20 movies like I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal, ordered by similarity : #AnneFrank. Parallel Stories(2019), Secret Lives: Hidden Children & Their Rescuers During WWII(2002), No Home Movie(2015), Makala(2017), The Long Way Home(1997), Shoah(1985), Anne Frank Remembered(1995), Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport(2000), The Rape of Europa(2006), Against the Tide(2009), Paper Clips(2004), Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo(2017) ...
Documentary
2007
105 Minutes
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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
USA
2002
72 Minutes
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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
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
France
2017
96 Minutes
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Trials tribulation dreams and aspirations of a young farmer earning a living making and selling charcoal in Congo.
Documentary
USA
1997
110 Minutes
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The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
France|UK
1985
561 Minutes
Simon Srebnik Michael Podchlebnik Richard Glazar Rudolf Vrba Inge Deutschkron Filip Müller
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Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
Documentary
UK|USA|Netherlands
1995
115 Minutes
Glenn Close Anne Frank Edith Frank Margot Frank
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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
UK|USA
2000
122 Minutes
Alexander Gordon
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The secret smuggling of 9,300 Jewish children out of Nazi-occupied Germany in the late 1930s.
Documentary
USA
2006
117 Minutes
Richard Berge
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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
2009
102 Minutes
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'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, War
2004
82 Minutes
Tom Bosley Elliot Berlin
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Students at a middle school in rural Tennessee collect paper clips to represent victims of the Holocaust.
Drama, Documentary, History
USA|UK
2017
101 Minutes
John Aaron Steve Bales Jerry Bostick Bob Carlton Gene Cernan Charlie Duke
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At the heart of the Apollo program was the special team in Mission Control who put a man on the moon and helped create the future.
Documentary
Canada
2018
78 Minutes
Oskar Gröning Alan Dershowitz Lawrence Douglas Benjamin Ferencz Ursula Haverbeck Eva Mozes Kor
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Seventy 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.
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.
Documentary
USA
2006
86 Minutes
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Four boys from Sudan embark on a journey to America after years of wandering Sub-Saharan Africa in search of safety.
Documentary
USA|UK
2018
96 Minutes
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A woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.
Documentary
Afghanistan|Germany|Japan|Netherlands
2018
88 Minutes
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A city is an orchestration of its inhabitants. The film portraits the city Kabul through daily details of two kids and a bus driver, set against the background of a city destroyed by politic and religious powers.
Documentary
UK|USA
2008
90 Minutes
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A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century".
Documentary
1987
268 Minutes
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Eyewitness interviews and archival footage highlight Marcel Ophuls' account of the Nazi "Butcher of Lyon.".
War, Documentary
UK|Syria|USA
2019
95 Minutes
Waad Al-Khateab Waad Al-Kateab
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FOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.