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1. Simon Wiesenthal: Freedom Is Not a Gift from Heaven (1994 TV Movie)
Documentary
Director: Willy Lindwer | Star: Simon Wiesenthal
Votes: 10
2.
In Search of... (1977–1982)
Episode:
The Angel of Death
(1979)
Not Rated | Documentary
The hunt for the fugitive sadistic Nazi doctor and his most famous pursuer, Simon Wiesenthal.
Stars: Leonard Nimoy, Ella Lingens, Josef Mengele, Berndt von Staden
Votes: 25
3.
Hitler's Holocaust (2000– )
Episode:
Entscheidung
(2000)
50 min | Documentary, History
1942: Hitler proclaims the mass murdering a "deed performed for humanity and" and following Pearl Harbor, he declares war on America. He then focuses on the expansion of concentration camps in the first years of World War II.
Director: Maurice Philip Remy | Stars: Stephen Rashbrook, Simon Wiesenthal
Votes: 15
4. In Search of... (1977–1982)
Not Rated | 30 min | Documentary
Leonard Nimoy hosts investigations into various mysteries.
Stars: Leonard Nimoy, Hans Holzer, J. Francis Hitching, George O. Abell
Votes: 1,120
5.
Hitler's Holocaust (2000– )
Episode:
Ghetto
(2000)
50 min | Documentary, History
Once Poland was occupied, more extreme methods became acceptable. Many Jews failed to read the signs and stayed till it was too late, some kept believing reason, morality or past merits ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Philip Remy | Stars: Stephen Rashbrook, Simon Wiesenthal
Votes: 16
6. The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton (2002)
64 min | Documentary
A gripping documentary about the courage and determination of a young English stockbroker who saved the lives of 669 children. Between March 13 and August 2, 1939, Nicholas Winton organized... See full summary »
Director: Matej Minac | Stars: Joe Schlesinger, Karel Reisz, Hugo Morom, Joseph Guns
Votes: 188
7. Shadows From My Past (2013)
86 min | Documentary, Family, History
SHADOWS FROM MY PAST interweaves the tragic fate of one Austrian Jewish Family from Vienna. Letters written from 1939 - 1941 as they were trying to save their children and each other ... See full summary »
Directors: Curt Kaufman, Gita Kaufman | Stars: Kurt Waldheim, Simon Wiesenthal, Jörg Haider, Heinz Fischer
Votes: 10
8. Hitler's Holocaust (2000– )
270 min | Documentary, History
Under the guidance of Simon Wiesenthal, documents the year-long process leading up to 'the Final Solution' using newly accessible Eastern European archives, first-hand eyewitness accounts and world renowned historians.
Stars: Simon Wiesenthal, Stephen Rashbrook, Hans Münch, Estrongo Nachama
Votes: 169
9.
Hitler's Holocaust (2000– )
Episode:
Menschenjagd
(2000)
51 min | Documentary, History
1939-1941: As murder of men, women and children becomes rampant, pogroms and deportation into Jewish ghettos are commonplace. Himmler, Hitler's executioner, is confronted with his own ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Philip Remy | Stars: Stephen Rashbrook, Simon Wiesenthal
Votes: 20
10. The Twentieth Century (1957–1968)
30 min | Documentary, History
A long-running documentary series concerning the news and cultural events which shaped the 20th century. It also offered interpretations of the meaning of certain events, and placed wars ... See full summary »
Stars: Walter Cronkite, Daniel Schorr, Winston Burdett, Peter Kalischer
Votes: 85
11.
Hitler's Holocaust (2000– )
Episode:
Befreiung
(2000)
50 min | Documentary, History
1944-1945: As Germany's military situation becomes more and more hopeless, Hitler focuses on his objective of genocide. His new goal is to prevent anyone from bearing witness to the ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Philip Remy | Stars: Stephen Rashbrook, Simon Wiesenthal
Votes: 11
12.
Hitler's Holocaust (2000– )
Episode:
Mordfabrik
(2000)
51 min | Documentary, History
1942: As the flames of madness consume Europe, day and night, the death trains leave German towns. The broad masses realize the truth, but stay silent. At auctions, they even buy up what ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Philip Remy | Stars: Ulrich de Maizière, Hans Münch, Estrongo Nachama, Anna Palarczyk
Votes: 14
13.
Hitler's Holocaust (2000– )
Episode:
Widerstand
(2000)
51 min | Documentary, History
A look into courage and heroism in the face of impossible odds, and German soldiers who conspire to assassinate Hitler, but whose failure cost them their lives. The Jewish citizens of the ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Philip Remy | Stars: Stephen Rashbrook, Simon Wiesenthal
Votes: 10
14. Die Kunst des Erinnerns - Simon Wiesenthal (1995)
99 min | Documentary
THE ART OF REMEMBRANCE follows the life and work of Simon Wiesenthal, the eponymous humanitarian and Holocaust survivor, a man who has become one of the most important Jewish heroes of our time.
Directors: Johanna Heer, Werner Schmiedel | Stars: Simon Wiesenthal, Raul Hilberg, Marvin Hier, Mark Weitzmann
Votes: 9
15. Memorandum (1966)
58 min | Documentary
A Jewish Holocaust survivor travels through Germany recalling scenes from his memory.
Directors: Donald Brittain, John Spotton | Stars: Bernard Laufer, Emil Bednarek, Wilhelm Boger, Arthur Breitwieser
Votes: 76
16.
Reputations (1994–2002)
Episode:
Albert Speer: The Nazi Who Said Sorry
(1996)
Documentary
Director: Martin Davidson | Stars: Andrew Sachs, Albert Speer, Alan Bullock, Dorothee Casalis
Votes: 16
17. Biography (1987– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life stories of various historical figures and celebrities are told.
Stars: Jack Perkins, Peter Graves, Harry Smith, Robert J. Thompson
Votes: 2,087
18.
Biography (1987– )
Episode:
Simon Wiesenthal: The Man Who Hunted Nazis
(1998)
TV-14 | Documentary, Biography, History
Star: Simon Wiesenthal
Votes: 80
19. Forget Me Not: The Anne Frank Story (1996 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
A young man intrigued by the Neo-Nazi movement inadvertently takes a time-traveling trip back to the Holocaust and finds himself on a heart-wrenching, eye-opening journey with Anne Frank.
Director: Fred Holmes | Stars: Reg Grant, Ivan Borodin, Jenny Krochmal, Quenby Bakke
Votes: 45
20. Ondskabens anatomi (2005)
93 min | Documentary
A film essay which includes interviews with the perpetrators of genocide committed over the last 50 years - from World War II to the Balkan conflict.
Director: Ove Nyholm | Stars: Benjamin Ferencz, Ratko Mladic, Simon Wiesenthal
Votes: 43
21. As Seen Through These Eyes (2008)
70 min | Documentary
As Maya Angelou narrates this powerful documentary, she reveals the story of a brave group of people who fought Hitler with the only weapons they had: charcoal, pencil stubs, shreds of paper and memories etched in their minds.
Director: Hilary Helstein | Stars: Maya Angelou, Simon Wiesenthal, Aaron Simon Gross
Votes: 90
22. 60 Minutes (1968– )
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, News
The classic long-running prime time TV investigative news magazine.
Stars: Andrew Rooney, Lesley Stahl, Steve Kroft, Morley Safer
Votes: 4,338
23. Die SS - Eine Warnung der Geschichte (2002– )
43 min | Documentary
Stars: Artur Brauner, Simon Wiesenthal, Günther Stark
Votes: 32
24. Genocide (1982)
PG | 90 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor compassionately narrate this harrowing documentary about Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany, which soon turned into a notoriously industrious plan to wipe them from existence.
Director: Arnold Schwartzman | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Orson Welles, Simon Wiesenthal, Neville Chamberlain
Votes: 681
25. The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe - 1933-1945 (1981)
89 min | Documentary, Drama, History
With a great archive footage coming from 16 countries, this Oscar nominated documentary briefly presents some of the most important facts about the Nazist persecution against Jews in Europe, starting with Hitler's rise to the power.
Director: Dieter Hildebrandt | Stars: Alexander Scourby, Holger Hagen, Helga Mayer-Maynard, Simon Wiesenthal
Votes: 115
26. Majdanek 1944 - Opfer und Täter (1986)
65 min | Documentary
This documentary is the film record of one of the first Nazi war crimes trials, which was conducted while the war was still raging. Majdanek, a concentration and extermination camp located ... See full summary »
Directors: Bengt von zur Mühlen, Irmgard von zur Mühlen | Stars: Bengt von zur Mühlen, Simon Wiesenthal
Votes: 10
27. Reputations (1994–2002)
50 min | Documentary
Documentary profiles examining well-known figures from the world of entertainment and history.
Stars: Jancis Robinson, Veronika Hyks, Denis Lawson, Josette Simon
Votes: 23
28.
Die SS - Eine Warnung der Geschichte (2002– )
Episode:
Totenkopf
(2002)
Documentary
Directors: Stefan Brauburger, Friederike Haedecke | Stars: Artur Brauner, Günther Stark, Simon Wiesenthal
Votes: 11
29. Panorama (I) (1953– )
40 min | Documentary, News
Long-running factual programme reporting on all aspects of life in Britain.
Stars: Fred Emery, David Dimbleby, Richard Lindley, Richard Dimbleby
Votes: 598
30. Club 2 (1976–2012)
Talk-Show
Club 2 Show.
Stars: Rudolf Nagiller, Renata Schmidtkunz, Günther Nenning, Michael Köhlmeier
Votes: 18
31. The Odessa File (1974)
PG | 130 min | Drama, Thriller
Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain, who commanded a concentration camp during World War II.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm
Votes: 12,072 | Gross: $1.11M
32. Directions (1960–1984)
30 min | Drama, Family, Music
Stars: Elaine Bonazzi, Marian Seldes, The American Broadcasting Company Symphony Orchestra, Ramon Bieri
Votes: 19
33. As from Afar (2013)
26 min | Short, History
The Israeli historian Tom Segev writes about Simon Wiesenthal's strangest relationship: his friendship with Albert Speer. Speer who was the third Reich's chief architect and one of Hitler's... See full summary »
Director: Dani Gal | Stars: Charles Brauer, Pavel Fieber, Gideon Singer
Votes: 7
34. Max and Helen (1990 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, Romance, War
Based on the fact-based novel by Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal based on his 1962 prosecution of the head of a German factory whom he learns was a murderous labor camp commandant. To be able ... See full summary »
Director: Philip Saville | Stars: Treat Williams, Alice Krige, Martin Landau, Jonny Phillips
Votes: 185
35. Ghetto Theresienstadt: Deception and Reality (2006 TV Movie)
72 min | Documentary
This archive film footage documents the daily life of a Nazi concentration camp called Theresienstadt (also known as Terezin). Used by the Nazis as a "show" camp to draw attention away from... See full summary »
Director: Irmgard von zur Mühlen | Star: Wolfgang Scheffler
Votes: 10
36. Apostrophes (1975–1990)
Talk-Show
Apostrophes is a French literary television program produced and hosted by Bernard Pivot, broadcast live on Antenne 2 between January 10, 1975, and June 22, 1990, every Friday evening at 9:... See full summary »
Stars: Bernard Pivot, Claude-Jean Philippe, Gilles Lapouge, Jean d'Ormesson
Votes: 47
37. The Nazi (2002)
14 min | Short, Drama
In 1987, Helen, who's dying of leukemia, travels to Israel to see imprisoned WW2 Nazi war criminal Franz who ran a concentration camp where her grandmother was killed. She wishes to make peace and forgive, but he is unrepentant.
Director: Rod Lurie | Stars: Maura Tierney, James Cromwell, Shadi Dwait, Gil Hacohen
Votes: 48
38. Wogan (1982–1992)
35 min | Talk-Show
Terry Wogan hosts his own long-running chat show, where he interviews a variety of guests, from public life to celebrities. Also featured are regular musical guests performing their latest songs.
Stars: Terry Wogan, Sue Lawley, Joanna Lumley, Gloria Hunniford
Votes: 313
39. Eine Epoche vor Gericht (1961)
Documentary
Stars: Adolf Eichmann, Joachim Besser, Peter Schier-Gribowski, Benjamin Halevy
40. Blågul Nazism (1993–1995)
60 min | Documentary
A three-part series about the Swedish Nazism during WW2 and up till the middle of the 1990's. How different fractions try to gain political power by local elections and loud manifestations.
Stars: Ingemar Schmid, Ingrid Segerstedt Wiberg, Helene Lööw, Simon Wiesenthal
41. Nazi Hunters: Stalking Evil (1996 TV Movie)
44 min | Documentary
Nazi Hunters: Stalking Evil documents the pursuit of Nazis and other members of the Third Reich. It profiles the men and women who helped to bring war criminals to justice. It features ... See full summary »
Directors: David Bryant, Amy Walter Richards | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Morris Dees, Eli Rosenbaum, Simon Wiesenthal
42. Zeugen des Jahrhunderts (1979– )
60 min | Talk-Show
Witnesses of the century.
Stars: Friedrich Müller, Anne Linsel, Hans Bünte, Georg Stefan Troller
43. Alpha Forum (1998– )
45 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Werner Reuß, Hans Jürgen Mende, Christoph Lindenmeyer, Isabella Schmid
44. Einige Tage im Leben des ... (1967–1976)
45 min | Documentary
Stars: Matthias Walden, Willy Brandt, Franz Josef Strauß, Kurt-Georg Kiesinger
45. Versió directa (1991–1992)
Talk-Show
Stars: Jordi Llompart, Òscar Nebreda, Lluís Gavaldà, Juanjo Puigcorbé
46. Zoom (1965–1968)
Documentary
Stars: Stanislas Faure, Michèle Bailly, Michel Debré, Alain de Sedouy
47. Mordere iblandt os (1967 TV Movie)
22 min | Documentary, Biography, War
Television special about Simon Wiesenthal, a survivor of the Holocaust.
Director: Henning Knudsen | Stars: Simon Wiesenthal, Anton Kjædegaard
48. Der Holocaust-Befehl (1992 TV Special)
60 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Guido Knopp, Ralph Giordano, Ekkehard Kühn, Ralf Piechowiak
49.
The Twentieth Century (1957–1968)
Episode:
Who Killed Anne Frank?
(1964)
30 min | Documentary, History
Stars: Walter Cronkite, Anne Frank, Simon Wiesenthal
50.
Alpha Forum (1998– )
Episode:
Simon Wiesenthal - Gründer des Jüdischen Dokumentationszentrums in Wien
(1998)
Talk-Show
Stars: Andreas Bönte, Simon Wiesenthal