20 movies like Secret Lives: Hidden Children & Their Rescuers During WWII, ordered by similarity : Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport(2000), They Shall Not Grow Old(2018), I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal(2007), Spellbound(2002), Against the Tide(2009), #AnneFrank. Parallel Stories(2019), Samouni Road(2018), The Goebbels Experiment(2005), Of Fathers and Sons(2017), The Rape of Europa(2006), The Long Way Home(1997), The True Glory(1945) ...
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
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, 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
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
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.
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, 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.
Documentary
2018
128 Minutes
survivor adult teen girl sibling family member bleak touching inspiring disheartening gaza wedding tree city childhood home neighborhood affliction painful memories bombing civilian deaths rebuilding
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
Germany|USA|Syria|Lebanon|Netherlands|Qatar
2017
98 Minutes
islamic fundamentalist family son soldiers muslim bleak disturbing syria war zone growing up islamic fundamentalism family soldiers documentaries growing up 2010s
Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years.
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
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, War
UK|USA
1945
85 Minutes
Dwight D. Eisenhower
dwight d. eisenhower soldier nazi historian confident fiery patriotic inspiring europe united states world war ii nazism allied forces victory historical events rivalry rise 1940s
A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly one thousand four hundred cameramen. It opens as the assembled Allied ... See full summary »
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
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
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.
Documentary
USA
2006
229 Minutes
son daughter mother father patient doctor emotional inspiring hospital household cincinnati cancer childhood family illness medicine growing up quest discovery 2000s
Five families struggle with the ups and downs of cancer treatment over the course of six years.
Documentary
USA
2009
83 Minutes
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"Which Way Home" is a feature documentary film that follows unaccompanied child migrants, on their journey through Mexico, as they try to reach the United States. We follow children like ... See full summary »
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.
Documentary, Biography
USA
2003
107 Minutes
David Friedman Jesse Friedman
father son brother mother victim police officer creepy emotional family home great neck, n.y. suburbia prison child molestation family wretched excess fall mystery 2000s
Documentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.
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 »