20 movies like Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, ordered by similarity : Secret Lives: Hidden Children & Their Rescuers During WWII(2002), The Long Way Home(1997), #AnneFrank. Parallel Stories(2019), The Goebbels Experiment(2005), Against the Tide(2009), I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal(2007), Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie(1987), Anne Frank Remembered(1995), Paragraph 175(2000), The Invisibles(2017), The Nazis Strike(1943), Shoah(1985) ...
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
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
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.
Documentary, Drama, History
Italy
2019
92 Minutes
Helen Mirren Anna Migotto Anne Frank
anne frank jew nazi nazi collaborator holocaust survivor bleak chilling dark disheartening disturbing emotional engaging gripping incredible melancholy moving amsterdam concentration camp hideout holocaust
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.
Documentary
Germany|UK
2005
107 Minutes
adolf hitler nazi german soldier wife child intellectual fascinating brooding chilling sad bavaria germany joseph goebbels mental illness depression suicide propaganda world war ii rise fall
Through archival footage and dramatic readings of his personal writings, the life of Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister, Josef Goebbels, is examined.
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 »
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
Documentary
1987
268 Minutes
nazi war criminal military officer klaus barbie chilling disturbing lyon, france argentina bolivia germany world war ii genocide politics communism nazism wretched excess pursuit 1980s
Eyewitness interviews and archival footage highlight Marcel Ophuls' account of the Nazi "Butcher of Lyon.".
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 »
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.
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.
Documentary
USA
1943
44 Minutes
adolf hitler soldier winston churchill civilian intense gripping patriotic germany poland england france world war ii nazism invasion world domination propaganda discovery rise wretched excess 1930s
The official World War II US government account of Nazi international aggression leading up to the British and French declarations of war.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
France|UK
1985
561 Minutes
Simon Srebnik Michael Podchlebnik Richard Glazar Rudolf Vrba Inge Deutschkron Filip Müller
victim survivor nazi bystander guard brooding shocking disturbing auschwitz germany ghetto poland holocaust nazism horrors of war concentration camp fall discovery 1980s
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
UK|New Zealand
2018
99 Minutes
soldier army recruit british officer british soldier british soldiers german soldier german troops bleak emotional moving patriotic powerful sad somber war zone france belgium united kingdom trenches training camp
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
Documentary
Sweden
1998
88 Minutes
american doctor scientist child nazi russian shocking disturbing united states sweden germany soviet union eugenics race fascism reproduction sterilization discovery rise fall
Homo Sapiens 1900 is a stunning exploration of the history of eugenics, race hygiene and the quest to improve the human race. Emerging at the turn of the century, eugenic movements spawned government sanctioned research projects
Documentary
2006
82 Minutes
Cheri Pugh
sister concentration camp survivor twin jew emotional profound spirited sad indiana germany auschwitz concentration camp josef mengele healing holocaust judaism world war ii eva mozes kor quest mystery
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.
Documentary
USA
2006
117 Minutes
Richard Berge
nazi art expert soldier historian shocking moving museum germany europe art nazism adolf hitler world war ii theft discovery quest rescue 20th century
The story of Nazi Germany's plundering of Europe's great works of art during World War II and Allied efforts to minimize the damage.
Documentary
UK
2003
81 Minutes
human man woman child baby powerful creative earth humanity love sex violence death dreams rise fall 2000s
Simon Pummell's epic movie tells the story of a human life, using found footage from the last 100 years of cinema, cut to a powerful score by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead.
Documentary, Biography
Germany|South Korea
2012
104 Minutes
death north korean german dark labor camp reeducation camp escape control forced labor escape
Shin Dong-Huyk was born on November 19, 1983 as a political prisoner in a North Korean re-education camp. He was a child of two prisoners who had been married by order of the wardens. He ... See full summary »
Documentary
Germany|Austria
2019
218 Minutes
parent family fascinating intricate family home war zone university street labor camp germany struggle pre-war germany life story war aftermath awareness lost love 19th century
In this immersive film essay, master documentary filmmaker Thomas Heise dives into four generations of his own family archives to trace the profound cultural and political upheaval of Germany's last century.
Mystery & Thriller, Documentary, Comedy
USA
2002
97 Minutes
Paige Kimble Jonathan Knisely Balu Natarajan Julianne Ruth
child parent teacher announcer reporter uplifting charming inspiring hotel washington, d.c. family home spelling bee success competition class distinctions childhood family rivalry quest underdog
Spellbound follows eight teenagers on their quest to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee.