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1. Schindler's List (1993)
R | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall
Votes: 1,450,926 | Gross: $96.90M
2. The Pianist (2002)
R | 150 min | Biography, Drama, Music
During WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox
Votes: 912,380 | Gross: $32.57M
3. Defiance (I) (2008)
R | 137 min | Action, Drama, History
Jewish brothers in German-occupied Eastern Europe escape into a Belorussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-combatants.
Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos
Votes: 155,689 | Gross: $28.64M
4. Woman in Gold (2015)
PG-13 | 109 min | Biography, Drama, History
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.
Director: Simon Curtis | Stars: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes
Votes: 63,223 | Gross: $33.31M
5. Wil (2023)
110 min | Drama, History, War
Wilfried Wils must survive as an auxiliary policeman during the German occupation of Antwerp.
Director: Tim Mielants | Stars: Stef Aerts, Matteo Simoni, Annelore Crollet, Kevin Janssens
Votes: 4,919
6. Escape from Sobibor (1987 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 143 min | Drama, History, War
German death camp in Sobibor, Poland, killed two hundred fifty thousand Jews. It had the most successful prisoner escape in World War II on October 14, 1943.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula, Rutger Hauer, Hartmut Becker
Votes: 9,826
7. Denial (II) (2016)
PG-13 | 109 min | Biography, Drama
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott
Votes: 23,522 | Gross: $4.07M
8. Son of Saul (2015)
R | 107 min | Drama, War
A Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.
Director: László Nemes | Stars: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont
Votes: 51,961 | Gross: $1.78M
9. Shoah (1985)
Not Rated | 566 min | Documentary, History, War
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
Director: Claude Lanzmann | Stars: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaïdl, Hanna Zaïdl
Votes: 10,554 | Gross: $0.02M
10. The Names of Love (2010)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young, extroverted left-wing activist who sleeps with her political opponents to convert them to her cause is successful until she meets her match.
Director: Michel Leclerc | Stars: Sara Forestier, Jacques Gamblin, Zinedine Soualem, Carole Franck
Votes: 8,227 | Gross: $0.51M
11. Remember (I) (2015)
R | 94 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person he believes to be responsible for the death of his family in the death camp to kill him himself.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Kim Roberts, Amanda Smith, Martin Landau
Votes: 27,848 | Gross: $0.64M
12. The Grey Zone (2001)
R | 108 min | Drama, History, War
A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral gray zone.
Director: Tim Blake Nelson | Stars: David Arquette, Velizar Binev, David Chandler, Michael Stuhlbarg
Votes: 11,424 | Gross: $0.52M
13. Phoenix (II) (2014)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, History, Music
After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out her gentile husband, who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Trystan Pütter
Votes: 20,667
14. Sobibor (2018)
TV-MA | 118 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky organizes a revolt and mass escape of prisoners from Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943.
Director: Konstantin Khabenskiy | Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Christopher Lambert, Felice Jankell, Dainius Kazlauskas
Votes: 5,766
15. Uprising (2001 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 177 min | Drama, War
Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
Director: Jon Avnet | Stars: Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer, Jon Voight
Votes: 5,120
16. Seven Beauties (1975)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, War
The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore
Votes: 6,487 | Gross: $0.01M
17. The Last Days (1998)
PG-13 | 87 min | Documentary, War
In late 1944, even as they faced imminent defeat, the Nazis expended enormous resources to kill or deport over 425,000 Jews during the "cleansing" of Hungary. This Oscar-winning documentary... See full summary »
Director: James Moll | Stars: Bill Basch, Martin Basch, Randolph Braham, Alice Lok Cahana
Votes: 5,761 | Gross: $0.42M
18. The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
TV-14 | 398 min | Documentary, History
Explores America's response to the Holocaust, and how it challenged the ideals of democracy.
Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Peter Hayes, Deborah Lipstadt
Votes: 1,580
19. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
R | 94 min | Drama, History, War
The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi
Votes: 7,674 | Gross: $0.60M
20. Ganz normale Männer - Der 'vergessene Holocaust' (2022 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary, History, War
The Nuremberg Einsatzgruppen trial of 1947/1948 is considered the largest murder trial in history against members of four death squads from the security police and SD (the security service ... See full summary »
Directors: Manfred Oldenburg, Oliver Halmburger | Stars: Brian Cox, Benjamin Ferencz, Christopher Browning, Harald Welzer
Votes: 1,666
21. Auschwitz (2011)
Not Rated | 73 min | Drama, History, War
Controversial director Uwe Boll depicts the harsh reality of the process inside one of the most infamous Nazi death camps by using brutally realistic imagery. Book-ended by documentary ... See full summary »
Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Steffen Mennekes, Arved Birnbaum, Maximilian Gärtner, Friedhelm Gärtner
Votes: 1,693
22. Simone: Woman of the Century (2022)
140 min | Biography, Drama, History
Explores the life of Simone Veil -- the famous French figure who survived the Holocaust and went on to become a leading politician, human rights campaigner, and feminist -- through a series of non-chronological memories
Director: Olivier Dahan | Stars: Elsa Zylberstein, Rebecca Marder, Élodie Bouchez, Judith Chemla
Votes: 1,439
23. Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
48 min | Documentary, History, War
The history of the Final Solution phase of the Nazi Holocaust, particularly with the most infamous of the death camps.
Stars: Samuel West, Linda Hunt, Gert Heidenreich, Horst Günter Marx
Votes: 4,653
24. The Invisibles (2017)
110 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
While Joseph Goebbels infamously declared Berlin "free of Jews" in 1943, 1,700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital through the end of WWII. The Invisibles traces the stories of four young people who learned to hide in plain sight.
Director: Claus Räfle | Stars: Max Mauff, Alice Dwyer, Ruby O. Fee, Aaron Altaras
Votes: 1,726 | Gross: $0.41M
25. The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
PG | 117 min | Drama
Mossad agents kidnap an American Jewish man, accuse him of being a fugitive Nazi war criminal and take him to Jerusalem to face trial for genocide.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Lawrence Pressman, Luther Adler
Votes: 1,482
26. A Journey (2019)
75 min | Biography, Drama, History
A holocaust survivor's journey, combined with the younger generations' one. Two parallel stories with a common destination. Auschwitz.
Director: Giacomo Gabrielli | Stars: Aurora Volcan, Arek Hersh, Fabian Mosele, Serena Bevilacqua
Votes: 12
27. The People Vs. Fritz Bauer (2015)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
The story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice.
Director: Lars Kraume | Stars: Burghart Klaußner, Ronald Zehrfeld, Lilith Stangenberg, Jörg Schüttauf
Votes: 6,119 | Gross: $0.28M
28. Berlin 1945 (2020)
52 min | Documentary, History, War
Life in Berlin in 1945 before, during and after the battle of Berlin seen through the eyes of those who were there at the time from common Berliners to Allied troops.
Stars: Simon Brauer, Konstantin Achmed Bürger, Yvette Coetzee, Lucie David
Votes: 319
29. Once in a Lifetime (2014)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
A teacher manages to get her toughest class involved in a collective project that could give a whole new meaning to the lives of her students.
Director: Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar | Stars: Ariane Ascaride, Ahmed Dramé, Noémie Merlant, Geneviève Mnich
Votes: 2,154
30. Passenger (1963)
62 min | Drama, War
While aboard a transatlantic passenger ship, a German woman, Liza, notices someone who looks like Marta, a former inmate at Auschwitz, where Liza used to be a guard.
Directors: Andrzej Munk, Witold Lesiewicz | Stars: Aleksandra Slaska, Anna Ciepielewska, Jan Kreczmar, Marek Walczewski
Votes: 2,131
31. Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (2013)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Animation, Biography
A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation.
Director: Michel Gondry | Stars: Noam Chomsky, Michel Gondry, Richard Feynman, Michèle Oshima
Votes: 3,678 | Gross: $0.13M
32. The Last of the Unjust (2013)
PG-13 | 220 min | Documentary, History
A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the "model ghetto", designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Lanzmann | Stars: Benjamin Murmelstein, Claude Lanzmann
Votes: 801 | Gross: $0.04M
33. Hôtel Terminus (1988)
Unrated | 267 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary about Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief of Lyon, and his life after the war.
Director: Marcel Ophüls | Stars: Klaus Barbie, Claude Lanzmann, Marcel Ophüls, Johannes Schneider-Merck
Votes: 1,589 | Gross: $0.34M
34. The Last Laugh (I) (2016)
88 min | Documentary, Comedy
World-famous comedians including Mel Brooks, Sarah Silverman, and Gilbert Gottfried pitch in with their own views on the boundaries of comedy.
Director: Ferne Pearlstein | Stars: Renee Firestone, Klara Firestone, Gilbert Gottfried, Rob Reiner
Votes: 897
35. The Relief of Belsen (2007 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama
With the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, safety did not come to its 60,000 prisoners right away. Starring Iain Glen, this award-winning movie recalls the actual events ... See full summary »
Director: Justin Hardy | Stars: Iain Glen, Nigel Lindsay, Jemma Redgrave, Corin Redgrave
Votes: 313
36. Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, History, War
A gripping account of the prisoners uprising at the Nazi extermination camp of Sobibor in 1943.
Director: Claude Lanzmann | Stars: Yehuda Lerner, Francine Kaufmann, Claude Lanzmann
Votes: 598 | Gross: $0.03M
37. The Wannsee Conference (1992 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 50 min | Documentary
This documentary examines the events leading up to the 1942 Wannsee conference which organized the "final solution" to destroy European Jews.
Director: Willy Lindwer | Stars: Gabriel Bach, Yehuda Bauer, Adolf Eichmann, Joseph Goebbels
Votes: 68
38. We (2021)
115 min | Documentary
Encounters on a rail line crossing north to south thru Paris and its outskirts: A cleaning lady, a scrap merchant, a writer, a nurse, a follower of hunts and the filmmaker herself.
Director: Alice Diop | Stars: Marcel Balnoas, Ethan Balnoas, Florence Roche, Ismael Soumaïla Sissoko
Votes: 357
39. God Is Great and I'm Not (2001)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
Michèle, 20 years old, feels terrible after having broken up with her boyfriend. She meets Francois, who's a veterinarian and Jewish. Michèle decides to convert to Judaism because she has to believe in something, if not in someone.
Director: Pascale Bailly | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Edouard Baer, Julie Depardieu, Catherine Jacob
Votes: 2,513 | Gross: $0.07M
40. Mauthausen (2023)
91 min | Documentary, History, Musical
A poetic documentary and unique musical about concentration and extermination camp Mauthausen. Swan song of world-renowned composer Mikis Theodorakis (Zorba, Z). Resurrecting the memories of camp survivor and academic Iakovos Kambanellis.
Directors: Panagiotis Kountouras, Aristarchos Papadaniel | Stars: Aristarchos Papadaniel, Aris Zervas, Tasos Pappas-Petridis, Thisvi Vourliotaki
Votes: 5
41. Babij Jar (2003)
112 min | Drama
Babi Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by German forces and local Ukrainian collaborators during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II.
Director: Jeff Kanew | Stars: Michael Degen, Barbara De Rossi, Katrin Sass, Axel Milberg
Votes: 187
42. Theresienstadt (1945)
28 min | Documentary, Short, History
Nazi propaganda film depicting the notorious Theresienstadt concentration camp as a sort of idyllic rest stop, in an attempt to convince world opinion that there was no such thing as Nazi death camps.
Directors: Kurt Gerron, Karel Pecený | Stars: Paul Eppstein, Karel Fischer, Kurt Gerron, Frau Görtz
Votes: 163
43. How the Holocaust Began (2023)
59 min | Documentary, History, War
The Nazi evolution from murderous anti-semitism into organised death camps, as documented in this sober piece of historical excavation from Holocaust specialist James Bulgin, is truly ... See full summary »
Directors: Nic Young, Ben Holgate | Star: James Bulgin
Votes: 115
44. The Last Days of the Big Lie (2009 Video)
125 min | Documentary, History
A controversial documentary that debunks many of the facts presented in the Oscar winning Holocaust themed documentary The Last Days, produced by Steven Spielberg. Throughout the film, its ... See full summary »
Director: Eric Hunt | Stars: Nayirah al-Sabah, Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah, Leon Bass, Michael Berenbaum
Votes: 99
45. La question humaine (2007)
Not Rated | 143 min | Drama, History, Music
A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.
Director: Nicolas Klotz | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Michael Lonsdale, Edith Scob, Lou Castel
Votes: 1,238 | Gross: $0.01M
46. Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Documentary, History, War
It showcases the twisted motivations and origins of the SS (the Schutzstaffel), which was Nazi Germany's paramilitary unit that was a key architect of the Holocaust.
Stars: Richard John Evans, Bastian Hein, James Newton, Alexandra Richie
Votes: 17
47. Lost in Berlin (2020)
Not Rated | 103 min | Documentary
"A son races against time to understand his family's complicated past before his mother's fading memory threatens to close the door forever."
Director: Rodney S. Martel | Stars: Gerda Martel, Natali Hodge Martel, Rodney S. Martel
Votes: 36
48. The Peretzniks (2009)
Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary, History
Interviews with students of the post-war Jewish I.L. Perec school in Lodz, Poland, who were mostly scattered around the world after anti-Semitic purges in 1968.
Director: Slawomir Grunberg
Votes: 15
49. Sonderkommando (2014)
19 min | Short, Drama
A train, a trip, a destination. Two strangers start to look each other while travelling in a couch of a train. Cold, pain, farewell. Arrived at the destination one of them is chosen to be a... See full summary »
Director: Nicola Ragone | Stars: Pietro De Silva, Maximilian Dirr, Federica Flavoni, Tommaso Lazotti
Votes: 19
50. Survivors of the Holocaust (1996 TV Movie)
70 min | Documentary, History, War
This documentary blends personal accounts of what happened before, during and after WWII. One testimony tells of a sister sending tear-stained letters from the prison camp, while another ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Holzman | Stars: Steven Spielberg, Henry Rosmarin, Hellmuth Szprycer
Votes: 218