The origins of totalitarianism

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows the origins of totalitarianism

poster Hitler's SS: Portrait In Evil
Hitler's SS: Portrait In Evil
(3.3/5)
150mn - Short, Drama, War
The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's …
poster Barrabas
Barrabas
489mn - Crime
Rudolph Strelitz, known as 'Barrabas', is the leader of a brutal underground gang causing chaos and destruction in the lives of civilized people. A lawyer, Claude Varèse, is strongly determined to bring S…
poster The Great Rights
The Great Rights
13mn - Animation
A cartoon explaining the American Bill of Rights and Constitution. A man imagines a "nightmare world" without these documents, where Orwellian thugs censor and arrest with impunity. When reminded of the B…
poster Why We Fight: Prelude to War
Why We Fight: Prelude to War
(3.5/5)
52mn - Documentary, History, War
Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops of the necessity of com…
poster Caesar The Conqueror
Caesar The Conqueror
104mn - History, Adventure
In 54 B.C. Julius Caesar seeks to solidify his position in Rome by putting down a rebellion in Gaul led by a tribal chieftain named Vercingetorix. Vercingetorix has rallied many tribes to his cause, inclu…
poster Don't Be a Sucker!
Don't Be a Sucker!
(3.8/5)
18mn - Documentary, History, War
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the United St…
poster A Spectre Haunts Europe
A Spectre Haunts Europe
70mn - Drama
Set in an imaginary land where the threat of revolution spurs the Emperor to seek exile in one of the most distant parts of his realm. There he meets Elka, the daughter of a revolutionary who has been ban…
poster The Consequences of Feminism
The Consequences of Feminism
7mn - Comedy
It's a society in which gender roles are switched. Will men stand to be unequal?
poster The Execution
The Execution
(2.9/5)
90mn - Drama, Short
The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the cam…
poster The Terror
The Terror
81mn - Horror, Thriller
Lt. Andre Duvalier awakens on a beach to the sight of a strange woman who leads him to the gothic, towering castle that serves as home to an eerie baron.
poster Orwell Rolls in His Grave
Orwell Rolls in His Grave
(4/5)
84mn - Documentary
Has America entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for truth? The country's leading intellectuals discuss and examine the mix of businesses, politics and ideology that is t…
poster The Great Commandment
The Great Commandment
(3/5)
78mn - Drama
In first-century Judea, Joel, the son of a strict Pharisee and secret leader of zealot rebels, encounters the transformative teachings of Jesus and must choose between his violent quest for Jewish indepen…
poster The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
(3.6/5)
132mn - Drama, War
Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Fo…
poster Forbidden Paradise
Forbidden Paradise
(3.3/5)
76mn - Comedy, Romance
Alexei, a young officer, saves the Czarina of a small European kingdom from revolutionary conspirators and is rewarded with her love. Infatuated, he deserts his sweetheart, Anna, the Czarina's lady-in-wai…
poster Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
(3.9/5)
163mn - Drama, History
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
poster Counterblast
Counterblast
(3/5)
99mn - Thriller, Drama, Action
An escaped Nazi doctor murders an Australian bacteriologist and assumes his identity, infiltrating a British research laboratory to develop a deadly plague antidote that would allow the Nazi underground t…
poster Assignment Terror
Assignment Terror
87mn - Horror, Sci-Fi
Desperate aliens from a dying world attempt to conquer Earth by reviving humanity's greatest fears - Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the Mummy, and a werewolf - but their monstrous army may prove impossi…
poster Nero, or The Fall of Rome
Nero, or The Fall of Rome
14mn - History, Drama
Roman emperor Nero is used to getting what he wants. He has grown tired of his wife Octavia, and has become infatuated with Poppea. He succeeds in making Poppea the new empress, but soon he faces oppositi…
poster The Roman Orgy
The Roman Orgy
8mn - History, Drama
The tyrant Emperor Heliogabalus lives a life of debauchery and set lions loose among his guests.
poster Prussian Culture
Prussian Culture
8mn - Drama
Film about politically motivated violence in the Kingdom of Prussia.
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