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6.0

♡ 4

Nic Young Director

James Bulgin as Self - Presenter

Historian James Bulgin reveals the origins of the Holocaust in the German invasion of the Soviet Union, exploring the mass murder, collaboration and experimentation that led to the Final Solution.

Cheating Hitler: Surviving the Holocaust

2019

7.2

♡ 1

War

Rebecca Snow Director

Alex Avraham as Self - Director, Hall of Names, Yad Vashem

Danuta Ochocka as Self - Guide, Stutthof Museum

Tina Smart as Self - Maxwell's Wife

Elkhanan Rubin as Self - Riva's Brother

Three Canadian Holocaust survivors, with unanswered questions from their past, journey back to hometowns, killing sites, and hiding places in search of clues in this new film. Maxwell wonders what happened to a baby he saved in a forest in 1943. Helen wants to know more about the fate of her brother. Rose wants to honour her mother and father by going to the places where they spent their final days. The survivors who appear in this film came of age during the Holocaust and carry the burden of knowing they are the last living link to it. This film delivers a powerful warning from history, inspiring stories of survival, and a last chance to solve lingering mysteries

50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus

2013

philadelphia, pennsylvania

7.6

♡ 2

vienna, austria

Steven Pressman Director

Mamie Gummer as Eleanor Kraus

Alan Alda as Narrator

Marsha L. Rozenblit as Self - social historian of Jews in Central Europe, University of Maryland

Guy Schless as Self - son of Dr. Robert Schless

In the spring of 1939, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus embarked on a risky and unlikely mission. Traveling into the heart of Nazi Germany, they rescued 50 Jewish children from Vienna and brought them to the United States.

Nazi Death Camp: The Great Escape

2014

5.6

♡ 1

concentration camp prisoner

concentration camp

Documentary

History

holocaust (shoah)

nazi

War

world war ii

Hereward Pelling Director

Semyon Rozenfeld as Self

Damien Lyne as Self - Narrator

William Ludwig as SS Officer Frenzel

Bartosz Stanislawek as Toivi blatt

The secret Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on the 14th October 1943, in one of the biggest and most successful prison revolts of WWII, the inmates fought back.

March of the Living

6.4

Jessica Sanders Director

Elika Rezvani as Participant from Los Angeles

The moving story of the last generation of Holocaust survivors who travel to Poland with thousands of teenagers from around the world to retrace the Death March from Auschwitz to Birkenau.

Holy Silence

2020

7.1

♡ 1

Steven Pressman Director

Marco Barricelli as Pope Pius XII

David Strathairn as President Franklin D. Roosevelt

As World War II looms, Pope Pius XI calls on a humble American priest to help him challenge the evils of Nazism and anti-Semitism. But death intervenes, and Pope Pius XII now carries out a very different response to Hitler and the Holocaust.

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

2013

8.0

86%

Malcolm Clarke Director

Malcolm Clarke as Narrator

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch as Self

Aliza Sommer-Herz as Self

Zdenka Fantlova as Self

The story of Alice Herz-Sommer, a German-speaking Jewish pianist from Prague who was, at her death, the world's oldest Holocaust survivor. She discusses the importance of music, laughter, and how to have an optimistic outlook on life.

The Dead Nation

6.9

Radu Jude Director

Radu Jude as Narrator

A documentary-essay which shows Costică Axinte's stunning collection of pictures depicting a Romanian small town in the thirties and forties. The narration, composed mostly from excerpts taken from the diary of a Jewish doctor from the same era, tells the rising of the antisemitism and eventually a harrowing depiction of the Romanian Holocaust.

Absent

2015

Romanian

6.1

♡ 1

Matthew Mishory Director

For over a hundred years, Mărculești was a vibrant Jewish agricultural and mercantile community in Bessarabia (now present-day Moldova). In July 1941, the village was the site of an unimaginable atrocity. Seventy-three years later, few speak honestly or completely about what happened. ABSENT is a cinematic portrait of the ghost village of Mărculești, its current inhabitants, and their very complex relationship to their own history. Filmed entirely on location, the film documents one of Europe's poorest, most remote, and least-visited places.

The Bloom of Yesterday

2016

German

6.5

♡ 4

71%

Chris Kraus Director

Eva Löbau as Anita Koldewey

Jan Josef Liefers as Balthasar Thomas

Lars Eidinger as Totila Blumen

Adèle Haenel as Zazie Lindeau

An almost romantic comedy on the edge: Holocaust researcher Toto is having a major life crisis. Just when things at home and work could not get worse, he unwantedly gets a new assistent assigned to himself. Zazie is french, jewish, slightly germanophobe and supposed to help Toto to prepare a major congress. As the star of the congress suddenly wants to pull out, the problems are piling up and the two have to fix it.

Freedom Writers

2007

7.6

♡ 63

69%

87%

based on a true story

based on novel or book

Richard LaGravenese Director

John Benjamin Hickey as Brian Gelford

Dan Warner as Cop #1

Imelda Staunton as Margaret Campbell

Patrick Dempsey as Scott Casey

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

2015

7.3

♡ 2

94%

jew persecution

nuremberg trials

woman director

Ada Ushpiz Director

Angela Winkler as Hannah Arendt

Alison Darcy as Hannah Arendt

Hermann Göring as Self

Adolf Eichmann as Self

The life and work of German political philosopher of Jewish descent Hannah Arendt (1906-75), who caused a stir when she coined a subversive concept, the banality of evil, in her 1963 book on the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann (1906-62), held in Israel in 1961, which she covered for the New Yorker magazine.

The Pawnbroker

1964

7.6

♡ 20

88%

87%

based on novel or book

Sidney Lumet Director

Reni Santoni as Junkie Selling Radio

Morgan Freeman as Man on Street

Geraldine Fitzgerald as Marilyn Birchfield

Charles Dierkop as Robinson

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

Bawaal

2023

Hindi

6.6

♡ 13

21%

Nitesh Tiwari Director

Varun Dhawan as Ajay Dixit

Manoj Pahwa as Ajju's Father

Mukesh Tiwari as MLA

Janhvi Kapoor as Nisha

Ajay Dixit, an ordinary history teacher in a high school, enjoys mini celebrityhood in his town courtesy of the fake image he has built. He shares a strained relationship with his newly-wed wife. Circumstances force him to take a trip to Europe for the World War II trail accompanied by his wife. Will his relationship with his wife survive this trip? Will he manage to win the war within?

Warsaw: A City Divided

2019

Polish

7.4

♡ 4

Documentary

History

holocaust (shoah)

Eric Bednarski Director

Adam Bauman as Lectour

Justyna Gardzinska as Lectour

Jaroslaw Lukomski as Lectour

The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division, destruction and mass murder thanks to the testimony of survivors and the discovery of a ten-minute film shot by Polish amateur filmmaker Alfons Ziółkowski in 1941.

June Zero

2022

Hebrew

6.5

♡ 2

86%

87%

co-workers relationship

Jake Paltrow Director

Yoav Levi as

Tom Hagi as

Koby Aderet as

Joy Rieger as

Israel, 1961. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, responsible for organizing the extermination of European Jews, is sentenced to death.

Holocaust: An Untold Story

2022