Ive never seen anything like this, a work of historical fiction actually about the internal power struggle inside the nazi party, and a legitimate contermporary experience of regular people in the time and place, how they got sucked up. This is amazing, they dont make em like this anymore.

The actor who portrayed Ernst Rohm was exceptional. The likeness and charisma he portrayed was very well done.

How have I never seen this movie before? I’m 53 and a movie buff! What a classic

The one error I noticed is that Heidrich's assassination attempt did not happen on an isolated country road like in this movie. It took place in the city of Prague, next to a trolley line around a tight turn. That assassination spot was picked ahead of time by the British trained Czech commandos because Heidrich's car would have to slow down at this turn on his routine trips to the office from his home and giving the Czech's an opportunity to kill Reinhard Heydrich. Hitler and the SS insisted that Heydrich take different routes and have an armed escort or drive in a bullet proof car, but Heydrich had such a big ego about himself he thought no one would dare touch him.

I just watched Bill Nighy in 'Living'. He is nominated for best Actor for the Screen Actors Guild Award. He was brilliant. How interesting to see a very young Bill in this excellent presentation. Thank you.

A great insight from the Professor. "You have to decide whether to the hammer or the anvil". Goethe. Helmut observes that "we Hoffmanns have been the anvil for too long - time to be the hammer". The Professor replied that had Goethe worked for a blacksmith, he would have realized the anvil outlasts the hammer. This is true of life!

The real lesson from Nazi Germany is that given the circumstances it could happen anywhere. Russia, China, Japan and any number of lesser nations have also been there

Didn't expect much from this, but was I wrong! Really good film, great cast, screenplay and actors. Definitely worth a watch.

Amazing movie. This is a reminder that all that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.,

Rip David Warner. His portrayal of Heydrich in this movie was excellent

One of the BEST ever done. The English sure do know how to put out quality television. Bravo!

1:50:00 small point of order: Heydrich actually didn't die from a bullet at the time of the attack. He died about ten days later from sepsis brought on by horse hairs from the upholstery lodged in his body.

Another NBC Sunday Evening movie that ran for THREE HOURS. It was aired once, and then it was quickly 'lost' to history. Thank you, for uploading this made-for-TV 'nugget'.

Those Germans have beautiful British and American accents, I'm impressed!

NOW this was definitely worth watching!! Get tired of seeing constant bombings, killings, etc. BUT to see actual LIVING and turmoil in daily life!!! 10 out of 10!! Couldn't stop watching til the end!!! Thanks for upload!

THIS was a great miniseries and movie...David Warner as Heydrich is brilliant and chilling.

Quite a good piece of work featuring a young Bill Nighy and another then-young actor both of whom starred in Tom Cruise's film Valkyrie, and still another then-younger actor who plays the assistant to Himmler, who years later has the role as an infirm ship's captain that undergoes his attempted murder, in one episode of the Horatio Hornblower series.

This is one of the great war movies of all time. One brother against the other. The power of good and evil. A movie that portrays how compromise twist lives,and alters morality. Movie that uses actual events to enhance it's story line. Great Movie.

An excellent film in all regards! Very realistic and exact from a historical point of view. And unlike 90% of films depicting Germany and Germans of that period in a caricatural way, this one shows very well its tragic complexity.

Damn, they sure looked cool in those uniforms though!

A VERY VERY wonderful fictional movie of the fall SA and the rise of the SS and WW2 to its bloody end for the Nazi's. This is a movie I will definitely watch again!!

This was a lot better than I thought it would be. Amazing movie. Highly enjoyed it.

I can't stand watching movies like this any more. My mother lived during that time and had horrible stories to tell. Years after the war was over, we ended up living in a small city in the southern part of Germany. When the city tested there sirens my mother threw me to the ground and covered my body with hers. In her mind she thought we were being bombed. She had nightmares for years. I was embarrassed when she threw me to the ground because I didn't know why she done that. Later she explained it to me. My mother, my hero always protecting me. RIP Mutti. I just didn't understand and thought you were nuts. I knew better after she told me many horrible things she had to live through. Oh forgive me Mutti I didn't know what you went through. She was born in Danzig Prussia and had to flee when the city got attacked by the Russians. She ended up in a refugee camp in Denmark and was shipped back to Germany 3 years later. She and some of my siblings ended up in the southern part of Germany. She couldn't understand their dialect. She spoke only high German. She got often angry with me for speaking like they did. She always spoke high German with me. I grew up there and therefor spoke like them, but with my mother I only spoke high German. Of course she knew I spoke like them when I was with the children. Years later I heard much of this horror from the war. I could not believe that human beings could be so cruel and totally deprived of showing mercy to the unfortunate Jewish people. My mother lost many of her friends through the war. She tried to help many of her Jewish friends. One time she was caught and ended up in prison. She was still married to a German officer who got her out after several days. No one ever told me this till I was about 13 or 14 years old. Much I overheard when they thought I was sleeping and they talked about it. I did have a hard time believing of what they were talking about. I did not know that humans could be such cruel bastard without a heart and soul hearing the pitiful cries of other humans. My mother taught me to be kind to everybody. As a young child I met another little girl that was black. I didn't know why she looked different, till my mother explained it to me. We became close friends.

I discovered this movie in 2005 in my dad’s dvd collection. These television movies are great, this one in particular may be the best one I’ve seen ever. Also, to anyone unaware, some great WWII miniseries are Holocaust (1978), Winds of War (1984), and its sequel War and Remembrance (1988). This movie is kinda hard to find and is in a lot of the multi film dvd sets sold in the early 2000s. It’s a bummer they don’t make television films with the substance they had in the 1970s and 1980s. And miniseries are basically non existent. The closest thing I guess would be these single season tv shows, or the anthology series.

I have looked for this "Made for TV movie" for years, thank you for sharing it. This shows the conflict in the family, and in War

The description is not correct. The SA was not completely disbanded, however its role and power was greatly diminished after the night of the long knives.

A superb film that takes on a grave topic with true seriousness. Such acting, such performances. Brilliant but hard to watch.

“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.” ― Leonardo da Vinci.

Bill Nighy, also played the role of General Friedrich Olbricht in Valkyrie.

"when asked why for so many years this nation has prospered like no other nation in history, it is because here we unleashed the power of the individual like no other place on earth. we should not underestimate the power of free men and women, it is a weapon that our enemies do not have. it is a weapon WE DO HAVE! at times the cost of that freedom has been high but, we have never been unwilling to pay that price! when people say we live in a time without heros, well those people just dont know where to look. the sloping grounds of arlington cemetery with its row upon row of crosses and stars of david make up but a small fraction of the cost of our freedom. these men lost their lives at places like belle wood, normandy, bastogne, flanders, and across the oceans in places like guadlcanal, tarawa, iwo jima and in a thousand rice patties in a place called veitnam. to the enemies of the united states and those who would practice terrorism understand this, peace is the highest asperation of the american people. we will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it,BUT WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER FOR IT NOW OR EVER! president Ronald Reagan

A really great film, excellent actors, well worth watching. Thank you!

This movie was NBC’s offering in the February sweeps of 1985 but was not highly watched or well-reviewed . Now, more than 40 years later, people are liking it. What does that tell you? To me, it shows how streaming services have changed viewing habits and tastes.

I first saw this film way back in 80's when I was a child & It really stuck to me but I didn't know it cuz in the 2000's I picked up a WW2 10 disc history doc for 5 bucks at circuit city & this film was included as a bonus disc I started watching it & then all these flash back came to me I already know the who plot. Crazy how our brain works

Great movie for TV. The family may or may not be real in it but the historical facts within the movie is real . The power struggle between the SA and the Army . The power struggle between the SA and SS and Hitlers decision to make the SS his own personal body guard. The struggle to leave Berlin when they all knew defeat was at the end . The people who was loyal to a leader that blinded them from the absolute truth of why they was defending something that was never going to be .

I have tried watching this film on numerous occasions and have not been able to get past the first twenty minutes or so, tonight I am determined to give it a really good try, with the cast that should deliver deserves to be seen through to the end.

David Warner and Bill Nighy - 2 of my favorite actors together.

this movie's so great... bill nighy is an amazing actor.

They should make a movie called "Stalin's NKVD: Portrait in Evil".

Harold turns into a ruthless SS officer. It's crazy that it's Harold who's shot for desertion and not Karl

54:12 i think this is the best performance of this march

Excellent film. Well worth the time it takes. Skilled acting and building the story by the writers and actors.

Own a copy on dvd this one of the finest made for tv movies ever made .

I am most fortunate to have discovered this film again. I saw it a long time ago, but could never remember what it was called. I knew then however that it was one of the best ever made on this tragic era of German/European/World history. Alongside Gunter Grass's “The Tin Drum”, it will long remain as one of the qualified testaments of Nazi Germany.

54:10 When you and the boys are fed up

This movie is pretty cool. Even though this was reality back then I’m still thankful the allies won the war. My great grandfather he was a Russian general in world war 2 after the victory in Berlin he died of a heart attack. Thank god for the allies

Ive never seen a movie like this. This in depth view of the inner struggle of the higher ups. Can't believe ive never heard of this before.

a good movie ,there is another mad man in power today

Great movie , thank you for the posting. Two thumbs up 👍 👍.

The saddest part of this movie, is they didn't do enough to protect their little brother.

Great film! The best and first film I have seen that puts some humanization to the Nazi's. Rational people lead to madness.

Davis Warner a great actor, just passed!. He was also in the war movie The Cross Of Iron as Captain Keesler with James Coburn.

I can't believe they just skipped entirely over Kristallnacht.

I watched this for one reason and one reason alone..."Bill Nighy" i would watch the test card if it had a pic of him on it...terrific actor..

I'm an old lady, and an American.. I have a good German friend, who told me the Germans who didn't join the party were put into 'work farms'.. so if they wanted to live, they joined.. most were afraid of everyone in those days. Oh by the way, my father became physically and mentally disabled, on D-Day, Omaha beach.

I was today years old when I learned that the Waffen-SS Officer, 'Becker', is the same actor that played 'Dim' in a Clockwork Orange :D

Thank you

This is the 4th time I've watched this movie; great stuff!

it makes one shiver, the way Heydrich manipulates Helmut into compromising his own morality.

Found part of this movie on a VHS tape left on the roadside. Just loved it. Watch it many times. Fictional story, set in interesting times.

HI Absolutely brilliant film. music score awesome! Bill Nighy perfect personification of everyone in this nightmare who was out of their depth and were just dragged along to the inevitable gruesome end.

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PizzaFlix, Thanks for this excellent drama on WW2 and Hitler's SS!

Very good film, but I feel Heydrich was miscast. The actor was in his forties at the time and Heydrich was young - 38 when he died. Also very handsome and a typical alpha male who used charm and decisiveness in equal measure to get what he wanted. In fact Bill Nighy was much more like him.

Man. Eicke is some beast. Great film. It follows the timeline of WW2 very well. Amazing how much is crammed in.

Tony Randall's portrayal of the old gay comedian was his best role ever and made this whole drawn-out nazisploitation epic well worth watching. His death scene at 2 hours, 11minutes breaks my heart every time I see it!

I'm willing to bet most of nearly 3 million came on here because the viewer saw SS and Bill Nighy's name on the title.

Worth it. It's interesting to see the struggle off all the people back then

Depends upon one's taste in movies, I found the personal internal conflict of the brothers interesting, how one so pro nazi at first became to loathe the regime and one so indifferent became a small cog in the wheel of terror that defined the SS, even though he found their actions reprehensible, he became an unwilling participant in their crimes.Should be a lesson to us all choices have consequences, be they good or bad.

I remember watching this on the television... powerful then, as now

Amazing to see Bill Nighy as a young man. What a good script. They didn't leave much out.

Awesome and strange in the same time to see this movie about germans whit brit's accent. Thank you for upload! Danke!

I think this documentary hit one thing right on the head in its portrayal of Reinhardt Heydrich. Heydrich was not one of those who believed in the mythology of Nazism, he was in it strictly because he saw the political advantage of being a Nazi in his quest for more personal power. He was pretty smart in that respect. I've always believed that it's easy to allow oneself to be blinded by political ideology when it appeals to us on an emotional level, but the smart move is to take emotion out of the equation and determine what will actually best serve our own self interest.

He'll be celebrating his 85th birthday next week. That's if he makes it up the stairs. I love this film. Probably the best made for TV movie and filled with historical accuracy. They used to show this on the History Channel

*ENJOYED* Thank you.

Our Bill playing a Nazi with an upper cut English accent, and over acting, I am glad he improved to the quality actor he is today. But found this film impossible to watch, too much bad acting.

I saw only part of this film on the history Channel years ago, glad I was able to find it. Although there are only a couple of historical inaccuracies, but I can forgive this film for that.

Great movie and frightening. Must have been scary time. Thank you for this

I didn't know Germans all spoke perfect English with English accents.

Good old Film Movie.! Ein sehr gutes gute Film Kino. Great Film Movie.! 👍👍👍

May not be 100% factual but still a damn good movie

Very good. Never would have recognized Bill Nighy if not listed ; and he was the reason I watched. I know him only for his later works

Good movie. Treat to see Bill Nighy so young.

I can hear our modern citizens chanting, "Wear a mask!".

The Ss may have been evil, but damn do they have good outfits

great. realistic and exact from a historical point of view.

This is great movie with good actors ! Saw David Warner in Holocaust ! He is excellent in the role of Reinhard Heydrich !

Great film. I love the part where the two brother beat up the three SA men. That was a great fight!

His vaunted foe....unarmed men, women, and children. Real tough guy this Heydrich.

1:55:16 The fact that SS soldier risked his neck in an attempt to protect the professor is amazing

A well made movie, surprisingly, as I assume it was made for TV. What's surprising is the number of comments about the accents used by the actors, complaints mainly about the use of British accents. There were as many with Am. English accents as well, but I saw no complaints about that, maybe because the comments were from Americans. Makes me wonder what these commenters would like to hear...should the actors use English but with German accents, or should the German characters be speaking in German? Sometimes it does stretch the imagination to hear Nazi characters speaking with their own British or Am. English accents, but what's the alternative? The movie was made for English-speaking audiences primarily, & most of us don't understand German. If any of the characters spoke in German, should subtitles be used?

Seems like David Warner has made a career out of playing Heydrich

Right, we take Pete's car, we go in, take care of Phillip....

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Is that the actress who played Pat Butcher in EastEnders behind the bar at the start of the film?!

Good job on the actor playing Roehm.

It’s Pat Butcher from Eastenders as the Barmaid in opening minutes!!

Great film. Gotta give it up the heydrich and Himmler

The brown shirt leader in the 1st scene looks like Oliver Hardy

Damn good film. Don't know how I ever missed this one? Was this a made-for-television film does anyone know??? Thanks for sharing it.