The Reader

The Reader streams in the US on Britbox Apple TV channel, Lionsgate+ Amazon Channel, Kanopy, Fawesome and 2 more apps, as of October 5, 2026.

Behind the mystery lies a truth that will make you question everything you know.

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.