Although plenty of Hollywood films have trod this same ground in the decades since, The Mortal Storm (1940) was one of the earliest to examine how a society can be swept off their feet by a fascist ...

The Mortal Storm (1940), in which a German family confronts the terrors of Nazism, made American audiences aware of the torment endured by many Germans during the 1930s. After remaining silent for ...

The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is ...

This film was released on June 14, 1940 and was one of the most direct anti-Nazi Hollywood ... The film was based upon the 1938 book by Phyllis Bottome. The Mortal Storm is the story of Hitler’s rise ...

The Mortal Stormis a slugging indictment of the political and social theories advanced by Hitler, a combination of entertainment and democratic preachment, based on a novel of the same name by ...