Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "pogrom"

1. The Pianist (2002)

R | 150 min | Biography, Drama, Music

During 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.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox

Votes: 916,279 | Gross: $32.57M

2. 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: 745,491 | Gross: $57.60M

3. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

PG-13 | 94 min | Drama, War

Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

Director: Mark Herman | Stars: Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Zac Mattoon O'Brien

Votes: 247,806 | Gross: $9.03M

4. The Cursed (2021)

R | 111 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

A brutal land baron massacres a Gypsy clan claiming his land, unleashing a curse that brings monstrous consequences to his village.

Director: Sean Ellis | Stars: Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie, Roxane Duran

Votes: 16,997

5. Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

G | 181 min | Drama, Family, Musical

In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.

Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon

Votes: 48,005 | Gross: $80.50M

6. Armageddon Time (2022)

R | 114 min | Drama

A deeply personal coming-of-age story about the strength of family and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.

Director: James Gray | Stars: Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb

Votes: 15,474

7. An American Tail (1986)

G | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must locate them while trying to survive in a new country.

Director: Don Bluth | Stars: Dom DeLuise, Christopher Plummer, Erica Yohn, Nehemiah Persoff

Votes: 58,227 | Gross: $47.48M

8. American Pop (1981)

R | 96 min | Animation, Drama, History

The story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music in the 20th century.

Director: Ralph Bakshi | Stars: Mews Small, Ron Thompson, Jerry Holland, Lisa Jane Persky

Votes: 5,524 | Gross: $6.00M

9. The Club (2021–2023)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama

In cosmopolitan 1950s Istanbul, a mother with a troubled past works at a nightclub to reconnect with and help the rebellious daughter she couldn't raise.

Stars: Gökçe Bahadir, Baris Arduç, Asude Kalebek, Salih Bademci

Votes: 11,692

10. Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012– )

TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Before the popularity of AncestryDNA, journalist and cultural critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr. divulges the family trees of various celebrities, many times with stunning revelations.

Stars: Henry Louis Gates Jr., CeCe Moore, Anita Hill, Ty Burrell

Votes: 1,655

11. The Man Who Cried (2000)

R | 100 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A young refugee traveling from Russia to America in search of her lost father falls for a gypsy horseman.

Director: Sally Potter | Stars: Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Oleg Yankovskiy, Claudia Lander-Duke

Votes: 16,488 | Gross: $0.74M

12. Good (2008)

R | 92 min | Drama, Romance, War

John Halder, a German literature professor in the 1930s, is initially reluctant to accept the ideas of the Nazi Party. He is pulled in different emotional directions by his wife, his mother, his mistress, and a Jewish friend.

Director: Vicente Amorim | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker, Steven Mackintosh

Votes: 7,850 | Gross: $0.02M

13. A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)

PG-13 | 95 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of Amos Oz's youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories we tell become the stories we live.

Director: Natalie Portman | Stars: Natalie Portman, Gilad Kahana, Amir Tessler, Moni Moshonov

Votes: 4,356 | Gross: $0.57M

14. 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: 9,761

15. Earth (1998)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Romance, War

It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl witnesses tragedy as her ayah (nanny) is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence.

Director: Deepa Mehta | Stars: Aamir Khan, Nandita Das, Rahul Khanna, Maia Sethna

Votes: 8,121 | Gross: $0.53M

16. 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: 1,971 | Gross: $0.37M

17. Welcome to Chechnya (2020)

TV-MA | 107 min | Documentary

A group of activists risk their lives fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in Chechnya.

Director: David France | Stars: Olga Baranova, David Isteev, Ramzan Kadyrov, Maxim Lapunov

Votes: 3,150

18. The Rabbi's Cat (2011)

Not Rated | 100 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

Set in Algeria in the 1920s, a rabbi's cat who learns how to speak after swallowing the family parrot expresses his desire to convert to Judaism.

Directors: Antoine Delesvaux, Joann Sfar | Stars: François Morel, Hafsia Herzi, Maurice Bénichou, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Votes: 3,780 | Gross: $0.02M

19. Spider's Web (1989)

196 min | Drama

Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The ... See full summary »

Director: Bernhard Wicki | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Andrea Jonasson

Votes: 244

20. Endless Corridor (2014)

52 min | Documentary, History

Narrated by Jeremy Irons, this definitive account tells of the heart-rending human rights tragedy in 1992 when hundreds of Azerbaijanis were massacred after Armenians stormed the city of Khojaly.

Directors: Aleksandras Brokas, Mindaugas Urbonavicius | Star: Jeremy Irons

Votes: 38,299

21. Lída Baarová (2016)

TV-14 | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History

A biographical film about the black-and-white era Czech actress Lída Baarová and her doomed love affair with one of the Third Reich's most powerful men: the Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels.

Director: Filip Renc | Stars: Tatiana Pauhofová, Karl Markovics, Gedeon Burkhard, Simona Stasová

Votes: 2,483

22. Amu (2005)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama

Amu is the story of an Indian American woman who returns to India. The film takes a dark turn as Kaju learns that a horrifying genocide that took place twenty years ago turns out to hold the key to her mysterious origins.

Director: Shonali Bose | Stars: Konkona Sen Sharma, Yashpal Sharma, Brinda Karat, Ankur Khanna

Votes: 962 | Gross: $0.01M

23. Blood River (1974)

93 min | Romance, Western

After witnessing the massacre of the people of his village, a young Indian decides to take revenge.

Director: Gianfranco Baldanello | Stars: Fabio Testi, John Ireland, Rosalba Neri, Daniel Martín

Votes: 66

24. Austeria (1982)

109 min | Drama, War

During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks. The fugitives hide out in a rural inn, terrified that they may be given away at any moment.

Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Franciszek Pieczka, Wojciech Pszoniak, Jan Szurmiej, Ewa Domanska

Votes: 661

25. The Goebbels Experiment (2005)

Not Rated | 108 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Through archival footage and dramatic readings of his personal writings, the life of Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister, Josef Goebbels, is examined.

Director: Lutz Hachmeister | Stars: Udo Samel, Kenneth Branagh, Heinrich Brüning, Winston Churchill

Votes: 1,021 | Gross: $0.05M

26. David (1979)

125 min | Drama, War

David (Mario Fischel), the son of a local rabbi (Walter Taub), sees the rise in anti-Semitism in 1930s Germany, but it isn't until his father's synagogue is burned down and his mother (... See full summary »

Director: Peter Lilienthal | Stars: Mario Fischel, Walter Taub, Irena Vrkljan, Eva Mattes

Votes: 171

27. Gotham: The Fall and Rise of New York (2023)

Documentary, History

Once a failing city that by 1990 had over 2,200 murders and 93,000 violent robberies annually, New York went on to be the revitalized word capital.

Director: Matthew Taylor | Stars: Nicole Gelinas, Michael Goodwin, Larry Mone, Fred Seigel

Votes: 28

28. The Algerian War, 1954-1962 (1984)

280 min | Documentary, History, War

The Algerian War was a momentous struggle for independence from France by Algerian nationalists between 1954 and 1962. This eight-year conflict caused the fall of six French Prime Ministers... See full summary »

Star: Jim Norton

Votes: 17

29. Hideg napok (1966)

96 min | Drama

Set in 1946, this movie deals with the planning and execution of the January, 1942 Novi Sad massacre of 4,000 Yugoslavian Serbs and Jews by Hungarian army units. It was undertaken as a ... See full summary »

Director: András Kovács | Stars: Zoltán Latinovits, Iván Darvas, Tibor Szilágyi, Ádám Szirtes

Votes: 515

30. Die Gezeichneten (1922)

105 min | Drama

Based on the 1918 novel 'Elsker hverandre' by Aage Madelung, the film follows various lives, one of which is Jewish girl Hanne Liebe, as she grows up, and experiences the pains of living as a Jew in Russia, leading to a revolution.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Adele Reuter-Eichberg, Vladimir Gajdarov, Polina Piekowskaja, Sylvia Torf

Votes: 556

31. The Twisted Cross - Twelve Years that Shook the Earth

Documentary | Post-production

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Director: Dovid Loew | Stars: Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Ernst Röhm

32. Tevya (1939)

Approved | 93 min | Drama

The original, non-musical film version of the book which inspired "Fiddler on the Roof".

Director: Maurice Schwartz | Stars: Maurice Schwartz, Miriam Riselle, Rebecca Weintraub, Paula Lubelski

Votes: 395

33. Iz ada v ad (1996)

90 min | Drama, War

Focuses on the lives of two married Polish couples (one Jewish, one Catholic) and the personal and social devastation wrought by the Holocaust and its aftermath.

Director: Dmitriy Astrakhan | Stars: Valeria Valeeva, Anja Kling, Gennadi Svir, Alla Kliouka

Votes: 124

34. Gruber's Journey (2008)

100 min | Drama

On 22 June 1941, Germany and Romania attack Soviet Russia. Several days later, Curzio Malaparte, the Italian writer who would one day pen the novel « Kaputt », a war correspondent for « ... See full synopsis »

Director: Radu Gabrea | Stars: Florin Piersic Jr., Marcel Iures, Udo Schenk, Claudiu Bleont

Votes: 203

35. 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: 116

36. Kosovo: Can You Imagine? (2009)

30 min | Documentary, Short, War

In a land under international supervision, in the heart of Europe, at the beginning of the 21st century, in Kosovo, one man attempts to expose human rights violations unlike anything you can imagine.

Director: Boris Malagurski

Votes: 891

37. Children of the Night (1999)

18 min | Documentary, Short

Black and white images of children, in lines, fill the screen while a woman's voice challenges us to look at them, some of the one million children who died during the Holocaust. Some look ... See full summary »

Director: Jolanta Dylewska

Votes: 25

38. The Plague (2005 TV Movie)

90 min | Documentary, History, Horror

How apocalyptic pandemic known as Black Death or simply the Plague devastated Europe between 1346 and 1353, leaving half of its population dead. As social and religious order fell apart, superstition, zealotry and murder took its place.

Director: Robert H. Gardner | Stars: John Aberth, Kelly DeVries, Ken Gage, Richard Johnson

Votes: 71

39. 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

40. Prejudice (1922)

Drama

Job Abramonoff, the leader of a Jewish community in Russia, is arrested for the ritual murder of Sonja Mulnikow, the little sister of Sascha, a gentile and the childhood friend of Job's ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Belmont | Star: Zena Keefe

41. Miracles (1934)

68 min | Drama

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Director: Pavel Petrov-Bytov | Stars: Vladimir Gardin, Nikolai Simonov, Tatyana Guretskaya, Illarion Pevtsov

42. Klejnot wolnego sumienia (1983)

90 min | Drama, History

Set in the 16th century, the film deals with the so-called Confederation of Warsaw of 1573, a groundbreaking document conceived by Polish Protestants to promote religious tolerance, equal rights and protection for various denominations.

Director: Grzegorz Królikiewicz | Stars: Mieczyslaw Voit, Krzysztof Luft, Jerzy Prazmowski, Krystyna Kozanecka

Votes: 9

43. Rab da Vaasta... (2013)

11 min | Short, Drama, History

Must you kill in order to live...? When a no typical customer walks in and demands a shave, a small time barber with a traumatic past deliberates and faces an epiphany of sorts.

Director: Chakravarty Devulapalli | Stars: Bahadur Chacha, Powell Jadaun, Nissar Khan, Rabiya Nazki

Votes: 53

44. Die Feuerprobe - Novemberpogrom 1938 (1988)

80 min | Documentary

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Directors: Erwin Leiser, Vera Leiser | Stars: Erwin Leiser, Georg Stefan Troller

45. The March of Time: Volume 3, Number 11 (1937)

16 min | Short

Segments: "Poland and War," "Dogs for Sale," and "U.S. Dust Bowl."

Stars: Hugh H. Bennett, Harry E. Claus, Joseph Goebbels, Herbert Lehman

Votes: 9

46. Souvenirs de Iasi (2016)

54 min | Documentary, History

In 2013 director Romulus Balazs discovered a book about an event from his native Romanian history unknown to him.

Director: Romulus Balazs | Stars: Romulus Balazs, Adrian Cioflâncã, Aurel Giurcã, Cãtãlin Mihuleac

Votes: 5

47. Secret Files of the Inquisition (2006– )
Episode: Root Out Heretics (2006)

Documentary

In 1308 Pope Gregory IX enlists the Dominicans to root out and destroy a sect know as the Cathars which renounce all the rituals of the Catholicism in favor of simple spiritualism. This ... See full summary »

Director: David Rabinovitch | Stars: Colm Feore, Alex de Matos, Tracy Dethlefs, Michèle Duquet

Votes: 16

48. The Family (2019)
Episode: Dictators, Murderers and Thieves (2019)

TV-14 | 50 min | Documentary, Mystery

Some American politicians use their clout to spread the Family's views to foreign leaders, including some of history's most notorious rulers.

Director: Jesse Moss | Stars: Jeff Sharlet, James Cromwell, Lisa Getter, Vlad Viski

Votes: 177

49. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: A New Germany: 1933-1939 (1973)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

The rebirth of Germany and growth in power of the Nazi Party leading up to the outbreak of war.

Director: Hugh Raggett | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Hans Kehrl, Georg Konrad Morgen, Heinz Reinheimer

Votes: 704

50. Heirs to the Land (2022)
Episode: Talión (2022)

TV-MA | Drama

Hugo is advised to forget his feelings for Dolça and seeks out his family. Meanwhile, horrors abound as Jews are persecuted across the kingdom.

Director: Jordi Frades | Stars: Yon González, Elena Rivera, David Solans, Maria Rodríguez Soto

Votes: 60