Post-War Justice Films and Docs
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1. The Debt (I) (2010)
R | 113 min | Drama, Thriller
In 1965, three Mossad Agents cross into East Berlin to apprehend a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, the secrets the Agents share come back to haunt them.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Chastain
Votes: 71,882 | Gross: $31.18M
2. Elusive Justice: The Search for Nazi War Criminals (2011)
TV-14 | 116 min | Documentary
From PBS: At the end of WWII the Allies declared the Nazi party a criminal organization, and pledged to prosecute and punish the architects and triggermen of genocide. It was an ambitious ... See full summary »
Director: Jonathan Silvers | Star: Candice Bergen
Votes: 75
3. The Memory of Justice (1976)
PG | 278 min | Documentary, War
Explores the subject of atrocities during wartime, especially during World War II and the Vietnam War.
Director: Marcel Ophüls | Stars: Yehudi Menuhin, Noël Favrelières, Anthony Herbert, Edward Sowders
Votes: 383
4. Krasnodar - Der Prozeß von 1943 (1987)
55 min | Documentary
Krasnodar was the site of the first World War II war crimes trial, convened by Soviet authorities in July 1943. A Russian city of 500,000 inhabitants, Krasnodar was occupied by the Germans ... See full summary »
Director: Irmgard von zur Mühlen
5. Strafsache 4 Ks 2/63 - Auschwitz vor dem Frankfurter Schwurgericht (1993– )
180 min | Documentary
Stars: Joachim Kügler, Hermann Langbein, Edgar M. Böhlke, Isser Harel
Votes: 100
6. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Approved | 179 min | Drama, War
In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich
Votes: 85,525
7. Hôtel Terminus (1988)
Unrated | 267 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary about Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief of Lyon, and his life after the war.
Director: Marcel Ophüls | Stars: Klaus Barbie, Claude Lanzmann, Marcel Ophüls, Johannes Schneider-Merck
Votes: 1,589 | Gross: $0.34M
8. The Statement (2003)
R | 120 min | Drama, Thriller
Tale of a former Nazi executioner who becomes a target of hitmen and police investigators.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Alan Bates, Jeremy Northam
Votes: 5,553 | Gross: $0.76M
9. Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story (1986 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 104 min | Biography, Drama, History
Farrah Fawcett plays real-life Beate Klarsfeld, a German Protestant housewife who, with the help of her Jewish law-student husband, Serge, began an unrelenting campaign after World War II ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Tom Conti, Geraldine Page, Hélène Vallier
Votes: 210
10. La traque (2008 TV Movie)
110 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery
Based on the true story of the Klarsfelds, a Franco-German couple who devoted themselves to bringing Nazi war criminals to justice. Their pursuit of Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon," ... See full summary »
Director: Laurent Jaoui | Stars: Franka Potente, Yvan Attal, Hanns Zischler, Jesus Rojas
Votes: 360
11. The Boys from Brazil (1978)
R | 125 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer
Votes: 30,579 | Gross: $19.00M
12. Nazi Hunters (2009– )
650 min | Documentary
The hunt for Nazi war criminals after the Second World War.
Stars: Alisdair Simpson, Erich Goldhagen
Votes: 104
13. La Traque des Nazis (2007 TV Movie)
86 min | Documentary
This film is a tribute to the men and women who, like Simon Wiesenthal, Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, devoted their lives to the hunt for former Nazis. Composed of archival documents, it opens... See full summary »
Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Star: Mathieu Kassovitz
Votes: 84
14. Nuremberg (2000)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama, History, War
The dramatized account of the war crime trials following the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
Stars: Alec Baldwin, Brian Cox, Christopher Plummer, Jill Hennessy
Votes: 6,960
15. Nazi Fugitives (2010–2011)
Documentary, History
Witnesses and historians retell the events leading up to the capture and or death of some of World War Two's most heinous Nazi fugitives.
Stars: Fred Napoli, Guy Walters, Serge Klarsfeld, Beate Klarsfeld
Votes: 235
16. Walk on Water (2004)
R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Following the suicide of his wife, an Israeli intelligence agent is assigned to befriend the grandchildren of a Nazi war criminal.
Director: Eytan Fox | Stars: Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters, Gideon Shemer
Votes: 7,047 | Gross: $2.71M
17. Marathon Man (1976)
R | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After the shocking murder of his older brother, a New York history student finds himself inexplicably hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane
Votes: 70,234 | Gross: $21.71M
18. The Devil Next Door (2019– )
TV-MA | 46 min | Documentary, Crime, History
A Cleveland grandfather is brought to trial in Israel, accused of being the infamous German death camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible.
Stars: Yoram Sheftel, Eli Gabay, Michael Shaked, Eli Rosenbaum
Votes: 15,084
19. Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial (2006)
Not Rated | 180 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Profiles on the major defendants of the Nuremberg war crimes trials.
Stars: Matthew Macfadyen, Richard Overy, John Dolibois, Whitney Harris
Votes: 356
20. Bureau 06 (2013)
58 min | Documentary
This is the dramatic story of Bureau 06, the team of police investigators formed for the sole purpose of investigating and preparing the grave charges brought by the Jewish people against ... See full summary »
Director: Yoav Halevy | Stars: Shir Biran, Roni Gammer, Oded Menaster, Yonatan Rozen
Votes: 14
21. Nicht Rache, sondern Gerechtigkeit: Das Leben von Beate und Serge Klarsfeld (2017 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Directors: Frank Gutermuth, Wolfgang Schoen
22. Rogues' Regiment (1948)
Passed | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
A post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Dick Powell, Märta Torén, Vincent Price, Stephen McNally
Votes: 200
23. Music Box (1989)
PG-13 | 124 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest, Donald Moffat
Votes: 8,661 | Gross: $6.26M
24. The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, History, War
The story of the 1960 hostile extraction of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, by the Mossad to Israeli justice.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Robert Duvall, Arliss Howard, Jeffrey Tambor, Jack Laufer
Votes: 802
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