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1. Unbroken (I) (2014)
PG-13 | 137 min | Action, Biography, Drama
After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Director: Angelina Jolie | Stars: Jack O'Connell, Miyavi, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund
Votes: 182,854 | Gross: $115.64M
2. Race (I) (2016)
PG-13 | 134 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Jesse Owens' quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
Director: Stephen Hopkins | Stars: Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Eli Goree, Shanice Banton
Votes: 40,979 | Gross: $19.10M
3. Road to Boston (2023)
113 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Tale of the Korean athletes who ran the 1947 Boston International Marathon, the first international marathon held since World War II.
Director: Kang Je-kyu | Stars: Ha Jung-woo, Bae Sung-woo, Im Si-wan, Kim Sang-ho
Votes: 439
4. Saint Ralph (2004)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Saint Ralph is the unlikely story of Ralph Walker, a ninth-grader who outran everyone's expectations except his own in his bold quest to win the 1954 Boston Marathon.
Director: Michael McGowan | Stars: Adam Butcher, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Tilly, Michael Kanevsky
Votes: 6,341 | Gross: $0.80M
5. Gold (I) (2018)
Not Rated | 151 min | Drama, History, Sport
The journey of a man who was instrumental in making India win its first Olympic gold medal as a free nation.
Director: Reema Kagti | Stars: Krishan Tandon, Hubertus Geller, Siddharth Kher, Sheldon Redden
Votes: 14,758
6. Hitler: A Career (1977)
Not Rated | 150 min | Documentary, History
This meticulously assembled film dissects the Third Reich with an analytical blade, charting Hitler's improbable rise, his mastery of crowd psychology and his consummate skill in exploiting others' weaknesses.
Directors: Joachim Fest, Christian Herrendoerfer | Stars: Gert Westphal, Stephen Murray, Artur Axmann, General Bergeret
Votes: 3,037
7. Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Sport
The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin, orchestrated as Nazi propaganda.
Director: Leni Riefenstahl | Stars: Sheigo Arai, Jack Beresford, Ralf Berzsenyi, Ferenc Csík
Votes: 4,327
8. The Jesse Owens Story (1984 TV Movie)
174 min | Biography, Drama, History
This is the compelling story of Jesse Owens, a man who overcame racial barriers to become one of history's greatest Olympic athletes by disproving Adolf Hitler's theory of Aryan athletic superiority through his success in track and field.
Director: Richard Irving | Stars: Dorian Harewood, Georg Stanford Brown, Debbi Morgan, Barry Corbin
Votes: 277
9. Ace of Aces (1982)
100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sport
In 1936, a French boxer on his way to the Berlin Olympic Games befriends a local Jewish boy and decides to save him from the Nazis.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier, Frank Hoffmann, Günter Meisner
Votes: 4,165
10. Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)
Approved | 71 min | Mystery
When a strategically important new aerial guidance system is stolen, Charlie traces it to the Berlin Olympics, where he has to battle spies and enemy agents to retrieve it.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille, Pauline Moore, Allan Lane
Votes: 1,834
11. Berlin '36 (2009)
100 min | Drama, History, Sport
In the days leading up to the 1936 Olympics, the fate of high jumper Gretel Bergmann hangs in the balance as it is decided whether or not a Jewish athlete can be a part of the German Olympic team.
Director: Kaspar Heidelbach | Stars: Karoline Herfurth, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Axel Prahl, Robert Gallinowski
Votes: 973
12. Hitler's Hollywood (2017)
Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary, History
Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed.
Director: Rüdiger Suchsland | Stars: Rüdiger Suchsland, Rike Schmid, Hans Henrik Wöhler, Udo Kier
Votes: 848 | Gross: $0.04M
13. Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story (2019)
TV-14 | 45 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A drama about the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Stars: Mirai Moriyama, Kankurô Nakamura, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Koji Yakusho
Votes: 106
14. The Fourth Reich (1990)
183 min | Biography
Robey Leibbrandt was a South African boxer who became fascinated with Nazi ideology during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. In1939 he led an operation to overthrow the pro-Allied government of General Jan Smuts.
Director: Manie van Rensburg | Stars: Marius Weyers, Ryno Hattingh, Grethe Fox, Percy Sieff
Votes: 10
15. The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe - 1933-1945 (1981)
89 min | Documentary, Drama, History
With a great archive footage coming from 16 countries, this Oscar nominated documentary briefly presents some of the most important facts about the Nazist persecution against Jews in Europe, starting with Hitler's rise to the power.
Director: Dieter Hildebrandt | Stars: Alexander Scourby, Holger Hagen, Helga Mayer-Maynard, Simon Wiesenthal
Votes: 115
16. Olympic Pride, American Prejudice (2016)
TV-PG | 82 min | Documentary, History
In 1936 when 18 African-American athletes participated in the Berlin Olympic Games, history forgot all except one. This is the story of the other 17.
Director: Deborah Riley Draper | Stars: Blair Underwood, Sada Jacobson, Susan D. Bachrach, Gretel Bergmann
Votes: 151
17. Les jeux d'Hitler, Berlin 1936 (2016 TV Movie)
85 min | Documentary, History
How Hitler tried to use the 1936 Summer Olympics, which were held in Berlin, Nazi Germany, to promote his Nazi agenda.
Director: Jérôme Prieur | Stars: Adolf Hitler, Denis Podalydès
Votes: 51
18. The Olympic Summer (1993)
85 min | Drama, History, Sport
In 1936, in Germany, a young, innocent apprentice, full of Olympic fever, leaves his rural village to see the ceremonies in Berlin. Upon arriving in the capital, he meets a widow and a ... See full summary »
Director: Gordian Maugg | Stars: Susanne Binninger, Jost Gerstein, Marcus Hambsch, Joachim John
Votes: 39
19. Nazi Megastructures: Hitler's Trains of Death (2017 TV Movie)
87 min | Documentary, History
A look at how Hitler's vast network of railways became the lifeblood of the Nazi empire, spreading Hitler's ambition and control across Europe and beyond.
Director: Marc Tiley | Stars: Benjamin Schnau, David J Biscoe, Tim Casey, Charles Davies
Votes: 72
20. Join the Marines (1937)
Approved | 67 min | Action
A New York City cop leaves the department to join the U.S. Olympic team. He falls for the spoiled daughter of a Marine colonel, and winds up getting kicked off the team. He joins the ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Paul Kelly, June Travis, Purnell Pratt, Reginald Denny
Votes: 37
21. Puncturing the Myth of Leni Riefenstahl (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 6 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Lutz Becker, Philippe Mora
22. High Lights of the 1936 Olympics Berlin (1936)
7 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
Director: Allyn B. Carrick | Stars: Jack Martin, Adolf Hitler, Jesse Owens
23.
Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge (1994–1995)
Episode:
Show 3
(1994)
TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy
Alan Partridge's guests include Northern Europe's sexiest dance act - Hot Pants.
Director: Dominic Brigstocke | Stars: Steve Coogan, Rebecca Front, Jean Ainslie, Patrick Marber
Votes: 155
24.
Pawn Stars (2009– )
Episode:
Harrison for President
(2011)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Reality-TV
Whatever a political textile is a customer has a sample and it has an unexpected heritage. A claw arcade game leads to a practical joke on the store's number one arcade game player, Chumlee.
Director: Jairus Cobb | Stars: Antwaun Austin, Corey Harrison, Richard Harrison, Rick Harrison
Votes: 53
25.
Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode:
Prisoners of War, Part One - The Barbed Wire Front
(1998)
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
Examines the treatment of prisoners of war early in the 20th century. From capture to interrogation and internment, the fate of thousands of WWI prisoners was determined by their captors off the battlefield.
Stars: Charlton Heston, Dwight Messimer, Robert C. Doyle, Lew Carlson
Votes: 10
26.
The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode:
The Golden Door (Beginnings-1938)
(2022)
TV-14 | 129 min | Documentary, History
A xenophobic backlash prompts Congress to restrict immigration. Hitler and the Nazis persecute German Jews, forcing many to seek refuge. FDR is concerned by the growing crisis but is unable to coordinate a response.
Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Peter Hayes, Daniel Mendelsohn, Rebecca Erbelding
Votes: 203
27.
Das Adlon. Eine Familiensaga (2013)
Episode:
Teil 3
(2013)
TV-MA | 96 min | Drama, History
Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Josefine Preuß, Heino Ferch, Marie Bäumer, Ken Duken
Votes: 74
28.
Nazi Mega Weapons (2013– )
Episode:
Fortress Berlin
(2013)
TV-PG | 54 min | Documentary, History, War
April 1945. Safe in his heavily fortified Führerbunker in the centre of Berlin, Hitler prepares for the Allies' final attack.
Director: Steve Baker | Stars: Peter Stark, Adam Ganne, Maite von Melle, Robert Meller
Votes: 75
29.
Rivals Forever - The Sneaker Battle (2016)
Episode:
Teil 1: Die Gebrüder Dassler
(2016)
TV-14 | Biography, Drama, History
Directors: Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert | Stars: Christian Friedel, Hanno Koffler, Hannah Herzsprung, Alina Levshin
Votes: 66
30.
Lundi en histoires (2014– )
Episode:
Les champions d'Hitler
(2016)
102 min | Documentary, History
Director: Jean-Christophe Rosé | Star: Christian Brendel
Votes: 31
31.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Boys of '36
(2016)
PG | 53 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of how a team of underdog American rowers became gold medalists in the 1936 Olympics.
Director: Margaret Grossi | Stars: Daniel James Brown, Eric Cohen, Timothy Egan, Bob Ernst
Votes: 204
32.
Hitler's Circle of Evil (2018)
Episode:
The Madness of Rudolf Hess
(2018)
TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, History
As Germany invades Poland and sparks World War II, loyal Deputy Fuhrer Rudolph Hess tries to reclaim his once lofty status among Hitler's senior staff.
Director: Guy Smith | Stars: Guy Walters, Frank McDonough, Michael Lynch, James Holland
Votes: 156