Holocaust Movies, Movies about Holocaust

Here we've displayed a list of the best Holocaust films : Shoah(1985), Life Is Beautiful(1997), The Pianist(2002), Secret Lives: Hidden Children & Their Rescuers During WWII(2002), The Shop on Main Street(1965), The Children of Chabannes(1999), Au Revoir, les enfants(1987), Anne Frank Remembered(1995), The Boy in the Striped Pajamas(2008), The Pawnbroker(1964), Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport(2000), Against the Tide(2009) ... ...

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Shoah

Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.

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Life Is Beautiful

When an open-minded Jewish librarian 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.

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The Pianist

A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

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Secret Lives: Hidden Children & Their Rescuers During WWII

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.

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The Shop on Main Street

A carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store.

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The Children of Chabannes

In the spirit of Louis Malle's "Au Revoir les Enfants" and Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List," the Emmy® Award-winning film "The Children of Chabannes" (93 minutes), has been praised as ... See full summary »

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Au Revoir, les enfants

A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of the top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.

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Anne Frank Remembered

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 »

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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.

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The Pawnbroker

A Jewish pawnbroker, victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.

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Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

The secret smuggling of 9,300 Jewish children out of Nazi-occupied Germany in the late 1930s.

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Against the Tide

'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 »

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Europa, Europa

A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.

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Sophie's Choice

Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.

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Leon Morin, Priest

Set during occupied France, a faithless woman finds herself falling in love with a young priest.

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Korczak

Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. Jewish doctor Henryk Goldszmit, ... See full summary »

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The Long Way Home

The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.

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The Diary of Anne Frank

During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

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In Darkness

A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the German-occupied Polish city of Lvov.

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The Accountant of Auschwitz

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.

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Bent

In 1930s Berlin, a gay Jew is sent to a concentration camp under the Nazi regime.

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Amen

During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.

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Jacob the Liar

A Jewish ghetto in central Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central ... See full summary »

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Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary filmmaker Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.

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The Ninth Day

A drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary.

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Voyages

During a tour of a group of Israeli Jews of Polish origin, the bus in which Riwka is located breaks down between Warsaw and Auschwitz.

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Lore

As the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents' beliefs. An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate.

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The Grey Zone

A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral grey zone.

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Conspiracy of Hearts

Catholic nuns risk their lives to help Jewish children in an Italian internment camp escape to Palestine during World War II.

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Monsieur Batignole

In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and ... See full summary »

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