Michael Kloft

Biography

Career Overview

Michael Kloft has 38 screen credits in a career dating back to 1988. Signature works include Death in the Bunker: The True Story of Hitler's Downfall, Television Under the Swastika, The End of the War in Colour. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Directing

Gender

male

Known Credits

38

Birth Date

1961-01-01 00:00:00

Birth Place

Bonn, Germany

Known For

• 

  Death in the Bunker: The True Story of Hitler's Downfall
• 

  Television Under the Swastika
• The End of the War in Colour
• 

  24 h D-Day
• 

  The Third Reich in the Dock
• 

  Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth

Frequent Collaborators

• Peter Buchholz (2 collaborations)
• Harold "Alex" Adair (1 collaborations)
• Billy "Boots" Bettridge (1 collaborations)
• Rolf de Boeser (1 collaborations)
• Jean-Marie Girault (1 collaborations)
• Franz Gockel (1 collaborations)
• Bruno Plota (1 collaborations)
• Hans Heinze (1 collaborations)
• Edward David "Ed" Shames (1 collaborations)
• David E. Silva (1 collaborations)

Credits

• directing (25 credits)

  • The End of the War in Colour

    director

    directing
    2026
  • 24 h D-Day

    director

    directing
    2024
  • The Third Reich in the Dock

    director

    directing
    2020
  • Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth

    director

    directing
    2020
  • Die geheimen Bunker der DDR und der Schweiz

    director

    directing
    2013
  • Hitler und der Wagner Clan

    director

    directing
    2013
  • Innenansichten - Deutschland 1937

    director

    directing
    2012
  • Inside Nazi Germany

    director

    directing
    2012
  • Führer Cult and Megalomania

    director

    directing
    2011
  • Dear Uncle Adolf: The Germans and Their Führer

    director

    directing
    2010
  • Hitler privat - Das Leben des Diktators

    director

    directing
    2010
  • Der Nürnberger Prozess - Tribunal des Todes

    director

    directing
    2009
  • Heinrich Himmler: Portrait of a Mass Murderer

    director

    directing
    2008
  • Görings letzte Schlacht - Das Tribunal von Nürnberg

    director

    directing
    2006
  • The Nuremberg Trials

    director

    directing
    2006
  • Hitlers Berg

    director

    directing
    2006
  • Death in the Bunker: The True Story of Hitler's Downfall

    director

    directing
    2004
  • Firestorm

    director

    directing
    2003
  • The Tramp and the Dictator

    director

    directing
    2002
  • Der Judenhetzer – Julius Streicher und "Der Stürmer"

    director

    directing
    2001
  • Television Under the Swastika

    director

    directing
    1999
  • The Second World War in Color

    director

    directing
    1999
  • The Third Reich In Color

    director

    directing
    1998
  • Ruhm in der Niederlage - John Ford und der Zweite Weltkrieg

    director

    directing
    1998
  • American Experience

    - The Nuremberg Trials (2006) ... director directing
    1988

• writing (9 credits)

  • 24 h D-Day

    writer

    writing
    2024
  • The Third Reich in the Dock

    writer

    writing
    2020
  • Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth

    writer

    writing
    2020
  • Inside Nazi Germany

    screenplay

    writing
    2012
  • Heinrich Himmler: Portrait of a Mass Murderer

    writer

    writing
    2008
  • The Man Behind Hitler

    writer

    writing
    2006
  • When the War Came to Germany

    author

    writing
    2005
  • Der Judenhetzer – Julius Streicher und "Der Stürmer"

    writer

    writing
    2001
  • Ruhm in der Niederlage - John Ford und der Zweite Weltkrieg

    writer

    writing
    1998

• actors (1 credits)

  • The Third Reich in the Dock

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2020

• production (3 credits)

  • Die Konferenz – Wie der Holocaust organisiert wurde

    director of operations

    production
    2017
  • The Nuremberg Trials

    producer

    production
    2006
  • Hitler's Lost Sub

    producer

    production
    2000