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.[1]
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.[1]
1940s
edit| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | United Kingdom | Night Train to Munich | Carol Reed | First feature film to depict German concentration camps. |
| 1940 | United States | The Mortal Storm | Frank Borzage | One character is sent to a concentration camp and dies there, while his family is trying to leave Nazi Germany. |
| 1940 | United States | The Great Dictator | Charlie Chaplin | 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.[2] |
| 1942 | United States | To Be Or Not To Be | Ernst Lubitsch | One villain is jokingly -and repeatedly- called “concentration camp Erhardt”. |
| 1942 | United States | Once Upon a Honeymoon | Leo McCarey | 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 | The Seventh Cross | Fred Zinneman | Seven inmates, one Jewish, escape from a concentration camp |
| 1944 | Poland | Majdanek: Cemetery of Europe | Aleksander Ford | One of the first films to include footage of concentration camps |
| 1945 | Soviet Union | The Unvanquished | Mark Donskoy | First feature film to show mass murder of Jews and hunting for them on the occupied territories. 1946 Venice festival award. |
| 1946 | United States | The Stranger | Orson Welles | First feature film to include footage of concentration camps[3] |
| 1946 | Germany | Die Mörder sind unter uns | Wolfgang Staudte | The first Rubble Film and the first German film to address Nazi atrocities. English title: Murderers Among Us |
| 1947 | Germany | Ehe im Schatten | Kurt Maetzig | One of the earliest DEFA productions. English title: Marriage in the Shadows |
| 1947 | Germany | Zwischen Gestern und Morgen | Harald Braun | 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 | Morituri | Eugen York | |
| 1948 | United States | The Search | Fred Zinnemann | In post-war Berlin, an American private helps a lost Czech boy find his mother. |
| 1948 | Poland | Ulica Graniczna | Aleksander Ford | 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.[4][citation needed] |
| 1948 | Poland | The Last Stage | Wanda Jakubowska | English titles: The Last Stage, The Last Stop |
| 1949 | Italy | L'ebreo errante | Goffredo Alessandrini | First Italian film to openly address the Holocaust |
| 1949 | United States West Germany |
Lang ist der Weg | Herbert B. Fredersdorf Marek Goldstein |
Yiddish title: Lang iz der Veg; English title: Long Is the Road |
1950s
edit| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Czechoslovakia | Distant Journey | Alfréd Radok | English title: Distant Journey |
| 1953 | United States | The Juggler | Edward Dmytryk | 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 | Singing in the Dark | Max Nosseck | Musical about Holocaust survivors with amnesia |
| 1958–59 | United States | Pursuit | Ian Sharp | Anthology series |
| 1959 | East Germany Bulgaria |
Stars | Konrad Wolf | English title: Stars |
| 1959 | United States | The Diary of Anne Frank | George Stevens | Won three Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress |
| 1959 | Italy Yugoslavia France |
Kapò | Gillo Pontecorvo | |
| 1959 | Poland | Biały niedźwiedź | Jerzy Zarzycki | A Jew who escaped from a transport to a concentration camp is hiding by posing for tourists disguised as a polar bear. |
1960s
edit| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Czechoslovakia | Romeo, Julie a tma | Jiří Weiss | English title: Romeo, Juliet and Darkness. Concerns Operation Anthropoid. |
| 1960 | United States | 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 | Italy | Gold of Rome | Carlo Lizzani | Italian title: L'oro di Roma |
| 1961 | United States | Judgment at Nuremberg | Stanley Kramer | Winner of Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay |
| 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 | |
| 1963 | East Germany | Naked Among Wolves | Frank Beyer | |
| 1964 | United States | The Pawnbroker | Sidney Lumet | 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 | Chronik eines Mordes | Joachim Hasler | English title: Chronicle of a Murder |
| 1965 | Czechoslovakia | The Shop On Main Street | Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos | |
| 1965 | Germany | The Investigation | Peter Weiss | Also as TV play "Die Ermittlung" (1966) |
| 1966 | United States | The Last Chapter[5] | 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 | The Diary of Anne Frank | Alex Segal | 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 | Army of Shadows | Jean Pierre Melville |
1970s
edit| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Poland | Apel | Ryszard Czekała | Animated short film |
| 1970 | Poland | Epilog norymberski | Jerzy Antczak | TV Theatre reconstruction of Nuremberg trials |
| 1970 | Italy West Germany |
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Vittorio De Sica | Italian title: Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini; based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani; Oscar for Best Foreign Film |
| 1970 | Yugoslavia | Hranjenik | Vatroslav Mimica | English title: The Fed Ones |
| 1972 | United States | The Day the Clown Cried | Jerry Lewis | Never shown to the general public |
| 1972 | United States | Cabaret | Bob Fosse | American musical drama film set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, as the Nazi Party rises to power. |
| 1974 | Israel West Germany |
Sie sind frei, Dr. Korczak | Aleksander Ford | English title: The Martyr |
| 1974 | United Kingdom | QB VII | Tom Gries | TV miniseries; based on Leon Uris novel of same name |
| 1974 | Italy | The Night Porter | Liliana Cavani | |
| 1974 | United Kingdom West Germany |
The Odessa File | Ronald Neame | Based on Frederick Forsyth novel of same name |
| 1975 | East Germany | Jacob the Liar | Frank Beyer | Based on the novel by Jurek Becker |
| 1975 | United States | The Hiding Place | James F. Collier | Based on the autobiography of Corrie ten Boom |
| 1975 | Italy | Seven Beauties | Lina Wertmüller | |
| 1975 | United States | The Man in the Glass Booth | Arthur Hiller | |
| 1976 | United States | Marathon Man | John Schlesinger | |
| 1976 | France | Monsieur Klein | Joseph Losey | |
| 1976 | Spain | Voyage of the Damned | Stuart Rosenberg | |
| 1977 | Italy | L'ultima orgia del III Reich | Cesare Canevari | |
| 1977 | United States | Julia | Fred Zinnemann | 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 | Holocaust | Marvin J. Chomsky | TV miniseries, popularised the term 'Holocaust'. | |
| 1978 | Yugoslavia | Okupacija u 26 slika | Lordan Zafranović | |
| 1979 | West Germany | Baranski | Werner Masten | |
| 1979 | West Germany | The Tin Drum | Volker Schlöndorff | |
| 1979 | West Germany | David | Peter Lilienthal | |
| 1979 | United States | The House on Garibaldi Street | Peter Collinson |
1980s
edit| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | United States | The Diary of Anne Frank | Boris Sagal | TV movie |
| 1980 | United States | Playing For Time | Daniel Mann | TV film; based on the autobiography of Fania Fénelon; adaptation by Arthur Miller |
| 1981 | France | Les Uns et les Autres | Claude Lelouch | English title: Bolero |
| 1982 | West Germany | Ein Stück Himmel | Franz Peter Wirth | TV mini-series; based on the autobiography of Janina David |
| 1982 | United States | Sophie's Choice | Alan J. Pakula | Based on the novel by William Styron; Meryl Streep won Academy Award for Best Actress |
| 1982 | Austria | God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore | Axel Corti | http://www.jewishfilm.org/Catalogue/films/goddoesnotbelieveinus.htm |
| 1983 | France Canada |
Au Nom de Tous les Miens | Robert Enrico | English title: For Those I Loved; based on the book by Martin Gray |
| 1983 | Hungary | Jób lázadása | Barna Kabay | English title: Job's Revolt |
| 1983 | United States | To Be Or Not To Be | Alan Johnson | A remake of the 1942 comedy, starring Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. |
| 1983 | United States West Germany Italy |
The Scarlet and the Black | Jerry London | TV movie; based on the J.P. Gallagher novel The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican |
| 1983 | United States | The Winds of War | Dan Curtis | Based on the novel by Herman Wouk; |
| 1984 | Yugoslavia | Banjica | Sava Mrmak | TV mini-series |
| 1984 | West Germany United Kingdom |
Forbidden | Anthony Page | |
| 1984 | West Germany | Wannseekonferenz | Heinz Schirk | TV movie |
| 1985 | United States | Wallenberg: A Hero's Story | Lamont Johnson | Feature documentary about the effects of the Holocaust on the next generation of Jews and Germans. |
| 1985 | Soviet Union | Come and See | Elem Klimov | 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 Yugoslavia |
Escape from Sobibor | Jack Gold | Based on the book by Richard Rashke Nominated for three Golden Globe Awards; won two, including Best Limited Series or Motion Picture made for Television |
| 1987 | France | Au revoir les enfants | Louis Malle | |
| 1988 | Poland United States |
And the Violins Stopped Playing | Alexander Ramati | |
| 1988 | United States | The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank | John Erman | TV movie |
| 1988 | United States | Hanna's War | Menahem Golan | |
| 1988 | Poland | Kornblumenblau | 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 | War and Remembrance | Dan Curtis | TV mini-series; based on the novel by Herman Wouk, and the sequel to The Winds of War Nominated for 15 Primetime Emmy Awards; won 3 including Outstanding Miniseries |
| 1989 | United States | Enemies, a Love Story | Paul Mazursky | Based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 1989 | United States | Music Box | Costa-Gavras | |
| 1989 | United States | Triumph of the Spirit | Robert M. Young |
1990s
edit| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | West Germany | Abrahams Gold | Jörg Graser | |
| 1990 | West Germany | Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland | Lea Rosh & Eberhard Jäckel | |
| 1990 | Australia | Father | John Power | |
| 1990 | Poland | Korczak | Andrzej Wajda | Based on the true story of Dr. Janusz Korczak and his attempt to keep alive the children in his Warsaw Ghetto orphanage. |
| 1990 | Germany France Poland |
Europa Europa | Agnieszka Holland | Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) |
| 1991 | Poland | Jeszcze tylko ten las | Jan Lomnicki | English title: Just Beyond That Forest |
| 1991 | Czechoslovakia | Poslední motýl | Karel Kachyňa | English title: The Last Butterfly |
| 1991 | United States | 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 | United Kingdom France |
Prague | Ian Sellar | |
| 1992 | United States | Alan & Naomi | Sterling Van Wagenen | Based on a novel by Myron Levoy |
| 1992 | United States | 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 | United States | 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 won 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.[6] |
| 1993 | United States | Swing Kids | Thomas Carter | Young teens in Nazi Germany listen to banned swing music and deal with the pressures of joining the Nazi Youth Army. |
| 1994 | Austria | Totschweigen | Margareta Heinrich & Eduard Erne | The subject of the film is the massacre of Rechnitz |
| 1995 | France | Les Misérables | Claude Lelouch | |
| 1995 | Japan | Anne no Nikki | Akinori Nagaoka | Anime adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank |
| 1996 | United States | Hidden in Silence | Richard A. Colla | A True Story about the Podgórski sisters who rescued 13 Jews from the Przemyśl Ghetto. |
| 1996 | United States | The Empty Mirror | Barry J. Hershey | |
| 1996 | United States | The Man Who Captured Eichmann | William A. Graham | Based on the book Eichmann in My Hands by Peter Z. Malkin |
| 1996 | United States | Mother Night | Keith Gordon | Based on the novel by Kurt Vonnegut, and starring Nick Nolte. |
| 1996 | United States | The Ring | Armand Mastroianni | TV film; based on the novel by Danielle Steel |
| 1996 | United States | The Substance of Fire | Daniel J. Sullivan | Based on the play by Jon Robin Baitz |
| 1996 | Hungary | A hetedik szoba[citation needed] | Márta Mészáros | 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 France Germany Switzerland |
La Tregua | Francesco Rosi | English title: The Truce. Based on the autobiography by Primo Levi |
| 1997 | United States | 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 three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Robert Benigni |
| 1997 | Denmark United Kingdom Germany |
The Island on Bird Street | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Based on the book by Uri Orlev |
| 1997 | United Kingdom | Bent | Sean Mathias | Based on the play by Martin Sherman |
| 1998 | United States | 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 | United States | Miracle at Midnight | Ken Cameron | TV movie about the rescue of the Danish Jews |
| 1998 | United States | Pola's March | Jonathan Gruber | |
| 1998 | France Belgium Netherlands Israel |
Train of Life | Radu Mihaileanu | |
| 1998 | Germany | Die Akte B. – Alois Brunner: Die Geschichte eines Massenmörders | Georg M. Hafner & Esther Schapira | |
| 1999 | Germany | Aimée & Jaguar | Max Färberböck | Based on a book of the same name by Erica Fischer |
| 1999 | Czech Republic | All My Loved Ones | Matej Mináč | |
| 1999 | United States | The Devil's Arithmetic | Donna Deitch | Based on the novel by Jane Yolen |
| 1999 | Germany | Gloomy Sunday | Rolf Schübel | Based on the novel by Nick Barkow |
| 1999 | United States | Jakob the Liar | Peter Kassovitz | Based on the novel by Jurek Becker |
| 1999 | Germany Austria Canada Hungary |
Sunshine | István Szabó |
2000s
edit| Year | Country | Title | Directors | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | United Kingdom | The Holocaust on Trial | Leslie Woodhead | 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 Poland |
Edges of the Lord | Yurek Bogayevicz | |
| 2001 | Hungary | Hamvadó cigarettavég | Péter Bacsó | 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 | Anne Frank: The Whole Story | Robert Dornhelm | TV movie; based on the book by Melissa Müller |
| 2001 | United States United Kingdom |
Conspiracy | Frank Pierson | TV movie |
| 2001 | United States | The Grey Zone | Tim Blake Nelson | Based on the book, about the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz |
| 2001 | Germany | Nirgendwo in Afrika | Caroline Link | English title: Nowhere in Africa; adaptation of Stefanie Zweig's autobiographical novel |
| 2001 | United States | Uprising | Jon Avnet | TV movie |
| 2002 | France Germany |
Amen. | Costa-Gavras | Based on the play The Deputy by Rolf Hochhuth |
| 2002 | France Germany United Kingdom Poland |
The Pianist | Roman Polanski | Based on the autobiography by Wladyslaw Szpilman about survival in the Warsaw Ghetto; won three Academy Awards |
| 2002 | Czech Republic | The Power of Good | Matej Mináč | Documentary[citation needed][7] |
| 2003 | Hungary | A Rózsa énekei | Andor Szilágyi | |
| 2003 | Italy | Facing Windows | Ferzan Özpetek | English title: Facing Windows |
| 2003 | United States | The Singing Forest | Jorge Ameer | |
| 2003 | United States | Out of the Ashes | Joseph Sargent | Based on the book I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz by Gisella Perl |
| 2003 | United States | Hitler: The Rise of Evil | Christian Duguay | TV movie |
| 2003 | Germany | Babiy Yar | Jeff Kanew | |
| 2004 | Brazil | Olga | Jayme Monjardim | |
| 2005 | Poland Sweden |
Ninas resa | Lena Einhorn | |
| 2005 | France | A Love to Hide | Christian Faure | TV movie |
| 2005 | United States | Everything is Illuminated | Liev Schreiber | 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 | 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 | United States | Forgiving Dr. Mengele | Bob Hercules Cheri Pugh |
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| 2007 | Germany | Spielzeugland | Jochen Alexander Freydank | English title: Toyland. Won the 2009 Best Live Action Short Film Oscar at the 81st Academy Awards. |
| 2007 | United Kingdom | The Relief of Belsen | 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 Austria |
The Counterfeiters | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Based on a memoir written by Adolf Burger; won the 2007 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 80th Academy Awards. |
| 2008 | United Kingdom | God on Trial | Andy DeEmmony | |
| 2008 | United Kingdom United States |
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas | Mark Herman | Adaptation of John Boyne's novel |
| 2008 | United States | Defiance | Edward Zwick | Based on the book by Nechama Tec; nomination for an Academy Award in the category of Best Original Score |
| 2008 | United Kingdom United States |
The Reader | Stephen Daldry | Based on the book by Bernhard Schlink Kate Winslet won Academy Award For Best Actress |
| 2008 | Hungary Germany United Kingdom |
Good | Vicente Amorim | Based on the play by Cecil Philip Taylor |
| 2009 | France | L'armée du crime | Robert Guédiguian | English title: The Army of Crime |
| 2009 | France | Korkoro | Tony Gatlif | The film depicts the subject of Porajmos. |
| 2009 | United States Germany |
Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino | Alternate history war comedy. Nominated for eight Academy Awards. |
| 2009 | United States Poland Canada |
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler | John Kent Harrison | TV movie |
2010s
edit| Year | Country | Title | Directors | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | United States 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 | Czech Republic Austria Germany |
Habermann | Juraj Herz | Based on true events and is the first major motion picture to dramatize the expulsion of 3 million Germans from Czechoslovakia. |
| 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 | Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards. |
| 2011 | Germany | Wunderkinder | Markus Rosenmüller | Story about deep friendship between three musically talented children. |
| 2011 | Spain | El ángel de Budapest | Luis Oliveros | 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 | Wladyslaw Pasikowski | 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 | Süskind | Rudolf van den Berg | Based on the true story of Walter Süskind |
| 2012 | Macedonia | The Third Half | Darko Mitrevski | |
| 2012 | Serbia | When Day Breaks | Goran Paskaljević | |
| 2013 | Argentina | The German Doctor | Lucía Puenzo | Original title: Wakolda |
| 2013 | Germany | An Apartment in Berlin | Alice Agneskirchner | 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 Poland |
Run Boy Run | Pepe Danquart | |
| 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 Denmark |
Ida | Paweł Pawlikowski | Won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards |
| 2014 | Poland | Warsaw 44 | Jan Komasa | Original title Miasto '44 |
| 2014 | Germany | Labyrinth of Lies | Giulio Ricciarelli | |
| 2014 | France | To Life | Jean-Jacques Silbermann | |
| 2014 | Germany | Phoenix | Christian Petzold | Loosely based on the 1961 novel Le Retour des Cendres by Hubert Monteilhet |
| 2015 | Germany | Naked Among Wolves | Philipp Kadelbach | |
| 2015 | Germany | The People vs. Fritz Bauer | Lars Kraume | |
| 2015 | Canada | Remember | Atom Egoyan | Won Best Original Screenplay at 4th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2015 | Russia Germany |
The Way Out | Mikhail Uchitelev | Short. Accepted at the Short Film Corner of the 68th Cannes Festival |
| 2015 | Hungary | Son of Saul | László Nemes | 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 | 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 |
| 2016 | United States | Denial | Mick Jackson | Adaptation of the book Denying the Holocaust |
| 2017 | United States United Kingdom |
The Zookeeper's Wife | Niki Caro | Adaptation of the novel The Zookeeper's Wife |
| 2017 | Hungary | 1945 | Ferenc Török | Winner of multiple international film awards |
| 2017 | United States | The Man with the Iron Heart | Cédric Jimenez | Based on French writer Laurent Binet's novel HHhH |
| 2017 | France | Un sac de billes | Christian Duguay | |
| 2017 | Israel Austria |
Ha Edut (The Testament) | Amichai Greenberg | |
| 2018 | Russia | Sobibor | Konstantin Khabensky | |
| 2018 | Germany | Never Look Away | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | |
| 2018 | United States | Operation Finale | Chris Weitz | Follows the efforts of Israeli intelligence officers to capture former SS officer Adolf Eichmann in 1960 |
| 2018 | Philippines | Quezon's Game | 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 Germany Netherlands |
Werewolf | Adrian Panek | |
| 2018 | United States | The Samuel Project | Marc Fusco | |
| 2018 | Germany | Transit | Christian Petzold | Adaptation of the novel Transit by Anna Seghers |
| 2019 | United States | Jojo Rabbit | Taika Waititi | Adaptation of the novel Caging Skies by Christine Leunens |
| 2019 | Canada Hungary | The Song of Names | François Girard | Adaptation of the novel The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht |
2020s
edit| Year | Country | Title | Directors | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | United States United Kingdom Germany |
Resistance | Jonathan Jakubowicz | Inspired by the life of Marcel Marceau |
| 2020 | United States | My Name is Sara | Steven Oritt | |
| 2020 | Norway | Betrayed | 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 | The Secrets We Keep | Yuval Adler | 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 | The Champion | 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 | Where Is Anne Frank | Ari Folman | 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 | Charlotte | Éric Warin, Tahir Rana | Animated. Based on the true story of German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon.[8] |
| 2021 | Serbia | Dara of Jasenovac | Predrag Antonijević | It is the first modern production on the subject of the Jasenovac concentration camp. |
| 2021 | Slovakia | The Auschwitz Report | Peter Bebjak | Two prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp manage to escape with a document about the camp's operation |
| 2021 | Israel | Holy Holocaust[9] | 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 | L'equilibrista con la stella | 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 | The Survivor | Barry Levinson | Based on the story of Harry Haft - the boxer in Auschwitz |
| 2022 | Germany | The Conference | Matti Geschonneck | After Die Wannseekonferenz (1984) and Conspiracy (2001), this is the third television film depiction of the Wannsee Conference. |
| 2023 | Ukraine | Shttl | 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 | A Small Light | 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 | One Life | James Hawes | 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 | The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | 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. |
Documentary films
edit1940s
edit| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 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 | 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 | United States | Nazi Concentration Camps[10] | George Stevens | Presented as evidence at the Nuremberg trials. |
| 1945 | United States | The Nazi Plan | George Stevens | Presented as evidence at the Nuremberg trials |
| 1945 | Yugoslavia | Jasenovac[11] | Gustav Gavrin & Kosta Hlavaty | |
| circa 1946 | United Kingdom | Memory of the Camps[12] | 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 | 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 | Soviet Union | The Nuremberg Trials | Yelizaveta Svilova | Soviet view of the Nuremberg Trials |
1950s
edit| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | France | Nuit et brouillard | Alain Resnais | English title: Night and Fog. Written by Jean Cayrol, an escapee of Mauthausen. Music by Hanns Eisler. |
1960s
edit| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | West Germany Sweden |
Mein Kampf | Erwin Leiser | Swedish title: Den Blodiga tiden |
| 1963 | West Germany | Chronik eines Mordes | Joachim Hasler | |
| 1965 | West 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 | Soviet Union | Obyknovennyy fashizm | Mikhail Romm | English title: Ordinary Fascism |
| 1966 | 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 Switzerland West Germany |
Le Chagrin et la pitié | Marcel Ophüls | English title: The Sorrow and the Pity. Vichy France government collaboration with Nazi Germany during the war. |
1970s
edit| 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 | The 81st Blow | David Bergman, Jacques Ehrlich and Haim Gouri | English title: The 81st Blow |
| 1974 | United Kingdom | The World at War (TV) | Michael Darlow | Episode 20, "Genocide" (First broadcast 27 March 1974). The Final Solution (Parts One & Two). |
| 1976 | United Kingdom United States France West Germany |
The Memory of Justice | Marcel Ophüls | 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
edit| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | West Germany | Der Gelbe Stern | Dieter Hildebrandt | English title: The Yellow Star |
| 1981 | Australia | The Hunter and the Hunted | John Oakley | |
| 1982 | United States | 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 | 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 | United Kingdom | Schindler: The Documentary (TV) | Jon Blair | Released in the US in 1994 as Schindler: The Real Story |
| 1983 | United States | The Work | Bernard Offen | |
| 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 | Shoah | Claude Lanzmann | 9.5 hours long |
| 1985 | United States | Say I'm a Jew[13] | Pier Marton | Jewish identity for Second Generation European Jews |
| 1985 | United States | The Ties That Bind | Su Friedrich | |
| 1986 | Australia | Paradise Camp | 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 France |
Hôtel Terminus: Klaus Barbie, sa vie et son temps | Marcel Ophüls | 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 Poland |
Témoins | Marcel Lozinski | 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 | The Architecture of Doom | Peter Cohen | English title: The Architecture of Doom |
| 1989 | United States | Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future | Ray Errol Fox |
1990s
edit| 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 | United Kingdom | Purple Triangles | Martin Smith | Describes the accounts of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi camps.[citation needed] |
| 1991 | United Kingdom | Chasing Shadows | Naomi Gryn | About the childhood experiences of Holocaust survivor Rabbi Hugo Gryn.[citation needed] |
| 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 | Gay Block | |
| 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 | 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 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 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 | |
| 1994 | Finland | Vankileirien paratiisi | Lisa Hovinheimo | [citation needed] |
| 1995 | United States United Kingdom Netherlands |
Anne Frank Remembered (TV) | Jon Blair | |
| 1995 | Israel | Bottles in the Cellar | Shmuel Imberman | |
| 1995 | United States | Children Remember the Holocaust (TV) | Mark Gordon | Hosted by Keanu Reeves |
| 1995 | United States | 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[14] |
| 1996 | United States | My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports | Melissa Hacker | |
| 1996 | United Kingdom | Nuremberg | Stephen Trombley | |
| 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 United Kingdom Germany |
The Island on Bird Street | Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Based on the book by Uri Orlev |
| 1997 | United States | Blood Money: Switzerland's Nazi Gold | Stephen Crisman | |
| 1997 | Switzerland | Grüningers Fall | Richard Dindo | Based on the book by Stefan Keller |
| 1997 | United States | My Hometown Concentration Camp | Bernard Offen | |
| 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 | Jacqueline Veuve | |
| 1997 | United States | The Long Way Home | Mark Jonathan Harris | 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 | Michael O'Keefe | |
| 1997 | Israel Czech Republic |
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 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 | 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 | United States | The Last Days | James Moll | Won Academy Award for Documentary Feature |
| 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 | 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 | Germany | Mendel lebt – Wiederbegegnung mit Mendel Szajnfeld | Hans-Dieter Grabe | |
| 1999 | United States United Kingdom |
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. | Errol Morris | |
| 1999 | United States | Process B-7815 | Bernard Offen | |
| 1999 | United States | 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,[15][16] winner of the Grimme-Preis in 2001.[15][16] 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 .[17][18] 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 | Agnieszka Arnold | Considers Jedwabne pogrom |
2000s
edit| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | United Kingdom | Auschwitz: The Final Witnesses | Sheldon Lazarus | |
| 2000 | Spain | Cerca del Danubio | Felipe Vega | |
| 2000 | United States | Fighter | Amir Bar-Lev | |
| 2000 | United States | Typhoons' Last Storm | Lawrence Bond | |
| 2000 | Israel | Hazehut Ha'Avuda Shel Hanita | Vered Berman | |
| 2000 | United Kingdom | The Holocaust on Trial | Leslie Woodhead | |
| 2000 | United Kingdom United States |
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | Mark Jonathan Harris | |
| 2000 | United States | Paragraph 175 | Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | Documentary about gays and the Holocaust |
| 2000 | Israel | Reshimat Ahava | David Fisher | |
| 2000 | Germany | Das Himmler-Projekt | Romuald Karmakar | |
| 2001 | United States | Exodus to Berlin | Jeff Kamen and Peter Laufer | |
| 2001 | United States | Holocaust: New York Tolerance Center | Scott Goldstein | |
| 2001 | Germany | Eine Liebe in Auschwitz | Thilo Thielke & Jens Nicolai | |
| 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 | United States | Last Dance | Mirra Bank | |
| 2002 | Poland | Pamiętam | Marcel Lozinski | English title: I Remember |
| 2002 | United States Canada Germany United Kingdom |
Prisoner of Paradise | 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 | Charles Guggenheim | |
| 2003 | United States Denmark |
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 | Luboml: My Heart Remembers | Eileen Douglas & Ron Steinman | |
| 2003 | Germany | Mariannes Heimkehr | Stefan Röttger & Gert Monheim | |
| 2003 | Germany | Land der Vernichtung | Romuald Karmakar | |
| 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 | Bernard Offen | |
| 2004 | United States | Paper Clips | Elliot Berlin & 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 | 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 Luxembourg Czech Republic |
The Ninth Day | Volker Schlöndorff | 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 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 | |
| 2005 | Germany | Winterkinder - Die schweigende Generation | Jens Schanze | |
| 2005 | Hungary | Sorstalanság (Fateless) | Lajos Koltai | |
| 2006 | France | Amants des hommes | Isabelle Darmengeat[19] | 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 | Black Book | Paul Verhoeven | |
| 2006 | United States | Borrowing Time | Robert Allan Black | |
| 2006 | United States | Journey to Justice | Steve Palackdharry | |
| 2006 | United States | 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 | 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 | Eyal Boers | |
| 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 | Defamation | Yoav Shamir | |
| 2009 | France | Einsatzgruppen, les commandos de la mort (Nazi Death Squads) | Michaël Prazan | 4x55 min. |
| 2009 | United Kingdom | The Secret Diary of the Holocaust[20] | 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
edit| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Canada | Song of the Lodz Ghetto | David Kaufman | |
| 2010 | Israel Germany |
A Film Unfinished | 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 | Auschwitz | Uwe Boll | |
| 2011 | Israel Germany |
The Flat | Arnon Goldfinger | |
| 2011 | Turkey | Turkish Passport | Burak Arlıel | A documentary about the Jews who were rescued by Turkish diplomats through having been given Turkish diplomatic passports. |
| 2011 | Israel Germany |
Hitler's Children | Chanoch Zeevi | |
| 2011 | United States Poland Bulgaria Israel Germany |
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.[21] |
| 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 | Misa's Fugue | Sean Gaston | www.misasfugue.com |
| 2012 | Germany | 204 AR-Z 269/60Y Die Protokolle | Wolfgang Jost & Winfried Wallat | |
| 2012 | United States | 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 | 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 Belgium United States |
Transport XX to Auschwitz | Karen Lynne & Richard Bloom | |
| 2012 | United States | 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 Germany |
Das Radikal Böse | Stefan Ruzowitzky | |
| 2013 | United Kingdom | The Unseen Holocaust | Mike Ibeji | |
| 2013 | Canada United States United Kingdom |
The Lady in Number 6 | Malcolm Clarke | |
| 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 | https://web.archive.org/web/20121028182739/http://www.le-pacte.com/international/upcoming-films/single/the-last-of-the-unjust/ |
| 2014 | Poland | Warsaw Uprising | 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 | Berlin Calling | Nigel Dick | 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 | United Kingdom | Night Will Fall | Andre Singer | |
| 2014 | Germany Austria Israel |
The Decent One | Vanessa Lapa | |
| 2014 | France | Shoah, les Oubliés de l’Histoire | Véronique Lagoarde-Ségot | |
| 2014 | Israel Czech Republic Slovakia United States |
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 | Austerlitz | Sergei Loznitsa | 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 | United States | The Zookeeper's Wife | ||
| 2018 | United States | The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm | Amy Schatz | The film features a conversation between a ten year old and his Grandfather, a Holocaust survivor. |
| 2018 | United States | Who Will Write Our History | Roberta Grossman | |
| 2018 | Germany | Der Letzte Jollyboy | Hans-Erich Viet | |
| 2018 | United States | Operation Finale | Chris Weitz | Dramatization of Mossad's clandestine operation to kidnap Adolf Eichmann from Argentina for his trial in Jerusalem. |
| 2018 | Canada | The Accountant of Auschwitz | Matthew Shoychet | The trial of Oskar Gröning, who worked as accountant in Auschwitz, responsible for the murder of over 300,000 Jews.[citation needed] |
| 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.[22] |
| 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
edit| Year | Country | Title | Directors | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Germany | Getrennt durch Stacheldraht – Jugendjahre im KZ Gusen | Julia & Robert Grantner | |
| 2020 | United Kingdom | Final Account | Luke Holland | |
| 2020 | France | Ravensbrück, le camp oublié | Aurélie Chaigneau | |
| 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 | Route to Paradise | Thomas Gardner | |
| 2021 | Netherlands | Greetings from the death camp | Manfred Van Eijk | |
| 2021 | Israel | Bad Nazi. Good Nazi | Chanoch Ze'evi | |
| 2022 | Germany | The Wannsee Conference: The Documentary | Jörg Müllner | |
| 2022 | United States | The U.S. and the Holocaust | 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
editFurther reading
edit- Reimer, R.C.; Reimer, C.J. (2012). Historical Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema. Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7986-7.
References
edit- ^ a b Reimer, R.C.; Reimer, C.J. (2012). Historical Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema. Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. Scarecrow Press. p. xiii. ISBN 978-0-8108-7986-7.
- ^ Chaplin, Charlie (1964). My Autobiography. New York, Simon and Schuster. p. 392.
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
- ^ Wilson, Kristi M.; Crowder-Taraborrelli, Tomás F., eds. (2012). Film and Genocide. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press. p. 11. ISBN 9780299285647.
- ^ Reimer, R.C.; Reimer, C.J. (2012). Historical Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. xvii. ISBN 978-0-8108-7986-7.
- ^ "The Last Chapter". The National Center for Jewish Film. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
- ^ "Schindler's List website". Archived from the original on 2010-06-07.
- ^ Geleman Educational Foundation: Nicholas Winton.
- ^ Bresge, Adina (22 April 2022). "Canadian film 'Charlotte' animates a Jewish painter's Holocaust-era life in art". Toronto Star.
- ^ Berman-Herzberg, Noa; Wald, Osi (November 10, 2022). "The New Yorker Documentary: Holy Holocaust". YouTube.
- ^ [1] Archived December 15, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Holocaust Era in Croatia: Jasenovac 1941-1945". Ushmm.org. Archived from the original on 2007-03-11. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
- ^ "Watch The Full Program Online | Memory Of The Camps | Frontline". PBS. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
- ^ "Say I'm a Jew by Pier Marton (1985) – 28 min. | Pier Marton". 5 August 2012.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b The Specialist, portrait of a modern criminal 1999, eyalsivan.info (click Awards tab at the top of the article)
- ^ a b Un Spécialiste - Portrait d'un Criminel Moderne // The Specialist, Portrait of a Modern Criminal Archived 2014-02-13 at the Wayback Machine, Doc Aliance: Votre Cinéma Documentaire en Ligne (click drop-downs for Fesivals 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)
- ^ Amants des hommes
- ^ BBC 2009, The Secret Diary of the Holocaust retrieved 21 October 2017
- ^ "Empty boxcars".
- ^ "Veronica Phillips The Secret Survivor". United World Nation. 2018-08-06. Retrieved 2021-02-28.[dead link]