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- DirectorArnold SchwartzmanStarsElizabeth TaylorOrson WellesSimon WiesenthalOrson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor compassionately narrate this harrowing documentary about Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany, which soon turned into a notoriously industrious plan to wipe them from existence.
- DirectorClaude LanzmannStarsSimon SrebnikMichael PodchlebnikMotke ZaïdlClaude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
- DirectorJoshua WaletzkyStarsAbba KovnerAlexander BogenRoberta WallachThis film tells the story of the men and women who formed the Jewish partisan movement in Vilna, Lithuania, during World War II.
- DirectorJames MollStarsBill BaschMartin BaschRandolph BrahamIn 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, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, focuses on the plight of five Hungarian Jews who survived imprisonment in Auschwitz.
- DirectorMark Jonathan HarrisStarsJudi DenchLory CahnKurt FuchelThe secret smuggling of 9,300 Jewish children out of Nazi Germany in the late 1930s.
- DirectorClaude LanzmannStarsYehuda LernerFrancine KaufmannClaude LanzmannA gripping account of the prisoners uprising at the Nazi extermination camp of Sobibor in 1943.
- StarsJack FuchsLiza Zajak-NoveraRobert LambergAbout the gruesome details from eyewitness accounts of the atrocities committed in the name of Nazi Germany. In many instances, the local police, were the perpetrators, operating under orders from the Eitsanzgruppen-SS.
- DirectorJedrzej JonaszStarsJeff TeravainenKazimierz AlbinKrzysztof Dunin-WasowiczAgainst The Odds describes different forms of resistance that existed in the German concentration camps like: smuggling of medicines, sabotage in weapons factories (especially the large effect it had on the German secret weapons programs), preparations for rebellions and escapes, and the mission of Capt. Pilecki, a Polish officer who purposefully got himself sent to Auschwitz in order to set up an underground organization in that Camp.
- StarsLinda HuntSamuel WestGert HeidenreichThe history of the Final Solution phase of the Nazi Holocaust, particularly with the most infamous of the death camps.
- DirectorIrmgard von zur MühlenStarsWolfgang SchefflerThis archive film footage documents the daily life of a Nazi concentration camp called Theresienstadt (also known as Terezin). Used by the Nazis as a "show" camp to draw attention away from their larger, darker actions elsewhere, Terezin was portrayed as a thriving community, and contained many artists and intellectuals within its borders.
- DirectorSteve PalackdharryStarsMargot CovilleHoward TriestThe story of Howard Triest, a German Jew who fled Nazi Germany in 1939 when he was 16 years old, returned as a victorious American soldier and then served as an interpreter at the Nuremberg Tribunal.
- DirectorIreneusz DobrowolskiStarsWilhelm BrasseWilhelm Brasse talks about his work as a photographer at Auschwitz Concentration Camp during World War II.
- DirectorSergey BukovskyStarsPolina Bel'skaiaMaryna ChaikaMariia Egorycheva-GlagolevaSurvivors tell the story of the Babi Yar massacre from WWII, where some 100,000 people were massacred by German forces.
- DirectorHilary HelsteinStarsMaya AngelouSimon WiesenthalAaron Simon GrossAs Maya Angelou narrates this powerful documentary, she reveals the story of a brave group of people who fought Hitler with the only weapons they had: charcoal, pencil stubs, shreds of paper and memories etched in their minds.
- DirectorRachel GoslinsStarsNorman H. GershmanRexhep HoxhaWhen the Nazis occupied Albania, not a single Jew was betrayed by its citizens - mostly Muslims. An untold history that resonates today.
- DirectorDana DoronUriel SinaiStarsGita KalderonZoka LevyDanny ChanochSeries involving 2 smart brothers solving crimes.
- DirectorClaude LanzmannStarsBenjamin MurmelsteinClaude LanzmannA 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 last step before the gas chamber. A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council, a fallen hero condemned to exile, who was forced to negotiate day after day from 1938 until the end of the war with Eichmann, to whose trial Murmelstein wasn't even called to testify. Even though he was without a doubt the one who knew the Nazi executioner best. More than twenty-five years after Shoah, Claude Lanzmann's new film reveals a little-known yet fundamental aspect of the Holocaust, and sheds light on the origins of the "Final Solution" like never before.
- DirectorLarry ConfinoLawrence M. RussoUsing never-before-seen pre-war archival footage and first-person testimonies, 'Trezoros: The Lost Jews of Kastoria' chronicles the Jewish life and culture of Kastoria, a picturesque lakeside village in the mountains of Northwestern Greece, near the Albania border. Here, Jews and Orthodox Christians lived together in harmony for over two millennium until World War II, when this long and rich history would be wiped out in the blink of an eye. TREZOROS (the Ladino/Judeo-Spanish term of endearment meaning "Treasures") takes us from the joyful innocence of the pre-war years through the heartbreaking struggles of the Holocaust, to a unique place in time and history of a Greek Jewish culture lost forever.
- DirectorPaula ApsellKirk WolfingerStarsJay O. SandersTimothy SnyderRichard FreundDocumentary about holocaust in Lithuania and the story of Lithuanian holocaust survivors of an escape tunnel they dug.
- DirectorMatthew ShoychetStarsOskar GröningJeff AnsellHedy BohmSeventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- DirectorRic Esther BienstockYaron NiskiStarsNeil BennettIt tells the story of Major Karl Plagge, a Nazi officer who, during the Holocaust, was commandant of a forced labor camp called "HKP" in Vilnius, Lithuania. In reality, he was sheltering hundreds of Jewish families. By the end, many were saved in hiding places dug into the ground and carved into the walls. Many more were executed by the SS and buried in a mass grave. Today, the former "HKP" is unchanged. A group of scientists arrive to locate the hiding places of those that were saved and identify the mass grave of those who were murdered. A child survivor of the camp and an American physician, whose mother was saved by Major Plagge, join them. The film tracks their three stories and, ultimately, brings to light the unknown tale of a Schindler-type German who listened to his conscience, instead of his superiors.
- DirectorAmy SchatzStarsJack FeldmanElliott SaiontzA conversation between a boy and his great-grandfather, an Auschwitz survivor, is woven with historical footage and animation to tell a heartbreaking story of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, sharing lessons from the Holocaust with a new generation.
- DirectorBarry AvrichStarsBenjamin FerenczChristian WenaweserDavid SchefferA portrait of Ben Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg Trial prosecutor, who continues to wage his lifelong crusade in the fight for law and peace.
- StarsYoram SheftelEli GabayMichael ShakedA Cleveland grandfather is brought to trial in Israel, accused of being the infamous German death camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible.
- DirectorJill NichollsAlan YentobStarsBoris PahorAllan CordunerNicholas FarrellAlan Yentob tells the story of Boris Pahor, at 106 the oldest known survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. A Slovenian from Trieste, Pahor wrote his novel Necropolis about his time in Natzweiler camp for political prisoners.
- DirectorChanoch Ze'eviStarsDanny StegHe is known as the Nazi officer who saves "The Pianist" -Wladyslaw Szpilman, in the Roman Polanski film, but his German hometown from which he ran the local school and went to the war, still refuses to recognize him as a hero. 70 years after the end of the war, a group of residents demand to commemorate the Nazi Officer, Wilm Hosenfeld, in the local school and the reactions are stormy. In the meantime, Hosenfeld's grandchildren discover their grandfather's secret diaries in which he documented Nazi war crimes and they embark on a journey of discovery. During this journey, they will find out that their grandfather was a serial savior and aside from "The Pianist", another 60 people owe him their lives.
- StarsPeter CoyoteDaniel MendelsohnPeter HayesExplores America's response to the Holocaust, and how it challenged the ideals of democracy.