Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "east-prussia"
- Movies or TV
- Genres
- Keywords
- IMDb Rating
- Instant Watch Options
- In Theaters
- Release Year
1. Joyeux Noel (2005)
PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, History, Music
In December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each other's way of life.
Director: Christian Carion | Stars: Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Natalie Dessay
Votes: 32,051 | Gross: $1.05M
2. The Ogre (1996)
R | 118 min | Drama
Frenchman Abel Tiffauges likes children, and wants to protect them against the grown-ups. Falsely suspected as child molester, he's recruited as a soldier in the 2nd World War, but very ... See full summary »
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: John Malkovich, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gottfried John, Marianne Sägebrecht
Votes: 2,686 | Gross: $0.05M
3. The Savage Peace (2015 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, History
When the Second World War ended, the people of liberated Europe celebrated their freedom from Nazi tyranny. Their years of suffering had ended, but for millions of Germans, the end of the conflict opened a new and terrible chapter.
Director: Peter Molloy | Stars: Christa Ronke, Marianne Becker, Meda Mládek, Stanislava Zverinova
Votes: 315
4. Die Flucht (2007 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In 1944 many Germans in Eastern Prussia, like Lena von Mahlenberg, daughter of a local aristocrat, believed that Hitler would surrender and spare them from being invaded by the vengeful Russian Red Army. He didn't and they had to flee.
Director: Kai Wessel | Stars: Maria Furtwängler, Jean-Yves Berteloot, Tonio Arango, Gabriela Maria Schmeide
Votes: 616
5. The Palmnicken Tragedy (2022)
89 min | Documentary
On the night of January 31, 1945, in the town of Palmnicken in East Prussia (now the settlement of Yantarny, Kaliningrad Region, Russia), Nazis shot on the seashore about 3,000 prisoners of... See full summary »
Director: Andrey Proskuryakov
6. Im toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin (2002)
PG | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, War
Documentary featuring interview footage with Traudl Junge, one of Hitler's personal secretaries during WWII.
Directors: André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer | Star: Traudl Junge
Votes: 1,814 | Gross: $0.38M
7. Nacht fiel über Gotenhafen (1960)
99 min | Drama, War
In 1945 with the advance of the red army millions of refugees fled from the east of Germany. The "Wilhelm Gustloff" loaded with 10,000 civilians and wounded soldiers was sank by a Soviet submarine in less than 55 minutes.
Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Sonja Ziemann, Gunnar Möller, Erik Schumann, Brigitte Horney
Votes: 209
8. Pugowitza (1981)
101 min | Drama, War
World War II is over and Heinrich, a German young boy, influenced by the Russians, starts to act according to the Communism in a small German village.
Director: Jürgen Brauer | Stars: Axel Griesau, Szymon Szurmiej, Käthe Reichel, Karla Runkehl
Votes: 35
9. My Private War (1990)
90 min | Documentary, War
Late in the 1980s, two documentary film makers found six German men, all in their 60s and 70s, who had been soldiers in the German invasion of the USSR in 1942. Each carried an 8mm camera ... See full summary »
Directors: Harriet Eder, Thomas Kufus | Star: Erich von Manstein
Votes: 203
10. Jokehnen (1987– )
270 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The series tells the story of Hermann Steputat, born in 1934, in the village of Jokehnen in Eastern Prussia. The day he is born is also the day Hitler comes to power in Germany, and Hermann... See full summary »
Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ursela Monn, Silke Dornow, Magdalena Ritter
Votes: 35
11. Elze Is Gilijos (2000)
135 min | Drama, Romance
At the end of the 19th century, proud but poor fisherman Jurgaitis gets imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. His beautiful daughter Elze is sent to live with rich German merchant Michael. There she falls for his son Endrik.
Director: Algimantas Puipa | Stars: Egle Jaselskyte, Janina Lapinskaite, Andrius Paulavicius, Kostas Smoriginas
Votes: 287
12. Kalte Heimat (1995)
157 min | Documentary, History
In this documentary 'Volker Koepp' shows part of the history of Prussia. He begins 700 years ago with the land of the Pruzzen situated between the rivers Weichsel and Memel and proceeds the development of the state.
Director: Volker Koepp
Votes: 18
13.
The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode:
A New Germany: 1933-1939
(1973)
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
The rebirth of Germany and growth in power of the Nazi Party leading up to the outbreak of war.
Director: Hugh Raggett | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Hans Kehrl, Georg Konrad Morgen, Heinz Reinheimer
Votes: 704
14.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Campaign in the Balkans
(2004)
105 min | Documentary, History, War
We examine the course of savage fighting in the Balkans in the latter half of the conflict in World War 2 where after the uprising by the Romanians, the Soviet Army moved swiftly to capture Bucharest.
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Ion Antonescu, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Ernst Busch
Votes: 12
15.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Siege of Leningrad
(2000)
Documentary, History, War
Tim Pigott-Smith narrates the story of one of the Second World War's most harrowing episodes - the 890-day siege of the Soviet Union's second city Leningrad which was not liberated until January 1944.
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Rolf Carls, Karl Dönitz, Joseph Goebbels
Votes: 7
16.
The Family Histories Podcast (2021– )
The Entrepreneur with Lisa Louise Cooke
(2021 Podcast Episode)
46 min | Biography, History, Sci-Fi
Host Andrew Martin meets family historian, author, lecturer, and podcaster Lisa Louise Cooke (of Genealogy Gems) and discovers how she got hooked on researching her own family history as a ... See full summary »
Stars: Lisa Louise Cooke, Andrew Martin
17.
Adolf Hitler's War (2020)
Episode:
This Has Happened
(2020)
Documentary, History, War
Hitler's War moves to its endgame as the Soviets cross the German border - with a death toll of over 40 million, a new scarred, Europe will emerge.
Directors: Michael Cove, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Aliaksandr Kakhanouski, David Stahel, Sergei Kudryashov, Dzmitry Kryvashei
18.
World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode:
The Soviet Steamroller
(2009)
TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War
Their attack on the Soviet Union having failed, the German Army suffers a series of counter-offensives on the Eastern Front. Hitler's constant orders to stand ground backfire, and the ... See full summary »
Stars: Robert Powell, Adolf Hitler, Erich von Manstein, Walter Model
Votes: 243
19.
World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode:
The Gathering Storm
(2009)
TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War
The activities of nations after World War I that lead to World War II.
Stars: Robert Powell, Adolf Hitler, Paul von Hindenburg, Kai-Shek Chiang
Votes: 409
20.
World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode:
Victory in Europe
(2009)
TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War
In 1945, Germany is crumbly on both fronts. The Western Allies cross the Rhine and take most of Germany, while the Red Army quickly advances into Berlin. After Hitler's suicide, Germany surrenders and is divided among the allied powers.
Stars: Adolf Hitler, Gerd von Rundstedt, Albert Kesselring, Bernard L. Montgomery
Votes: 213
21.
RealLifeLore (2016– )
Episode:
Why Does Russia Own This Old Piece of Germany?
(2022)
18 min | Documentary, History
For most of its history Kaliningrad was part of East Prussia and he German Empire until it was conquered by the Soviet Union at the end of World War Two. The Soviets divided East Prussia ... See full summary »
22.
Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode:
Heinrich Himmler
(2022)
Documentary, History, War
An agriculturalist by trade, he went on to lead the SS and tried to escape responsibility at the end of the war. Who was Heinrich Himmler?
Director: Gabriele Rose | Stars: Christopher Browning, Alexandra Richie, Traudl Junge, Frank Bajohr