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Revision as of 04:44, 12 October 2008
The is an index of all the films that deal with the Holocaust period in Europe approximately 1938-1945.
Narrative films
1940s
| Year | Country | Title | Directors | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 |  USA
|
To Be Or Not To Be | Ernst Lubitsch | Starring Carole Lombard and Jack Benny |
| 1944 | United States
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The Seventh Cross | Fred Zinnemann | Starring: Spencer Tracy, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy |
| 1946 | United States
|
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. |
| 1948 |  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 | United States
|
The Search | Fred Zinnemann | Starring Montgomery Clift |
| 1949 | United States/ 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
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 |  Czechoslovakia
|
Daleká cesta | Alfred Radok | English title: Distant Journey |
| 1953 | United States
|
The Juggler | Edward Dmytryk | Starring Kirk Douglas |
| 1956 | United States
|
Singing in the Dark | Max Nosseck | Musical about Holocaust survivor with amnesia |
| 1959 |  East Germany/ Bulgaria
|
Sterne | Konrad Wolf | English title: Stars |
| 1959 | United States
|
The Diary of Anne Frank | George Stevens | winner of 3 Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress |
| 1959 |  Italy/ Yugoslavia/ France
|
Kapò | Gillo Pontecorvo |
1960s
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Czechoslovakia
|
Romeo, Julia a tma | Jirí Weiss | English title:Romeo, Juliet and Darkness ; Concerns Operation Anthropoid |
| 1960 | United States
|
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 | United States
|
Judgment at Nuremberg | Stanley Kramer | |
| 1964 | United States
|
The Pawnbroker | Sidney Lumet | The life of a Holocaust survivor in a contemporary New York ghetto |
| 1964 | Czechoslovakia
|
Demanty noci | Jan Nemec after the novel by Arnost 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 | United States
|
The Diary of Anne Frank (TV) | Alex Segal |
1970s
| 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 | United States/ Denmark/ United Kingdom/ Panama
|
The Only Way | Bent Christensen | Danish title:Oktober-Dage |
| 1972 | United States
|
Cabaret | Bob Fosse | A musical based on the stage musical of the same name, which was in turn based on the play and film, I Am A Camera. Starring Liza Minnelli. Won 8 Oscars. |
| 1972 | United States
|
The Day the Clown Cried | Jerry Lewis | Never been shown to the general public; in the plot Lewis played a Nazi clown that would lead children into gas chambers |
| 1973 |  Soviet Union
|
Seventeen Moments of Spring | Tatiana Lioznova | The dealings of Russian spy Stirlitz within the Gestapo headquarters, amongst the likes of Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Heinrich Mueller, Walter Schellenberg, Heinrich Himmler, and Karl Wolff. |
| 1974 | United States
|
Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS | Don Edmonds | A Nazi exploitation adult film starring Dyanne Thorne, very loosely based on Ilse Koch |
| 1974 | United Kingdom
|
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 | United Kingdom/ West Germany
|
The Odessa File | Ronald Neame | based on Frederick Forsyth novel of same name |
| 1975 | Yugoslavia
|
Crvena zemlja | Branimir Tori Jankovic | Concerns the massacre of Serbs at Kraljevo |
| 1975 | United States
|
The Hiding Place | James F. Collier | Based on the autobiography of Corrie ten Boom |
| 1975 | United States
|
The Man in the Glass Booth | Arthur Hiller | Israeli agents capture and try Adolph Eichmann |
| 1976 | United States
|
Marathon Man | John Schlesinger | A thriller dealing with an ex-Nazi dentist and war criminal. Starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier. |
| 1976 | Italy
|
SS Experiment Camp | Sergio Garrone | Exploitation film set in a concentration camp. |
| 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 | United States
|
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 |
1980s
1990s
2000s
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Germany
|
David Proshker | Larry Eisenberg | ||
| 2000 | Czech Republic
|
Musíme si pomáhat | Jan Hrebejk | 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 zivota | Milan Cieslar | English title:The Spring Of Life; based on the book by Vladimír Körner | |
| 2000 | United States
|
Shadows (short film)(short) | Mitchell S. Levine | ||
| 2001 | United States
|
Anne Frank: The Whole Story (TV) | Robert Dornhelm | Based on the book by Melissa Müller | |
| 2001 | United States / United Kingdom
|
Conspiracy (TV) | Frank Pierson | A dramatic recreation of the Wannsee Conference | |
| 2001 | United States
|
The Grey Zone | Tim Blake Nelson | based on the book; Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account written by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli | |
| 2001 | United States/ 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 | United States
|
Uprising (TV) | Jon Avnet | ||
| 2002 | France / Germany
|
Amen. | Costa-Gavras | ||
| 2002 | Italy
|
Perlasca, un eroe italiano | Alberto Negrin | based on the book by Enrico Deaglio | |
| 2002 | France / Germany / United Kingdom / Poland
|
The Pianist | Roman Polanski | based on the book by Wladyslaw Szpilman | |
| 2003 | Germany/  Austria
|
Annas Heimkehr(TV) | Xaver Schwarzenberger | ||
| 2003 |  Hungary
|
A Rózsa énekei | Andor Szilágyi | ||
| 2003 | Italy
|
La Finestra di Fronte | Ferzan Özpetek | English title: Facing Windows | |
| 2003 | United States
|
The Singing Forest | Jorge Ameer | ||
| 2003 | United States
|
Out of the Ashes | Joseph Sargent | Based on the book I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz by Gisella Perl | |
| 2005 | Poland/  Sweden
|
Ninas resa | Lena Einhorn | ||
| 2005 | United States
|
Everything is Illuminated | Liev Schreiber | based on the book by Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 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 | |
| 2005 | Germany
|
Nicht alle waren Moerder | Jo Baier | based on the Autobiografie „Nicht alle waren Mörder” 2002 by Michael Degen English title: Not All Were Murderers | |
| 2007 | Germany/ Austria
|
The Conterfeiters | Stefan Ruzowitzky | ||
| 2007 | Poland
|
Katyn | Andrzej Wajda | Based on the true story of the massacre of 20,000 Polish officers, and the subsequent Soviet cover-up. | |
| 2008 | United Kingdom
|
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 |
Documentary films
1940s
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | United States
|
Death Mills | Billy Wilder | English Version of Die Todesmühlen |
| 1945 | Poland
|
Majdanek - cmentarzysko Europy | Aleksander Ford | English title: Majdanek: Cemetery of Europe |
| 1945 | United States
|
Nazi Concentration Camps [1] | George Stevens | Presented as evidence at Nuremberg. |
| 1945 | United States
|
The Nazi Plan | George Stevens | Presented as evidence at Nuremberg |
| 1945 | Yugoslavia
|
Jasenovac [2] | Gustav Gavrin&Kosta Hlavaty | |
| circa 1946 | United Kingdom
|
Memory of the Camps [3] | Alfred Hitchcock | Unfinished; later reconstructed by American PBS |
| 1946 | United States
|
Seeds of Destiny | Gene Fowler Jr. | Shows devastation and solicits relief funds |
| 1947 | Soviet Union
|
The Nuremberg Trials | C Svilov | Soviet view of the Nuremberg Trials |
1950s
| 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
| 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 | Soviet Union
|
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 | United States
|
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 |  Israel
|
Ha- Makah Hashmonim V'Echad | David Bergman, Jacques Ehrlich and Haim Gouri | English title:The 81st Blow |
| 1976 | United Kingdom / United States / France / West Germany
|
The Memory of Justice | Marcel Ophüls | 4.6 hours long Won Los Angeles Film Critics Special Award |
