:List of Holocaust films
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These films deal with the Holocaust in Europe, comprising both documentaries and narratives. They began to be produced in the early 1940s before the extent of the Holocaust at that time was widely recognized.{{cite book | last1=Reimer | first1=R.C. | last2=Reimer | first2=C.J. | title=Historical Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema | publisher=Scarecrow Press | series=Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts | year=2012 | isbn=978-0-8108-7986-7 | page=xiii }}
The films span a range of genres, with documentary films including footage filmed both by the Germans for propaganda and by the Allies, compilations, survivor accounts and docudramas, and narrative films including war films, action films, love stories, psychological dramas, and even comedies.
1940s
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1940
|{{nowrap|United Kingdom}} | First feature film to depict German concentration camps. |
1940
|{{nowrap|United States}} | One character is sent to a concentration camp and dies there, while his family is trying to leave Nazi Germany. |
1940
|{{nowrap|United States}} | A condemnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis. The film focuses on two men: a ruthless fascist dictator named Adenoid Hynkel (a parody of Hitler) and a persecuted Jewish barber. The Jewish barber is sent to a concentration camp, but manages to escape (and ends up mistaken for Hynkel, while Hynkel is mistaken for the Jewish barber, and sent off to a concentration camp). In one scene, Herring (a parody of Hermann Göring) makes a passing mention that they have discovered a new poison gas, that will kill everybody. In his 1964 autobiography, Chaplin stated that he could not have made the film if he had known about the true extent of the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps at that time.{{cite book |last=Chaplin|first=Charlie|author-link=Charlie Chaplin|date=1964|title=My Autobiography|url=https://archive.org/details/myautobiography00chaprich|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/myautobiography00chaprich/page/392 392]|publisher=New York, Simon and Schuster|quote=Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis}} |
1942
|{{nowrap|United States}} | One villain is jokingly -and repeatedly- called “concentration camp Erhardt”. |
1942
|{{nowrap|United States}} | Ginger Rogers' character helps her Jewish maid and the maid's two children escape Poland by switching passports with her. Nazi soldiers subsequently notice Rogers' passport, and she and Cary Grant's character (both Irish) are put in a concentration camp populated by prisoners in Orthodox Jewish dress. Rogers and Grant are later sprung by the American consulate (as the ultimate point of the film is to portray Hitler's spread throughout Europe). |
1944
|United States |Seven inmates, one Jewish, escape from a concentration camp |
1944
|Poland |One of the first films to include footage of concentration camps |
1945
|Soviet Union | First feature film to show mass murder of Jews and hunting for them on the occupied territories. 1946 Venice festival award. |
1946
|United States | First feature film to include footage of concentration camps{{cite book |editor1-last=Wilson |editor1-first=Kristi M. |editor2-last=Crowder-Taraborrelli |editor2-first=Tomás F. |year=2012 |title=Film and Genocide |location=Madison, Wisconsin |publisher=The University of Wisconsin Press |page=11 |isbn=9780299285647 }} |
1946
|Germany | The first Rubble Film and the first German film to address Nazi atrocities. English title: Murderers Among Us |
1947
|Germany | One of the earliest DEFA productions. English title: Marriage in the Shadows |
1947
|Germany | One of the first German films to be made in Munich after the war and the first to openly address the Holocaust. English title: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow |
1948
|Germany |
1948
|United States | In post-war Berlin, an American private helps a lost Czech boy find his mother. |
1948
|Poland | A Polish film about the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, it premieres at the Venice Film Festival; it is released in English as Border Street in 1950.{{cite book|last1=Reimer|first1=R.C.|last2=Reimer|first2=C.J.|title=Historical Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2012|isbn=978-0-8108-7986-7|page=xvii}}{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}} |
1948
|Poland |English titles: The Last Stage, The Last Stop |
1949
|Italy |{{ill|L'ebreo errante|it|L'ebreo errante (film 1948)}} | First Italian film to openly address the Holocaust |
1949
|United States |Herbert B. Fredersdorf |Yiddish title: Lang iz der Veg; English title: Long Is the Road |
1950s
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1950
|Czechoslovakia |English title: Distant Journey |
1953
|United States | In 1949, former concentration camp inmate and Berlin native Hans Muller immigrates to Israel where, due to psychological problems, he cannot adjust to peacetime life. |
1956
|United States |Musical about Holocaust survivors with amnesia |
1958–59
|United States |
1959
|East Germany |English title: Stars |
1959
|United States |Won three Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress |
1959
|Italy |Kapò | |
1959
|Poland |{{ill|Biały niedźwiedź|pl|Biały niedźwiedź (film)}} |A Jew who escaped from a transport to a concentration camp is hiding by posing for tourists disguised as a polar bear. |
1960s
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1960
|Czechoslovakia |English title: Romeo, Juliet and Darkness. Concerns Operation Anthropoid. |
1960
|United States |Based on the novel by Leon Uris; screenplay by Dalton Trumbo. |
1960
|Yugoslavia |English title: The Ninth Circle |
1961
|Italy | Italian title: L'oro di Roma |
1961
|United States | Winner of Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay |
1961
|Poland | |
1961
|Belgium |Italian title: Otto ore al buio. Prix de la Critique at 1961 Cannes Festival. |
1963
|Poland | |
1963
|East Germany | |
1964
|United States |A Jewish pawnbroker, victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions. |
1965
|East Germany |Joachim Hasler |English title: Chronicle of a Murder |
1965
|Czechoslovakia | |
1965
|Germany |Also as TV play "Die Ermittlung" (1966) |
1966
|United States |Benjamin Rothman & Lawrence Rothman, S.L. Shneiderman |Depicts the destruction of Polish Jewry by the Nazi onslaught, includes rare footage of Jewish life in early 20th century Poland. |
1967
|United States |TV movie: Harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. |
1969
|France | |
1970s
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1970
|Poland |Apel |Ryszard Czekała |Animated short film |
1970
|Poland |TV Theatre reconstruction of Nuremberg trials |
1970
|Italy |The Garden of the Finzi-Continis |Italian title: Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini; based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani; Oscar for Best Foreign Film |
1970
|Yugoslavia |English title: The Fed Ones |
1972
|United States |Never shown to the general public |
1972
|United States |American musical drama film set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, as the Nazi Party rises to power. |
1974
|Israel |{{ill|The Martyr (1974 film)|de|3=Sie sind frei, Dr. Korczak|lt=Sie sind frei, Dr. Korczak}} |English title: The Martyr |
1974
|{{nowrap|United Kingdom}} |TV miniseries; based on Leon Uris novel of same name |
1974
|Italy | |
1974
|United Kingdom |Based on Frederick Forsyth novel of same name |
1975
|East Germany |Based on the novel by Jurek Becker |
1975
|United States |James F. Collier |Based on the autobiography of Corrie ten Boom |
1975
|Italy | |
1975
|United States | |
1976
|United States | |
1976
|France |
1976
|Spain | |
1977
|Italy | |
1977
|Rowspan=2|United States |Based on a chapter from Lillian Hellman's 1973 book Pentimento about the author's relationship with a lifelong friend, "Julia", who fought against the Nazis in the years prior to World War II. It received 11 Academy Award nominations including for Best Picture |
1978
|TV miniseries, popularised the term 'Holocaust'. |
1978
|Yugoslavia | |
1979
|West Germany |Baranski |Werner Masten | |
1979
|West Germany | |
1979
|West Germany | |
1979
|United States |The House on Garibaldi Street | |
1980s
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1980
|United States |TV movie |
1980
|United States |TV film; based on the autobiography of Fania Fénelon; adaptation by Arthur Miller |
1981
|France |English title: Bolero |
1982
|West Germany |TV mini-series; based on the autobiography of Janina David |
1982
|United States |Based on the novel by William Styron; Meryl Streep won Academy Award for Best Actress |
1982
|Austria |God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore |http://www.jewishfilm.org/Catalogue/films/goddoesnotbelieveinus.htm |
1983
|France |English title: For Those I Loved; based on the book by Martin Gray |
1983
|Hungary |English title: Job's Revolt |
1983
|United States |A remake of the 1942 comedy, starring Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. |
1983
|United States |TV movie; based on the J.P. Gallagher novel The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican |
1983
|United States |Based on the novel by Herman Wouk; |
1984
|Yugoslavia |Sava Mrmak |TV mini-series |
1984
|West Germany | |
1984
|West Germany |Heinz Schirk |TV movie |
1985
|United States |Feature documentary about the effects of the Holocaust on the next generation of Jews and Germans. |
1985
|Soviet Union |Russian title: Idi i smotri, Winner Venice Classics Award for Best Restored film |
1985
|Canada |Dark Lullabies |Irene Lilienheim Angelico and Abbey Jack Neidik | |
1987
|United Kingdom |Based on the book by Richard Rashke |
1987
|France | |
1988
|Poland |And the Violins Stopped Playing | |
1988
|United States |The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank |TV movie |
1988
|United States | |
1988
|Poland |{{ill|Leszek Wosiewicz|pl|Leszek Wosiewicz}} |The film was selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. |
1988
|United States |TV mini-series; based on the novel by Herman Wouk, and the sequel to The Winds of War |
1989
|United States |Based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer |
1989
|United States | |
1989
|United States | |
1990s
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1990
|West Germany | |
1990
|West Germany |Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland | |
1990
|Australia | |
1990
|Poland |Based on the true story of Dr. Janusz Korczak and his attempt to keep alive the children in his Warsaw Ghetto orphanage. |
1990
|Germany |Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) |
1991
|Poland |English title: Just Beyond That Forest |
1991
|Czechoslovakia |English title: The Last Butterfly |
1991
|United States |TV movie; based on the life of Mel Mermelstein |
1991
|Canada |Based on the story My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner by Chaim Grade |
1992
|{{nowrap|United Kingdom}} |Ian Sellar | |
1992
|United States |Based on a novel by Myron Levoy |
1992
|United States |Short film |
1993
|Italy |English title: Jonah Who Lived in the Whale, aka Look to the Sky |
1993
|United States |Based on the novel by Thomas Kenneally about the real-life Schindler, a popular industrialist who cleverly manipulated the Nazis to save others, this movie won 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.{{Cite web|url=http://www.schindlerslist.com/main_loader.html|title=Schindler's List website|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100607123731/http://www.schindlerslist.com/main_loader.html|archive-date=2010-06-07 }} |
1993
|United States |Young teens in Nazi Germany listen to banned swing music and deal with the pressures of joining the Nazi Youth Army. |
1994
|Austria |{{ill|Totschweigen|de|Totschweigen}} |Margareta Heinrich & Eduard Erne |The subject of the film is the massacre of Rechnitz |
1995
|France | |
1995
|Japan |Akinori Nagaoka |Anime adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank |
1996
|United States |Hidden in Silence |A True Story about the Podgórski sisters who rescued 13 Jews from the Przemyśl Ghetto. |
1996
|United States |Barry J. Hershey | |
1996
|United States |The Man Who Captured Eichmann |Based on the book Eichmann in My Hands by Peter Z. Malkin |
1996
|United States |Based on the novel by Kurt Vonnegut, and starring Nick Nolte. |
1996
|United States |TV film; based on the novel by Danielle Steel |
1996
|United States |Based on the play by Jon Robin Baitz |
1996
|Hungary |A hetedik szoba{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}} |English title: The Seventh Room. Dramatic portrayal of the life of Edith Stein, a nun and Auschwitz victim who was later canonized in the Roman Catholic Church |
1997
|Italy |English title: The Truce. Based on the autobiography by Primo Levi |
1997
|United States |Short film; based on the play by Tim Toyama |
1997
|Italy |English title: Life is Beautiful. Won three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Robert Benigni |
1997
|Denmark |Based on the book by Uri Orlev |
1997
|United Kingdom |Bent |Based on the play by Martin Sherman |
1998
|United States |Based on the novela by Stephen King |
1998
|Netherlands |Based on the novel by Carl Friedman |
1998
|United States |TV movie about the rescue of the Danish Jews |
1998
|United States | |
1998
|France | |
1998
|Germany |Die Akte B. – Alois Brunner: Die Geschichte eines Massenmörders |Georg M. Hafner & Esther Schapira | |
1999
|Germany |Based on a book of the same name by Erica Fischer |
1999
|Czech Republic | |
1999
|United States |Based on the novel by Jane Yolen |
1999
|Germany |Based on the novel by Nick Barkow |
1999
|United States |Based on the novel by Jurek Becker |
1999
|Germany | |
2000s
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2000
|Czech Republic |English title: Divided We Fall |
2000
|Canada |TV movie; based on the book by Joseph E. Persico |
2000
|Czech Republic |Milan Cieslar |English title: The Spring Of Life; based on the book by Vladimír Körner |
2000
|United Kingdom |The Holocaust on Trial |A BBC dramatised documentary film into an investigation of Hitler's Final Solution together with a reconstruction of key courtroom exchanges in the libel case lost by the historian David Irving who was accused of being a Holocaust denier. |
2000
|United States | |
2001
|Hungary |Title in English: Smoldering Cigarette. The film is a fictionalized portrayal of the Hungarian diva Katalin Karády's act of saving her Jewish lyricist György G. Denes from forced labor camp and connecting him with organized espionage against Nazi Germany. |
2001
|United States |TV movie; based on the book by Melissa Müller |
2001
|United States |TV movie |
2001
|United States |Based on the book, about the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz |
2001
|Germany |English title: Nowhere in Africa; adaptation of Stefanie Zweig's autobiographical novel |
2001
|United States |TV movie |
2002
|France |Based on the play The Deputy by Rolf Hochhuth |
2002
|France |Based on the autobiography by Wladyslaw Szpilman about survival in the Warsaw Ghetto; won three Academy Awards |
2002
|Czech Republic |Documentary{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}Geleman Educational Foundation: [http://www.powerofgood.net/ Nicholas Winton.] |
2003
|Hungary |Andor Szilágyi | |
2003
|Italy |English title: Facing Windows |
2003
|United States |Jorge Ameer | |
2003
|United States |Based on the book I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz by Gisella Perl |
2003
|United States |TV movie |
2003
|Germany | |
2004
|Brazil |Olga | |
2005
|Poland |Lena Einhorn | |
2005
|France |Christian Faure |TV movie |
2005
|United States |Based on the book by Jonathan Safran Foer. The film deals with the Holocaust in Ukraine and its impact and memory in contemporary Ukraine. |
2005
|United Kingdom |TV movie |
2005
|Germany |Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage |English title: Sophie Scholl: The Final Days |
2005
|Hungary |Based on the book by Imre Kertész |
2006
|Netherlands | |
2006
|Germany |Joseph Vilsmaier/ Dana Vávrová |English title: The Last Train |
2006
|United States |Bob Hercules | |
2007
|Germany |English title: Toyland. Won the 2009 Best Live Action Short Film Oscar at the 81st Academy Awards. |
2007
|United Kingdom |Justin Hardy |Depicts events that unfolded at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp following the liberation of the camp by British troops in April 1945. |
2007
|Germany |Based on a memoir written by Adolf Burger; won the 2007 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 80th Academy Awards. |
2008
|United Kingdom | |
2008
|United Kingdom |The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas |Adaptation of John Boyne's novel |
2008
|United States |Based on the book by Nechama Tec; nomination for an Academy Award in the category of Best Original Score |
2008
|United Kingdom |Based on the book by Bernhard Schlink |
2008
|Hungary |Good |Vicente Amorim |Based on the play by Cecil Philip Taylor |
2009
|France | English title: The Army of Crime |
2009
|France |The film depicts the subject of Porajmos. |
2009
|United States |Alternate history war comedy. Nominated for eight Academy Awards. |
2009
|United States |The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler |TV movie |
2010s
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2010
|United States |Features original footage from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum |
2010
|France |An adaptation of the novel Elle s'appelait Sarah by Tatiana De Rosnay |
2010
|Czech Republic |Based on true events and is the first major motion picture to dramatize the expulsion of 3 million Germans from Czechoslovakia. |
2010
|France |Rose Bosch |The Vel' d'Hiv Roundup. |
2010
|China |Animated. Life of a Jewish girl with her little brother in Shanghai, and her parents in Europe. |
2011
|Poland |Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards. |
2011
|Germany |{{ill|Wunderkinder (film)|lt=Wunderkinder|de|Wunderkinder (Film)}} |Markus Rosenmüller |Story about deep friendship between three musically talented children. |
2011
|Spain |The plot focuses on Ángel Sanz Briz, a Spanish ambassador in Hungary during World War II. Operating until early 1944 in Budapest, he helped to save the lives of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust. |
2012
|Poland |Aftermath (Polish: Pokłosie) - the fictional Holocaust-related thriller and drama is inspired by the July 1941 Jedwabne pogrom in occupied north-eastern Poland |
2012
|Netherlands |Based on the true story of Walter Süskind |
2012
|Macedonia | |
2012
|Serbia | |
2013
|Argentina |Lucía Puenzo |Original title: Wakolda |
2013
|Germany |An Apartment in Berlin |German TV film. The story of the family Adler living in Berlin, betrayed by Stella Goldschlag murdered in Auschwitz in 1944 and three young students moving from Israel to Berlin. |
2013
|Germany |Pepe Danquart | |
2013
|Switzerland |Alain Gsponer |Based on the true story of Paul Grüninger. |
2013
|Czech Republic |Milan Cieslar |An adaptation of the novel A girl from Antwerp by Arnošt Lustig |
2013
|Poland |Ida |Won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards |
2014
|Poland |Jan Komasa |Original title Miasto '44 |
2014
|Germany | |
2014
|France |Jean-Jacques Silbermann | |
2014
|Germany |Loosely based on the 1961 novel Le Retour des Cendres by Hubert Monteilhet |
2015
|Germany | |
2015
|Germany | |
2015
|Canada |
2015
|Russia |Mikhail Uchitelev |Short. Accepted at the Short Film Corner of the 68th Cannes Festival |
2015
|Hungary |Won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards; Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival; Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Category at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards; Winner of Best International Film at the 31st Independent Spirit Awards |
2015
|Germany |Raymond Lay |German television film about Anne Frank, on the view of her father |
2016
|Germany |German cinematographic feature about Anne Frank |
2016
|United States |Adaptation of the book Denying the Holocaust |
2017
|United States |Adaptation of the novel The Zookeeper's Wife |
2017
|Hungary |1945 |Winner of multiple international film awards |
2017
|United States |Based on French writer Laurent Binet's novel HHhH |
2017
|France | |
2017
|Israel |{{ill|The Testament (2017 film)|lt=The Testament|he|העדות}} (Ha Edut) |Amichai Greenberg | |
2018
|Russia | |
2018
|Germany |Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | |
2018
|United States |Follows the efforts of Israeli intelligence officers to capture former SS officer Adolf Eichmann in 1960 |
2018
|Philippines |Matthew Rose |Features Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon's plan to provide refuge for Jews fleeing from Nazi Germany. |
2018
|Spain |The Photographer of Mauthausen |Mar Targarona |Story of Francisco Boix and his covert documentation of life at Mauthausen Concentration Camp |
2018
|Poland |{{ill|Werewolf (2018 film)|lt=Werewolf|pl|Wilkołak (film 2018)}} |Adrian Panek | |
2018
|United States | |
2018
|Germany |Christian Petzold |Adaptation of the novel Transit by Anna Seghers |
2019
|United States |Adaptation of the novel Caging Skies by Christine Leunens |
2019
|Canada Hungary |Adaptation of the novel The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht |
2020s
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2020
|United States Germany |Inspired by the life of Marcel Marceau |
2020
|United States |Steven Oritt | |
2020
|Norway |Eirik Svensson |A Norwegian drama film based on the true story of the Norwegian boxer Charles Braude and his family being persecuted, arrested and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with the collaboration of the Norwegian government as a plan to exterminate all Jews in Europe. |
2020
|United States |A Roma Holocaust survivor, Maja, struggles with PTSD and survivor's guilt in the 1950s. She encounters a man, whom she recognizes as a German soldier, who had raped her 15 years earlier, and been involved in the murder of her sister. |
2020
|Poland |Maciej Barczewski |The film stars Piotr Głowacki as Tadeusz Pietrzykowski, a real-life Polish boxer who became famous for his nearly undefeated strings of victories in the Nazi concentration camps. |
2021
| Belgium, France, Israel, Luxembourg, Netherlands | In the animated magic realism film, Kitty-Anne Frank's imaginary friend to whom she addressed her diary-comes to life and explores 21st century Netherlands to learn about her creator's fate in the Holocaust, noticing the similarities between the persecuted Jews of WWII and refugees seeking asylum in modern day Europe. |
2021
| Canada, Belgium, France | Éric Warin, Tahir Rana | Animated. Based on the true story of German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon.{{Cite web |last=Bresge |first=Adina |date=22 April 2022 |title=Canadian film 'Charlotte' animates a Jewish painter's Holocaust-era life in art |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2022/04/22/canadian-film-charlotte-animates-a-jewish-painters-holocaust-era-life-in-art.html |website=Toronto Star}} |
2021
|Serbia |It is the first modern production on the subject of the Jasenovac concentration camp. |
2021
|Slovakia |Two prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp manage to escape with a document about the camp's operation |
2021
|Israel |Holy Holocaust{{Cite web|last1=Berman-Herzberg|first1=Noa|last2=Wald|first2=Osi|date=November 10, 2022|title = The New Yorker Documentary: Holy Holocaust|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb2ojGXNJSo|publisher=YouTube}} |Noa Berman-Herzberg, Osi Wald |In her autobiographical animated short film, a White Israeli woman named Noa Berman-Herzberg narrates of her friendship with Jenny Teege, the Black German granddaughter of Nazi commander Amon Goeth and bestselling author of My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me. |
2021
|Italy |Davide Campagna |Film set in North Italy: A Jewish girl falls in love with a young Clown, who hides her from Nazis in his circus and teaches her to be tightrope walker. |
2021
|USA, Canada, Hungary |Based on the story of Harry Haft - the boxer in Auschwitz |
2021
|France, Belgium |In 1942 six Jewish children are hidden by the French Resistance in the Chambord Castle to escape the Holocaust. |
2022
|Germany |After Die Wannseekonferenz (1984) and Conspiracy (2001), this is the third television film depiction of the Wannsee Conference. |
2023
|Ukraine |Ady Walter |The film depicts the lives of a shtetl in Western Ukraine on the eve of Operation Barbarossa. |
2023
|Italy |L'ultima volta che siamo stati bambini | Claudio Bisio |Italian dramedy road movie about kids who go for a long journey in 1943 to find their friend deported to Auschwitz. |
2023
|United States |Susanna Fogel, Tony Phelan, Leslie Hope |TV mini-series about Miep Gies, a Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank's family from the Nazis. Nominated for multiple awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award. |
2023
|United Kingdom |It is based on the true story of British humanitarian Sir Nicholas Winton as he looks back on his past efforts to help groups of Jewish children in German-occupied Czechoslovakia to hide and flee in 1938–39, just before the beginning of World War II. |
2023
|United Kingdom, Germany, Poland |A loose adaptation of Martin Amis' 2014 novel of the same name, detailing the domestic life of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his family. Won the Grand Prix at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and the 2024 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film on behalf of the United Kingdom. |
2024
|United States, United Kingdom, Hungary |It tells the story of fictional Hungarian brutalist architect László Tóth (Adrien Brody), who immigrates to America after World War II. Over the course of the film, it's revealed that he was interned at the Buchenwald, and it's buildings would go on to influence his designs. Won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, and 3 Golden Globes, including Best Picture (Drama). |
2024
|Netherlands, United States |Robert Moniot |Short film that stars Noah Emmerich as Ernst Cahn, a popular Jewish ice cream parlor owner, who, shortly after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, finds himself targeted by the infamous “Butcher of Lyon,” Klaus Barbie. Shortlisted for Best Live Action Short Film at the upcoming 97th Academy Awards. |
2024
|Israel |The Ring{{Cite web |date=2024-12-19 |title=New film 'The Ring' traces a family's Holocaust trauma - film review |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-834031 |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |language=en}} |Adir Miller, Doron Paz, Yoav Paz |Based on Adir Miller's own family story of Holocaust survival and generational trauma, set to a trip throughout Budapest to retrieve a titular piece of jewelry taken from his mother during World War II. |
2025
|United States |Bau: Artist at War{{Cite web |last=Gajewski |first=Ryan |date=2024-11-15 |title=Emile Hirsch's Holocaust Drama 'Bau: Artist at War' Gets Early 2025 Release and Trailer (Exclusive) |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/bau-artist-at-war-emile-hirsch-release-1236063171/ |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}} |Based on the true love story of artist Joseph and Rebecca Bau, whose wedding took place in the Plaszow concentration camp during World War II. |
Documentary films
= 1940s =
class="wikitable sortable" |
Year
! Country ! Title ! Director ! Notes |
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1945
|{{nowrap|United Kingdom}} |German Concentration Camps Factual Survey | production supervised by Sidney Bernstein |Long shelved, completed in 2014; Alfred Hitchcock collaborated on production |
1945
|United States |English Version of Die Todesmühlen; excerpted from German Concentration Camps Factual Survey |
1945
|Poland |Majdanek - cmentarzysko Europy |English title: Majdanek: Cemetery of Europe |
1945
|United States |Nazi Concentration Camps[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2074187239501225850] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071215053102/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2074187239501225850|date=December 15, 2007}} |Presented as evidence at the Nuremberg trials. |
1945
|United States |Presented as evidence at the Nuremberg trials |
1945
|Yugoslavia |Gustav Gavrin & Kosta Hlavaty | |
circa 1946
|United Kingdom |Memory of the Camps{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/camp/view |title=Watch The Full Program Online | Memory Of The Camps | Frontline |publisher=PBS |access-date=2013-04-22}} |original documentary supervised by Sidney Bernstein |Shorter version of German Concentration Camps Factual Survey; reconstructed by American PBS series Frontline in 1984 |
1946
|United States |Shows devastation and solicits relief funds |
1946
|France |Nous Continuons | |English Title: We Live Again. Deals with child survivors. In Yiddish. |
1947
|Soviet Union |Soviet view of the Nuremberg Trials |
= 1950s =
class="wikitable" |
Year
! Country ! Title ! Director ! Notes |
---|
1956
|France |English title: Night and Fog. Written by Jean Cayrol, an escapee of Mauthausen. Music by Hanns Eisler. |
= 1960s =
class="wikitable sortable" |
Year
!Country !Title !Director !Notes |
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1960
|West Germany |Swedish title: Den Blodiga tiden |
1963
|West Germany |Joachim Hasler | |
1965
|West Germany |Der Vorletzte Akt |Walter Krüttner |English title: Last Act But One: Brundibar |
1965
|Canada |Donald Brittain and John Spotton |French title: Pour mémoire |
1965
|Soviet Union |Obyknovennyy fashizm |English title: Ordinary Fascism |
1966
|{{nowrap|United Kingdom}} |Warsaw Ghetto | | |
1967
|Denmark |Mordere iblandt os (TV) |Henning Knudsen |English title: Murderers Among Us |
1968
|United States |The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |Jack Kaufman |Based on William L. Shirer book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
1968
|Poland |Archeologia |Andrzej Brzozowski | |
1969
|France |English title: The Sorrow and the Pity. Vichy France government collaboration with Nazi Germany during the war. |
= 1970s =
class="wikitable sortable" |
Year
! Country ! Title ! Director ! Notes |
---|
1970
|Netherlands |Dingen die niet voorbijgaan |Philo Bregstein |English title: The Past that Lives |
1972
|West Germany |Mendel Schainfelds zweite Reise nach Deutschland |Hans-Dieter Grabe | |
1974
|Israel |David Bergman, Jacques Ehrlich and Haim Gouri |English title: The 81st Blow |
1974
|{{nowrap|United Kingdom}} |The World at War (TV) |Episode 20, "Genocide" (First broadcast 27 March 1974). The Final Solution (Parts One & Two). |
1976
|United Kingdom |4.6 hours long. Won Los Angeles Film Critics Special Award. |
1977
|West Germany |Reinhard Heydrich - Manager des Terrors |Heinz Schirk | |
1979
|United Kingdom |Kitty: Return to Auschwitz |Peter Morley |Kitty Hart-Moxon returns to Auschwitz concentration camp |
= 1980s =
class="wikitable sortable" |
Year
! Country ! Title ! Director ! Notes |
---|
1980
|West Germany |English title: The Yellow Star |
1981
|Australia |The Hunter and the Hunted |John Oakley | |
1982
|United States |Best Documentary Feature Oscar winner |
1982
|Sweden |The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz |Peter Cohen and Bo Kuritzen | |
1982
|United States |Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die |Laurence Jarvik |Distributed by Kino International Corporation |
1983
|United States |To Bear Witness |Gavin P. Boyle | |
1983
|{{nowrap|United Kingdom}} |Schindler: The Documentary (TV) |Released in the US in 1994 as Schindler: The Real Story |
1983
|United States |The Work | |
1984
|United States |A Generation Apart |Jack Fisher | |
1984
|United States |Kaddish |Steve Brand |Based on book by Dr. Randolph Braham |
1985
|Canada |Dark Lullabies |Irene Lilienheim Angelico and Abbey Jack Neidik |Feature documentary |
1985
|Soviet Union |Babiy Yar: Lessons of History | | |
1985
|West Germany |Die Befreiung von Auschwitz |Irmgard von zur Mühlen |English title: Liberation of Auschwitz 1945 |
1985
|West Germany |Goethe in D. |Manfred Vosz | |
1985
|France |9.5 hours long |
1985
|United States |Pier Marton |Jewish identity for Second Generation European Jews |
1985
|United States |The Ties That Bind | |
1986
|Australia |Frank Heimans |Concerns the Theresienstadt concentration camp |
1986
|United States |Partisans of Vilna |Joshua Waletzky |Documentary produced by Aviva Kempner about the Jewish resistance in the Vilna Ghetto. |
1986
|West Germany |Die Befreiung von Auschwitz |Bengt von zur Mühlen | |
1988
|Israel |B'Glal Hamilhamah Hahi |Orna Ben-Dor Niv |English title: Because of That War |
1988
|United States |Hôtel Terminus: Klaus Barbie, sa vie et son temps |English title: Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie |
1988
|West Germany |Mit 22 Jahren wollte man noch nicht sterben |Rainer Ritzel | |
1988
|France |Témoins |Polish title: Swiadkowie; English title: Witnesses: Anti-Semitism in Poland, 1946 |
1988
|United States |Voices from the Attic |Debbie Goodstein | |
1989
|Israel |Hugo |Yair Lev | |
1989
|United States |Lodz Ghetto |Alan Adelson & Kate Taverna | |
1989
|Sweden |English title: The Architecture of Doom |
1989
|United States |Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future | |
= 1990s =
class="wikitable sortable" |
Year
! Country ! Title ! Director ! Notes |
---|
1990
|United States |C.A.N.D.L.E.S.: The Story of the Mengele Twins (TV) |Gordon J. Murray | |
1991
|France |Premier convoi (TV) |Jacky Assoun and Suzette Bloch | |
1991
|{{nowrap|United Kingdom}} |Purple Triangles |Martin Smith |Describes the accounts of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi camps.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}} |
1991
|United Kingdom |Chasing Shadows |Naomi Gryn |About the childhood experiences of Holocaust survivor Rabbi Hugo Gryn.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}} |
1991
|Canada |A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Birthday Trip in Hell |Jack Kuper |Based on the diaries of Warsaw ghetto inmates |
1991
|United States |They Risked Their Lives: Rescuers of the Holocaust | |
1992
|United States |Sequel to Lódz Ghetto |Alan Adelson | |
1992
|Poland |Miejsce urodzenia |Paweł Łoziński |English title: Birthplace |
1992
|France |La Rafle du Vel-d'Hiv, La Marche du siècle | |
1992
|Japan |The Visas That Saved Lives |Alan Adelson | |
1992
|Sweden |Återkomster |Joanna Helander and Bo Persson | |
1993
|Canada |Children of the Shadows |Marc Cukier | |
1994
|Israel |Balagan |Based on the play Arbeit macht frei by Smadar Jaaron and David Maayan |
1994
|United States |Diamonds in the Snow |Mira Reym Binford | |
1994
|United States |Choosing One's Way: Resistance in Auschwitz/Birkenau |Ted Kay and Allen Secher | |
1994
|United States |The Holocaust: In Memory of Millions (TV) |Brian Blake |Hosted by Walter Cronkite |
1994
|Austria |Die Kunst des Erinnerns - Simon Wiesenthal |Johanna Heer and Werner Schmiedel |English title: The Art of Remembrance - Simon Wiesenthal |
1994
|Spain |English title: Memory of Water |
1994
|Unknown |The Power of Conscience: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews | |
1994
|France |Tzedek | |
1994
|Finland |Vankileirien paratiisi |Lisa Hovinheimo |{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}} |
1995
|United States |Anne Frank Remembered (TV) | |
1995
|Israel |Bottles in the Cellar |Shmuel Imberman | |
1995
|United States |Children Remember the Holocaust (TV) |Hosted by Keanu Reeves |
1995
|United States |One Survivor Remembers (TV) | |
1995
|Israel |Reshimot Vanda (TV) |Vered Berman | |
1995
|Belgium |Rhodes nostalgie (TV) |Diane Perelsztejn | |
1996
|France |Drancy Avenir |Deportations from ParisThe film has been described as an « enquête historique, poétique et philosophique sur les traces de l'extermination des Juifs dans Paris et sa banlieue aujourd'hui » — French Wikipedia. |
1996
|United States |My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports |Melissa Hacker | |
1996
|United Kingdom |Nuremberg | |
1996
|United States |Survivors of the Holocaust |Allan Holzman | |
1996
|United Kingdom |The Nazis: A Warning from History |Laurence Rees and Tilman Remme | |
1996
|Germany |Hitler's Henchmen |Guido Knopp, Sebastian Dehnhardt, Jörg Müllner, Andreas Christoph Schmidt |TV Mini-series, 2 seasons, 12 episodes |
1997
|Denmark |Based on the book by Uri Orlev |
1997
|United States |Blood Money: Switzerland's Nazi Gold |Stephen Crisman | |
1997
|Switzerland |Based on the book by Stefan Keller |
1997
|United States |My Hometown Concentration Camp | |
1997
|United States |In the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine |John Michalczyk |Based on the book by Stefan Keller |
1997
|Switzerland |Journal de Rivesaltes 1941–1942 | |
1997
|United States |Narrated by Morgan Freeman |
1997
|United States |The Lost Children of Berlin |Elizabeth McIntyre |Narrated by Anthony Hopkins |
1997
|United States |Out Loud! |Miriam Bjeirre | |
1997
|Germany |Das Prinzip Dora |Claudette Coulanges & Rolf Coulanges | |
1997
|United States |Raising the Ashes | |
1997
|Israel |Shahor Lavan Zeh Tzivoni |Tamir Paul | |
1997
|United States |The Trial of Adolf Eichmann | |Describes the time period of Adolf Eichmann from his being brought to Israel till his execution. Also an insight is given into the mind of the mass murderer. |
1997
|France |English title: A Visitor from the Living |
1997
|Germany |Unterwegs als sicherer Ort |Dietrich Schubert |English title On the Move Is a Safe Place |
1997
|Italy |Memoria |Selected for the "Berlin International Film Festival". Collection of about ninety eyewitnesses' interviews, the voices of the Italian survivors of the Shoah. |
1998
|Germany |Diese Tage in Terezin |Sibylle Schönemann |English title: Those Days in Terezin |
1998
|Germany |English title: Photographer; French title: Chronique couleur du ghetto de Łódź; German title: Der Fotograf |
1998
|United States |
1998
|United States |A Letter Without Words |Lisa Lewenz | |
1998
|Belgium |Der Judenmord |Michel Alexandre | |
1998
|Switzerland |Nachrichten aus dem Untergrund |Andreas Hoessli |English title Underground Messengers |
1998
|United States |Never Forget |Sherrie Drummond |Short |
1998
|United States |A Sculpture of Love and Anguish: The Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial |David Braman | |
1999
|United States |Burning Questions |Michael Porembski | |
1999
|United States |The Children of Chabannes |Lisa Gossels | |
1999
|Switzerland |Children of the Night |Jolanta Dylewska | |
1999
|United States | |
1999
|Germany |Flucht in den Dschungel |Michael Juncker | |
1999
|Canada |Hidden Heroes |Karen Pascal | |
1999
|Switzerland |Martin | |
1999
|Germany |Mendel lebt – Wiederbegegnung mit Mendel Szajnfeld |Hans-Dieter Grabe | |
1999
|United States |Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. | |
1999
|United States |Process B-7815 | |
1999
|United States |Tak for Alt: Survival of a Human Spirit |Laura Bialis & Broderick Fox & Sarah Levy | |
1999
|Israel |Un spécialiste, portrait d'un criminel moderne |Documentary film directed by Rony Brauman and Eyal Sivan, originally released in 1999 to theaters worldwide. Made entirely out of the restored original video recordings of Adolf Eichmann's trial at Jerusalem edited down to 120 minutes, the film focuses especially on the desk murderer's psychology. No narration or commentary is used, albeit the material is at times edited visually and acoustically to disturbing effect, to reflect the most disturbing nature of the events related in the words of the witnesses, the court, and the defendant, and scored with disturbing musique concrete or ambient music. Official Selection of the 1999 Berlin International Film Festival,[http://eyalsivan.info/index.php?p=fichefilm&id=11 The Specialist, portrait of a modern criminal 1999], eyalsivan.info (click Awards tab at the top of the article)[http://dafilms.fr/film/8853-the-specialist-portrait-of-a-modern-criminal/ Un Spécialiste - Portrait d'un Criminel Moderne // The Specialist, Portrait of a Modern Criminal] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140213142850/http://dafilms.fr/film/8853-the-specialist-portrait-of-a-modern-criminal/ |date=2014-02-13 }}, Doc Aliance: Votre Cinéma Documentaire en Ligne (click drop-downs for Fesivals and Prix) winner of the Grimme-Preis in 2001. Was criticized for tendentious editing making Eichmann appear in a more positive light and especially making prosecutor Gideon Hausner appear to display rude and unfair behavior in court, by Stewart Tryster, director of the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, in his 2005 documentary Editing the Truth Away: The Eichmann Trial and The Specialist .(2013). [http://orphanfilmsymposium.blogspot.de/2013/06/post-script-to-june-6th-posting-von.html Post script to June 6th posting "...watching Eichman"], NYU Orphan Film Project, The Orphan Film Symposium: Archivists, academics, & artists saving, studying, & screening neglected moving images, June 20, 2013Tryster, Stewart (2011). [http://www.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/Blog_AV/Tryster_THE_SPECIALIST_2011.mp3 Audio recording] (provided by New York University) of a lecture by Stewart Tryster outlining his criticisms of the film Un spécialiste, delivered at the Sorbonne conference Le procès Eichmann: Réceptions, médiations, postérités, June 7–9, 2011 (42 min., mp3) Released on French VHS and DVD under its original title, on NTSC VHS as Adolf Eichmann: The Specialist, on Region 1 DVD as The Specialist: Portrait of a Modern Criminal, and on German VHS as Ein Spezialist. All of these home video editions are currently out-of-print. |
1999
|United States |Witness: Voices from the Holocaust |Joshua M. Greene & Shiva Kumar | |
1999
|Germany |Drei deutsche Mörder. Aufzeichnungen über die Banalität des Bösen |Ebbo Demant | |
1999
|Poland |... gdzie jest mój starszy syn Kain |Considers Jedwabne pogrom |
= 2000s =
class="wikitable sortable" |
Year
! Country ! Title ! Director ! Notes |
---|
2000
|{{nowrap|United Kingdom}} |Auschwitz: The Final Witnesses |Sheldon Lazarus | |
2000
|Spain |Cerca del Danubio |Felipe Vega | |
2000
|United States | |
2000
|United States |Typhoons' Last Storm | |
2000
|Israel |Hazehut Ha'Avuda Shel Hanita |Vered Berman | |
2000
|United Kingdom |The Holocaust on Trial | |
2000
|United Kingdom |Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | |
2000
|United States |Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman |Documentary about gays and the Holocaust |
2000
|Israel |David Fisher | |
2000
|Germany |Das Himmler-Projekt | |
2001
|United States |Exodus to Berlin |Jeff Kamen and Peter Laufer | |
2001
|United States |Holocaust: New York Tolerance Center | |
2001
|Germany |Eine Liebe in Auschwitz |Thilo Thielke & Jens Nicolai | |
2001
|Poland |Śmierć Zygelbojma |Dżamila Ankiewicz | |
2001
|Poland |Sąsiedzi |Concerns Jedwabne pogrom |
2001
|France |Sobibor, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures |English title: Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. |
2001
|Canada |Struma | |
2001
|Slovakia |Svedok |Dušan Hudec | |
2002
| |Illusion | |Concerns Kurt Gerron |
2002
|United States |Last Dance | |
2002
|United States |Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII | |
2002
|Czech Republic |They're Painful Memories (...to jsou těžké vzpomínky) |Monika Rychlíková |About holocaust of Roma and Sinti in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Camps in Lety and Hodonín. |
2002
|Poland |Pamiętam |English title: I Remember |
2002
|United States |Malcolm Clarke & Stuart Sender | |
2002
|United States |Sudbina mi nije dala da odem |Dominik Sedlar & Jakov Sedlar |English title: Fate Did Not Let Me Go |
2002
|Canada |Undying Love |Helene Klodawsky | |
2003
|United States |Berga: Soldiers of Another War | |
2003
|United States |Den Danske løsning |Karen Cantor & Camilla Kjærulff |English title: The Danish Solution: The Rescue of the Jews in Denmark |
2003
|Australia |Long Shadows: Stories from a Jewish Home |Kate Hampel | |
2003
|United States |Eileen Douglas & Ron Steinman | |
2003
|Germany |Mariannes Heimkehr |Stefan Röttger & Gert Monheim | |
2003
|Germany |Land der Vernichtung | |
2004
|United States |A is for Auschwitz: A Weekend with My Grandparents | | |
2004
|Canada |Against the Odds |Jedrzej Jonasz | |
2004
|United States |Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust |Daniel Anker | |
2004
|Poland |Hawaii and the Holocaust | |
2004
|United States |Paper Clips |Elliot Berlin & Joe Fab |About the Paper Clips Project |
2004
|Italy |La fuga degli innocenti | |
2004
|Germany |Wege der Tübinger Juden. Eine Spurensuche |Ulrike Baumgärtner | |
2004
|United Kingdom |Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' Also known as Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State |Dominic Sutherland, Martina Balazova and Detlef Siebert |Companion book: Auschwitz: A New History |
2004
|Germany |Based on a portion of Pfarrerblock 25487 ({{ISBN|2-87963-286-2}}), the diary of Father Jean (1907–1994) |
2005
|Chile |Holocausto:Tercera Generación |Daniel Segal & Daniel Halpern | |
2005
|Germany |Mit dem Mut der Verzweifelten – Jüdischer Widerstand gegen Hitler |Rena Giefer & Thomas Giefer | |
2005
|Germany |2 oder 3 Dinge, die ich von ihm weiß |English title: 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him — Ludin's family's reaction to their father's role in sending Jews to Auschwitz |
2005
|Hungary |Process (TV) |Péter Muszatics | |
2005
|Israel |A Treasure in Auschwitz (TV) |Yahaly Gat | |
2005
|Germany |Wenn lang die Bilder schon verblassen... KZ Theresienstadt - Propagandafilm und Wirklichkeit |Thilo Pohle | |
2005
|Germany |Winterkinder - Die schweigende Generation |Jens Schanze | |
2005
|Hungary |Sorstalanság (Fateless) |Lajos Koltai | |
2006
|France |Amants des hommes |Isabelle Darmengeat[http://www.isabelledarmengeat.fr/blog/index.php?2006/11/20/4-amants-des-hommes Amants des hommes] |English title: Men lovers |
2006
|France |Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes |Christian Delage | |
2006
|Canada |Once a Nazi... |Frederic Bohbot & Evan Beloff | |
2006
|Netherlands | |
2006
|United States |Borrowing Time |Robert Allan Black | |
2006
|United States |Journey to Justice |Steve Palackdharry | |
2006
|United States |Joel Engardio and Tom Shepard | |
2006
|Italy |La Strada di Levi | |
2006
|Germany |Joseph Vilsmaier, Dana Vávrová | |
2006
|Austria | |
2006
|Poland |The Portraitist (Portrecista) |Ireneusz Dobrowolski |Polish television documentary film about the life and work of Wilhelm Brasse, the famous "photographer of Auschwitz" |
2006
|United Kingdom |Kz |Rex Bloomstein |Documents the attitudes and experiences of tourists and students visiting Mauthausen concentration camp, their guides, and the townspeople of Mauthausen. |
2007-2010
|Czech Republic |Forgotten transports |Lukáš Přibyl |Forgotten Transports to Estonia (2007), 85 min. Forgotten Transports to Latvia (2007), 85 min. Forgotten Transports to Belarus (2008), 85 min. Forgotten Transports to Poland (2010), 85 min. |
2008
|Israel |Classmates of Anne Frank | |
2008
|United States |Scrapbooks from Hell: The Auschwitz Albums |Erik Nelson | |
2008
|Poland |Anioł Śmierci (The Angel of Death) |Marta Mironowicz |Documentary on Josef Mengele's experiments. |
2008
|Germany |Gerdas Schweigen |Britta Wauer | |
2009
|Israel | |
2009
|France |Einsatzgruppen, les commandos de la mort (Nazi Death Squads) |Michaël Prazan | 4x55 min. |
2009
|United Kingdom |The Secret Diary of the Holocaust[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gn734 BBC 2009, The Secret Diary of the Holocaust] retrieved 21 October 2017 |Alexander Marengo |Rutka Laskier's diary |
2009
|France |Das Reich, Hitler's death squads |Michaël Prazan | |
2009
|Germany |Der weiße Rabe – Max Mannheimer |Carolin Otto | |
= 2010s =
class="wikitable sortable" |
Year
! Country ! Title ! Director ! Notes |
---|
2010
|Canada |Song of the Lodz Ghetto |David Kaufman | |
2010
|Israel |Yael Hersonski | |
2010
|Canada Brazil |Nazi Hunters |Tim Wolochatiuk |TV Mini-series, 13 episodes |
2010
|France |Le Rapport Karski |Claude Lanzmann |An extended interview with Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski, consisting largely of footage gathered for but not included in Claude Lanzmann's epic 9-hour documentary Shoah. |
2011
|Germany | |
2011
|Israel | |
2011
|Turkey |Burak Arlıel |A documentary about the Jews who were rescued by Turkish diplomats through having been given Turkish diplomatic passports. |
2011
|Israel |Chanoch Zeevi | |
2011
|United States |Empty Boxcars |Ed Gaffney |Tells the story of the survival of over 50,000 Jews in World War II and the mass murder of 11,393 Jews from territories under Bulgarian control in Greece and Macedonia. Footage of the trains renders the crime visible.{{cite web | url=https://www.macedonianfilmfestival.com/films/Empty-boxcars | title=Empty boxcars }} |
2012
|Austria |Dann bin ich ja ein Mörder |Walter Manoschek |The subject of the film is Adolf Storms and the Deutsch Schützen massacre |
2012
|United States |Bearing Witness: The Voices of Our Survivors |Heather Elliott-Famularo |http://www.bearingwitnesstoledo.com |
2012
|United States |Sean Gaston |www.misasfugue.com |
2012
|Germany |204 AR-Z 269/60Y Die Protokolle |Wolfgang Jost & Winfried Wallat | |
2012
|United States | Documentary about a group of Jews who lived in caves in Ukraine for nearly 18 months to escape the Holocaust. |
2012
|United States |REFUGE: Stories of the Selfhelp Home |Ethan Bensinger |Documentary about the last generation of Holocaust Survivors and Refugees at Chicago's Selfhelp Home |
2012
|United States |The Resort |Galina Kalashnikova |www.codeoflifeproductions.com |
2012
|Netherlands |Transport XX to Auschwitz |Karen Lynne & Richard Bloom | |
2012
|United States |[http://www.hidinghalina.com Hiding Halina] |Jeff MacIntyre |9 out of 10 Jewish children perished during the Holocaust. Those who survived were hidden. "Hiding Halina" is a documentary about a little girl who beat the odds. |
2013
|Austria |Das Radikal Böse | |
2013
|United Kingdom |The Unseen Holocaust |Mike Ibeji | |
2013
|Canada | |
2013
|Italy |[https://web.archive.org/web/20130630004116/http://www.primolevicenter.org/Programs/Entries/2013/1/18_March_13___The_Longest_Journey._The_Last_Days_of_the_Jews_of_Rhodes.html The Longest Journey] |
2013
|France |Last of the Unjust |https://web.archive.org/web/20121028182739/http://www.le-pacte.com/international/upcoming-films/single/the-last-of-the-unjust/ |
2014
|Poland |Jan Komasa |Documentary film using archived and colorized footage of Warsaw uprising. Polish title: Powstanie Warszawskie |
2014
|France |Izieu, Children in the Shoah |Romain Icard | |
2014
|France |Jusqu'au dernier, La destruction des Juifs d'Europe |William Karel, Blanche Finger |8 episodes x 52 minutes English title: Annihilation - The Destruction of Europe's Jews |
2014
|Germany |Forbidden Films |Felix Moeller |Between 1933 and 1945, 1200 feature films were made in Germany. After the war the Allies banned over 300 films as propaganda. There are still restrictions on over 40 of these films today. |
2014
|United States |A punk fan from Los Angeles traces her father's journey back to the concentration camp in Theresienstadt where he spent two years of his life. |
2014
|Israel |Yael Reuveny |An Israeli woman living in Germany, granddaughter of a survivor, explores the ramifications of discovering a great-uncle who, unbeknownst to the family in Israel, lived out his life in East Germany near the camp he was held in. |
2014
|United Kingdom | |
2014
|Germany |Vanessa Lapa | |
2014
|France |Shoah, les Oubliés de l’Histoire |Véronique Lagoarde-Ségot | |
2014
|Israel |Gisi |Natasha Dudinski |The story of Gisi Fleischmann, a woman who believed she could stop the Holocaust if only she managed to raise enough money. |
2015
|United Kingdom |What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy |David Evans | |
2016
|Germany |Documentary showing how tourists act while visiting the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps. |
2017
|Israel |Ghetto Uprising - The Untold Story |Yuval Haimovich-Zuser |A film revolving around the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. |
2017
|France |Josef Mengele: Hunting A Nazi Criminal |Emmanuel Amara | |
2017
|Israel |Dear Fredy |Rubi Gat |Documentary about Fredy Hirsch, a German Jew and openly gay man in Nazi Germany. The film combines interviews, archival materials, and animation. |
2017
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2018
|United States |The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm |The film features a conversation between a ten year old and his Grandfather, a Holocaust survivor. |
2018
|United States |Who Will Write Our History | |
2018
|Germany |Der Letzte Jollyboy |Hans-Erich Viet | |
2018
|United States |Dramatization of Mossad's clandestine operation to kidnap Adolf Eichmann from Argentina for his trial in Jerusalem. |
2018
|Canada |Matthew Shoychet |The trial of Oskar Gröning, who worked as accountant in Auschwitz, responsible for the murder of over 300,000 Jews.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}} |
2018
|South Africa |The Secret Survivor |Johnathan Andrews |After nearly 70 years of silence, Veronica Phillips, a survivor of Ravensbrück, decides to tell her story for future generations to learn from her tragic experiences during and after the Holocaust.{{cite web | title=Veronica Phillips The Secret Survivor | website=United World Nation | date=2018-08-06 | url=https://unitedworldnation.org/veronica-phillips-the-secret-survivor/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190511192532/https://unitedworldnation.org/veronica-phillips-the-secret-survivor/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=May 11, 2019 | access-date=2021-02-28}} |
2019
|Hungary |A Pásztor |László Illés |English title: The Shepherd. The main character is an old shepherd, who lives alone on a ranch. After his daughter was killed by Nazis, he decided in his grief to save as many Jewish lives as possible. |
2019
|Israel Germany |Made in Auschwitz: The Untold Story of Block 10 |Sylvia Nagel, Sonya Winterberg |The story of the over 400 young women who underwent medical experimentation in Auschwitz under Carl Clauberg, an enterprising, sadistic gynaecologist. |
2019
|Germany |Free State Midpoint |Kai Ehlers & Domenico Distilo |The film reports from a chapter of the Nazi regime - eugenics - that has not been covered extensively from a subjective perspective, due to a lack of eloquent witnesses and a forum for their few voices. |
2019
|United States |No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank's Story |Paula Fouce |The discovery of the lost letters of Anne Frank's father, Otto, reveal an unknown chapter of their family's life. |
= 2020s =
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Year
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2020
|Germany |Getrennt durch Stacheldraht – Jugendjahre im KZ Gusen |Julia & Robert Grantner | |
2020
|United Kingdom |Luke Holland | |
2020
|France |Ravensbrück, le camp oublié |Aurélie Chaigneau | |
2020
|Israel |Ahava Zot Lo Hayta (Love tt Was Not) |Maya Sarfaty |The tragic love story of Helena Citron, a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, and Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch |
2020
|Japan |Inferno: Letters from Auschwitz | |Documentary about notes which were written by Jews who were part of a special unit called the Sonderkommando |
2020
|United Kingdom |Thomas Gardner | |
2021
|Netherlands |Greetings from the death camp |Manfred Van Eijk | |
2021
|Israel |Bad Nazi. Good Nazi |{{ill|Chanoch Ze'evi|he|חנוך זאבי}} | |
2022
|Germany |The Wannsee Conference: The Documentary |Jörg Müllner | |
2022
|United States |Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein | |
2022
|United States, Germany |Ordinary Men: The Forgotten Holocaust | Manfred Oldenburg, Oliver Halmburger |Netflix documentary that examines how and why thousands of ordinary Germans carried out mass atrocities as members of Nazi police squads during the Holocaust. |
2022
|Tarłów, Poland |Without the Right to Live |Waldemar Kowalsk |Presented by Muzeum II Wojny Światowej w Gdańsku (World War II Museum in Gdansk). Released exactly 80 years after Operation Reinhard |
See also
Further reading
- {{cite book|last1=Reimer|first1=R.C.|last2=Reimer|first2=C.J.|title=Historical Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema|publisher=Scarecrow Press|series=Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts|year=2012|isbn=978-0-8108-7986-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yDEV0R3LGvkC}}
References
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