Downfall
Charting the last 10 days of Hitler's life, from his 56th birthday on April 20th, 1945 to his suicide on April 30th, Downfall uses multiple characters to show the chaos of a country coming apart at the seams, from Hitler's henchman under the streets of Berlin, to the soldiers and civilians fighting and dying as the Soviet Army ravaged the city above. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2005.
SlayerSantiago reviewed
August 14, 2025•
An intense and brilliantly acted portrayal of Hitler’s final days, showing a man consumed by his own deranged and demented rantings, lost in total delusion, and shamelessly lying to his loyal followers. Watching it, the parallels to Donald Trump are hard to ignore—both thrive on feeding supporters false hope while the walls close in. The difference? Hitler, for all his monstrous evil, was at least a strategic mind. Trump comes across as a bargain-bin, low-IQ knockoff—a cruder version of a dictator, without the grim intellect that made Hitler so dangerously effective.