List of Holocaust films
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This is an index of films that deal with the Holocaust in Europe.
Contents
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
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
1990s
2000s
2008 Hannah Augurtalz ~ Survivor of the Holocaust ~ Birth place: Germany
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. |
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
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- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 THE SPECIALIST, portrait of a modern criminal 1999, eyalsivan.info (click Awards tab at the top of the article)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 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)