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Filmography of Adolf Hitler

Known as: Political

2 titles in the archive · first depicted 1932

Lived1889 – 1945

Leader of the Nazi Party and dictator of Germany from 1933, who began the Second World War in Europe and directed the Holocaust.

Shelfmark Vita CLXXVI

2
titles
2 films
3.8/5
average rating
across 2 rated titles
4h 45m
on screen
across 2 titles
50%
set in Eastern Front (World War II)
1 of 2 appearances
2
appearances, all on film
never on television

Compare both titles in the Canons

3 years of a 56 year life depicted onscreen

Distinct years the archive depicts, against Adolf Hitler’s lifetime (1889 – 1945) — 5.4% of it.

Depicted in

193219381945

First and Last on Screen

Earliest portrayalDownfall2004

17 years of cinema separate them. A series is sorted here by the first year of its release.

A series counts once, regardless of how many of its episodes feature them.

Historical Threads

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Fall of Berlinpull it on the timeline

Event

The decisive close to the Second World War in Europe, the Battle of Berlin waged in April 1945 between beleaguered German defenders and the full weight of the Soviet Red Army resulted in the unconditional surrender of the Nazi German state and the suicide of its leader, Adolf Hitler.

filed under 1945

Runs throughEastern Front (World War II)2 titles

The Box Office Ledger

What the films portraying Adolf Hitler cost to make and took at the worldwide box office, as TMDB records them.

$16 million
in budgets
over 1 film with both sums
$92.2 million
at the box office
over 1 film with both sums
5.8×
return on budget
box office ÷ budget
Budget and box office of each film
FilmBudgetBox office
Downfall$16,000,000$92,181,574

US dollars as TMDB records them, not adjusted for inflation. 1 film of the 2 portraying them carries either sum.