Hitler: A Career vs The Tattooist's Son: Journey to Auschwitz

The Tattooist's Son: Journey to Auschwitz has the higher audience score (8/10 against 7.4/10 for Hitler: A Career). The Tattooist's Son: Journey to Auschwitz is the shorter watch at 1h 10m compared with 2h 30m. Hitler: A Career is the older of the two (1977 against 2025). Both are documentary, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hitler: A Career posterHitler: A Career1977 VS The Tattooist's Son: Journey to Auschwitz posterThe Tattooist's Son: Journey to Auschwitz2025
Hitler: A CareerThe Tattooist's Son: Journey to Auschwitz
Audience score★ 7.4/10★ 8.0/10
Year19772025
Length2h 30m1h 10m
GenresDocumentary, HistoryDocumentary, History
CountryGermanyUnited Kingdom
DirectorChristian Herrendoerfer, Joachim FestStephen Bennett
Main castWinston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolf Hess, Charlie ChaplinJonah Hauer-King, Heather Morris, Anna Próchniak, Gary Sokolov, George Halasz

Synopsis

Hitler: A Career

A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.

The Tattooist's Son: Journey to Auschwitz

Filmed in Melbourne, Slovakia, and Poland, this poignant and intimate one-off documentary will follow Gary Sokolov, the only son of Gita and Lali Sokolov (one of the real-life tattooists of Auschwitz). Their incredible love story began when they met and fell in love as Slovakian Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz Concentration Camp, where the Nazi regime systematically murdered over a million Jews. The film will chart Gary’s first visit to this most…

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