Nuremberg: Where to Stream Russell Crowe’s WWII Courtroom Epic Right Now
Russell Crowe hits theaters November 7 in James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg, a searing dramatization of the Nuremberg trials that sees him inhabit Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring. No streaming date yet.
Russell Crowe is stepping into the dock this weekend, and not on the side you might expect. 'Nuremberg' puts him in the role of Hermann Goering, with writer-director James Vanderbilt turning the post-WWII trials into a tense courtroom drama. It opens in the U.S. on Friday, with the U.K. getting it next week. If you were hoping to stream it immediately, yeah... not happening.
What you need to know right now
- U.S. theaters: Friday, November 7, 2025; U.K. release follows next week
- Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
- Runtime: 148 minutes
- Festival pedigree: Premiered at the Toronto Film Festival
- Scores at the moment: IMDb 7.5, Rotten Tomatoes 73% (and counting)
- Streaming status: No date yet. Expect a traditional 45-day theatrical run, then likely a VOD drop (think Amazon/Apple TV) roughly a month after that
- Actual streaming service: Could be Netflix, thanks to Sony's 2022 pay-one output deal that ties Netflix's upfront licensing fee to box office. But plenty of smaller Sony titles skip Netflix entirely and land elsewhere, so this one is genuinely TBD
- Timing reality check: A proper streaming subscription release is probably 3–6 months out, depending on performance
The movie
Vanderbilt is dramatizing the first-of-its-kind international trial that prosecuted high-ranking Nazi officials after the war. Crowe plays Goering, the regime's most notorious surviving figure at the time. Michael Shannon is Robert H. Jackson, the U.S. Supreme Court justice who served as chief prosecutor, which should tell you where a lot of the dramatic oxygen is going to be.
How close does it stick to history?
The film aims to feel authentic without being a lecture. Vanderbilt says they did the homework, but he also admits there are limits to what you can squeeze into a feature. For example, Jackson's real opening statement ran about three hours. You will not be watching Michael Shannon talk uninterrupted for that long, as riveting as that might be.
'We researched this thing within an inch of its life to be as accurate as humanly possible. But when you take a true story that unfolds over a year and condense it into two hours, you have to leave things out and make deliberate choices.'
Bottom line
If you're curious, see it in a theater this weekend. With VOD likely next month and subscription streaming months away, the big-screen version is your only real option for a while. And yes, I know: the business side of where it lands later is weirdly fascinating here, given that Netflix deal that flexes based on box office.