List of Holocaust films

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These films deal with the Holocaust in Europe, comprising both documentaries and narratives. They began to be produced in the early 1940s before the extent of the Holocaust at that time was widely recognized. [1]

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The films span a range of genres, with documentary films including footage filmed both by the Germans for propaganda and by the Allies, compilations, survivor accounts and docudramas, and narrative films including war films, action films, love stories, psychological dramas, and even comedies. [1]

Narrative films : 1940s  · 1950s  · 1960s  · 1970s  · 1980s  · 1980s  · 1990s  · 2000s  · 2010s  · 2020s
Documentary films : 1940s  · 1950s  · 1960s  · 1970s  · 1980s  · 1990s  · 2000s  · 2010s  · 2020s
See also  · References

1940s

YearCountryTitleDirectorNotes
1940United Kingdom Night Train to Munich Carol Reed First feature film to depict German concentration camps.
1940United States The Mortal Storm Frank Borzage One character is sent to a concentration camp and dies there, while his family is trying to leave Nazi Germany.
1940United States The Great Dictator Charlie Chaplin A condemnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis. The film focuses on two men: a ruthless fascist dictator named Adenoid Hynkel (a parody of Hitler) and a persecuted Jewish barber. The Jewish barber is sent to a concentration camp, but manages to escape (and ends up mistaken for Hynkel, while Hynkel is mistaken for the Jewish barber, and sent off to a concentration camp). In one scene, Herring (a parody of Hermann Göring) makes a passing mention that they have discovered a new poison gas, that will kill everybody. In his 1964 autobiography, Chaplin stated that he could not have made the film if he had known about the true extent of the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps at that time. [2]
1942United States To Be Or Not To Be Ernst Lubitsch One villain is jokingly -and repeatedly- called “concentration camp Erhardt”.
1942United States Once Upon a Honeymoon Leo McCarey Ginger Rogers' character helps her Jewish maid and the maid's two children escape Poland by switching passports with her. Nazi soldiers subsequently notice Rogers' passport, and she and Carey Grant's character (both Irish) are put in a concentration camp populated by prisoners in Orthodox Jewish dress. Rogers and Grant are later sprung by the American consulate (as the ultimate point of the film is to portray Hitler's spread throughout Europe).
1944United States The Seventh Cross Fred Zinneman Seven inmates, one Jewish, escape from a concentration camp
1944Poland Majdanek: Cemetery of Europe Aleksander Ford One of the first films to include footage of concentration camps
1945Soviet Union The Unvanquished Mark Donskoy First feature film to show mass murder of Jews and hunting for them on the occupied territories. 1946 Venice festival award.
1946United States The Stranger Orson Welles First feature film to include footage of concentration camps [3]
1946Germany Die Mörder sind unter uns Wolfgang Staudte The first Rubble Film and the first German film to address Nazi atrocities. English title: Murderers Among Us
1947Germany Ehe im Schatten Kurt Maetzig One of the earliest DEFA productions. English title: Marriage in the Shadows
1947Germany Zwischen Gestern und Morgen Harald Braun One of the first German films to be made in Munich after the war and the first to openly address the Holocaust. English title: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
1948Germany Morituri Eugen York
1948United States The Search Fred Zinnemann In post-war Berlin, an American private helps a lost Czech boy find his mother.
1948Poland Ulica Graniczna Aleksander Ford A Polish film about the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, it premieres at the Venice Film Festival; it is released in English as Border Street in 1950. [4] [5]
1948Poland The Last Stage Wanda Jakubowska English titles: The Last Stage, The Last Stop
1949Italy L'ebreo errante  [ it ] Goffredo Alessandrini First Italian film to openly address the Holocaust
1949United States
West Germany
Lang ist der Weg Herbert B. Fredersdorf
Marek Goldstein
Yiddish title: Lang iz der Veg; English title: Long Is the Road

1950s

YearCountryTitleDirectorNotes
1950Czechoslovakia Distant Journey Alfréd Radok English title: Distant Journey
1953United States The Juggler Edward Dmytryk In 1949, former concentration camp inmate and Berlin native Hans Muller immigrates to Israel where, due to psychological problems, he cannot adjust to peacetime life.
1956United States Singing in the Dark Max Nosseck Musical about Holocaust survivors with amnesia
1958–59United States Pursuit Ian Sharp Anthology series
1959East Germany
Bulgaria
Stars Konrad Wolf English title: Stars
1959United States The Diary of Anne Frank George Stevens Won three Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress
1959Italy
Yugoslavia
France
Kapò Gillo Pontecorvo
1959Poland Biały niedźwiedź  [ pl ] Jerzy Zarzycki A Jew who escaped from a transport to a concentration camp is hiding by posing for tourists disguised as a polar bear.

1960s

YearCountryTitleDirectorNotes
1960Czechoslovakia Romeo, Julie a tma Jiří Weiss English title: Romeo, Juliet and Darkness. Concerns Operation Anthropoid.
1960United States Exodus Otto Preminger Based on the novel by Leon Uris; screenplay by Dalton Trumbo.
1960Yugoslavia Deveti krug France Stiglic English title: The Ninth Circle
1961Italy Gold of Rome Carlo Lizzani Italian title: L'oro di Roma
1961United States Judgment at Nuremberg Stanley Kramer Winner of Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay
1961Poland Samson Andrzej Wajda
1961Belgium L'enclos Armand Gatti Italian title: Otto ore al buio. Prix de la Critique at 1961 Cannes Festival.
1963Poland Passenger Andrzej Munk
1963East Germany Naked Among Wolves Frank Beyer
1964United States The Pawnbroker Sidney Lumet A Jewish pawnbroker, victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.
1965East Germany Chronik eines Mordes Joachim HaslerEnglish title: Chronicle of a Murder
1965Czechoslovakia The Shop On Main Street Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos
1965Germany The Investigation Peter Weiss Also as TV play "Die Ermittlung" (1966)
1966United StatesThe Last Chapter [6] Benjamin Rothman & Lawrence Rothman, S.L. Shneiderman Depicts the destruction of Polish Jewry by the Nazi onslaught, includes rare footage of Jewish life in early 20th century Poland.
1967United States The Diary of Anne Frank Alex Segal TV movie: Harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
1969France Army of Shadows Jean Pierre Melville

1970s

YearCountryTitleDirectorNotes
1970Poland Apel Ryszard CzekałaAnimated short film
1970Poland Epilog norymberski Jerzy Antczak TV Theatre reconstruction of Nuremberg trials
1970Italy
West Germany
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Vittorio De Sica Italian title: Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini; based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani; Oscar for Best Foreign Film
1970Yugoslavia Hranjenik Vatroslav Mimica English title: The Fed Ones
1972United States The Day the Clown Cried Jerry Lewis Never shown to the general public
1972United States Cabaret Bob Fosse American musical drama film set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, as the Nazi Party rises to power.
1974Israel
West Germany
Sie sind frei, Dr. Korczak  [ de ] Aleksander Ford English title: The Martyr
1974United Kingdom QB VII Tom Gries TV miniseries; based on Leon Uris novel of same name
1974Italy The Night Porter Liliana Cavani
1974United Kingdom
West Germany
The Odessa File Ronald Neame Based on Frederick Forsyth novel of same name
1975East Germany Jacob the Liar Frank Beyer Based on the novel by Jurek Becker
1975United States The Hiding Place James F. CollierBased on the autobiography of Corrie ten Boom
1975Italy Seven Beauties Lina Wertmüller
1975United States The Man in the Glass Booth Arthur Hiller
1976United States Marathon Man John Schlesinger
1976France Monsieur Klein Joseph Losey
1976Spain Voyage of the Damned Stuart Rosenberg
1977Italy L'ultima orgia del III Reich Cesare Canevari
1977United States Julia Fred Zinnemann Based on a chapter from Lillian Hellman's 1973 book Pentimento about the author's relationship with a lifelong friend, "Julia", who fought against the Nazis in the years prior to World War II. It received 11 Academy Award nominations including for Best Picture
1978 Holocaust Marvin J. Chomsky TV miniseries, popularised the term 'Holocaust'.
1978Yugoslavia Okupacija u 26 slika Lordan Zafranović
1979West GermanyBaranskiWerner Masten
1979West Germany The Tin Drum Volker Schlöndorff
1979West Germany David Peter Lilienthal
1979United States The House on Garibaldi Street Peter Collinson

1980s

YearCountryTitleDirectorNotes
1980United States The Diary of Anne Frank Boris Sagal TV movie
1980United States Playing For Time Daniel Mann TV film; based on the autobiography of Fania Fénelon; adaptation by Arthur Miller
1981France Les Uns et les Autres Claude Lelouch English title: Bolero
1982West Germany Ein Stück Himmel Franz Peter Wirth TV mini-series; based on the autobiography of Janina David
1982United States Sophie's Choice Alan J. Pakula Based on the novel by William Styron; Meryl Streep won Academy Award for Best Actress
1982Austria God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore Axel Corti http://www.jewishfilm.org/Catalogue/films/goddoesnotbelieveinus.htm
1983France
Canada
Au Nom de Tous les Miens Robert Enrico English title: For Those I Loved; based on the book by Martin Gray
1983Hungary Jób lázadása Barna Kabay English title: Job's Revolt
1983United States To Be Or Not To Be Alan Johnson A remake of the 1942 comedy, starring Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft.
1983United States
West Germany
Italy
The Scarlet and the Black Jerry London TV movie; based on the J.P. Gallagher novel The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican
1983United States The Winds of War Dan Curtis Based on the novel by Herman Wouk;
1984Yugoslavia Banjica Sava MrmakTV mini-series
1984West Germany
United Kingdom
Forbidden Anthony Page
1984West Germany Wannseekonferenz Heinz SchirkTV movie
1985United States Wallenberg: A Hero's Story Lamont Johnson Feature documentary about the effects of the Holocaust on the next generation of Jews and Germans.
1985Soviet Union Come and See Elem Klimov Russian title: Idi i smotri, Winner Venice Classics Award for Best Restored film
1985CanadaDark LullabiesIrene Lilienheim Angelico and Abbey Jack Neidik
1987United Kingdom
Yugoslavia
Escape from Sobibor Jack Gold Based on the book by Richard Rashke
Nominated for three Golden Globe Awards; won two, including Best Limited Series or Motion Picture made for Television
1987France Au revoir les enfants Louis Malle
1988Poland
United States
And the Violins Stopped Playing Alexander Ramati
1988United States The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank John Erman TV movie
1988United States Hanna's War Menahem Golan
1988Poland Kornblumenblau Leszek Wosiewicz  [ pl ]The film was selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
1988United States War and Remembrance Dan Curtis TV mini-series; based on the novel by Herman Wouk, and the sequel to The Winds of War
Nominated for 15 Primetime Emmy Awards; won 3 including Outstanding Miniseries
1989United States Enemies, a Love Story Paul Mazursky Based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer
1989United States Music Box Costa-Gavras
1989United States Triumph of the Spirit Robert M. Young

1990s

YearCountryTitleDirectorNotes
1990West Germany Abrahams Gold Jörg Graser
1990West Germany Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland Lea Rosh & Eberhard Jäckel
1990Australia Father John Power
1990Poland Korczak Andrzej Wajda Based on the true story of Dr. Janusz Korczak and his attempt to keep alive the children in his Warsaw Ghetto orphanage.
1990Germany
France
Poland
Europa Europa Agnieszka Holland Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
1991Poland Jeszcze tylko ten las Jan Lomnicki English title: Just Beyond That Forest
1991Czechoslovakia Poslední motýl Karel Kachyňa English title: The Last Butterfly
1991United States Never Forget Joseph Sargent TV movie; based on the life of Mel Mermelstein
1991Canada The Quarrel Eli Cohen Based on the story My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner by Chaim Grade
1992United Kingdom
France
Prague Ian Sellar
1992United States Alan & Naomi Sterling Van Wagenen Based on a novel by Myron Levoy
1992United States The Witness Chris Gerolmo Short film
1993Italy
France
Jona che visse nella balena Roberto Faenza English title: Jonah Who Lived in the Whale, aka Look to the Sky
1993United States 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 won 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. [7]
1993United States Swing Kids Thomas Carter Young teens in Nazi Germany listen to banned swing music and deal with the pressures of joining the Nazi Youth Army.
1994Austria Totschweigen  [ de ]Margareta Heinrich & Eduard ErneThe subject of the film is the massacre of Rechnitz
1995France Les Misérables Claude Lelouch
1995Japan Anne no Nikki Akinori NagaokaAnime adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank
1996United StatesHidden in Silence Richard A. Colla A True Story about the Podgórski sisters who rescued 13 Jews from the Przemyśl Ghetto.
1996United States The Empty Mirror Barry J. Hershey
1996United States The Man Who Captured Eichmann William A. Graham Based on the book Eichmann in My Hands by Peter Z. Malkin
1996United States Mother Night Keith Gordon Based on the novel by Kurt Vonnegut, and starring Nick Nolte.
1996United States The Ring Armand Mastroianni TV film; based on the novel by Danielle Steel
1996United States The Substance of Fire Daniel J. Sullivan Based on the play by Jon Robin Baitz
1996Hungary A hetedik szoba [8] Márta Mészáros English title: The Seventh Room. Dramatic portrayal of the life of Edith Stein, a nun and Auschwitz victim who was later canonized in the Roman Catholic Church
1997Italy
France
Germany
Switzerland
La Tregua Francesco Rosi English title: The Truce. Based on the autobiography by Primo Levi
1997United States Visas and Virtue Chris Tashima Short film; based on the play by Tim Toyama
1997Italy La vita è bella Roberto Benigni English title: Life is Beautiful. Won three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Robert Benigni
1997Denmark
United Kingdom
Germany
The Island on Bird Street Søren Kragh-Jacobsen Based on the book by Uri Orlev
1997United Kingdom Bent Sean Mathias Based on the play by Martin Sherman
1998United States Apt Pupil Bryan Singer Based on the novela by Stephen King
1998Netherlands
Belgium
Left Luggage Jeroen Krabbé Based on the novel by Carl Friedman
1998United States Miracle at Midnight Ken Cameron TV movie about the rescue of the Danish Jews
1998United States Pola's March Jonathan Gruber
1998France
Belgium
Netherlands
Israel
Train of Life Radu Mihaileanu
1998GermanyDie Akte B. – Alois Brunner: Die Geschichte eines MassenmördersGeorg M. Hafner & Esther Schapira
1999Germany Aimée & Jaguar Max Färberböck Based on a book of the same name by Erica Fischer
1999Czech Republic All My Loved Ones Matej Mináč
1999United States The Devil's Arithmetic Donna Deitch Based on the novel by Jane Yolen
1999Germany Gloomy Sunday Rolf Schübel Based on the novel by Nick Barkow
1999United States Jakob the Liar Peter Kassovitz Based on the novel by Jurek Becker
1999Germany
Austria
Canada
Hungary
Sunshine István Szabó

2000s

YearCountryTitleDirectorsNotes
2000Czech Republic Musíme si pomáhat Jan Hřebejk English title: Divided We Fall
2000Canada Nuremberg Yves Simoneau TV movie; based on the book by Joseph E. Persico
2000Czech Republic Pramen života Milan CieslarEnglish title: The Spring Of Life; based on the book by Vladimír Körner
2000United KingdomThe Holocaust on Trial Leslie Woodhead A BBC dramatised documentary film into an investigation of Hitler's Final Solution together with a reconstruction of key courtroom exchanges in the libel case lost by the historian David Irving who was accused of being a Holocaust denier.
2000United States
Poland
Edges of the Lord Yurek Bogayevicz
2001Hungary Hamvadó cigarettavég Péter Bacsó Title in English: Smoldering Cigarette. The film is a fictionalized portrayal of the Hungarian diva Katalin Karády's act of saving her Jewish lyricist György G. Denes from forced labor camp and connecting him with organized espionage against Nazi Germany.
2001United States Anne Frank: The Whole Story Robert Dornhelm TV movie; based on the book by Melissa Müller
2001United States
United Kingdom
Conspiracy Frank Pierson TV movie
2001United States The Grey Zone Tim Blake Nelson Based on the book, about the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz
2001Germany Nirgendwo in Afrika Caroline Link English title: Nowhere in Africa; adaptation of Stefanie Zweig's autobiographical novel
2001United States Uprising Jon Avnet TV movie
2002France
Germany
Amen. Costa-Gavras Based on the play The Deputy by Rolf Hochhuth
2002France
Germany
United Kingdom
Poland
The Pianist Roman Polanski Based on the autobiography by Wladyslaw Szpilman about survival in the Warsaw Ghetto; won three Academy Awards
2002Czech Republic The Power of Good Matej Mináč Documentary [9] [10]
2003Hungary A Rózsa énekei Andor Szilágyi
2003Italy Facing Windows Ferzan Özpetek English title: Facing Windows
2003United States The Singing Forest Jorge Ameer
2003United States Out of the Ashes Joseph Sargent Based on the book I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz by Gisella Perl
2003United States Hitler: The Rise of Evil Christian Duguay TV movie
2003Germany Babiy Yar Jeff Kanew
2004Brazil Olga Jayme Monjardim
2005Poland
Sweden
Ninas resa Lena Einhorn
2005France A Love to Hide Christian FaureTV movie
2005United States Everything is Illuminated Liev Schreiber Based on the book by Jonathan Safran Foer. The film deals with the Holocaust in Ukraine and its impact and memory in contemporary Ukraine.
2005United Kingdom Primo Richard Wilson TV movie
2005Germany Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage Marc Rothemund English title: Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
2005Hungary Fateless Lajos Koltai Based on the book by Imre Kertész
2006Netherlands Black Book Paul Verhoeven
2006Germany
Czech Republic
Der Letzte Zug Joseph Vilsmaier/ Dana Vávrová English title: The Last Train
2006United States Forgiving Dr. Mengele Bob Hercules
Cheri Pugh
2007Germany Spielzeugland Jochen Alexander Freydank English title: Toyland. Won the 2009 Best Live Action Short Film Oscar at the 81st Academy Awards.
2007United Kingdom The Relief of Belsen Justin HardyDepicts events that unfolded at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp following the liberation of the camp by British troops in April 1945.
2007Germany
Austria
The Counterfeiters Stefan Ruzowitzky Based on a memoir written by Adolf Burger; won the 2007 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 80th Academy Awards.
2008United Kingdom God on Trial Andy DeEmmony
2008United Kingdom
United States
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Mark Herman Adaptation of John Boyne's novel
2008United States Defiance Edward Zwick Based on the book by Nechama Tec; nomination for an Academy Award in the category of Best Original Score
2008United Kingdom
United States
The Reader Stephen Daldry Based on the book by Bernhard Schlink
Kate Winslet won Academy Award For Best Actress
2008Hungary
Germany
United Kingdom
Good Vicente AmorimBased on the play by Cecil Philip Taylor
2009France L'armée du crime Robert Guédiguian English title: The Army of Crime
2009France Korkoro Tony Gatlif The film depicts the subject of Porajmos.
2009United States
Germany
Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino Alternate history war comedy. Nominated for eight Academy Awards.
2009United States
Poland
Canada
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler John Kent Harrison TV movie

2010s

YearCountryTitleDirectorsNotes
2010United States
Poland
Esther's Diary Mariusz Kotowski Features original footage from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
2010France Sarah's Key Gilles Paquet-Brenner An adaptation of the novel Elle s'appelait Sarah by Tatiana De Rosnay
2010Czech Republic
Austria
Germany
Habermann Juraj Herz Based on true events and is the first major motion picture to dramatize the expulsion of 3 million Germans from Czechoslovakia.
2010France The Round Up Rose BoschThe Vel' d'Hiv Roundup.
2010China 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.
2011Poland In Darkness Agnieszka Holland Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.
2011Germany Wunderkinder  [ de ]Markus RosenmüllerStory about deep friendship between three musically talented children.
2011Spain El ángel de Budapest Luis Oliveros The plot focuses on Ángel Sanz Briz, a Spanish ambassador in Hungary during World War II. Operating until early 1944 in Budapest, he helped to save the lives of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust.
2012Poland Aftermath Wladyslaw Pasikowski Aftermath (Polish: Pokłosie) - the fictional Holocaust-related thriller and drama is inspired by the July 1941 Jedwabne pogrom in occupied north-eastern Poland
2012Netherlands Süskind Rudolf van den Berg Based on the true story of Walter Süskind
2012Macedonia The Third Half Darko Mitrevski
2012Serbia When Day Breaks Goran Paskaljević
2013Argentina The German Doctor Lucía PuenzoOriginal title: Wakolda
2013GermanyAn Apartment in Berlin Alice Agneskirchner German TV film. The story of the family Adler living in Berlin, betrayed by Stella Goldschlag murdered in Auschwitz in 1944 and three young students moving from Israel to Berlin.
2013Germany
Poland
Run Boy Run Pepe Danquart
2013Switzerland Akte Grüninger Alain GsponerBased on the true story of Paul Grüninger.
2013Czech Republic
Slovakia
Colette Milan CieslarAn adaptation of the novel A girl from Antwerp by Arnošt Lustig
2013Poland
Denmark
Ida Paweł Pawlikowski Won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards
2014Poland Warsaw 44 Jan KomasaOriginal title Miasto '44
2014Germany Labyrinth of Lies Giulio Ricciarelli
2014France To Life (film) Jean-Jacques Silbermann
2015Germany Naked Among Wolves Philipp Kadelbach
2015Germany The People vs. Fritz Bauer Lars Kraume
2015Canada Remember Atom Egoyan Won Best Original Screenplay at 4th Canadian Screen Awards
2015Russia
Germany
The Way Out Mikhail UchitelevShort. Accepted at the Short Film Corner of the 68th Cannes Festival
2015Hungary Son of Saul László Nemes Won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards; Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival; Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Category at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards; Winner of Best International Film at the 31st Independent Spirit Awards
2015Germany Meine Tochter Anne Frank Raymond LayGerman television film about Anne Frank, on the view of her father
2016Germany Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank Hans Steinbichler German cinematographic feature about Anne Frank
2016United States Denial Mick Jackson Adaptation of the book Denying the Holocaust
2017United States
United Kingdom
The Zookeeper's Wife Niki Caro Adaptation of the novel The Zookeeper's Wife
2017Hungary 1945 Ferenc Török Winner of multiple international film awards
2017United States The Man with the Iron Heart Cédric Jimenez Based on French writer Laurent Binet's novel HHhH
2017France Un sac de billes Christian Duguay
2017Israel
Austria
Ha Edut (The Testament)Amichai Greenberg
2018Russia Sobibor Konstantin Khabensky
2018Germany Never Look Away Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
2018United States Operation Finale Chris Weitz Follows the efforts of Israeli intelligence officers to capture former SS officer Adolf Eichmann in 1960
2018Philippines Quezon's Game Matthew RoseFeatures Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon's plan to provide refuge for Jews fleeing from Nazi Germany.
2018Spain The Photographer of Mauthausen Mar TargaronaStory of Francisco Boix and his covert documentation of life at Mauthausen Concentration Camp
2018Poland
Germany
Netherlands
Werewolf  [ pl ]Adrian Panek
2018United States The Samuel Project Marc Fusco
2018Germany Transit Christian PetzoldAdaptation of the novel Transit by Anna Seghers
2019United States Jojo Rabbit Taika Waititi Adaptation of the novel Caging Skies by Christine Leunens
2019Canada Hungary The Song of Names François Girard Adaptation of the novel The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

2020s

YearCountryTitleDirectorsNotes
2020United States
United Kingdom

Germany

Resistance Jonathan Jakubowicz Inspired by the life of Marcel Marceau
2020United States My Name is Sara Steven Oritt
2020Norway Betrayed Eirik SvenssonA Norwegian drama film based on the true story of the Norwegian boxer Charles Braude and his family being persecuted, arrested and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with the collaboration of the Norwegian government as a plan to exterminate all Jews in Europe.
2020United States The Secrets We Keep Yuval Adler A Roma Holocaust survivor, Maja, struggles with PTSD and survivor's guilt in the 1950s. She encounters a man, whom she recognizes as a German soldier, who had raped her 15 years earlier, and been involved in the murder of her sister.
2020Poland The Champion Maciej BarczewskiThe film stars Piotr Głowacki as Tadeusz Pietrzykowski, a real-life Polish boxer who became famous for his nearly undefeated strings of victories in the Nazi concentration camps.
2021Canada, Belgium, France Charlotte Éric Warin, Tahir RanaAnimated. Based on the true story of German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon. [11]
2021Serbia Dara of Jasenovac Predrag Antonijević It is the first modern production on the subject of the Jasenovac concentration camp.
2021Slovakia The Auschwitz Report Peter Bebjak Two prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp manage to escape with a document about the camp's operation
2021Italy L'equilibrista con la stella Davide Campagna Film set in North Italy: A Jewish girl falls in love with a young Clown, who hides her from Nazis in his circus and teaches her to be tightrope walker.
2021USA, Canada, Hungary The Survivor Barry Levinson Based on the story of Harry Haft - the boxer in Auschwitz
2022Germany The Conference Matti Geschonneck After Die Wannseekonferenz (1984) and Conspiracy (2001), this is the third television film depiction of the Wannsee Conference.
2023Ukraine Shttl Ady WalterThe film depicts the lives of a shtetl in Western Ukraine on the eve of Operation Barbarossa.
2023ItalyL'ultima volta che siamo stati bambiniClaudio BisioItalian dramedy road movie about kids who go for a long journey in 1943 to find their friend deported to Auschwitz.
2023United States A Small Light Susanna Fogel, Tony Phelan, Leslie Hope TV mini-series about Miep Gies, a Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank's family from the Nazis. Nominated for multiple awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award.
2023United Kingdom One Life James Hawes It is based on the true story of British humanitarian Sir Nicholas Winton as he looks back on his past efforts to help groups of Jewish children in German-occupied Czechoslovakia to hide and flee in 1938–39, just before the beginning of World War II.
2023United Kingdom, Germany, Poland The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer A loose adaptation of Martin Amis' 2014 novel of the same name, detailing the domestic life of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his family. Won the Grand Prix at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and the 2024 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film on behalf of the United Kingdom.


Documentary films

1940s

YearCountryTitleDirectorNotes
1945United Kingdom German Concentration Camps Factual Survey production supervised by Sidney Bernstein Long shelved, completed in 2014; Alfred Hitchcock collaborated on production
1945United States Death Mills Billy Wilder English Version of Die Todesmühlen; excerpted from German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
1945PolandMajdanek - cmentarzysko Europy Aleksander Ford English title: Majdanek: Cemetery of Europe
1945United States Nazi Concentration Camps [12] George Stevens Presented as evidence at the Nuremberg trials.
1945United States The Nazi Plan George Stevens Presented as evidence at the Nuremberg trials
1945YugoslaviaJasenovac [13] Gustav Gavrin & Kosta Hlavaty
circa 1946United Kingdom Memory of the Camps [14] original documentary supervised by Sidney Bernstein Shorter version of German Concentration Camps Factual Survey; reconstructed by American PBS series Frontline in 1984
1946United States Seeds of Destiny Gene Fowler Jr. Shows devastation and solicits relief funds
1946FranceNous ContinuonsEnglish Title: We Live Again. Deals with child survivors. In Yiddish.
1947Soviet Union The Nuremberg Trials Yelizaveta Svilova Soviet view of the Nuremberg Trials

1950s

YearCountryTitleDirectorNotes
1956France Nuit et brouillard Alain Resnais English title: Night and Fog. Written by Jean Cayrol, an escapee of Mauthausen. Music by Hanns Eisler.

1960s

YearCountryTitleDirectorNotes
1960West Germany
Sweden
Mein Kampf Erwin Leiser Swedish title: Den Blodiga tiden
1963West Germany Chronik eines Mordes Joachim Hasler
1965West GermanyDer Vorletzte AktWalter KrüttnerEnglish title: Last Act But One: Brundibar
1965Canada Memorandum Donald Brittain and John Spotton French title: Pour mémoire
1965Soviet UnionObyknovennyy fashizm Mikhail Romm English title: Ordinary Fascism
1966United KingdomWarsaw Ghetto
1967DenmarkMordere iblandt os (TV)Henning KnudsenEnglish title: Murderers Among Us
1968United States The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Jack KaufmanBased on William L. Shirer book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
1968PolandArcheologiaAndrzej Brzozowski
1969France
Switzerland
West Germany
Le Chagrin et la pitié Marcel Ophüls English title: The Sorrow and the Pity. Vichy France government collaboration with Nazi Germany during the war.

1970s

YearCountryTitleDirectorNotes
1970NetherlandsDingen die niet voorbijgaanPhilo BregsteinEnglish title: The Past that Lives
1972West GermanyMendel Schainfelds zweite Reise nach DeutschlandHans-Dieter Grabe
1974Israel The 81st Blow David Bergman, Jacques Ehrlich and Haim Gouri English title: The 81st Blow
1974United Kingdom The World at War (TV) Michael Darlow Episode 20, "Genocide" (First broadcast 27 March 1974). The Final Solution (Parts One & Two).
1976United Kingdom
United States
France
West Germany
The Memory of Justice Marcel Ophüls 4.6 hours long. Won Los Angeles Film Critics Special Award.
1977West GermanyReinhard Heydrich - Manager des TerrorsHeinz Schirk

1980s

YearCountryTitleDirectorNotes
1980West Germany Der Gelbe Stern Dieter Hildebrandt English title: The Yellow Star
1981AustraliaThe Hunter and the HuntedJohn Oakley
1982United States Genocide Arnold Schwartzman Best Documentary Feature Oscar winner
1982Sweden The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz Peter Cohen and Bo Kuritzen
1982United States Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die Laurence JarvikDistributed by Kino International Corporation
1983United StatesTo Bear WitnessGavin P. Boyle
1983United KingdomSchindler: The Documentary (TV) Jon Blair Released in the US in 1994 as Schindler: The Real Story
1983United StatesThe Work Bernard Offen
1984United StatesA Generation ApartJack Fisher
1984United StatesKaddishSteve BrandBased on book by Dr. Randolph Braham
1985CanadaDark LullabiesIrene Lilienheim Angelico and Abbey Jack NeidikFeature documentary
1985Soviet UnionBabiy Yar: Lessons of History
1985West GermanyDie Befreiung von AuschwitzIrmgard von zur MühlenEnglish title: Liberation of Auschwitz 1945
1985West GermanyGoethe in D.Manfred Vosz
1985France Shoah Claude Lanzmann 9.5 hours long
1985United StatesSay I'm a Jew [15] Pier MartonJewish identity for Second Generation European Jews
1985United StatesThe Ties That Bind Su Friedrich
1986Australia Paradise Camp Frank HeimansConcerns the Theresienstadt concentration camp
1986United StatesPartisans of VilnaJoshua WaletzkyDocumentary produced by Aviva Kempner about the Jewish resistance in the Vilna Ghetto.
1986West GermanyDie Befreiung von AuschwitzBengt von zur Mühlen
1988IsraelB'Glal Hamilhamah HahiOrna Ben-Dor NivEnglish title: Because of That War
1988United States
France
Hôtel Terminus: Klaus Barbie, sa vie et son temps Marcel Ophüls English title: Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
1988West GermanyMit 22 Jahren wollte man noch nicht sterbenRainer Ritzel
1988France
Poland
Témoins Marcel Lozinski Polish title: Swiadkowie; English title: Witnesses: Anti-Semitism in Poland, 1946
1988United StatesVoices from the AtticDebbie Goodstein
1989IsraelHugoYair Lev
1989United StatesLodz GhettoAlan Adelson & Kate Taverna
1989Sweden The Architecture of Doom Peter Cohen English title: The Architecture of Doom
1989United States Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future Ray Errol Fox

1990s

YearCountryTitleDirectorNotes
1990United StatesC.A.N.D.L.E.S.: The Story of the Mengele Twins (TV)Gordon J. Murray
1991FrancePremier convoi (TV)Jacky Assoun and Suzette Bloch
1991United KingdomPurple TrianglesMartin SmithDescribes the accounts of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi camps. [16]
1991United KingdomChasing ShadowsNaomi GrynAbout the childhood experiences of Holocaust survivor Rabbi Hugo Gryn. [17]
1991CanadaA Day in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Birthday Trip in HellJack KuperBased on the diaries of Warsaw ghetto inmates
1991United StatesThey Risked Their Lives: Rescuers of the Holocaust Gay Block
1992United StatesSequel to Lódz GhettoAlan Adelson
1992PolandMiejsce urodzeniaPaweł ŁozińskiEnglish title: Birthplace
1992FranceLa Rafle du Vel-d'Hiv, La Marche du siècle William Karel
1992JapanThe Visas That Saved LivesAlan Adelson
1992SwedenÅterkomsterJoanna Helander and Bo Persson
1993CanadaChildren of the ShadowsMarc Cukier
1994Israel
Germany
Balagan Andres Veiel Based on the play Arbeit macht frei by Smadar Jaaron and David Maayan
1994United StatesDiamonds in the SnowMira Reym Binford
1994United StatesChoosing One's Way: Resistance in Auschwitz/BirkenauTed Kay and Allen Secher
1994United StatesThe Holocaust: In Memory of Millions (TV)Brian BlakeHosted by Walter Cronkite
1994AustriaDie Kunst des Erinnerns - Simon WiesenthalJohanna Heer and Werner SchmiedelEnglish title: The Art of Remembrance - Simon Wiesenthal
1994Spain
Argentina
La Memoria del agua Héctor Fáver English title: Memory of Water
1994UnknownThe Power of Conscience: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews Alexandra Isles
1994France
Switzerland
Tzedek Marek Halter
1994FinlandVankileirien paratiisiLisa Hovinheimo [18]
1995United States
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Anne Frank Remembered (TV) Jon Blair
1995IsraelBottles in the CellarShmuel Imberman
1995United StatesChildren Remember the Holocaust (TV) Mark Gordon Hosted by Keanu Reeves
1995United States One Survivor Remembers (TV) Kary Antholis
1995IsraelReshimot Vanda (TV)Vered Berman
1995BelgiumRhodes nostalgie (TV)Diane Perelsztejn
1996FranceDrancy Avenir Arnaud des Pallières Deportations from Paris [19]
1996United StatesMy Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the KindertransportsMelissa Hacker
1996United KingdomNuremberg Stephen Trombley
1996United StatesSurvivors of the HolocaustAllan Holzman
1996United Kingdom The Nazis: A Warning from History Laurence Rees and Tilman Remme
1996GermanyHitler's HenchmenGuido Knopp, Sebastian Dehnhardt, Jörg Müllner, Andreas Christoph SchmidtTV Mini-series, 2 seasons, 12 episodes
1997Denmark
United Kingdom
Germany
The Island on Bird Street Søren Kragh-Jacobsen Based on the book by Uri Orlev
1997United StatesBlood Money: Switzerland's Nazi GoldStephen Crisman
1997Switzerland Grüningers Fall Richard Dindo Based on the book by Stefan Keller
1997United StatesMy Hometown Concentration Camp Bernard Offen
1997United StatesIn the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi MedicineJohn MichalczykBased on the book by Stefan Keller
1997SwitzerlandJournal de Rivesaltes 1941–1942 Jacqueline Veuve
1997United States The Long Way Home Mark Jonathan Harris Narrated by Morgan Freeman
1997United StatesThe Lost Children of BerlinElizabeth McIntyreNarrated by Anthony Hopkins
1997United StatesOut Loud!Miriam Bjeirre
1997GermanyDas Prinzip DoraClaudette Coulanges & Rolf Coulanges
1997United StatesRaising the Ashes Michael O'Keefe
1997Israel
Czech Republic
Shahor Lavan Zeh TzivoniTamir Paul
1997United StatesThe Trial of Adolf EichmannDescribes the time period of Adolf Eichmann from his being brought to Israel till his execution. Also an insight is given into the mind of the mass murderer.
1997France
Germany
Un vivant qui passe Claude Lanzmann English title: A Visitor from the Living
1997GermanyUnterwegs als sicherer OrtDietrich SchubertEnglish title On the Move Is a Safe Place
1997ItalyMemoria Ruggero Gabbai Selected for the "Berlin International Film Festival". Collection of about ninety eyewitnesses' interviews, the voices of the Italian survivors of the Shoah.
1998Germany
Czech Republic
Diese Tage in TerezinSibylle SchönemannEnglish title: Those Days in Terezin
1998Germany
France
Poland
Fotoamator Dariusz Jablonski English title: Photographer; French title: Chronique couleur du ghetto de Łódź; German title: Der Fotograf
1998United States The Last Days James Moll Won Academy Award for Documentary Feature
1998United StatesA Letter Without WordsLisa Lewenz
1998BelgiumDer JudenmordMichel Alexandre
1998SwitzerlandNachrichten aus dem UntergrundAndreas HoessliEnglish title Underground Messengers
1998United StatesNever ForgetSherrie DrummondShort
1998United StatesA Sculpture of Love and Anguish: The Miami Beach Holocaust MemorialDavid Braman
1999United StatesBurning QuestionsMichael Porembski
1999United StatesThe Children of ChabannesLisa Gossels
1999SwitzerlandChildren of the NightJolanta Dylewska
1999United States Eyewitness Bert Van Bork
1999GermanyFlucht in den DschungelMichael Juncker
1999CanadaHidden HeroesKaren Pascal
1999Switzerland
Israel
Martin Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
1999GermanyMendel lebt – Wiederbegegnung mit Mendel SzajnfeldHans-Dieter Grabe
1999United States
United Kingdom
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Errol Morris
1999United StatesProcess B-7815 Bernard Offen
1999United StatesTak for Alt: Survival of a Human Spirit Laura Bialis & Broderick Fox & Sarah Levy
1999Israel
France
Germany
Belgium
Austria
Un spécialiste, portrait d'un criminel moderne Eyal Sivan Documentary film directed by Rony Brauman and Eyal Sivan, originally released in 1999 to theaters worldwide. Made entirely out of the restored original video recordings of Adolf Eichmann's trial at Jerusalem edited down to 120 minutes, the film focuses especially on the desk murderer's psychology. No narration or commentary is used, albeit the material is at times edited visually and acoustically to disturbing effect, to reflect the most disturbing nature of the events related in the words of the witnesses, the court, and the defendant, and scored with disturbing musique concrete or ambient music.

Official Selection of the 1999 Berlin International Film Festival, [20] [21] winner of the Grimme-Preis in 2001. [20] [21] Was criticized for tendentious editing making Eichmann appear in a more positive light and especially making prosecutor Gideon Hausner appear to display rude and unfair behavior in court, by Stewart Tryster, director of the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, in his 2005 documentary Editing the Truth Away: The Eichmann Trial and The Specialist. [22] [23]

Released on French VHS and DVD under its original title, on NTSC VHS as Adolf Eichmann: The Specialist, on Region 1 DVD as The Specialist: Portrait of a Modern Criminal, and on German VHS as Ein Spezialist. All of these home video editions are currently out-of-print.

1999United StatesWitness: Voices from the HolocaustJoshua M. Greene & Shiva Kumar
1999GermanyDrei deutsche Mörder. Aufzeichnungen über die Banalität des BösenEbbo Demant
1999Poland... gdzie jest mój starszy syn Kain Agnieszka Arnold Considers Jedwabne pogrom

2000s

YearCountryTitleDirectorNotes
2000United KingdomAuschwitz: The Final WitnessesSheldon Lazarus
2000SpainCerca del DanubioFelipe Vega
2000United States Fighter Amir Bar-Lev
2000United StatesTyphoons' Last Storm Lawrence Bond
2000IsraelHazehut Ha'Avuda Shel HanitaVered Berman
2000United KingdomThe Holocaust on Trial Leslie Woodhead
2000United Kingdom
United States
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport Mark Jonathan Harris
2000United States Paragraph 175 Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman Documentary about gays and the Holocaust
2000Israel Reshimat Ahava David Fisher
2000GermanyDas Himmler-Projekt Romuald Karmakar
2001United StatesExodus to BerlinJeff Kamen and Peter Laufer
2001United StatesHolocaust: New York Tolerance Center Scott Goldstein
2001GermanyEine Liebe in AuschwitzThilo Thielke & Jens Nicolai
2001PolandŚmierć ZygelbojmaDżamila Ankiewicz
2001PolandSąsiedzi Agnieszka Arnold Concerns Jedwabne pogrom
2001France Sobibor, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures Claude Lanzmann English title: Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m.
2001CanadaStruma Radu Gabrea
2001SlovakiaSvedokDušan Hudec
2002IllusionConcerns Kurt Gerron
2002United StatesLast Dance Mirra Bank
2002PolandPamiętam Marcel Lozinski English title: I Remember
2002United States
Canada
Germany
United Kingdom
Prisoner of Paradise Malcolm Clarke & Stuart Sender
2002United StatesSudbina mi nije dala da odemDominik Sedlar & Jakov Sedlar English title: Fate Did Not Let Me Go
2002CanadaUndying LoveHelene Klodawsky
2003United StatesBerga: Soldiers of Another War Charles Guggenheim
2003United States
Denmark
Den Danske løsningKaren Cantor & Camilla KjærulffEnglish title: The Danish Solution: The Rescue of the Jews in Denmark
2003AustraliaLong Shadows: Stories from a Jewish HomeKate Hampel
2003United States Luboml: My Heart Remembers Eileen Douglas & Ron Steinman
2003GermanyMariannes HeimkehrStefan Röttger & Gert Monheim
2003GermanyLand der Vernichtung Romuald Karmakar
2004United StatesA is for Auschwitz: A Weekend with My Grandparents
2004CanadaAgainst the OddsJedrzej Jonasz
2004United States Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust Daniel Anker
2004PolandHawaii and the Holocaust Bernard Offen
2004United StatesPaper ClipsElliot Berlin & Joe Fab About the Paper Clips Project
2004ItalyLa fuga degli innocenti Leone Pompucci
2004GermanyWege der Tübinger Juden. Eine SpurensucheUlrike Baumgärtner
2004United Kingdom Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' Also known as Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State Dominic Sutherland, Martina Balazova and Detlef Siebert Companion book: Auschwitz: A New History
2004Germany
Luxembourg
Czech Republic
The Ninth Day Volker Schlöndorff Based on a portion of Pfarrerblock 25487 ( ISBN   2-87963-286-2), the diary of Father Jean (1907–1994)
2005ChileHolocausto:Tercera Generación Daniel Segal & Daniel Halpern
2005GermanyMit dem Mut der Verzweifelten – Jüdischer Widerstand gegen HitlerRena Giefer & Thomas Giefer
2005Germany
Slovakia
2 oder 3 Dinge, die ich von ihm weiß Malte Ludin English title: 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him — Ludin's family's reaction to their father's role in sending Jews to Auschwitz
2005HungaryProcess (TV)Péter Muszatics
2005IsraelA Treasure in Auschwitz (TV)Yahaly Gat
2005GermanyWenn lang die Bilder schon verblassen... KZ Theresienstadt - Propagandafilm und WirklichkeitThilo Pohle
2005GermanyWinterkinder - Die schweigende GenerationJens Schanze
2005HungarySorstalanság (Fateless)Lajos Koltai
2006FranceAmants des hommesIsabelle Darmengeat [24] English title: Men lovers
2006France Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes Christian Delage
2006CanadaOnce a Nazi...Frederic Bohbot & Evan Beloff
2006Netherlands Black Book Paul Verhoeven
2006United StatesBorrowing TimeRobert Allan Black
2006United StatesJourney to JusticeSteve Palackdharry
2006United States Knocking Joel Engardio and Tom Shepard
2006ItalyLa Strada di Levi Davide Ferrario
2006Germany Der letzte Zug Joseph Vilsmaier, Dana Vávrová
2006Austria
Germany
The Counterfeiters Stefan Ruzowitzky
2006United KingdomKzRex BloomsteinDocuments the attitudes and experiences of tourists and students visiting Mauthausen concentration camp, their guides, and the townspeople of Mauthausen.
2007-2010Czech RepublicForgotten transportsLukáš PřibylForgotten Transports to Estonia (2007), 85 min.

Forgotten Transports to Latvia (2007), 85 min.

Forgotten Transports to Belarus (2008), 85 min.

Forgotten Transports to Poland (2010), 85 min.

2008IsraelClassmates of Anne Frank Eyal Boers
2008United StatesScrapbooks from Hell: The Auschwitz AlbumsErik Nelson
2008PolandAnioł Śmierci (The Angel of Death)Marta MironowiczDocumentary on Josef Mengele's experiments.
2008GermanyGerdas SchweigenBritta Wauer
2009Israel Defamation Yoav Shamir
2009FranceEinsatzgruppen, les commandos de la mort (Nazi Death Squads)Michaël Prazan4x55 min.
2009United KingdomThe Secret Diary of the Holocaust [25] Alexander Marengo Rutka Laskier's diary
2009FranceDas Reich, Hitler's death squadsMichaël Prazan
2009GermanyDer weiße Rabe – Max MannheimerCarolin Otto

2010s

YearCountryTitleDirectorNotes
2010CanadaSong of the Lodz GhettoDavid Kaufman
2010Israel
Germany
A Film Unfinished Yael Hersonski
2010Canada

Brazil

Nazi HuntersTim WolochatiukTV Mini-series, 13 episodes
2010FranceLe Rapport KarskiClaude LanzmannAn extended interview with Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski, consisting largely of footage gathered for but not included in Claude Lanzmann's epic 9-hour documentary Shoah.
2011Germany Auschwitz Uwe Boll
2011Israel
Germany
The Flat Arnon Goldfinger
2011Turkey Turkish Passport Burak ArlıelA documentary about the Jews who were rescued by Turkish diplomats through having been given Turkish diplomatic passports.
2011Israel
Germany
Hitler's Children Chanoch Zeevi
2011United States
Poland
Bulgaria
Israel
Germany
Empty BoxcarsEd GaffneyTells the story of the survival of over 50,000 Jews in World War II and the mass murder of 11,393 Jews from territories under Bulgarian control in Greece and Macedonia. Footage of the trains renders the crime visible. [26]
2012AustriaDann bin ich ja ein MörderWalter ManoschekThe subject of the film is Adolf Storms and the Deutsch Schützen massacre
2012United StatesBearing Witness: The Voices of Our SurvivorsHeather Elliott-Famularo http://www.bearingwitnesstoledo.com
2012United States Misa's Fugue Sean Gastonwww.misasfugue.com
2012Germany204 AR-Z 269/60Y Die ProtokolleWolfgang Jost & Winfried Wallat
2012United States 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.
2012United StatesREFUGE: Stories of the Selfhelp HomeEthan BensingerDocumentary about the last generation of Holocaust Survivors and Refugees at Chicago's Selfhelp Home
2012United StatesThe ResortGalina Kalashnikovawww.codeoflifeproductions.com
2012Netherlands
Belgium
United States
Transport XX to Auschwitz Karen Lynne & Richard Bloom
2012United States Hiding Halina Jeff MacIntyre9 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.
2013Austria
Germany
Das Radikal Böse Stefan Ruzowitzky
2013United KingdomThe Unseen HolocaustMike Ibeji
2013Canada
United States
United Kingdom
The Lady in Number 6 Malcolm Clarke
2013Italy The Longest Journey Ruggero Gabbai A documentary about the last days of the Jews of Rhodes.
2013FranceLast of the Unjust Claude Lanzmann https://web.archive.org/web/20121028182739/http://www.le-pacte.com/international/upcoming-films/single/the-last-of-the-unjust/
2014Poland Warsaw Uprising Jan KomasaDocumentary film using archived and colorized footage of Warsaw uprising. Polish title: Powstanie Warszawskie
2014FranceIzieu, Children in the ShoahRomain Icard
2014FranceJusqu'au dernier, La destruction des Juifs d'EuropeWilliam Karel, Blanche Finger8 episodes x 52 minutes

English title: Annihilation - The Destruction of Europe's Jews

2014GermanyForbidden FilmsFelix MoellerBetween 1933 and 1945, 1200 feature films were made in Germany. After the war the Allies banned over 300 films as propaganda. There are still restrictions on over 40 of these films today.
2014United States Berlin Calling Nigel Dick 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.
2014Israel
Germany
Farewell Herr Schwarz Yael ReuvenyAn 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.
2014United Kingdom Night Will Fall Andre Singer
2014Germany
Austria
Israel
The Decent One Vanessa Lapa
2014FranceShoah, les Oubliés de l’HistoireVéronique Lagoarde-Ségot
2014Israel
Czech Republic
Slovakia
United States
GisiNatasha DudinskiThe story of Gisi Fleischmann, a woman who believed she could stop the Holocaust if only she managed to raise enough money.
2015United KingdomWhat Our Fathers Did: A Nazi LegacyDavid Evans
2016Germany Austerlitz Sergei Loznitsa Documentary showing how tourists act while visiting the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps.
2017IsraelGhetto Uprising - The Untold StoryYuval Haimovich-ZuserA film revolving around the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
2017FranceJosef Mengele: Hunting A Nazi CriminalEmmanuel Amara
2017IsraelDear FredyRubi GatDocumentary about Fredy Hirsch, a German Jew and openly gay man in Nazi Germany. The film combines interviews, archival materials, and animation.
2017United States The Zookeeper's Wife
2018United States The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm Amy Schatz The film features a conversation between a ten year old and his Grandfather, a Holocaust survivor.
2018United StatesWho Will Write Our History Roberta Grossman
2018GermanyDer Letzte JollyboyHans-Erich Viet
2018United States Operation Finale Chris Weitz Dramatization of Mossad's clandestine operation to kidnap Adolf Eichmann from Argentina for his trial in Jerusalem.
2018Canada The Accountant of Auschwitz Matthew ShoychetThe trial of Oskar Gröning, who worked as accountant in Auschwitz, responsible for the murder of over 300,000 Jews. [27]
2018South AfricaThe Secret SurvivorJohnathan AndrewsAfter nearly 70 years of silence, Veronica Phillips, a survivor of Ravensbrück, decides to tell her story for future generations to learn from her tragic experiences during and after the Holocaust. [28]
2019HungaryA PásztorLászló IllésEnglish title: The Shepherd. The main character is an old shepherd, who lives alone on a ranch. After his daughter was killed by Nazis, he decided in his grief to save as many Jewish lives as possible.
2019Israel

Germany

Made in Auschwitz: The Untold Story of Block 10Sylvia Nagel, Sonya WinterbergThe story of the over 400 young women who underwent medical experimentation in Auschwitz under Carl Clauberg, an enterprising, sadistic gynaecologist.
2019GermanyFree State MidpointKai Ehlers & Domenico DistiloThe film reports from a chapter of the Nazi regime - eugenics - that has not been covered extensively from a subjective perspective, due to a lack of eloquent witnesses and a forum for their few voices.
2019United States No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank's Story Paula FouceThe discovery of the lost letters of Anne Frank's father, Otto, reveal an unknown chapter of their family's life.

2020s

YearCountryTitleDirectorsNotes
2020GermanyGetrennt durch Stacheldraht – Jugendjahre im KZ GusenJulia & Robert Grantner
2020United Kingdom Final Account Luke Holland
2020FranceRavensbrück, le camp oubliéAurélie Chaigneau
2020JapanInferno: Letters from AuschwitzDocumentary about notes which were written by Jews who were part of a special unit called the Sonderkommando
2020United Kingdom Route to Paradise Thomas Gardner
2021NetherlandsGreetings from the death campManfred Van Eijk
2021IsraelBad Nazi. Good Nazi Chanoch Ze'evi  [ he ]
2022GermanyThe Wannsee Conference: The DocumentaryJörg Müllner
2022United States The U.S. and the Holocaust Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein
2022United States, Germany”Ordinary Men: The Forgotten Holocaust”Manfred Oldenburg, Oliver HalmburgerNetflix documentary that examines how and why thousands of ordinary Germans carried out mass atrocities as members of Nazi police squads during the Holocaust.

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