Miniseries · CBC Television
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Robert Carlyle
Adolf Hitler
2 eps
Zoe Telford
Eva Braun
2 eps
Justin Salinger
Dr. Joseph Goebbels
2 eps
James Babson
Rudolf Hess
2 eps
Stockard Channing
Klara Hitler
2 eps
Peter Stormare
Ernst Rohm
2 eps
Peter O'Toole
President Paul von Hindenburg
2 eps
Terence Harvey
Gustav von Kahr
2 eps
Jena Malone
Geli Raubal
2 eps
Liev Schreiber
Ernst Hanfstaengl
2 eps
Julianna Margulies
Helene Hanfstaengl
2 eps
Matthew Modine
Fritz Gerlich
2 eps
Jiří Datel Novotný
Von Lossow
2 eps
Friedrich von Thun
General Erich Ludendorff
2 eps
Chris Larkin
Hermann Göring
2 eps
Patricia Netzer
Sophie Gerlich
2 eps
Harvey Friedman
Friedrich Hollaender
2 eps
Nicole Marischka
Blandine Ebinger
2 eps
Julie-Ann Hassett
Angela Raubal
2 eps
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Adolf Hitler (10 yrs)
2 eps
Robert Glenister
Anton Drexler
2 eps
Ian Hogg
Alois Hitler
2 eps
Filip Hes
Egon Hanfstaengl
2 eps
Brendan Hughes
Lieutenant Guffman
2 eps
Robert Russell
Franz Von Papen
2 eps
David Fisher
Georg Bell
2 eps
Wolfgang Müller
Gregor Strasser
2 eps
Christopher Ettridge
General Kurt Von Schleicher
2 eps
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TV DNA
How Hitler: The Rise of Evil actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Hitler: The Rise of Evil reads strongest on Character Depth, Serialized and Bingeability.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
This biopic profiles history's most spectacular madman, tracing his journey from humble roots to complete mastery of Germany.
The run
Seasons
1 season · 2 episodes.
Season 1 · Complete
Miniseries
20032 episodes
7.0IMDbRobert 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.
Best episode · S01E01 Episode 1
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01 · Signature episode
Episode 1
After the end of the First World War, the soldier Hitler accepted the offer to infiltrate the German Workers' Party. But the party's nationalism and anti-Semitism fit perfectly into his sick worldview. He stoked the fire of hatred with the mythical legends of a superior Aryan race. Hitler gained a foothold in politics and began to ruthlessly seize more and more power. When the flames consumed the Reichstag in 1933, democracy in Germany was also lost. Now Hitler could no longer be stopped.
- Directed by Christian Duguay
- Written by G. Ross Parker, John Pielmeier
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S01E02
Episode 2
- Directed by Christian Duguay
- Written by G. Ross Parker, John Pielmeier
S01E01 · Signature episode
Episode 1
- Directed by Christian Duguay
- Written by G. Ross Parker, John Pielmeier
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Peter SussmanExecutive Producer
- John RyanProducer
- Ed GernonExecutive Producer
Writing
- G. Ross ParkerWriter
- John PielmeierWriter
Direction
- Christian DuguayDirector
Cinematography
- Pierre GillDirector of Photography
Music
- Normand CorbeilOriginal Music Composer
Recognition
Awards
1 win
Primetime Emmy Awards
1 win · latest 2003
- WinnerPrimetime Emmy Award2003
Hitler: The Rise of Evil · Hitler: The Rise of Evil
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