Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate

Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate (2023) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. At its heart sits a Berlin nightclub where, throughout the 1920s, the city's queer world came together to dance and breathe freely.

The Eldorado was a place that existed nowhere else: people flirted, performed and lived openly years before they would be branded criminals. Director Benjamin Cantu rebuilds their lives through archival papers, photographs and dramatized scenes — from sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld to Dora Richter, among the first people to undergo gender-affirming surgery. And lingering near the same doorway stood the men who would soon destroy it all: Ernst Röhm frequented the club before the Nazis erased him along with everything he stood for.

The film traces how quickly a freedom that felt permanent can collapse. It avoids easy outrage, grounding the story in individual lives to recover a near-forgotten chapter of German history. It lands for anyone drawn to serious documentaries about the Weimar Republic, LGBTQ history and the rise of the Third Reich. Stream Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate (2023) online on iFILM.