers Ultimatum
(2008)
Dark Fellowships: The Vril
(2008)
Self (archive footage)
A War in Hollywood
(2009)
Self (archive footage)
Who is afraid of Wilhelm Reich?
(2009)
Self (archive footage)
De opkomst van Adolf Hitler
(2009)
Self (archive footage)
Fall of the Republic: The Presidency of Barack H. Obama
(2009)
Self (archive footage)
Hired Gun
(2009)
Self (archive footage)
Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
(2009)
Self (archive footage)
Amour de vivre
(2010)
Self (archive footage)
The Battle of Britain
(2010)
Self (archive footage)
BloodRayne: The Third Reich
(2010)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
June 1940, the Great Chaos
(2010)
Self (archive footage)
Führer Cult and Megalomania
(2011)
Self (archive footage)
An Intimate History of Occupation
(2011)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
180
(2011)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Reagan
(2011)
Self (archive footage)
Nazi Titanic
(2012)
Self (archive footage)
The Untold History Of The United States
(2012)
Self (archive footage)
Inside Nazi Germany
(2012)
Adolf Hitler
Jesse Owens
(2012)
Self (archive footage)
Reza Shah
(2013)
Himself (archive footage)
Propaganda
(2013)
Self (archive footage)
Hitler's 9/11
(2013)
Self (archive footage)
The Man Who Was There
(2013)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Hitler und der Wagner Clan
(2013)
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told!
(2013)
Collaborations
(2014)
Self (archive footage)
JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick
(2014)
Self - Führer und Reichskanzler (archive footage)
Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century
(2014)
Self (archive footage)
Laissez-faire
(2015)
Self (archive footage)
Jesse Owens et Luz Long: le temps d'une étreinte
(2015)
Self (archive footage)
Unity
(2015)
Self (archive footage)
The Jack King Affair
(2015)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
The Emperor's New Clothes
(2015)
Self (archive footage)
LENI
(2015)
Self (archive footage)
Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb
(2015)
Self (archive footage)
1945: The Savage Peace
(2015)
Self (archive footage)
The Day Hitler Died
(2015)
Self (archive footage)
Hitler's War on Oil: Objective Baku
(2015)
Self (archive footage)
Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
(2015)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Der wahre Champion: Siegen mit Hightech
(2016)
Self (archive footage)
Assassinating Franco
(2016)
Self (archive footage)
Royal Wives at War
(2016)
Self (archive footage)
The Smuggler and Her Charges
(2016)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
I Betrayed Hitler
(2016)
Self (archive footage)
Hitler's Hollywood
(2017)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Django
(2017)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alien, Baby!
(2017)
Himself (archive footage)
100 Years of the UFA
(2017)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Who was Hitler
(2017)
Self (archive footage)
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
(2017)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Hitler and the Children of Obersalzberg
(2017)
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler They Said I Was A Dreamer
(2017)
Stalin's James Bond
(2017)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Dawn of the Nazis
(2017)
Self (archive footage)
Agnelli
(2017)
Self (archive footage)
The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill
(2017)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
(2017)
Self (archive footage)
The House That Jack Built
(2018)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century
(2018)
Self (archive footage)
Franco on Trial: The Spanish Nuremberg?
(2018)
Self (archive footage)
Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
(2018)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Le Mystère de la mort d'Hitler
(2018)
Self (archive footage)
Mała zagłada
(2018)
Adolf Hitler (archive footage)
Winter Journey
(2019)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Poland 1939: When German Soldiers Became War Criminals
(2019)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
The Phoney War
(2019)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Hitler's Evil Science
(2019)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Storm Front in Mayo
(2019)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
(2019)
Self (archive footage)
The Hitler–Stalin Pact
(2019)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
All Against All
(2019)
Self (archive footage)
The King Who Fooled Hitler
(2019)
Self - Führer und Reichskanzler (archive footage)
Words for an End of the World
(2020)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Congrès de Tours 1920: The Birth of the French Communist Party
(2020)
Self (archive footage)
Goering: Nazi Number One
(2020)
Self (archive footage)
#UNFIT: The Psychology of Donald Trump
(2020)
Self (archive footage)
Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth
(2020)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Most Dangerous Man in Europe: Otto Skorzeny's After War
(2020)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations
(2020)
Self (archive footage)
Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis
(2021)
Himself (archive footage and pictures)
Le Parti du cinéma
(2021)
Self (archive footage)
The Meaning of Hitler
(2021)
Self (archive footage)
Erna, Helmut and the Nazis
(2021)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
(2021)
Himself (archive footage)
Goering's Catalogue: A Collection of Art and Blood
(2021)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Media Mafia: a Tale of Two Newspapers
(2021)
Self (archive footage)
Belgique nazie
(2021)
Self (archive footage)
Parsifal: The Hidden Causes of World War II
(2021)
Self (archive footage)
The Wannsee Conference: The Documentary
(2022)
Self (archive footage)
The March on Rome
(2022)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
The Ponzán Network
(2022)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Filmmakers for the Prosecution
(2023)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Le Baron et l'Empereur : Japon, la voie de la guerre
(2023)
Self (archive footage)
And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine
(2023)
Self (archive footage)
Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
(2023)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
LOLA
(2023)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb
(2023)
Self (archive footage)
Searching for Halifax NP711
(2023)
Self (archive footage)
The Hitler Home Movies
(2023)
Self (archive footage)
The Mistake that Killed Hitler
(2023)
Archive
Inside a Nazi Mind: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
(2023)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Fils de Punk
(2024)
Self (archive footage)
Laugh Proud
(2024)
Ukraine: A Battle for History
(2024)
Self (archive footage)
Einstein and the Bomb
(2024)
Self (archive footage)
The Bloody Hundredth
(2024)
Self - Leader of the Nazis (archive footage)
Writing
Directing