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Drama

Edoardo Ponti Director

Simone Surico as Babu

Sophia Loren as Madame Rosa

Costanta Fana Pirvu as Madre di Iosif

Rav Mario Sonnino as Rabbino

In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.

Never Again?

2020

7.0

♡ 10

radical islam

Calvin Aurand Director

Dennis Prager as Self

Dina Porat as Self

Mark Regev as Self

Michael Oren as Self

"Never Again?" seeks to educate others on the horrors and consequences of anti-Semitism. The film follows the journey of a Holocaust Survivor and former radical Islamist as they seek to leave behind a legacy of love over hate.

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

Nazi Death Camp: The Great Escape

2014

5.6

♡ 1

concentration camp prisoner

concentration camp

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.

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.

Warsaw: A City Divided

2019

Polish

7.4

♡ 4

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.

Every Face Has a Name

2015

Swedish

7.3

♡ 2

concentration camp

malmö

sweden

war memories

Magnus Gertten Director

Judith Popinski as Self

Fredzia Marmur as Self

Svenn Martinsen as Self

Anita Lobel as Self

Recalls the day when Holocaust survivors took their first steps into freedom, unaware of their future. Every Face Has a Name puts a name on those nameless faces and lets them recount their feelings of that day, the 28th of April, 1945.

Ask Dr. Ruth

2019

7.7

93%

Biography

Ryan White Director

Dahlia Salem as Irma

Ronald Reagan as Self

Gloria Steinem as Self

Ruth Westheimer as Self

A documentary portrait chronicling the incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became the United States' most famous sex therapist. As her 90th birthday approaches, Dr. Ruth revisits her painful past and her career at the forefront of the sexual revolution.

The Pageant

2020

Hebrew

5.3

♡ 1

old woman

painful memories

Eytan Ipeker Director

Every year since 2011, a unique beauty contest has been taking place in Haifa. The contestants are female survivors of the Holocaust. In the midst of this flashy spectacle, their personal traumas remain as deep as ever. There are many things about this contest that are controversial: it is organized by the right Zionist organization, the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, and the dubious contest itself rises the public indignation of various speakers, including other survivors.

Facing Windows

2003

Italian

7.2

♡ 10

63%

Ferzan Ozpetek Director

Filippo Nigro as Filippo

Raoul Bova as Lorenzo

Ivan Bacchi as Simone

Massimo Girotti as Simone / Davide Veroli

Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her.

The Boy in the Woods

2023

5.8

♡ 10

100%