Wehrmacht movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant wehrmacht movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful and exciting films and TV shows about / with world war two, wehrmacht, war, nazi, military, nazi soldier, soldier, danger, german soldier and battles plots mostly in War, Drama and History genres shot in Germany, UK, USA and other countries.
wehrmacht
TOP 10 movies tagged as wehrmacht: Fortress of War (2010), Stalingrad (1993), Generation War (2013), Unknown Battle (2019), Cross of Iron (1977), North Face (2008), Valkyrie (2008), Das Boot (2018), Downfall (2004), Rommel (2012).
Best films
List of wehrmacht movies
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Belarus, Russia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Russian troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days. The film shows the heroic defense of Brest Fortress, which has taken upon the first stroke of German ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, military, wehrmacht, infantrymen, red army, battles, war, tank, border guard, nazism, german, heroes ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, 20th century
Place:
russia, europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
"Stalingrad" follows the progress of a German Platoon through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After having half their number wiped out and after being placed under the command of a sadistic Captain, the Lieutenant of the ...
Style:
realistic, gloomy, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
world war two, war, battles, russian, german, nazism, soldier, survival, military, starvation, military life, wehrmacht ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1942
Place:
russia, germany, east germany, berlin germany, poland ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 270 min.
TV show
Story:
Berlin, 1941. Five friends eager to become heroes in an adventure that will change the face of Europe - and that will forever change them as well.
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, thought provoking, mind blowing ...
Plot:
world war two, nazism, holocaust, military, war, guilt, friendship, against humanity, atrocity, friends, nazi germany, german ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, berlin germany, ussr
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
During WW2, in 1942 and 1943, a series of not-so-well known yet bloody battles occurred near the town of Rzhev. Those battles received the name of ‘Rzhev Meat Grinder’. The film is based on the award-winning novel by Vyacheslav Kondratyev, which ...
Style:
rough, epic, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, infantry, wehrmacht, great patriotic war, soviet army, war, battles, soldier, attack, battle zone, heroism, suspense ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
It is 1943, and the German army, ravaged and demoralised, are hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of all this madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous ...
Style:
political, brutal, bleak, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, anti war, war, soldier, eastern front, nazi, military, tank, wehrmacht, survival, russian soldier, german ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
germany, siberia, france, berlin germany, russia ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, sincere ...
Plot:
world war two, survival, human spirit, gulag, pow, confined, getting home, captivity, wehrmacht, jail, fugitives, hopes ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, year 1937, year 1947, year 1949 ...
Place:
ussr, germany, siberia, baltics, tehran iran ...
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.
Style:
touching, exciting, serious, captivating, breathtaking ...
Plot:
climbing, mountain climbing, mountaineer, disaster, mountain, adventurer, survival, wehrmacht, rivalry, forces of nature, man versus nature, nature ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
switzerland, germany, alps, swiss alps, bavaria
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249K
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a ...
Style:
factual, tense, bad ending, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, nazi, war, nazism, hitler, conspiracy, nazi germany, suspense, resistance, politics, german soldier, wehrmacht ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, post world war two, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
germany, berlin germany, africa, poland, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama.
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, retro
Audience:
adult
Plot:
submarine, world war two, navy, french resistance, military, wehrmacht, rape, insubordination, nazi occupation, battles, save the day, leadership ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place:
europe, france
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360K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still ...
Style:
psychological, intense, bleak, disturbing, harsh ...
Plot:
world war two, war, suicide, hitler, nazi, nazism, holocaust, fascism, national socialism, third reich, betrayal, courage ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, post world war two, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
germany, berlin germany, poland, prague, europe ...
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, France, Austria
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A new film about Erwin Rommel has been shown on German television, depicting the general as a weak man undone by his links to Adolf Hitler.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
military, world war two, assassination attempt, d day, nazi, dishonesty, state affairs, rivalry, political unrest, political conspiracy, wehrmacht, assassination plot ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, berlin germany, normandy
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Directed by Academy Award-winner Florian Gallenberger from Sigefried Lenz's international bestseller, "Der Überläufer" is set in the summer of 1944. German soldier Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, german soldier, nazi germany, pow, eastern front, defector, border crossing, escape, jail, abuse, loyalty ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s, year 1956, post world war two, year 1944
Place:
berlin germany, germany, east berlin, hamburg germany
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, battles, conspiracy, heroes, incompetence, wounded man, wehrmacht, political unrest, wartime life, battle zone, assassination attempt ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, europe, africa
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the early morning of April 9th 1940 the Danish army is alerted. The Germans have crossed the border; Denmark is at war against Europe's strongest army. In Southern Jutland Danish bicycle- and motorcycle companies are ordered out, to against ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, war, military, soldier, battles, against the odds, wehrmacht, friendship, suspense, judaism, nazi ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1940
Place:
denmark, germany, europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A teenager joins the resistance in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
world war two, german soldier, repression, execution, suppression, nazi officer, concentration camp, assassination, hostage, wehrmacht, french resistance, communist ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, 20th century
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, Italy, France, UK
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
Style:
epic, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
submarine, world war two, war, navy, ocean, naval battle, anti war, military, nazi, boat, battles, suspense ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, 20th century, year 1941
Place:
germany, atlantic ocean, mediterranean sea
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674
Genre: Horror, Thriller, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Top Nazi officials, intent on rooting out traitors and those in the military who may be plotting to overthrow Adolf Hitler, recruit and train a group of beautiful prostitutes whose mission is to use any means necessary to uncover plots against the ...
Style:
disturbing, erotic, sexploitation film
Plot:
animal sex, zoophilia, sexual sadism, exploitation, bestiality, female masturbation, lesbian sex, world war two, prostitute, dog sex, nazi, sexploitation ...
Time:
1940s
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Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 550 min.
TV show
Story:
The authors of the television series studied archival materials and military chronicles. The last series ends with a demonstration of the list of penalty parts, which from 1942 to 1945 fought on the Soviet fronts.
Style:
sentimental, captivating, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, great patriotic war, pow, nazi, soviet army, wehrmacht, escape, priest, infantry, russian soldier, death, prisoner ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
ussr, russia
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Style:
epic, atmospheric, dramatic, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
world war two, military, survival, war, soldier, evacuation, military officer, beach, wartime, air attack, rescue mission, army ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, middle ages, 20th century
Place:
france, england, english channel, dunkirk, los angeles ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, Denmark, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
War story of the 27th Panzers, Hitler's heavy-duty combat regiment composed of prisoners.
Style:
bleak, rough, exciting, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
tank, world war two, eastern front, nazism, war, man on a mission, nazi, anti war, battles, soldier, sabotage, behind enemy lines ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany, ussr
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands, Belarus, Russia, Latvia
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces an impossible moral choice.
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, false accusation, moral dilemma, survival, human nature, life is a bitch, war, wartime life, resistance fighter, nazi, forest ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
germany, russia, ussr
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Sweden, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Into the White is an anti-war movie. High above the harsh Norwegian wilderness, English and German pilots shoot each other to the ground after a violent chance encounter. Isolated, they must fight to survive the brutal winter. Though war has made ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival, foe turned friend, wilderness, winter, world war two, war, aviation, luftwaffe, air disaster, airplane shot down, isolation, confined ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1940
Place:
norway, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choice is a story about the three most dramatic days in Norway's history, the royal ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, tense, melancholic, captivating
Plot:
world war two, royal family, wehrmacht, evacuation, democracy, invasion, german occupation, king, hitler, crown prince, father son relationship, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940
Place:
germany, scandinavia, norway, eastern europe, oslo norway
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Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, exciting, dieselpunk, twisted ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, military, mountain, war, spy, nazi, two man army, castle, twists and turns, secret mission, commando, winter ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
bavaria, austria, europe, germany, alps
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocates them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners ...
Style:
epic, suspenseful, breathtaking, dramatic, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, manly, kids, family outing
Plot:
world war two, prison, prison escape, war, nazi, pow, military, chase, soldier, escape, motorcycle, freedom ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, poland, europe, alps, switzerland
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Genre: War, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot, who's despised by everyone else. When a German is killed in the last days of the war, the ...
Plot:
world war two, tank, wehrmacht, murder, adult child friendship, reprisal, gun
Place:
romania
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Belarus, Russia
Duration: 162 min.
TV show
Story:
This world war two story depicts the personal war between a Soviet sniper and a German sniper. Their feud continues after the war in Soviet occupied Germany. At the same time a Nazi rocket scientist continues his research while a Soviet secret ...
Plot:
sniper, world war two, secret base, vendetta, german army, revenge, red army, theatrical producer, dancing, research, castle, camaraderie ...
Time:
year 1941, year 1945
Place:
ussr
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986
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
August 1944 two months after D-Day, the Allies are advancing across France. A team of British and American commandos are dropped behind enemy lines on a secret mission to ambush a German Officer and steal maps charting the location of the enemy ...
Style:
captivating, tense, exciting
Plot:
world war two, military, soldier, secret mission, survival, friendship, battles, suspense, war, wehrmacht, traitor, suicide ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place:
france
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg (Sebastian Koch), goes to a meeting with the Fuhrer in charge of exploding the place. However, Hitler survives and the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
world war two, hitler, national socialism, plan gone wrong, nazi, conspiracy, wartime life, leadership, rebellion, military, against humanity, rebelliousness ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A group of American GIs work their way through war-torn France during the final days of the Second World War.
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, christian film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, military, soldier, battles, heroes, mormon, friendship, american soldier, pow, courage, brutality, heroism ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, provence
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