Emil Jannings Movies

German documentary about Hollywood

The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil...

Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it....

This movie was featured on the DVD release of Der letzte Mann in 2004 in Germany.

The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.

After his first wife dies, the driver of a cart marries his ambitious and shrewish maid who brings him nothing but trouble.

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich...

Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of...

An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close to his wife, another artist.

Peter the Great, having become Tsar of Russia, using his shipbuilding knowledge acquired in a foreign country to establish a navy, and being able to...

An anti-British propaganda film from Nazi Germany which depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger and his eventual defeat by the...

The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.

The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors...

A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs...

Today is a fateful day for village judge Adam. Who broke Widow Kull’s jug fleeing head over heels after his nightly visit to her daughter? As...

The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.

Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).