List of Holocaust films
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This is an index of all the films that deal with the Holocaust in Europe.
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Narrative films [edit]
1940s [edit]
| Year | Country | Title | Directors | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 |  USA |
The Stranger | Orson Welles | Starring: Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, and Loretta Young. Believed to be the first feature film to include footage of concentration camps. |
| 1947 |  Poland |
Ostatni etap | Wanda Jakubowska | Starring: Tatjana Gorecka, Antonina Gordon-Górecka, Barbara Drapinska, and Aleksandra Slaska. First known Holocaust drama English titles: The Last Stage, The Last Stop |
| 1948 | Poland |
Ulica Graniczna | Aleksander Ford | Starring: Mieczysława Ćwiklińska, Jerzy Leszczyński, Władysław Godik, Władysław Walter, Tadeusz Fijewski, and Jerzy Pichelski. English title: Border Street |
| 1948 | Poland/  Israel |
אונזערע קינדער Unzere Kinder | Natan Gross/Shaul Goskind | In Yiddish starring Shimon Dzigan and Israel Shumacher. English title: Our Children |
| 1948 | USA |
The Search | Fred Zinnemann | Starring Montgomery Clift |
| 1949 | USA/ West Germany |
Lang ist der Weg | Herbert B. Fredersdorf and Marek Goldstein | Yiddish title: Lang iz der Veg; English title: Long Is the Road |
1950s [edit]
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 |  Czechoslovakia |
Daleká cesta | Alfréd Radok | English title: Distant Journey |
| 1953 | USA |
The Juggler | Edward Dmytryk | Starring Kirk Douglas |
| 1956 | USA |
Singing in the Dark | Max Nosseck | Musical about Holocaust survivor with amnesia |
| 1959 |  East Germany/ Bulgaria |
Sterne | Konrad Wolf | English title: Stars |
| 1959 | USA |
The Diary of Anne Frank | George Stevens | winner of 3 Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress |
| 1959 |  Italy/ Yugoslavia/ France |
Kapò | Gillo Pontecorvo |
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 |  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 | Operation Eichmann (1961) |
| 1961 |  Belgium |
L'enclos | Armand Gatti | In a camp, two inmates, a veteran anti-Nazi German and a Jew, are segregated and forced to fight each other, with the promise that the survivor will not be killed. Italian title: Otto ore al buio. Prix de la Critique at 1961 Cannes Festival. |
| 1963 | Poland |
Pasażerka | Andrzej Munk | English title: Passenger |
| 1963 | East Germany |
Nackt unter Wölfen | Frank Beyer | English title: Naked Among Wolves |
| 1964 | USA |
The Pawnbroker | Sidney Lumet | The life of a Holocaust survivor in a contemporary New York ghetto |
| 1964 | Czechoslovakia |
Demanty noci | Jan Němec after the novel by Arnošt Lustig | English title:Diamonds of the Night; Two boys escape from a train carrying them from one concentration camp to another; film tells of their fight for survival |
| 1965 | Czechoslovakia |
Obchod na korze | Jan Kadar | English title:The Shop on Main Street; Elderly Jewish woman gets her shop confiscated and given to a hapless Slovak |
| 1965 | East Germany |
Chronik eines Mordes | Joachim Hasler | English title:Chronicle of a Murder; Holocaust survivor assassinates her former torturer who is now a West German politician |
| 1967 | USA |
The Diary of Anne Frank (TV) | Alex Segal | |
| 1967 | France |
L'armée des Ombres | Jean Pierre Melville |
1970s [edit]
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Italy/ West Germany |
Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini | Vittorio De Sica | English title: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis; Based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani; Oscar for Best Foreign Film |
| 1970 | Yugoslavia |
Hranjenik | Vatroslav Mimica | English title:The Fed Ones |
| 1970 | USA/ Denmark/ UK/ Panama |
The Only Way | Bent Christensen | Danish title:Oktober-Dage |
| 1972 | USA |
The Day the Clown Cried | Jerry Lewis | Never shown to the general public, Lewis portrays a circus clown imprisoned in a Nazi camp |
| 1974 | UK |
QB VII (TV minseries) | Tom Gries | Fictionalized version of the case of Dr. Wladislaw Dehring, who sued Leon Uris for defamation for a line in Exodus; based on Leon Uris novel of same name |
| 1974 | Italy |
The Night Porter | Liliana Cavani | Controversial film about the sexual exploitation of a female concentration camp survivor by a Nazi SS officer who also acted as her protector |
| 1974 | UK/ 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 | Yugoslavia |
Crvena zemlja | Branimir Tori Janković | Concerns the massacre of Serbs at Kraljevo |
| 1975 | USA |
The Hiding Place | James F. Collier | Based on the autobiography of Corrie ten Boom |
| 1975 | Italy |
Seven Beauties | Lina Wertmüller | "Naziploitation" |
| 1975 | USA |
The Man in the Glass Booth | Arthur Hiller | Israeli agents capture a wealthy businessman living in Manhattan and bring him to Israel to stand trial as a Nazi war criminal.[1] |
| 1976 | USA |
Marathon Man | John Schlesinger | A thriller dealing with an ex-Nazi dentist and war criminal. Starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier. |
| 1977 | West Germany |
Aus einem deutschen Leben | Theodor Kotulla | English title: From a German Life; the life of Rudolf Hoess; based on the book by Robert Merle |
| 1977 | Italy |
L'ultima orgia del III Reich | Cesare Canevari | Exploitation film about the sexual exploitation of concentration camp inmates by SS soldiers. |
| 1977 | West Germany |
Reinhard Heydrich - Manager des Terrors | Heinz Schirk | The life of Reinhard Heydrich |
| 1978 | USA |
Holocaust (TV miniseries) | Marvin J. Chomsky | The SS and SD leadership under Reinhard Heydrich and Ernst Kaltenbrunner is depicted in this mini-series. |
| 1978 | Yugoslavia |
Okupacija u 26 slika | Lordan Zafranovic | |
| 1979 | West Germany |
Baranski | Werner Masten | |
| 1979 | USA |
The House On Garibaldi Street | Peter Collinson | Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann is located in 1960s Argentina and Israel is determined to put him on trial. |
1980s [edit]
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | USA |
The Diary of Anne Frank (TV) | Boris Sagal | |
| 1980 | USA |
Playing For Time (TV) | Daniel Mann | Based on the autobiography of Fania Fénelon; adaptation by Arthur Miller |
| 1981 | West Germany |
Das Letzte Loch | Herbert Achternbusch | English title:The Last Hole |
| 1982 | West Germany |
Ein Stück Himmel (TV mini-series) | Franz Peter Wirth | Based on the autobiography of Janina David |
| 1982 | USA |
Remembrance of Love (TV) | Jack Smight | Stars Kirk Douglas |
| 1982 | USA |
Sophie's Choice | Alan J. Pakula | Based on the novel by William Styron Best Leading Actress Oscar winner, Meryl Streep |
| 1982 | USA |
The Wall | Robert Markowitz | Based on the novel by John Hersey; concerns Warsaw Ghetto Uprising |
| 1983 |  Hungary |
Jób lázadása | Barna Kabay | English title: Job's Revolt. Concerns an old Jewish couple who, after having lost all their children, adopt a little Christian boy. |
| 1983 | France/  Canada |
Au nom de tous les miens | Robert Enrico | Based on the book by Martin Gray |
| 1983 | USA/ Germany/ Italy |
The Scarlet and the Black (TV) | Jerry London | Based on the J.P. Gallagher novel "The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican" |
| 1983 | USA |
To Be Or Not To Be | Alan Johnson | A remake of the 1942 comedy, starring Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. |
| 1984 | Yugoslavia |
Banjica (TV mini-series) | Sava Mrmak | |
| 1984 | Canada |
Charlie Grant's War (TV) | Martin Lavut | |
| 1984 |  Austria |
Eine blaßblaue Frauenschrift | Axel Corti | English Title: A Woman's Pale Blue Handwriting |
| 1984 | West Germany / UK |
Forbidden | Anthony Page | |
| 1984 | West Germany |
Wannseekonferenz (TV) | Heinz Schirk | Precise 85 minute re-enactment of the actual conference |
| 1985 | West Germany |
The Execution (TV) | Paul Wendkos | Based on the novel by Oliver Crawford |
| 1985 | West Germany/ France |
Novembermond | Alexandra von Grote | Drama about two lesbians in occupied France |
| 1985 | USA |
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story | Lamont Johnson | Concerns Raoul Wallenberg |
| 1986 | Poland |
Kolysanka (Lullaby, Kolybelnaja) | Efraim Sevela | Screenplay by Efraim Sevela |
| 1987 | UK / Yugoslavia |
Escape from Sobibor | Jack Gold | From the manuscript by Thomas "Toivi" Blatt Based on the book by Richard Rashke |
| 1987 | France |
Au Revoir, Les Enfants | Louis Malle | |
| 1988 | USA |
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (TV) | John Erman | |
| 1988 | USA |
Hanna's War | Menahem Golan | |
| 1988 | Poland |
I skrzypce przestaly grac | Alexander Ramati | And the Violins Stopped Playing; based on directors novel |
| 1988 | USA |
War and Remembrance (TV miniseries) | Dan Curtis | Based on the novel by Herman Wouk Nominated for 15 Emmy Awards; Winner of 3, including Outstanding Miniseries |
| 1989 | USA |
Enemies, a Love Story | Paul Mazursky | Based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 1989 | Poland |
Kornblumenblau | Leszek Wosiewicz | Based on the book by Kazimierz Tyminski; a KZ-Kamp inmate survives solely because he can play their title melody |
| 1989 | USA |
Pursuit | Director Ian Sharp | Film tells the story of SS officer who has plastic surgery and passes himself off as a Jew after World War II to escape detection |
| 1989 | USA |
Music Box | Costa-Gavras | |
| 1989 |  USSR |
Otche nash | Boris Yermolayev | English title: Our Father |
| 1989 | USA |
Triumph of the Spirit | Robert M. Young |
1990s [edit]
2000s [edit]
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Germany |
David Proshker | Larry Eisenberg | |
| 2000 |  Czech Republic |
Musíme si pomáhat | Jan Hřebejk | English title: Divided We Fall |
| 2000 | Canada |
Nuremberg (TV) | Yves Simoneau | Based on the book by Joseph E. Persico, about the 21 defendants during the Nuremberg Trials, including Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Hermann Goering, Wilhelm Keitel, and Rudolf Hess. |
| 2000 | Czech Republic |
Pramen života | Milan Cieslar | English title: The Spring Of Life; based on the book by Vladimír Körner |
| 2000 | USA |
Shadows (short film)(short) | Mitchell S. Levine | |
| 2000 | USA / Poland |
Edges of the Lord | Yurek Bogayevicz | |
| 2000 | USA |
Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness | Robert Kirk | Based on the story of Japanese Consul General to Lithuania Chiune Sugihara. |
| 2001 | USA |
Anne Frank: The Whole Story (TV) | Robert Dornhelm | Based on the book by Melissa Müller |
| 2001 | USA / UK |
Conspiracy (TV) | Frank Pierson | A dramatic recreation of the Wannsee Conference |
| 2001 | USA |
The Grey Zone | Tim Blake Nelson | Based on the book; Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account written by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli |
| 2001 | USA / Canada |
Haven (TV) | John Gray | Based on the book by Ruth Gruber |
| 2001 | Germany |
Nirgendwo in Afrika | Caroline Link | English title: Nowhere in Africa; based on the book by Stefanie Zweig |
| 2001 | USA |
Uprising (TV) | Jon Avnet | |
| 2002 | France / Germany |
Amen. / Der Stellvertreter | Costa-Gavras | Based on the play Der Stellvertreter by Rolf Hochhuth |
| 2002 | Italy |
Perlasca, un eroe italiano | Alberto Negrin | Based on the book by Enrico Deaglio |
| 2002 | France / Germany / UK / Poland |
The Pianist | Roman Polanski | Based on the book by Wladyslaw Szpilman; Winner of three Academy Awards (Best Actor, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay) |
| 2003 | Germany / Austria |
Annas Heimkehr (TV) | Xaver Schwarzenberger | Based on the life of Charlotte Knobloch during World War II |
| 2003 | Hungary |
A Rózsa énekei | Andor Szilágyi | |
| 2003 | Italy |
La Finestra di Fronte | 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 (TV) | Christian Duguay | |
| 2003 | Germany |
Babiy Yar | Jeff Kanew | Babiy Yar is also known as Babij Jar. |
| 2005 | Poland /  Sweden |
Ninas resa | Lena Einhorn | A true story dramatized with the real protagonist, Nina Einhorn (mother of the director), as narrator. About the ghetto in Warsaw and its uprising. |
| 2005 |  Japan |
Nihon no Shindler Sugihara Chiune Monogatari 6,000-nin no Inochi no Visa (TV series) | Takayoshi Watanabe | Based on the story of Japanese Consul General to Lithuania Chiune Sugihara. |
| 2005 | France |
A Love to Hide (TV) | Christian Faure | |
| 2005 | USA |
Everything is Illuminated | Liev Schreiber | Based on the book by Jonathan Safran Foer |
| 2005 | Germany |
Nicht alle waren Moerder | Jo Baier | Based on the autobiography "Nicht alle waren Mörder" 2002 by Michael Degen. English title: Not All Were Murderers |
| 2005 | UK |
Primo (TV) | Richard Wilson | Italian chemist and author Primo Levi was imprisoned in Auschwitz in 1944 by Germans soldiers who discovered that he was Jewish. He spent 10 months incarcerated in barbaric conditions. He then wrote of his horrifying experiences in If This Is A Man. The book was brought to stage at the Royal National Theatre in London in September 2004. This film is an adaptation of that play, which was also titled Primo and was also directed by Richard Wilson. The play was a one-man production by actor Antony Sher. This filmed version of the play sees Sher acting out some harrowing material as he brings Primo Levi's words to life. It is a monologue told as a memoir by an older Primo Levi looking back at his life in Auschwitz. |
| 2005 | Germany |
Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage | Marc Rothemund | English title: Sophie Scholl: The Final Days - Based on the true story of one of the most famous members of the German anti-Nazi group, The White Rose. |
| 2005 | Hungary |
Sorstalanság | Lajos Koltai | Based on the book by Imre Kertész. English title: Fateless |
| 2006 |  Netherlands |
Black Book | Paul Verhoeven | A beautiful Jewish singer in Nazi occupied Netherlands infiltrates the Gestapo HQ |
| 2006 | Germany / Czech Republic |
Der Letzte Zug | Joseph Vilsmaier/ Dana Vávrová | English title: The Last Train |
| 2006 | Germany /  Lithuania |
Ghetto | Audrius Juzenas | Based on a play written by Joshua Sobol about the Vilna Ghetto |
| 2006 | USA |
Forgiving Dr. Mengele | Bob Hercules, Cheri Pugh | |
| 2007 | Germany / Austria |
The Counterfeiters | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Based on a memoir written by Adolf Burger about Operation Bernhard |
| 2008 | UK |
God on Trial | Andy DeEmmony | A group of Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz put God on trial as they blame him for the tragedies of the Holocaust. |
| 2008 | UK / USA |
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas | Mark Herman | The nine-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp becomes friends with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence. |
| 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. Best Leading Actress - Oscar winner: Kate Winslet |
| 2008 | Hungary / Germany / UK |
Good | Vicente Amorim | Based on the play by Cecil Philip Taylor |
| 2009 | France |
La Rafle | Rose Bosch | |
| 2009 | France |
L'armée du crime | Robert Guédiguian | Based on a story by Serge Le Péron, with Virginie Ledoyen. In Paris during the German occupation, Missak Manouchian, an Armenian exiled poet, leads a group of resistance fighters to commit disorganized attacks. English title: The Army of Crime |
| 2009 | USA / Poland / Canada |
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (TV) | John Kent Harrison |
2010s [edit]
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | USA/ Poland |
Esther's Diary | Mariusz Kotowski | Narrative based on a composite of stories told to the director by his Polish grandparents, who were personally involved in hiding Polish Jews from the Nazis in World War II; 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 | France |
The Round Up (2010 film) | Rose Bosch | A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it. |
| 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 | Set in Lvov, Poland, a sewer worker hides Jews escaping the liquidation of the ghetto. Based on a true story. |
| 2012 |  Republic of Macedonia |
The Third Half | Darko Mitrevski |
Documentary films [edit]
1940s [edit]
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | USA |
Death Mills | Billy Wilder | English Version of Die Todesmühlen |
| 1945 | Poland |
Majdanek - cmentarzysko Europy | Aleksander Ford | English title: Majdanek: Cemetery of Europe |
| 1945 | USA |
Nazi Concentration Camps[2] | George Stevens | Presented as evidence at Nuremberg. |
| 1945 | USA |
The Nazi Plan | George Stevens | Presented as evidence at Nuremberg |
| 1945 | Yugoslavia |
Jasenovac[3] | Gustav Gavrin & Kosta Hlavaty | |
| circa 1946 | UK |
Memory of the Camps[4] | Alfred Hitchcock | Unfinished; later reconstructed by American PBS |
| 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 [edit]
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 [edit]
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 [edit]
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 1976 | UK / USA / France / West Germany |
The Memory of Justice | Marcel Ophüls | 4.6 hours long Won Los Angeles Film Critics Special Award |
| 1978 | USA |
The Holocaust - The story of family Weiss |
1980s [edit]
1990s [edit]
2000s documentary [edit]
2010s documentary [edit]
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Germany |
Auschwitz | Uwe Boll | ||
| 2011 | Poland |
In Darkness | Agnieszka Holland | ||
| 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 | |
| 2013 | Italy |
The longest journey | Ruggero Gabbai | A documentary about the last days of the Jews of Rhodes. |
See also [edit]
- 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 [edit]
- ^ The Man in the Glass Booth. IMDb.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ "Holocaust Era in Croatia: Jasenovac 1941-1945". Ushmm.org. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
- ^ "Watch The Full Program Online | Memory Of The Camps | FRONTLINE". PBS. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
- ^ Purple Triangles (1991). IMDb.
- ^ 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.
