Holocaust Documentaries & Films Based on True Stories
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- DirectorClaude LanzmannStarsSimon SrebnikMichael PodchlebnikMotke ZaïdlClaude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
- StarsLinda HuntSamuel WestGert HeidenreichThe history of the Final Solution phase of the Nazi Holocaust, particularly with the most infamous of the death camps.
- DirectorAndré SingerStarsHelena Bonham CarterJasper BrittonLeonard BerneyResearchers discover film footage from World War II that turns out to be a lost documentary shot by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein in 1945 about German concentration camps.
- DirectorSidney BernsteinStarsJasper BrittonAdolf HitlerSidney BernsteinCameramen from Britain's Army Film Unit capture footage of concentration camps in German in 1945.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsDwight D. EisenhowerOmar N. BradleyGeorge S. PattonProduced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders.
- DirectorRichard RhodesStarsPatrick DesboisUncover the story of perhaps the most horrific chapter of the Holocaust - the two year killing frenzy of the Einsatzgruppen. Sift through the evidence left behind: photographs and one rare film that documented the inhuman attempts to carry out Hitler's Final Solution. Compared to what the Einsatzgruppen did on a daily basis, the killing chambers of Auschwitz almost seem humane. This terrible story is brought to life in one town that stands in for Einsatzgruppen's countless victims - one community where the faces and stories of the victims miraculously survived - although the men, woman and children behind the images did not.
- DirectorDollan CannellSpike GeilingerStarsRichard LinternKalman TeigmanDavid CesaraniSamuel Willenberg and Kalman Taigman, the last two survivors of the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka, recount the horrors they experienced during the war and talk about their lives after their escape in a prisoner uprising in 1943. Willenberg would go on to become a hero of the 1944 Warsaw uprising while Taigman would be called as a witness during the infamous trial of Adolf Eichmann.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsAdrien BrodyThomas KretschmannFrank FinlayDuring WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.
- DirectorAlan AdelsonKate TavernaStarsJerzy KosinskiTheodore BikelJulie CohenThe Polish city of Lodz was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entire duration of WWII. The segregation of the Jewish population into the ghetto, and the subsequent horrors of the occupation are vividly chronicled through newsreels and photographs. The narration is taken almost entirely from journals and diaries of those who lived--and died--through the course of the occupation, with the number of different narrators diminishing over the course of the film, symbolic of the death of each narrator.
- DirectorMichael VerhoevenStarsGötz AlySenta BergerAugust ZirnerThe so-called "Aryanization" in fascist Germany is without a doubt the biggest raids of the 20th century. Nonetheless, the issue is consistently hushed up. Because it was not the Gestapo, who broke into Jewish households to seize the possessions, but German financial officials. Larger valuables went to the authorities, the remainder was distributed in "auctions of non-Aryan possession" to the neighbors. Michael Verhoeven embarks his harrowing documentary in search of clues to the origins of the expropriation of the Jews in Germany. In the bonus material the director takes in an extensive interview about position and other aspects such as the expropriation of art to be deepened in the additional scenes.
- DirectorLaurence JarvikStarsPeter BergsonEmanuel CellerNahum GoldmanA documentary about America's knowledge of the Holocaust during the Second World War dares to ask, ""Could the Jews of Europe have been saved?"
- DirectorLászló NemesStarsGéza RöhrigLevente MolnárUrs RechnA Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.
- DirectorMatthew ShoychetStarsOskar GröningJeff AnsellHedy BohmSeventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- DirectorFrank PiersonStarsClare BullusStanley TucciSimon MarkeyAt 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.
- DirectorArthur CaryDocumentary compiling the testimonies of the last remaining Holocaust survivors living in Britain, all of whom were children at the time, and following them over the course of a year as they embark upon personal and profound journeys.
- DirectorClaude LanzmannStarsYehuda LernerFrancine KaufmannClaude LanzmannA gripping account of the prisoners uprising at the Nazi extermination camp of Sobibor in 1943.
- DirectorOliver HirschbiegelStarsBruno GanzAlexandra Maria LaraUlrich MatthesTraudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
- DirectorSteve PurcellStarsMichael BerenbaumWalter FeidenKelsey GrammerAuschwitz concentration camp survivor Kitty Hart-Moxon revisits Auschwitz 70 years after her liberation, together with two teenage girls the same age she was when she was brought to the camp.
- StarsJack FuchsLiza Zajak-NoveraRobert LambergAbout 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.
- DirectorDavid BergmanJacques EhrlichHaim GouriHistorical documentary made up of footage and stills shot by the Nazis. A compilation of testimony from witnesses who appeared at the Eichmann trial provides a telling narrative.
- DirectorArnold SchwartzmanStarsElizabeth TaylorOrson WellesSimon WiesenthalOrson 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.
- DirectorPaul BachowStarsPaul BachowMichael HayseDora LevinA Journey Into The Holocaust is a detailed and deeply personal exploration into genocide and how something this atrocious happened, and continues to happen again and again - even in modern times. First-time filmmaker, Paul Bachow, travels around the world and taps into a vast knowledge base of historians, psychology practitioners, and data derived from countless interviews with experts from around the world. Facts are corroborated and weaved together with first-hand accounts of Holocaust survivors. With 35 US states mandating (or having pending legislation to mandate) Holocaust education, Bachow's goal is that this film becomes an educational tool in schools for generations to come. A Journey Into the Holocaust is a documentary film about the Holocaust like no other.
- DirectorFerenc TörökStarsPéter RudolfBence TasnádiTamás Szabó Kimmel12 August 1945, 11 AM. Two mysterious strangers dressed in black appear at the railway station of a Hungarian village. Within a few hours, everything changes.
- DirectorMarian MarzynskiStarsSarah ChildressArun RathTravel to the Jewish ghettos of Poland to hear the poignant recollections of child survivors.
- DirectorMarcel OphülsStarsYehudi MenuhinNoël FavrelièresAnthony HerbertExplores the subject of atrocities during wartime, especially during World War II and the Vietnam War.
- DirectorPeter CohenBo KuritzenIn order to facilitate the destruction of Poland's three million Jews, the Nazis forced them to establish Jewish Councils responsible for administration of the Polish ghettos.
- DirectorPier MartonFace to face interviews about issues of identity for the European Children of Holocaust Survivors now living in the U.S.
- DirectorGordon J. MurrayStarsSusanne Severeid60-minute t.v. documentary follows the surviving adult twins of infamous Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele's experiments at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. This group of survivors, led by Mrs. Eva Mozes Kor, formed a support group called C.A.N.D.L.E.S, Children of Auschwitz Nazi's Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors, and speak here of their trauma and personal stories. The documentary follows the survivors as they visit Auschwitz, many for the first time since the War. This documentary also covers the mock Inquest in Jerusalem raising serious questions as to whether or not the bones found in Brazil were indeed those of Dr. Josef Mengele.
- DirectorNaomi GrynStarsHugo GrynAfter 45 years, Hugo Gryn returns to his hometown, Berehovo, in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains. It is a glimpse of a time when half the town was Jewish and evokes the world of Hugo's childhood.
- 1984–19967.2 (113)TV EpisodeDirectorMark GordonStarsKeanu ReevesKirsten DunstCynthia NixonKeanu Reeves hosts this special where celebrities narrate letters, diaries, and published stories of children who have lived through the Holocaust.
- StarsSamuel WestAdolf BuchnerJutta RüdigerAn examination of how a cultured people could have allowed Adolf Hitler's rise to power.
- DirectorStephen CrismanStarsLewis BlackKate BurtonMariel HemingwayDetails the support given by Switzerland and Swiss banks to the Nazis during WWII and post war attempts of some of Nazis' victims to recover asserts.
- DirectorMichaël PrazanStarsDavid BrinkleyEdward AsnerBrian BedfordActual trial footage, emotional recollections of trial witnesses and other key participants provide insight and contrasting perspectives of the Eichmann legacy.
- DirectorJames MollStarsBill BaschMartin BaschRandolph BrahamIn late 1944, even as they faced imminent defeat, the Nazis expended enormous resources to kill or deport over 425,000 Jews during the "cleansing" of Hungary. This Oscar-winning documentary, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, focuses on the plight of five Hungarian Jews who survived imprisonment in Auschwitz.
- DirectorYael HersonskiStarsAlexander BeyerRüdiger VoglerHanna AvrutzkiA 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.
- DirectorJon AvnetStarsLeelee SobieskiHank AzariaDavid SchwimmerJews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
- DirectorClaude LanzmannStarsJan KarskiClaude LanzmannAn extended interview with Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski, consisting largely of footage gathered for but not included in Claude Lanzmann's epic 9-hour documentary "Shoah".
- DirectorClaude LanzmannStarsMaurice RosselClaude LanzmannAn interview with a WWII Red Cross official who wrote a glowing report on a Jewish ghetto-cum-death camp.
- StarsClaude LanzmannPaula BirenAda LichtmanFour interviews done in the 1970s with women who survived the Holocaust.
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsRobert WieckiewiczBenno FürmannAgnieszka GrochowskaA dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the German-occupied Polish city of Lvov.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsLiam NeesonRalph FiennesBen KingsleyIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.