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Hitler: The Rise of Evil

★ 7.2 25K votes 2003–2003 1 seasons · 2 episodes Ended CBC Television
Real historyReal historical events and figures woven into the story.This show: 10/10Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 9/10Villain's POVThe antagonist's side is the show's side.This show: 8/10Political intriguePower struggles inside governments and institutions.This show: 8/10Event miniseriesPrestige limited television built as an event.This show: 8/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 8/10BleakGrim and heavy, with little easy relief. These shows sit with suffering instead of softening it.This show: 7/10DisturbingContent that lingers uncomfortably after the credits.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Peter StormareFriedrich von ThunPeter O'TooleZoe TelfordTerence HarveyJustin Salinger
Starring
Peter StormareFriedrich von ThunPeter O'TooleZoe TelfordTerence HarveyJustin Salinger
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"A cautionary study in how democracies fail"

This two-part miniseries traces Adolf Hitler's path from a resentful, failed art student in Vienna to the man who seizes absolute power in Germany, showing the personal humiliations, propaganda skill, and political maneuvering that fueled his ascent. It plays like a somber history lesson dressed as prestige drama: deliberately paced, heavy with dread, and anchored by a committed lead performance. It's less about spectacle than about tracing how ordinary institutions and ordinary people enabled a catastrophe, which makes it more sobering than entertaining.

Watch it for

the lead performance charting a plausible, chilling psychological descent into tyranny.

Maybe skip if

you want nuanced history rather than a dramatized, sometimes simplified biographical arc.

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All Seasons

Miniseries2003
7.358123h 6m
Robert Carlyle stars in this miniseries that explores Adolf Hitler's rise to power during the years prior to World War II and focuses closely on how the embittered, politically fragmented and economically buffeted German society after World War I made that ascent possible.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
1Episode #1.17.3
31193 min
2Episode #1.27.2
27093 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Peter Stormare Ernst Röhm
Friedrich von Thun General Erich Ludendorff
Peter O'Toole President Paul von Hindenburg
Zoe Telford Eva Braun
Terence Harvey Gustav von Kahr
Justin Salinger Dr. Joseph Goebbels
Chris Larkin Hermann Göring
James Babson Rudolf Hess
Patricia Netzer Sophie Gerlich
Harvey Friedman Friedrich Hollaender

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