20 movies like The Long Way Home, ordered by similarity : Against the Tide(2009), Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport(2000), Paragraph 175(2000), No Home Movie(2015), I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal(2007), #AnneFrank. Parallel Stories(2019), Aida's Secrets(2016), The Settlers(2016), Secret Lives: Hidden Children & Their Rescuers During WWII(2002), Forgiving Dr. Mengele(2006), The Invisibles(2017), For Sama(2019) ...
7.5/10
Documentary
USA
1997
110 Minutes
holocaust survivor narrator jew refugee bleak intense uplifting germany israel holocaust rescue daunting task homelessness world war ii escape quest 1940s
The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
7.7/10
Documentary
USA
2009
102 Minutes
american jew jewish immigrant holocaust survivor historian expert documentarian activist interviewee fascinating gripping moving emotional inspiring united states holocaust world war ii jewish culture jewish identity survival
'Against The Tide' examines the conflict that erupted in the American Jewish community over the best means to rescue the European Jews trying to escape the Holocaust. It tells the little ... See full summary »
7.7/10
Documentary
UK|USA
2000
122 Minutes
Alexander Gordon
jew child german czech foster child british man bleak chilling england foster home germany czechoslovakia austria world war ii refugees adoption nazis kindertransport holocaust escape
The secret smuggling of 9,300 Jewish children out of Nazi-occupied Germany in the late 1930s.
Documentary
2000
76 Minutes
resistance fighter jew hitler youth survivor bleak dark intense moving germany concentration camp holocaust homosexuality third reich torture death survival underdog wretched excess escape 1990s
Filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman chronicle the persecution of homosexuals under the Third Reich. Narrated by Rupert Everett.
6.6/10
Documentary
Belgium|France
2015
115 Minutes
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Chantal Akerman films her mother, an old woman of Polish origin who is short lifetime, in her apartment in Brussels. For two hours, we will see them eating, chatting and sharing memories, ... See full summary »
Documentary
2007
105 Minutes
engineer war criminal nazi holocaust survivor friend inspiring incredible uplifting germany austria united states holocaust world war ii anti-semitism family investigation quest revenge discovery 20th century
6.5/10
Documentary, Drama, History
Italy
2019
92 Minutes
Helen Mirren Anna Migotto Anne Frank
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It is based on five women who did survive the Holocaust but shared her same fate of "deportation, suffering and being denied their childhood and adolescence," according to promotional materials.
6.9/10
Documentary
Germany|Israel|Canada|USA
2016
90 Minutes
Shaul Schwarz
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Family secrets, lies, high drama and generations of contemporary history unspool in this international story that begins with World War II and concludes with an emotional 21st-century ... See full summary »
7.4/10
Documentary
France|Germany|Israel|Canada
2016
110 Minutes
elderly man israeli elderly woman settler jew brooding engaging intense unrestrained israel west bank settling down racism generational divide destiny jewish homeland dreams discovery escape pursuit
An intimate look at life inside the Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
8.3/10
Documentary
USA
2002
72 Minutes
child parent activist soldier survivor sad inspiring germany eastern europe foster home holocaust nazism protection surrogacy family world war ii wretched excess growing up escape 2000s
Through interviews we meet some of the people who risked their lives to hide Jewish children during World War II and how this experience has continued to affect the survivors.
Documentary
2006
82 Minutes
Cheri Pugh
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Holocaust survivor Eva Mozes Kor makes a controversial decision to heal her wounded soul by forgiving those who tortured her and her twin sister at Auschwitz.
7.1/10
Drama, History
Germany
2017
110 Minutes
Aaron Altaras Max Mauff Alice Dwyer Ruby O. Fee Victoria Schulz Florian Lukas Andreas Schmidt Sergej Moya Lucas Reiber
jewish man jewish woman nazi german soldier tense suspenseful striking powerful moving engaging berlin nazi germany germany jewish people jewish identity nazis nazi occupation secret life world war ii escape
While Joseph Goebbels infamously declared Berlin "free of Jews" in 1943, 1,700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital through the end of WWII. The Invisibles traces the stories of four young people who learned to hide in plain sight.
8.5/10
War, Documentary
UK|Syria|USA
2019
95 Minutes
Waad Al-Khateab Waad Al-Kateab
mother husband daughter survivor documentarian doctor inspiring engaging fascinating shocking sad emotional syria syrian-israeli relations war survival uprising casualties of war documentary filmmaking discovery
FOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.
8.0/10
Documentary
UK|USA|Netherlands
1995
115 Minutes
Glenn Close Anne Frank Edith Frank Margot Frank
father mother sister friend refugee jew emotional touching moving netherlands amsterdam hideout anne frank anti-semitism nazism survival family holocaust growing up discovery
Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this academy award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first ... See full summary »
7.7/10
Documentary, War, Drama, History
USA|Congo
2017
93 Minutes
Mamadou Ndala
merchant poor person villager government official military officer bleak brutal uneasy tense intricate disheartening congo village plains office road market political corruption political unrest military occupation
An unfiltered look in to the lives of 3 characters surviving amongst the most recent cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as the M23 rebellion.
7.9/10
Documentary
USA
2006
86 Minutes
refugee young man immigrant african survivor friend inspiring incredible sad emotional sudan kenya united states apartment pool city refugees assimilation horrors of war political repression
Four boys from Sudan embark on a journey to America after years of wandering Sub-Saharan Africa in search of safety.
7.7/10
Documentary
Canada
2010
43 Minutes
astronaut narrator pilot specialist commander engaging positive tense space space station space travel space shuttle hubble space telescope daunting task maintenance journey quest rescue discovery 2010s
An IMAX 3D camera chronicles the effort of 7 astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
7.8/10
Documentary
USA|Israel
2016
85 Minutes
israeli basketball coach basketball player russian american fan emotional gripping uplifting israel gym basketball court house locker room office basketball israel isolation determination winning
ON THE MAP tells the against-all-odds story of Maccabi Tel Aviv's 1977 European Championship, which took place at a time when the Middle East was still reeling from the 1973 Yom Kippur War,... See full summary »
Documentary, War
2004
82 Minutes
Tom Bosley Elliot Berlin
teacher principal student creative fascinating uplifting moving middle school tennessee small town classroom holocaust tolerance education world war ii nazis discovery quest transformation 2000s
Students at a middle school in rural Tennessee collect paper clips to represent victims of the Holocaust.
6.1/10
War
USA|Denmark|Panama|UK
1970
98 Minutes
Martin Potter Jane Seymour Ove Sprogøe Ebbe Rode Helle Virkner Benny Hansen Bendt Rothe Kjeld Jacobsen
ballet instructor jewish refugee family nazi assistant friend bleak chilling dark disturbing gripping intense denmark nazi occupation survival danish resistance jewish people evacuation world war ii discovery
A Jewish family try to escape from Denmark in October 1943 during the German occupation.
6.6/10
Documentary
USA|UK
1944
75 Minutes
narrator american englishman soldier emotional gripping patriotic inspiring north africa tunis, tunisia desert world war ii north africa campaign allied forces war peace sacrifice rescue pursuit 1940s
Documentary made by the U.S. Army Signal Corps.
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