world war II & the Holocaust
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1. Downfall (2004)
R | 156 min | Biography, Drama, History
Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler
Votes: 375,113 | Gross: $5.51M
2. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
Not Rated | 120 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.
Director: Marc Rothemund | Stars: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Alexander Held, Johanna Gastdorf
Votes: 28,662 | Gross: $0.68M
3. Sarah's Key (2010)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, War
In modern-day Paris, a journalist finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942.
Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner | Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot
Votes: 17,922 | Gross: $7.69M
4. Fateless (2005)
R | 140 min | Drama, Romance, War
14-year-old György's life is torn apart in WWII Hungary, as he is deported first to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald, where he is forced to become a man in the midst of hatred, and what it really means to be Jewish.
Director: Lajos Koltai | Stars: Marcell Nagy, Béla Dóra, Bálint Péntek, Áron Dimény
Votes: 7,151 | Gross: $0.20M
5. Out of the Ashes (I) (2003 TV Movie)
R | 113 min | Drama
A Holocaust survivor heads for America where she dreams of starting a new life, but finds it difficult to put the past behind her, especially when she's forced to relive the nightmare of Auschwitz.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Christine Lahti, Bruce Davison, Jonathan Cake, Jolyon Baker
Votes: 1,345
6. I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal (2007)
PG-13 | 105 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary on the Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer who became a Nazi hunter after surviving the Holocaust.
Director: Richard Trank | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Simon Wiesenthal, Asher BenNatan, Frederick Forsyth
Votes: 740 | Gross: $0.01M
7. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)
PG | 122 min | Documentary, History, War
The secret smuggling of 9,300 Jewish children out of Nazi Germany in the late 1930s.
Director: Mark Jonathan Harris | Stars: Judi Dench, Lory Cahn, Kurt Fuchel, Eva Hayman
Votes: 1,960 | Gross: $0.37M
8. Strike Back (2010–2020)
TV-MA | 45 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Follows the actions of Section 20, a secretive unit of British military intelligence. A team of special operations personnel conduct several high risk missions across the globe.
Stars: Philip Winchester, Sullivan Stapleton, Michelle Lukes, Daniel MacPherson
Votes: 33,482
9. Inheritance (I) (2006)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary
"Inheritance" is the story of Monika Hertwig and her journey to accept the truth about her father, Nazi commander Amon Goeth, who was portrayed by actor Ralph Fiennes in "Schindler's List."... See full summary »
Director: James Moll | Stars: Vivian Delman, Monika Hertwig, Reinhardt Hertwig, Helen Jonas
Votes: 518
10. Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
48 min | Documentary, History, War
The history of the Final Solution phase of the Nazi Holocaust, particularly with the most infamous of the death camps.
Stars: Samuel West, Linda Hunt, Gert Heidenreich, Horst Günter Marx
Votes: 4,652
11. Scrapbooks from Hell: The Auschwitz Albums (2008 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary
Shows historical photographs not found until 1978 describing the atrocities at Auschwitz along with the carefree activities of those that committed them.
Director: Erik Nelson | Stars: Richard Baer, Michael Berenbaum, Eileen Blankenbaker, Sara J. Bloomfield
Votes: 98
12. The Grey Zone (2001)
R | 108 min | Drama, History, War
A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral gray zone.
Director: Tim Blake Nelson | Stars: David Arquette, Velizar Binev, David Chandler, Michael Stuhlbarg
Votes: 11,420 | Gross: $0.52M
13. Kapo (1960)
116 min | Drama, War
A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo | Stars: Susan Strasberg, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva, Didi Perego
Votes: 2,592
14. Spring 1941 (2007)
R | 120 min | Drama, War
Successful doctor Artur Planck, his wife Clara and their two daughters are seeking shelter from the Nazis storming Poland. A violent love triangle ensues between Arthur, Clara and Emelia, the woman they are taking shelter with.
Director: Uri Barbash | Stars: Joseph Fiennes, Clare Higgins, Neve McIntosh, Kelly Harrison
Votes: 798
15. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
Director: Roberto Benigni | Stars: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano
Votes: 742,949 | Gross: $57.60M
16. The Nazi Officer's Wife (2003)
90 min | Documentary, History, War
Edith Han was an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced Edith and her mother into a Jewish ghetto. Edith was taken away to a labor camp, and when she returned ... See full summary »
Director: Liz Garbus | Stars: Edith Hahn Beer, Julia Ormond, Susan Sarandon
Votes: 340
17. The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 95 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Irena Sendler, a social worker who was part of the Polish underground during World War II and was arrested by the Nazis for saving the lives of nearly 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto.
Director: John Kent Harrison | Stars: Anna Paquin, Goran Visnjic, Michelle Dockery, Danuta Stenka
Votes: 4,658
18. Shoah (1985)
Not Rated | 566 min | Documentary, History, War
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
Director: Claude Lanzmann | Stars: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaïdl, Hanna Zaïdl
Votes: 10,547 | Gross: $0.02M
19. A Film Unfinished (2010)
Unrated | 88 min | Documentary, Drama, History
A film about an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the cinematic manipulation forever changing the way we look at historic images.
Director: Yael Hersonski | Stars: Alexander Beyer, Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Avrutzki, Luba Gewisser
Votes: 1,899 | Gross: $0.31M
20. Goodbye, Children (1987)
PG | 104 min | Drama, War
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette, Stanislas Carré de Malberg
Votes: 36,114 | Gross: $4.54M
21. Kanal (1957)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, War
In 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaw's sewer system to escape the German encirclement.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Tadeusz Gwiazdowski
Votes: 8,035
22. 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: 85,439
23. Focus (I) (2001)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Romance
In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution... See full summary »
Director: Neal Slavin | Stars: William H. Macy, Laura Dern, David Paymer, Meat Loaf
Votes: 3,116 | Gross: $0.72M
24. Numbered (2012)
55 min | Documentary, History
Series involving 2 smart brothers solving crimes.
Directors: Dana Doron, Uriel Sinai | Stars: Gita Kalderon, Zoka Levy, Danny Chanoch, Regina Steinitz
Votes: 362
25. Alle Juden raus! (1991)
82 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This film traces the story of the German-Jewish Auerbach family of Oppingen, Germany, from 1933 through 1945. The film begins with home movies in the 1930s and follows Inge Auerbach from ... See full summary »
Director: Emanuel Rund | Stars: Edith Auerbacher, Inge Auerbacher, Regina Auerbacher
Votes: 28
26. Six Million and One (2011)
Not Rated | 93 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A filmmaker and his siblings research the experiences of their late father, who survived the Holocaust during World War II.
Director: David Fisher | Star: David Fisher
Votes: 49
27. The Nazis: A Warning from History (1997)
292 min | Documentary, History, War
An examination of how a cultured people could have allowed Adolf Hitler's rise to power.
Stars: Samuel West, Adolf Buchner, Jutta Rüdiger, Günther Ruschin
Votes: 1,721
28. Train of Life (1998)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, War
In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
Director: Radu Mihaileanu | Stars: Lionel Abelanski, Rufus, Clément Harari, Michel Muller
Votes: 9,588 | Gross: $0.15M
29. O Jerusalem (2006)
R | 100 min | Drama, History
A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the country of Israel is being created.
Director: Élie Chouraqui | Stars: JJ Feild, Saïd Taghmaoui, Maria Papas, Patrick Bruel
Votes: 972 | Gross: $0.23M
30. Uprising (2001 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 177 min | Drama, War
Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
Director: Jon Avnet | Stars: Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer, Jon Voight
Votes: 5,120
31. One Day You'll Understand (2008)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Director: Amos Gitai | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Hippolyte Girardot, Emmanuelle Devos, Dominique Blanc
Votes: 374 | Gross: $0.15M
32. Forgiving Dr. Mengele (2006)
Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary
Eva Mozes Kor, who survived Josef Mengele's cruel twin experiments in the Auschwitz concentration camp, shocks other Holocaust survivors when she decides to forgive the perpetrators as a way of self-healing.
Directors: Bob Hercules, Cheri Pugh | Stars: Eva Mozes Kor, Sami Adwan, Dan Bar-On, Michael Berenbaum
Votes: 621 | Gross: $0.01M
33. The Flat (2011)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary
As a documentarian cleans out the flat that belonged to his grandparents--both immigrants from Nazi Germany--he uncovers clues pointing to a complicated, shocking story.
Director: Arnon Goldfinger | Stars: Michael Adler, Yaron Amit, Avrham Barkai, Meital Beili
Votes: 1,509 | Gross: $0.47M
34. The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama, War
A carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store.
Directors: Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos | Stars: Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner, Frantisek Zvarík, Hana Slivková
Votes: 9,726
35. Nowhere in Africa (2001)
R | 141 min | Biography, Drama, History
Due to Hitler's threat, Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer, immigrates to Kenya with his wife Jettel and daughter Regina. Things take a turn when the family is ordered to move by the British officers.
Director: Caroline Link | Stars: Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Matthias Habich, Sidede Onyulo
Votes: 13,960 | Gross: $6.17M
36. The Round Up (2010)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, History, War
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
Director: Rose Bosch | Stars: Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh, Raphaëlle Agogué
Votes: 9,366
37. Kedma (2002)
100 min | Drama, History, War
In May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine--only to risk arrest by British troops.
Director: Amos Gitai | Stars: Andrei Kashker, Helena Yaralova, Moni Moshonov, Juliano Mer-Khamis
Votes: 788 | Gross: $0.01M
38. Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
R | 138 min | Drama, War
In 1944, an 18-year-old boy from small-town France collaborates with the Gestapo and subsequently falls in love with a Jewish girl.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Holger Löwenadler, Therese Giehse
Votes: 7,711
39. The Counterfeiters (2007)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, History
The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during World War II.
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky | Stars: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach
Votes: 47,175 | Gross: $5.48M
40. God afton, herr Wallenberg (1990)
Not Rated | 115 min | Biography, Drama, War
A story of how a Swedish diplomat saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the final months of World War II.
Director: Kjell Grede | Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Katharina Thalbach, Károly Eperjes, Miklós Székely B.
Votes: 1,050
41. In Our Own Hands (2000)
85 min | Documentary, War
The story of the only all-Jewish fighting force in World War II.
Director: Chuck Olin | Stars: Peter Thomas, Mike Nussbaum, Nicholas Rudall, Arie Amir
Votes: 50
42. Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suess (2008)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary
Though almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany's most notorious filmmakers. His most perfidious film was the treacherous anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süß ... See full summary »
Director: Felix Moeller | Stars: August Zirner, Alice Harlan, Lotte Harlan, Nele Harlan
Votes: 285 | Gross: $0.05M
43. Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust (2004)
Unrated | 97 min | Documentary
Menachem Daum, the son of holocaust survivors, and a New York Orthodox Jew worries that both of his sons, full time yeshiva students who live with their families in Israel, are becoming ... See full summary »
Directors: Menachem Daum, Oren Rudavsky | Stars: Akiva Daum, Menachem Daum, Rifka Daum, Tzvi Dovid Daum
Votes: 167 | Gross: $0.05M
44. Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004)
92 min | Documentary, History
The history of Hollywood's handling of the Nazis and its later depiction of the Holocaust they perpetrated.
Director: Daniel Anker | Stars: Gene Hackman, Norma Barzman, Jack Benny, Michael Berenbaum
Votes: 663 | Gross: $0.02M
45. Shanghai Ghetto (2002)
95 min | Documentary
Stripped of possessions and rights, German and Eastern European Jews flee to an unlikely destination to avoid persecution from the Nazis.
Directors: Dana Janklowicz-Mann, Amir Mann | Stars: Stephen Chang, Irene Eber, Betty Grebenschikoff, Harold Janklowicz
Votes: 220 | Gross: $0.71M
46. The Danish Solution: The Rescue of the Jews in Denmark (2003)
Not Rated | 58 min | Documentary
Filmmakers Karen Cantor and Camilla Kjaerilff team to reveal how the Jews of Denmark managed to escape falling victim to Hitler's Third Reich.
Directors: Karen Cantor, Camilla Kjærulff | Star: Garrison Keillor
Votes: 34
47. Liberation (1994)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, History, War
Liberation tells the dramatic story of the battle waged on two fronts during World War II - the Allied campaign to liberate Europe and Hitler's genocidal campaign against the Jews.
Director: Arnold Schwartzman | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Miriam Margolyes, Patrick Stewart, Jean Boht
Votes: 119
48. The Ritchie Boys (2004)
90 min | Documentary, History, War
Holocaust survivors share their story of fleeing to the United States, joining the US Army, training in Military Intelligence, and returning to Europe to end Nazism by using their linguistic abilities.
Director: Christian Bauer | Stars: Michael Hanrahan, Werner Angress, Victor Brombert, Marlene Dietrich
Votes: 264
49. Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness (2000)
103 min | Documentary
The story of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, consul to Lithuania during World War II, who defied Tokyo authorities and wrote transit visas allowing Jewish families to flee Europe to Japan and other countries.
Director: Robert Kirk | Stars: Susan Bluman, Benjamin Fishoff, Neil Ross, Liane Schirmer
Votes: 95
50. My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports (1996)
Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary
According to Hulu's offering, this documentary (from 1966) is "a Powerful account of an astonishing slice of Holocaust history, told with poignant intimacy by the daughter of a survivor. On... See full summary »
Director: Melissa Hacker | Stars: Eddie Better, Sonnie Better, Erika Estis, Kurt Fuchel
Votes: 79
51. Steal a Pencil for Me (2007)
Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary, Romance
The true story of the troubled marriage of Jaap and Manja Polak, who lived in German occupied Amsterdam. During the war, Jaap met and fell in love with Ina Soep.
Director: Michèle Ohayon | Stars: J.P. Gillain, Jeroen Krabbé, Marieke Oudejans, Jack Polak
Votes: 430
52. Broken Silence (2002– )
300 min | Documentary
About the gruesome details from eyewitness accounts of the atrocities committed in the name of Nazi Germany. In many instances, the local police, were the perpetrators, operating under orders from the Eitsanzgruppen-SS.
Stars: Jack Fuchs, Liza Zajak-Novera, Robert Lamberg, Benjamin Mehl
Votes: 243
53.
Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode:
Escape from Auschwitz
(2008)
TV-PG | 55 min | Documentary, History, War
Follow the route used by Vrba and Wetzler in their "great feat of escapology" when fleeing the Auschwitz death camps.
Director: Alex Nikolic-Dunlop | Stars: Yehudi Bauer, David Cesarani, Martin Gilbert, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 51
54.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference
(1994)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
As the campaign to force Jews out of Germany ramps up, the American government blocks efforts to help rescue many of these displaced persons, and Americans' antisemitism only seems to get worse.
Director: Marty Ostrow | Star: Hal Linden
Votes: 71
55. 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
56. A Secret (2007)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, War
A 15-year-old boy unearths a shocking family secret.
Director: Claude Miller | Stars: Cécile de France, Patrick Bruel, Ludivine Sagnier, Julie Depardieu
Votes: 3,243 | Gross: $0.62M
57. Secrets of the Nazi Criminals (1962)
57 min | Documentary, War
Documents the major trial of the Nazi war criminals and the violent acts that they were accused of.
Director: Tore Sjöberg | Stars: Claude Stephenson, Henning Skaarup, Mogens Wieth, Joseph Goebbels
Votes: 41
58. Angry Harvest (1985)
R | 105 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers ... See full summary »
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Wojciech Pszoniak, Gerd Baltus
Votes: 867
59. 38 (1986)
97 min | Drama
In 1938, Austria is about to become a part of the Third Reich. A theater actress and a Jewish journalist fall in love and spend time together, completely ignoring the political turmoil of the time despite friendly warnings.
Director: Wolfgang Glück | Stars: Tobias Engel, Sunnyi Melles, Heinz Trixner, Romuald Pekny
Votes: 190
60. Call Me a Jew (2012)
Documentary
The involvement of large parts of the Austrian population in the Nazi extermination machine remains tangible to this day. For a long time remembering the destruction of the Jews was taboo. ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Pfeifenberger | Star: Julian Sharp
Votes: 17
61. Divided We Fall (2000)
PG-13 | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, War
In German-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia), a childless couple agree to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution.
Director: Jan Hrebejk | Stars: Bolek Polívka, Csongor Kassai, Jaroslav Dusek, Anna Sisková
Votes: 5,389 | Gross: $1.32M
62. The Island on Bird Street (1997)
PG-13 | 107 min | Biography, Drama, War
During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.
Director: Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Stars: Patrick Bergin, Jordan Kiziuk, Jack Warden, James Bolam
Votes: 1,897
63. Black Book (2006)
R | 145 min | Drama, Thriller, War
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn
Votes: 80,493 | Gross: $4.40M
64. Landscape After Battle (1970)
109 min | Drama, History, Romance
The film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury the tormentors they find alive. They are ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Stanislawa Celinska, Aleksander Bardini, Tadeusz Janczar
Votes: 885
65. Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985 TV Movie)
200 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Alice Krige, Kenneth Colley, Melanie Mayron
Votes: 430
66. Conspiracy (2001 TV Movie)
R | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: Clare Bullus, Stanley Tucci, Simon Markey, David Glover
Votes: 24,789
67. The Hiding Place (1975)
PG | 150 min | Biography, Drama, History
During WWII, a Dutch family caught hiding Jews is sent to a concentration camp where their Christian faith helps them endure the hardships.
Director: James F. Collier | Stars: Julie Harris, Jeannette Clift, Arthur O'Connell, Robert Rietty
Votes: 2,394
68. Hitler's Children (2011)
Not Rated | 59 min | Documentary, History
A look into the lives of the descendants of the top Nazi officials who worked under Hitler's command.
Director: Chanoch Ze'evi | Stars: Bettina Göring, Katrin Himmler, Monika Hertwig, Rainer Höß
Votes: 1,297 | Gross: $0.03M
69. Irena Sendler: In the Name of Their Mothers (2011)
60 min | Documentary, Biography, War
95-year-old Polish heroine Irena Sendler tells the unknown story of a conspiracy of women who outwitted the Nazis and rescued thousands of Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto during WWII.
Director: Mary Skinner | Stars: Irena Sendlerowa, Jan Becker
Votes: 61
70. Israel: Birth of a Nation (1996 TV Movie)
Unrated | 100 min | Documentary, History, War
Sir Martin Gilbert, author of over sixty books and the host of A&E's JERUSALEM, hosts this gripping account of Israel's difficult first years. Filled with rare footage, photographs, and ... See full summary »
Director: Herb Krosney | Stars: Martin Gilbert, David Ben-Gurion
Votes: 119
71. Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century: The Resurgence (2007 TV Movie)
PG | 56 min | Documentary
Director: Andrew Goldberg | Star: Judy Woodruff
Votes: 23
73. Nazi America: A Secret History (2000 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 92 min | Documentary, History, War
A history of the Nazi movement in the United States.
Stars: D. Paul Thomas, Adolf Hitler, Susan Canedy, Charles Higham
Votes: 93
74. Ever Again (2006)
Not Rated | 73 min | Documentary, History, War
Ever Again examines the sweeping resurgence of antisemitism in 21st century Europe and its connection to global terrorism.
Director: Richard Trank | Stars: Kevin Costner, Dyab Abou Jahjah, Milo Adoner, Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
Votes: 72
75. Not Idly by: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust
59 min | Documentary, History
Most Americans--even many American Jews--believe that we didn't know. Many assume that we couldn't have done anything about the massacre of the Jews of Europe during World War II even if we... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Sauvage | Star: Peter Bergson
76. Voices from the List (2004 Video)
77 min | Documentary, History
Documentary film produced for the 10th anniversary release of the film Schindler's List (1993) and the establishment of the "Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation"
Director: Michael Mayhew | Stars: Steven Spielberg, Leon Leyson, Leopold Rosner, Ludmila Page
Votes: 263
77. God on Trial (2008 TV Movie)
86 min | Drama, War
Awaiting their inevitable deaths at one of the worst concentration camps, a group of Jews make a rabbinical court to decide whether God has gone against the Holy Covenant and if He is the one guilty for their suffering.
Director: Andy De Emmony | Stars: Joseph Muir, Josef Altin, Ashley Artus, Alexi Kaye Campbell
Votes: 3,909
78. Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989 TV Movie)
160 min | Biography, Drama, War
A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation and his rise to become one of the ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Gibson | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Anton Lesser, Craig T. Nelson, Robert Morelli
Votes: 362
79. Un amour à taire (2005 TV Movie)
103 min | Drama, Romance, War
A young Jewish girl looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich after seeing her parents and sister brutally slain while attempting to make their way to England is sheltered by an old... See full summary »
Director: Christian Faure | Stars: Jérémie Renier, Louise Monot, Bruno Todeschini, Nicolas Gob
Votes: 3,206
80. Edges of the Lord (2001)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A twelve-year-old Jewish boy hides with a family of Catholic peasant farmers to escape the Nazis.
Director: Yurek Bogayevicz | Stars: Haley Joel Osment, Willem Dafoe, Richard Banel, Liam Hess
Votes: 3,693
81. The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
PG | 251 min | Documentary, History, War
An in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government's acceptance of the German invasion.
Director: Marcel Ophüls | Stars: Helmut Tausend, Marcel Verdier, Alexis Grave, Louis Grave
Votes: 4,095
82. Survivors of the Holocaust (1996 TV Movie)
70 min | Documentary, History, War
This documentary blends personal accounts of what happened before, during and after WWII. One testimony tells of a sister sending tear-stained letters from the prison camp, while another ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Holzman | Stars: Steven Spielberg, Henry Rosmarin, Hellmuth Szprycer
Votes: 218
83. Schindler: The Real Story (1983 TV Movie)
79 min | Documentary
The true story of Oskar Schindler's exploits in which he saved a thousand Jews from the ovens of the death camps, told by first hand witnesses. The British Academy Award winning documentary... See full summary »
Director: Jon Blair | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Emilie Schindler, Oskar Schindler, Winston Churchill
Votes: 338
84. The Brave Fighters: Resistance Stories Near Hitler's Ukrainian Headquarters (2010)
60 min | Documentary, Action, History
During World War II, ordinary citizens rescued many lives near Hitler's Headquarters in Ukraine. These are their stories.
Director: Edward Halitsky | Stars: Roxanne Halitsky, Steve Halitsky
Votes: 11
85. The Last Days of World War II (1995 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary, History, War
The end of the Second World War in Europe, and the aftermath: war criminals to be brought to trial, stolen art treasures to be returned to their rightful owners.
Stars: Bill Ratner, Konstantin Akinsha, Kenneth Alford, Tom Allen
Votes: 86
86. Churchill and the Cabinet War Rooms (1995 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Drama-documentary evoking what it was like to work closely with Churchill in the Cabinet War Rooms during the days of the Blitz and the later bombing raids on London.
Director: Andrew Johnston | Stars: John James Evanson, James Faulkner, Eve Matheson, David Tate
Votes: 29
87. George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin (1994 TV Movie)
46 min | Documentary, Biography, War
Produced and narrated by George Stevens Jr., this short documentary uses footage taken by his father when he was in the Army Signal Corps and follows American troops from D-Day in June 1944 to the end of the European war.
Director: George Stevens Jr. | Stars: George Stevens Jr., Dick Kent, Ken Marthey, Ivan Moffat
Votes: 402
88. D-Day: The Total Story (1994 TV Movie)
Documentary, History, War
Director: Rob Lihani | Stars: Gerald McRaney, Stephen Ambrose, John Keegan
Votes: 74
89. D-Day: Code Name Overlord (1998)
180 min | Documentary
From the search to find the appropriate landing site, the planning of the landing, its execution and aftermath, this is the complete story.
Director: Lanny Lee | Star: Dale Reed
Votes: 39
90. Rommel and the Plot to Kill Hitler (2006)
68 min | Documentary
How Field Marshal Erwin Rommel became implicated in the July 20, 1944 officers' plot against Hitler. A morality tale highlighting the dilemma of the modern soldier forced to choose between obeying orders and following his conscience.
Director: Nicholas Natteau | Stars: Yvonne Furneaux, Paul Gustavson, Stephan Jacobs, Steve Phillips
Votes: 19
91. Das Dritte Reich - In Farbe (1998 TV Movie)
105 min | Documentary, War
Most of what we know about World War II comes from monochromatic images and pictures. But this documentary brings something different: it's a fascinating collage of colored images from that... See full summary »
Director: Michael Kloft | Stars: Ion Antonescu, Martin Bormann, Eva Braun, Winston Churchill
Votes: 286
92. Heroes of Iwo Jima (2001 TV Movie)
94 min | Documentary, History, War
This heartrending documentary tells the story behind the most famous war photograph ever taken.
Director: Lauren Lexton | Stars: Gene Hackman, James Bradley
Votes: 79
93.
Hors Série (1998– )
Episode:
La chaconne d'Auschwitz
(1999)
104 min | Documentary
Director: Michel Daeron | Stars: Helene Scheps, Violette Jacquet-Silberstein, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Flora Schrivjer-Jacobs
Votes: 34
94. Im toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin (2002)
PG | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, War
Documentary featuring interview footage with Traudl Junge, one of Hitler's personal secretaries during WWII.
Directors: André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer | Star: Traudl Junge
Votes: 1,812 | Gross: $0.38M
95. Speer und er (2005– )
270 min | Biography, Drama, War
A reassessment of the role Albert Speer played in the Third Reich. Speer, who was ultimately convicted at the Nuremburg trials and served a 20-year prison sentence, was known for designing ... See full summary »
Stars: Sebastian Koch, Tobias Moretti, Dagmar Manzel, Susanne Schäfer
Votes: 800
96. The Bielski Brothers (1994)
50 min | Documentary
The Bielskis were the only Jewish family in their tiny village of Stankevich, and while Jews in Belorussia were persecuted under tsarist rule, the family managed to maintain a successful ... See full synopsis »
Director: Arun Kumar
Votes: 29
98. Paragraph 175 (2000)
Not Rated | 81 min | Documentary, History, Romance
Historian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175.
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | Stars: Rupert Everett, Klaus Müller, Karl Gorath, Pierre Seel
Votes: 2,192 | Gross: $0.07M
99. The Specialist (1999)
128 min | Documentary
The incredible trial of an appallingly ordinary man. Drawn entirely on the 350 hours of rare footage recorded during the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in 1961, in Jerusalem, this film about ... See full summary »
Director: Eyal Sivan | Stars: Adolf Eichmann, Gideon Hausner, Gabriel Bach, Avraham Lindwasser
Votes: 384 | Gross: $0.02M
100. My Favorite Hitler Youth (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 27 min | Short, Biography, Drama
In 1930s Germany, Friedrich Karl Nischwitz was a student at a military school for the Hitler Youth. After 4 years of beatings and humiliation by his classmates and elders, Fred finally ... See full summary »
Director: Mo Abersheid
Votes: 13
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