Movies about WWII and the Holocaust
From award winning documentaries to major feature films, on-screen accounts of the Holocaust give you more insight.
RATED REuropa Europa (1991)
Based on an autobiography by Solomon Perel, this foreign-language film concerns a Jewish-German boy who manages to conceal his identity from the Nazis and ends up a member of their Youth Party.
Genre: Drama
Schindler's List (1993)
Oskar Schindler (played by Liam Neeson), a greedy German businessman, becomes an unlikely humanitarian amid the Nazi reign when he turns his factory into a refuge for Jews. Winner of seven Academy Awards.
Genre: Drama
Conspiracy (2001)
At the 1942 Wannsee Conference in Berlin, high-ranking German officials decide to exterminate the Jews of Europe. This chilling drama, starring Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth, shows how one of the greatest crimes against humanity was perpetrated in just over an hour.
Genre: Drama
RATED PG-13
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Roberto Benigni's unforgettable fable that proves love, family and imagination conquer all. Winner of three Academy Awards.
Genre: Drama
Island on Bird Street (1997)
An 11-year old boy hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after his relatives are sent to a concentration camp.
Genre: Drama
The Last Days (1998)
Five Hungarian Holocaust survivors tell how they survived the final year of World War II during this Academy Award-winning documentary, produced by Steven Spielberg.
Genre: Documentary
Jakob the Liar (1999)
A Jewish shopkeeper named Jakob (played by Robin Williams) keeps hope alive by spreading the stories from his "secret radio" throughout the Warsaw ghetto. But Jakob has another secret: He is hiding a girl who escaped deportation.
Genre: Drama
RATED PG
The Sorrow and the Pity (1972)
This documentary explores the reasons behind France's collaboration with Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1944. Director Marcel Ophüls mixes archival footage with interviews of Nazi supporters and resistance fighters alike.
Genre: Documentary
Au Revoir, Les Enfants (1987)
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives, hiding a secret from his classmates and the Gestapo. Based on director Louis Malle's own childhood.
Genre: Drama
Anne Frank Remembered (1995)
Using archival material and contemporary interviews, this Academy Award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and their free-spirited daughter Anne.
Genre: Documentary
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)
In the late 1930s, parents in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia sent 10,000 children to England to live with foster families to protect them from the war. The children, their parents and the transport organizers, remember. Narrated by Judi Dench.
Genre: Documentary
RATED G
Paper Clips (2004)
An inspiring documentary that captures how middle school students in a small rural community promised to honor every lost soul by collecting one paper clip for each individual exterminated by the Nazis.
Genre: Documentary
NOT RATED
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Oscar-winner Maximillian Schell, Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster and Marlene Dietrich star in director Stanley Kramer's film that explores the German war crime trials after World War II.
Genre: Drama
Shoah (1985)
Ex-Nazis, survivors and witnesses recount the horrors of the Holocaust during this nine-and-a-half-hour documentary, directed by Claude Lanzmann.
Genre: Documentary
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
This BBC production draws on rare archival footage and the latest academic discoveries to detail the evolution of this infamous "killing factory" and Holocaust masterminds such as Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Höss and "death doctor" Josef Mengele. Narrated by Samuel West and Oscar-winner Linda Hunt.
Genre: Documentary
The Sorrow and the Pity (1972)
This documentary explores the reasons behind France's collaboration with Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1944. Director Marcel Ophüls mixes archival footage with interviews of Nazi supporters and resistance fighters alike.
Genre: Documentary
Au Revoir, Les Enfants (1987)
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives, hiding a secret from his classmates and the Gestapo. Based on director Louis Malle's own childhood.
Genre: Drama
Anne Frank Remembered (1995)
Using archival material and contemporary interviews, this Academy Award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and their free-spirited daughter Anne.
Genre: Documentary
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)
In the late 1930s, parents in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia sent 10,000 children to England to live with foster families to protect them from the war. The children, their parents and the transport organizers, remember. Narrated by Judi Dench.
Genre: Documentary
RATED G
Paper Clips (2004)
An inspiring documentary that captures how middle school students in a small rural community promised to honor every lost soul by collecting one paper clip for each individual exterminated by the Nazis.
Genre: Documentary
NOT RATED
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Oscar-winner Maximillian Schell, Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster and Marlene Dietrich star in director Stanley Kramer's film that explores the German war crime trials after World War II.
Genre: Drama
Shoah (1985)
Ex-Nazis, survivors and witnesses recount the horrors of the Holocaust during this nine-and-a-half-hour documentary, directed by Claude Lanzmann.
Genre: Documentary
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
This BBC production draws on rare archival footage and the latest academic discoveries to detail the evolution of this infamous "killing factory" and Holocaust masterminds such as Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Höss and "death doctor" Josef Mengele. Narrated by Samuel West and Oscar-winner Linda Hunt.
Genre: Documentary
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