1. Auschwitz Projekt (Auschwitz Projekt)
(Auschwitz Projekt)
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
2. The Many Lives of Jorge Semprún (Las mil vidas de Jorge Semprún)
The incredible life of Jorge Semprún : son of a republican intellectual; exiled in the early days of the Spanish Civil War; survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II; clandestine communist in Spain during Franco's dictatorship; controversial socialist politician; acclaimed writer, screenwriter and filmmaker.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
3. Facing the Phantoms
French film and WWII historian Sylvie Lindeperg analyzes Alain Resnais's seminal 1956 film, "Night and Fog", and attempts to place it in the context of the historical treatment of WWII, and specifically of the Holocaust, in the decade following those harrowing events. Oddly, she argues that the images of Resnais's famous film are "powerless", in her words.
4. Cartas (Cartas)
(Cartas)
5. House of Life: A Jewish Cemetary in Prague
A deep dive documentary into the history of the Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
6. Death Mills
Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder. The film includes accounts of the economic aspects of the camps' operation, the interrogation of captured camp personnel, and the enforced visits of the inhabitants of neighboring towns, who, along with the rest of their compatriots, are blamed for complicity in the Nazi crimes - one of the few such condemnations in the Allied war records.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
7. Forgotten Transports to Latvia (Zapomenuté transporty do Lotyšska)
In January of 1942, two first transports with hundreds of Czech Jews leave Theresienstadt for the east. After a journey lasting several days, the trains reach the Latvian capital of Riga.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
8. Forgotten Transports to Belarus (Zapomenuté transporty do Běloruska)
Belarus between 1941 and 1944 was an apocalyptic place with nights lit by flames from hundreds of torched villages and with soil soaked in the blood of countless victims.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
9. A Hand of Peace: Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
(A Hand of Peace: Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust)
10. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him (2 oder 3 Dinge, die ich von ihm weiß)
What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of whom became a filmmaker. It's a fascinating, maddening, sometimes even humorous look at what the director calls "a typical German story."
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
11. My Good Fortune in Auschwitz
A film about friendship in difficult times, Auschwitz.
12. Westerborkfilm (Westerborkfilm)
(Westerborkfilm)
13. Destination Unknown
They endured the death camps. They hid in remote farms. They fought as partisans in Polish forests. But when the war ended, the struggles of the Holocaust survivors were only just beginning. Destination Unknown paints a uniquely intimate portrait of survival, revealing pain that has never faded but hasn't crushed the human spirit.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
14. Exodus 1947
Exodus 1947 is a one hour PBS documentary narrated by Morley Safer with a score by Ilan Rechtman. The Exodus 1947 voyage acted as a catalyst in forming the new State of Israel. The documentary focuses on clandestine and "illegal" American efforts to finance and crew the most infamous of ten American ships that attempted to bring Jewish refugees to Palestine.
15. Elmondták-e...? (Elmondták-e...?)
(Elmondták-e...?)
16. Monsieur Mayonnaise
Artist and filmmaker Philippe Mora is producing a graphic novel about his late father, Georges, widely known in Melbourne as a beloved contemporary art patron and owner of bohemian eateries Mirka Café, Café Balzac and the Tolarno Restaurant and Galleries. Less known, however, is Georges' astonishing history as part of the French resistance during World War II, his friendship with renowned mime Marcel Marceau , and how together they saved thousands of Jewish lives with a fiendishly simple trick involving baguettes and mayonnaise.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
17. Austerlitz
The new film from Sergei Loznitsa is a stark yet rich and complex portrait of tourists visiting the grounds of former Nazi extermination camps, and a sometimes sardonic study of the relationship between contemporary culture and the sanctity of the site.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
18. David – Stories of Honour and Shame (Daavid - tarinoita kunniasta ja häpeästä)
Documentary about Finnish Jews during WWII and their unique position as German allies.
19. Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze (Umsonst Gelebt: Walter Schwarze)
“This film is part of a series of films on gay men who survived the Nazi era. I met Walter Schwarze when he was already in his eighties. My camera recorded his first public account of his five-year incarceration as a homosexual at Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He was in his fifties when he met Ali in his hometown of Leipzig; the two men became partners and remained close until his demise. And yet, Walter told me, he felt he had lived in vain because he had not had the good fortune of today's gays, who are able to grow up in freedom. Walter Schwarze died of cancer on May 10, 1998.” Rosa von Praunheim
20. Forgiving Dr. Mengele
Eva Mozes Kor, who survived Josef Mengele's cruel twin experiments in the Auschwitz concentration camp, shocks other Holocaust survivors when she decides to forgive the perpetrators as a way of self-healing.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
