List of Holocaust films
This is an index of films that deal with the Holocaust in Europe.
Narrative films
1940s
Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
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1946 | USA | The Stranger | Orson Welles | First feature film to include footage of concentration camps[1] |
1947 | Poland | The Last Stage | Wanda Jakubowska | English titles: The Last Stage, The Last Stop |
1947 | Germany | Ehe im Schatten | Kurt Maetzig | One of the earliest DEFA productions. English title: Marriage in the Shadows |
1948 | Germany | Morituri | Eugen York | |
1948 | USA | The Search | Fred Zinnemann | |
1949 | USA West Germany |
Lang ist der Weg | Herbert B. Fredersdorf Marek Goldstein |
Yiddish title: Lang iz der Veg; English title: Long Is the Road |
1950s
Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
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1950 | Czechoslovakia | Distant Journey | Alfréd Radok | English title: Distant Journey |
1953 | USA | The Juggler | Edward Dmytryk | |
1956 | USA | Singing in the Dark | Max Nosseck | Musical about Holocaust survivor with amnesia |
1958–59 | USA | Pursuit | Ian Sharp | Anthology series |
1959 | East Germany Bulgaria |
Stars | Konrad Wolf | English title: Stars |
1959 | USA | The Diary of Anne Frank | George Stevens | Won 3 Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress |
1959 | Italy Yugoslavia France |
Kapò | Gillo Pontecorvo |
1960s
Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
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1960 | Czechoslovakia | Romeo, Julie a tma | Jiří Weiss | English title: Romeo, Juliet and Darkness. Concerns Operation Anthropoid. |
1960 | USA | Exodus | Otto Preminger | Based on the novel by Leon Uris; screenplay by Dalton Trumbo. |
1960 | Yugoslavia | Deveti krug | France Stiglic | English title:The Ninth Circle |
1961 | USA | Judgment at Nuremberg | Stanley Kramer | |
1961 | Poland | Samson | Andrzej Wajda | |
1961 | Belgium | L'enclos | Armand Gatti | Italian title: Otto ore al buio. Prix de la Critique at 1961 Cannes Festival. |
1963 | Poland | Passenger | Andrzej Munk | |
1964 | USA | The Pawnbroker | Sidney Lumet | |
1965 | East Germany | Chronik eines Mordes | Joachim Hasler | English title:Chronicle of a Murder |
1965 | Czechoslovakia | The Shop On Main Street | Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos | |
1967 | USA | The Diary of Anne Frank | Alex Segal | TV movie |
1967 | France | Army of Shadows | Jean Pierre Melville |
1970s
1980s
1990s
Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
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1990 | West Germany | Abrahams Gold | Jörg Graser | |
1990 | Germany France Poland |
Europa Europa | Agnieszka Holland | |
1990 | Poland | Korczak | Andrzej Wajda | |
1991 | Poland | Jeszcze tylko ten las | Jan Lomnicki | English title: Just Beyond That Forest |
1991 | USA | Never Forget | Joseph Sargent | TV movie; based on the life of Mel Mermelstein |
1991 | Canada | The Quarrel | Eli Cohen | Based on the story My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner by Chaim Grade |
1992 | UK France |
Prague | Ian Sellar | |
1992 | USA | Alan and Naomi | Sterling Van Wagenen | based on a novel by Myron Levoy |
1992 | USA | The Witness | Chris Gerolmo | Short film |
1993 | Italy France |
Jona che visse nella balena | Roberto Faenza | English title: Jonah Who Lived in the Whale, aka Look to the Sky |
1993 | USA | Schindler's List | Steven Spielberg | 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, filmed entirely in black and white, won 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.[2] |
1995 | France | Les Misérables | Claude Lelouch | |
1995 | Japan | Anne no nikki | Akinori Nagaoka | Anime adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank |
1996 | USA | Voices of the Children | Zuzana Justman | Winner of the 1999 Emmy Award for Best Historical Program |
1996 | USA | The Empty Mirror | Barry J. Hershey | |
1996 | USA | The Man Who Captured Eichmann | William A. Graham | Based on the book Eichmann in My Hands by Peter Z. Malkin |
1996 | USA | Mother Night | Keith Gordon | Based on the novel by Kurt Vonnegut, and starring Nick Nolte. |
1996 | USA | The Ring | Armand Mastroianni | TV film; based on the novel by Danielle Steel |
1996 | USA | The Substance of Fire | Daniel J. Sullivan | Based on the play by Jon Robin Baitz |
1997 | Italy France Germany Switzerland |
La Tregua | Francesco Rosi | English title: The Truce. Based on the autobiography by Primo Levi |
1997 | USA | Visas and Virtue | Chris Tashima | Short film; based on the play by Tim Toyama |
1997 | Italy | La vita è bella | Roberto Benigni | English title: Life is Beautiful. Won 3 Academy Awards |
1997 | Denmark UK Germany |
The Island on Bird Street | Soren Kragh-Jacobsen | Based on the book by Uri Orlev |
1997 | UK | Bent | Sean Mathias | Based on the play by Martin Sherman |
1998 | USA | Apt Pupil | Bryan Singer | Based on the novela by Stephen King |
1998 | Netherlands Belgium |
Left Luggage | Jeroen Krabbé | Based on the novel by Carl Friedman |
1998 | USA | Miracle at Midnight | Ken Cameron | TV movie |
1998 | USA | Pola's March | Jonathan Gruber | |
1998 | France Belgium Netherlands Israel |
Train of Life | Radu Mihaileanu | |
1999 | Czech Republic | All My Loved Ones | Matej Mináč | |
1999 | USA | The Devil's Arithmetic | Donna Deitch | Based on the novel by Jane Yolen |
1999 | Germany | Gloomy Sunday - Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod | Rolf Schübel | Based on the novel by Nick Barkow |
1999 | USA | Jakob the Liar | Peter Kassovitz | Based on the novel by Jurek Becker |
1999 | Germany Austria Canada Hungary |
Sunshine | István Szabó |
2000s
Year | Country | Title | Directors | Notes |
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2000 | Czech Republic | Musíme si pomáhat | Jan Hřebejk | English title: Divided We Fall |
2000 | Canada | Nuremberg | Yves Simoneau | TV movie; based on the book by Joseph E. Persico |
2000 | Czech Republic | Pramen života | Milan Cieslar | English title: The Spring Of Life; based on the book by Vladimír Körner |
2000 | USA Poland |
Edges of the Lord | Yurek Bogayevicz | |
2001 | USA | Anne Frank: The Whole Story | Robert Dornhelm | TV movie; based on the book by Melissa Müller |
2001 | USA UK |
Conspiracy | Frank Pierson | TV movie |
2001 | USA | The Grey Zone | Tim Blake Nelson | Based on the book |
2001 | Germany | Nirgendwo in Afrika | Caroline Link | English title: Nowhere in Africa; adaptation of Stefanie Zweig's autobiographical novel |
2001 | USA | Uprising | Jon Avnet | TV movie |
2002 | France Germany |
Amen. | Costa-Gavras | Based on the play The Deputy by Rolf Hochhuth |
2002 | France Germany UK Poland |
The Pianist | Roman Polanski | Based on the autobiography by Wladyslaw Szpilman; Won 3 Academy Awards |
2002 | Czech Republic | The Power of Good | Matej Mináč | Documentary[3][4] |
2003 | Hungary | A Rózsa énekei | Andor Szilágyi | |
2003 | Italy | Facing Windows | Ferzan Özpetek | English title: Facing Windows |
2003 | USA | The Singing Forest | Jorge Ameer | |
2003 | USA | Out of the Ashes | Joseph Sargent | Based on the book I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz by Gisella Perl |
2003 | USA | Hitler: The Rise of Evil | Christian Duguay | TV movie |
2003 | Germany | Babiy Yar | Jeff Kanew | |
2005 | Poland Sweden |
Ninas resa | Lena Einhorn | |
2005 | France | A Love to Hide | Christian Faure | TV movie |
2005 | USA | Everything is Illuminated | Liev Schreiber | Based on the book by Jonathan Safran Foer |
2005 | UK | Primo | Richard Wilson | TV movie |
2005 | Germany | Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage | Marc Rothemund | English title: Sophie Scholl: The Final Days |
2005 | Hungary | Fateless | Lajos Koltai | Based on the book by Imre Kertész |
2006 | Netherlands | Black Book | Paul Verhoeven | |
2006 | Germany Czech Republic |
Der Letzte Zug | Joseph Vilsmaier/ Dana Vávrová | English title: The Last Train |
2006 | USA | Forgiving Dr. Mengele | Bob Hercules Cheri Pugh |
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2007 | Germany Austria |
The Counterfeiters | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Based on a memoir written by Adolf Burger |
2008 | UK | God on Trial | Andy DeEmmony | |
2008 | UK USA |
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas | Mark Herman | Adaptation of John Boyne's novel |
2008 | USA | Defiance | Edward Zwick | Based on the book by Nechama Tec |
2008 | UK USA |
The Reader | Stephen Daldry | Based on the book by Bernhard Schlink Kate Winslet won Best Leading Actress |
2008 | Hungary Germany UK |
Good | Vicente Amorim | Based on the play by Cecil Philip Taylor |
2009 | France | La rafle | Rose Bosch | Based on the true story of a young Jewish boy |
2009 | France | L'armée du crime | Robert Guédiguian | English title: The Army of Crime |
2009 | USA Germany |
Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino | |
2009 | USA Poland Canada |
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler | John Kent Harrison | TV movie |
2010s
2010 | USA Poland |
Esther's Diary | Mariusz Kotowski | Features original footage from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum |
2010 | France | Sarah's Key | Gilles Paquet-Brenner | An adaptation of the novel Elle s'appelait Sarah by Tatiana De Rosnay |
2010 | France | The Round Up | Rose Bosch | The Vel' d'Hiv Roundup. |
2010 | China | A Jewish Girl in Shanghai | Wang Genfa, Zhang Zhenhui | Animated. Life of a Jewish girl with her little brother in Shanghai, and her parents in Europe. |
2011 | Poland | In Darkness | Agnieszka Holland | Based on a true story. |
2012 | Republic of Macedonia | The Third Half | Darko Mitrevski | |
2012 | Serbia | When Day Breaks | Goran Paskaljević | |
2012 | Netherlands Belgium USA |
Transport XX to Auschwitz | Karen Lynne and Richard Bloom | |
2013 | Switzerland | Akte Grüninger | Alain Gsponer | Based on the true story of Paul Grüninger. |
2013 | Czech Republic Slovakia |
Colette | Milan Cieslar | An adaptation of the novel A girl from Antwerp by Arnošt Lustig |
2013 | Poland | Ida | Paweł Pawlikowski | the 2014 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film |
2015 | Russia Germany |
The Way Out (2015 film) | Mikhail Uchitelev | Short. Accepted at the Short Film Corner of the 68th Cannes Festival |
2015 | Hungary | Son of Saul | László Nemes | 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 | Meine Tochter Anne Frank | Raymond Lay | German television film about Anne Frank, on the view of her father |
2016 | Germany | Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank | Hans Steinbichler | German cinematographic feature about Anne Frank |
Documentary films
1940s
Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
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1945 | UK | German Concentration Camps Factual Survey | production supervised by Sidney Bernstein | long shelved, completed in 2014; Alfred Hitchcock collaborated on production |
1945 | USA | Death Mills | Billy Wilder | English Version of Die Todesmühlen; excerpted from German Concentration Camps Factual Survey |
1945 | Poland | Majdanek - cmentarzysko Europy | Aleksander Ford | English title: Majdanek: Cemetery of Europe |
1945 | USA | Nazi Concentration Camps[5] | George Stevens | Presented as evidence at The Nuremberg trials. |
1945 | USA | The Nazi Plan | George Stevens | Presented as evidence at The Nuremberg trials |
1945 | Yugoslavia | Jasenovac[6] | Gustav Gavrin & Kosta Hlavaty | |
circa 1946 | UK | Memory of the Camps[7] | original documentary supervised by Sidney Bernstein | Shorter version of German Concentration Camps Factual Survey; reconstructed by American PBS series Frontline in 1984 |
1946 | USA | Seeds of Destiny | Gene Fowler Jr. | Shows devastation and solicits relief funds |
1946 | France | Nous Continuons | English Title: We Live Again. Deals with child survivors. In Yiddish. | |
1947 | USSR | The Nuremberg Trials | C. Svilov | Soviet view of the Nuremberg Trials |
1950s
Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
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1955 | France | Nuit et brouillard | Alain Resnais | English title: Night and Fog. Written by Jean Cayrol, an escapee of Mauthausen. Music by Hanns Eisler. |
1960s
Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
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1965 | Germany | Der Vorletzte Akt | Walter Krüttner | English title: Last Act But One: Brundibar |
1965 | Canada | Memorandum | Donald Brittain and John Spotton | French title: Pour mémoire |
1965 | USSR | Obyknovennyy fashizm | Mikhail Romm | English title: Ordinary Fascism |
1966 | UK | Warsaw Ghetto | ||
1967 | Denmark | Mordere iblandt os (TV) | Henning Knudsen | English title: Murderers Among Us |
1968 | USA | 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 / Switzerland / West Germany | Le Chagrin et la pitié | Marcel Ophüls | English title:The Sorrow and the Pity Vichy France government collaboration with Nazi Germany |
1970s
Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
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1970 | Netherlands | Dingen die niet voorbijgaan | Philo Bregstein | English title: (The past that lives) |
1974 | Israel | The 81st Blow | David Bergman, Jacques Ehrlich and Haim Gouri | English title:The 81st Blow |
1974 | UK | The World at War (TV) | Michael Darlow | Episode 20 Genocide (First broadcast 27 March 1974). |
1976 | UK / USA / France / West Germany | The Memory of Justice | Marcel Ophüls | 4.6 hours long Won Los Angeles Film Critics Special Award |
1980s
Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
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1980 | Germany | Der Gelbe Stern | Dieter Hildebrandt | English title:The Yellow Star |
1981 | Australia | The Hunter and the Hunted | John Oakley | |
1982 | USA | Genocide | Arnold Schwartzman | Best Documentary Feature Oscar winner |
1982 | Sweden | The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz | Peter Cohen and Bo Kuritzen | |
1982 | USA | Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die | Laurence Jarvik | Distributed by Kino International Corporation, http://www.kino.com |
1983 | USA | To Bear Witness | Gavin P. Boyle | |
1983 | UK | Schindler: The Documentary (TV) | Jon Blair | Released in the US in 1994 as Schindler: The Real Story |
1983 | USA | The Work | Bernard Offen | |
1984 | USA | A Generation Apart | Jack Fisher | |
1984 | USA | Kaddish | Steve Brand | Based on book by Dr. Randolph Braham |
1985 | USSR | Babiy Yar: Lessons of History | ||
1985 | Germany | Die Befreiung von Auschwitz | Irmgard von zur Mühlen | English title:Liberation of Auschwitz 1945 |
1985 | Germany | Goethe in D. | Manfred Vosz | |
1985 | France | Shoah | Claude Lanzmann | 9½ hours long |
1985 | USA | Say I'm a Jew[8] | Pier Marton | Jewish identity for Second Generation European Jews |
1985 | USA | The Ties That Bind | Su Friedrich | |
1986 | Australia | Paradise Camp | Frank Heimans | Concerns the Theresienstadt concentration camp |
1986 | USA | Partisans of Vilna (film) | Joshua Waletzky | Documentary produced by Aviva Kempner about the Jewish resistance in the Vilna Ghetto. |
1988 | Israel | B'Glal Hamilhamah Hahi | Orna Ben-Dor Niv | English title:Because of That War |
1988 | USA/ France | Hôtel Terminus: Klaus Barbie, sa vie et son temps | Marcel Ophüls | English title: Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie |
1988 | Germany | Mit 22 Jahren wollte man noch nicht sterben | Rainer Ritzel | |
1988 | France/ Poland | Témoins | Marcel Lozinski | Polish title: Swiadkowie; English title: Witnesses: Anti-Semitism in Poland, 1946 |
1988 | USA | Voices from the Attic | Debbie Goodstein | |
1989 | Israel | Hugo | Yair Lev | |
1989 | USA | Lodz Ghetto | Alan Adelson&Kate Taverna | |
1989 | Sweden | The Architecture of Doom | Peter Cohen | English title:The Architecture of Doom |
1990s
Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
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1990 | USA | 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 | UK | Purple Triangles | Martin Smith | Describes the accounts of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi camps.[9] |
1991 | UK | Chasing Shadows | Naomi Gryn | About the childhood experiences of Holocaust survivor Rabbi Hugo Gryn.[10] |
1991 | Canada | A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Birthday Trip in Hell | Jack Kuper | Based on the diaries of Warsaw ghetto inmates |
1991 | USA | They Risked Their Lives: Rescuers of the Holocaust | Gay Block | |
1992 | USA | 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 | William Karel | |
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/ Germany | Balagan | Andres Veiel | Based on the play Arbeit macht frei by Smadar Jaaron & David Maayan |
1994 | USA | Diamonds in the Snow | Mira Reym Binford | |
1994 | USA | Choosing One's Way: Resistance in Auschwitz/Birkenau | Ted Kay and Allen Secher | |
1994 | USA | 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/ Argentina | La Memoria del agua | Héctor Fáver | English title:Memory of Water |
1994 | Unknown | The Power of Conscience: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews | Alexandra Isles | |
1994 | France/ Switzerland | Tzedek | Marek Halter | |
1995 | USA/ UK/ Netherlands | Anne Frank Remembered (TV) | Jon Blair | |
1995 | Israel | Bottles in the Cellar | Shmuel Imberman | |
1995 | USA | Children Remember the Holocaust (TV) | Mark Gordon | Hosted by Keanu Reeves |
1995 | USA | One Survivor Remembers (TV) | Kary Antholis | |
1995 | Israel | Reshimot Vanda (TV) | Vered Berman | |
1995 | Belgium | Rhodes nostalgie (TV) | Diane Perelsztejn | |
1996 | France | Drancy Avenir | Arnaud des Pallières | Deportations from Paris[11] |
1996 | USA | My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports | Melissa Hacker | |
1996 | UK | Nuremberg | Stephen Trombley | |
1996 | USA | Survivors of the Holocaust | Allan Holzman | |
1996 | UK | The Nazis: A Warning from History | Laurence Rees and Tilman Remme | |
1997 | Denmark/ UK/ Germany | The Island on Bird Street | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Based on the book by Uri Orlev |
1997 | USA | Blood Money: Switzerland's Nazi Gold | Stephen Crisman | |
1997 | SWI | Grüningers Fall | Richard Dindo | Based on the book by Stefan Keller (writer) |
1997 | USA | My Hometown Concentration Camp | Bernard Offen | |
1997 | USA | In the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine | John Michalczyk | Based on the book by Stefan Keller |
1997 | Switzerland | Journal de Rivesaltes 1941–1942 | Jacqueline Veuve | |
1997 | USA | The Long Way Home | Mark Jonathan Harris | Narrated by Morgan Freeman |
1997 | USA | The Lost Children of Berlin | Elizabeth McIntyre | Narrated by Anthony Hopkins |
1997 | USA | Out Loud! | Miriam Bjeirre | |
1997 | Germany | Das Prinzip Dora | Claudette Coulanges and Rolf Coulanges | |
1997 | USA | Raising the Ashes | Michael O'Keefe | |
1997 | Israel/ Czech Republic | Shahor Lavan Zeh Tzivoni | Tamir Paul | |
1997 | USA | 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/ Germany | Un vivant qui passe | Claude Lanzmann | 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 | Finland | Vankileirien paratiisi | Lisa Hovinheimo | |
1997 | Italy | Memoria | Ruggero Gabbai | Selected for the "Berlin International Film Festival". Collection of about ninety eyewitnesses' interviews, the voices of the Italian survivors of the Shoah. |
1998 | Germany/ Czech Republic | Diese Tage in Terezin | Sibylle Schönemann | English title Those Days in Terezin |
1998 | Germany/ France/ Poland | Fotoamator | Dariusz Jablonski | English title Photographer; French title Chronique couleur du ghetto de Łódź; German title Der Fotograf |
1998 | USA | The Last Days | James Moll | Won Academy Award for Documentary Feature |
1998 | USA | A Letter Without Words | Lisa Lewenz | |
1998 | Switzerland | Nachrichten aus dem Untergrund | Andreas Hoessli | English title Underground Messengers |
1998 | USA | Never Forget | Sherrie Drummond | Short |
1998 | USA | A Sculpture of Love and Anguish: The Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial | David Braman | |
1998 | Italy | Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) | Roberto Benigni | Won 3 Academy Awards |
1999 | USA | Burning Questions | Michael Porembski | |
1999 | USA | The Children of Chabannes | Lisa Gossels | |
1999 | Switzerland | Children of the Night | Jolanta Dylewska | |
1999 | USA | Eyewitness | Bert Van Bork | |
1999 | Germany | Flucht in den Dschungel | Michael Juncker | |
1999 | Canada | Hidden Heroes | Karen Pascal | |
1999 | Switzerland/ Israel | Martin | Ra'anan Alexandrowicz | |
1999 | USA/ UK | Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. | Errol Morris | |
1999 | USA | Process B-7815 | Bernard Offen | |
1999 | USA | Tak for Alt: Survival of a Human Spirit | Laura Bialis&Broderick Fox&Sarah Levy | |
1999 | Israel/ France/ Germany/ Belgium/ Austria | Un spécialiste, portrait d'un criminel moderne | Eyal Sivan | 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,[12][13] winner of the Grimme-Preis in 2001.[12][13] 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 .[14][15] 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 | Witness: Voices from the Holocaust | Joshua M. Greene & Shiva Kumar | ||
1999 | Poland | ... gdzie jest mój starszy syn Kain | Agnieszka Arnold | Considers Jedwabne pogrom |
2000s
Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
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2000 | UK | Auschwitz: The Final Witnesses | Sheldon Lazarus | |
2000 | Spain | Cerca del Danubio | Felipe Vega | |
2000 | USA | Fighter | Amir Bar-Lev | |
2000 | USA | Typhoons' Last Storm | Lawrence Bond | |
2000 | Israel | Hazehut Ha'Avuda Shel Hanita | Vered Berman | |
2000 | UK | The Holocaust on Trial | Leslie Woodhead | |
2000 | UK/ USA | Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | Mark Jonathan Harris | |
2000 | USA | Paragraph 175 | Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | Documentary about gays and the Holocaust |
2000 | Israel | Reshimat Ahava | David Fisher | |
2001 | USA | Exodus to Berlin | Jeff Kamen and Peter Laufer | |
2001 | USA | Holocaust: New York Tolerance Center | Scott Goldstein | |
2001 | Germany | Eine Liebe in Auschwitz | Thilo Thielke | |
2001 | Poland | Śmierć Zygelbojma | Dżamila Ankiewicz | |
2001 | Poland | Sąsiedzi | Agnieszka Arnold | Concerns Jedwabne pogrom |
2001 | France | Sobibor, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures | Claude Lanzmann | English title: Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. |
2001 | Canada | Struma | Radu Gabrea | |
2001 | Slovakia | Svedok | Dušan Hudec | |
2002 | Illusion | Concerns Kurt Gerron | ||
2002 | USA | Last Dance | Mirra Bank | |
2002 | Poland | Pamiętam | Marcel Lozinski | English title:I Remember |
2002 | USA/ Canada/ Germany/ UK | Prisoner of Paradise | Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender | |
2002 | USA | Sudbina mi nije dala da odem | Dominik Sedlar and Jakov Sedlar | English title:Fate Did Not Let Me Go |
2002 | Canada | Undying Love | Helene Klodawsky | |
2003 | USA | Berga: Soldiers of Another War | Charles Guggenheim | |
2003 | USA/ Denmark | Den Danske løsning | Karen Cantor and 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 | USA | Luboml: My Heart Remembers | Eileen Douglas and Ron Steinman | |
2004 | USA | A Is for Auschwitz: A Weekend with My Grandparents | ||
2004 | Canada | Against the Odds | Jedrzej Jonasz | |
2004 | USA | Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust | Daniel Anker | |
2004 | USA | Paper Clips | Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab | About the Paper Clips Project |
2004 | Italy | La fuga degli innocenti | Leone Pompucci | |
2004 | Germany | Wege der Tübinger Juden. Eine Spurensuche | Ulrike Baumgärtner | |
2004 | UK | 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, Luxembourg, Czech Republic | The Ninth Day | Volker Schlöndorff | Based on a portion of Pfarrerblock 25487 (ISBN 2-87963-286-2), the diary of Bernard (1907–1994) |
2005 | Chile | Holocausto:Tercera Generación | Daniel Segal, Daniel Halpern | |
2005 | Germany/ Slovakia | 2 oder 3 Dinge, die ich von ihm weiß | Malte Ludin | 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 | |
2006 | France | Amants des hommes | Isabelle Darmengeat | English title: Men lovers |
2006 | France | Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes | Christian Delage | |
2006 | USA | Borrowing Time | Robert Allan Black | |
2006 | USA | Journey to Justice | Steve Palackdharry | |
2006 | USA | Knocking | Joel Engardio and Tom Shepard | |
2006 | Italy | La Strada di Levi | Davide Ferrario | |
2006 | Germany | Der letzte Zug | Joseph Vilsmaier, Dana Vávrová | |
2006 | Austria/ Germany | The Counterfeiters | Stefan Ruzowitzky | |
2006 | UK | Kz | Rex Bloomstein | |
2008 | Israel | Classmates of Anne Frank | Eyal Boers | |
2010s
Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
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2010 | Israel/ Germany | A Film Unfinished | Yael Hersonski | |
2011 | Germany | Auschwitz | Uwe Boll | |
2011 | Turkey | Turkish Passport | Burak Arlıel | A documentary about the Jews who were rescued by Turkish diplomats through having been given Turkish diplomatic passports. |
2012 | USA | Bearing Witness: The Voices of Our Survivors | Heather Elliott-Famularo | http://www.bearingwitnesstoledo.com |
2012 | USA | Misa's Fugue | Sean Gaston | www.misasfugue.com |
2012 | USA | No Place on Earth | Janet Tobias | Documentary about a group of Jews who lived in caves in Ukraine for nearly 18 months to escape the Holocaust. |
2012 | USA | REFUGE: Stories of the Selfhelp Home | Ethan Bensinger | Documentary about the last generation of Holocaust Survivors and Refugees at Chicago's Selfhelp Home |
2012 | USA | The Resort | Galina Kalashnikova | www.codeoflifeproductions.com |
2012 | USA | 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 | Italy | The longest journey | Ruggero Gabbai | A documentary about the last days of the Jews of Rhodes. |
2013 | France | Last of the Unjust | Claude Lanzmann | http://www.le-pacte.com/international/upcoming-films/single/the-last-of-the-unjust/ |
2014 | USA | Berlin Calling | Nigel Dick | http://www.berlincallingdocumentary.com
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/ Germany | Farewell Herr Schwarz | 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 | Israel/ Czech Republic/ Slovakia/ USA | 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 | Hungary | Son of Saul | László Nemes |
See also
- List of World War II films
- List of films made in the Third Reich
- List of Allied propaganda films of World War II
- Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
References
- ↑ Wilson, Kristi M.; Crowder-Taraborrelli, Tomás F., eds. (2012). Film and Genocide. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press. p. 11. ISBN 9780299285647.
- ↑ Schindler's List website.
- ↑ Síla lidskosti - Nicholas Winton at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Geleman Educational Foundation: Nicholas Winton.
- ↑ Archived December 15, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Holocaust Era in Croatia: Jasenovac 1941-1945". Ushmm.org. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
- ↑ "Watch The Full Program Online | Memory Of The Camps | FRONTLINE". PBS. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
- ↑ http://piermarton.info/say-im-a-jew-by-pier-marton-1985-28-min/
- ↑ Purple Triangles (1991). IMDb.
- ↑ Chasing Shadows (1991) – Plot summary:imdb.com
- ↑ The 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.
- 1 2 THE SPECIALIST, portrait of a modern criminal 1999, eyalsivan.info (click Awards tab at the top of the article)
- 1 2 UN SPÉCIALISTE - PORTRAIT D'UN CRIMINEL MODERNE // THE SPECIALIST, PORTRAIT OF A MODERN CRIMINAL, Doc Aliance: VOTRE CINÉMA DOCUMENTAIRE EN LIGNE (click drop-downs for FESTIVALS and PRIX)
- ↑ (2013). 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, 2013
- ↑ Tryster, Stewart (2011). 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)