Filmakers - Holocaust

Holocaust

19 film(s) found

	The Accidental Hero: Oskar Schindler This documentary on Schindler, the wartime rescuer of 1200 Jews, grapples with the moral ambiguity of a flawed hero. more »
	Banking On Hitler This investigative film shows in detail the roles played by the international banking clique, including American banks, in collaborating with the Nazis during World War II. more »
	The Danish Solution During World War II, Nazi forces attempted—and largely failed—to impose their Final Solution across Denmark, as more than 95 percent of the country's Jewish population survived the war. The Danish Solution details how so many Jews managed to escape the Nazi blueprint for their extermination. more »
	A Day in The Warsaw Ghetto In 1941 a German soldier illegally photographed the doomed inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto These images form the core of this film, an extraordinary portrayal of humanity in a nightmare situation. more »
	Drancy: A Concentration Camp in Paris, 1941-1944 A startling film which examines in detail how the French authorities arrested and interned more than 74,000 Jews before sending them to Auschwitz, which only 2,500 survived. more »
	Fading Traces This film seeks out traces of the once thriving world of the Jewish community in western Ukraine. Before WW II a rich culture with Jewish music abounding and a thriving Yiddish threater existed there. The film weaves the words of writers such as Isaak Babel, Martin Buber and others, with the experiences of those still living. more »
	Finding Kalman In this profoundly touching, intergenerational documentary, a charismatic Holocaust survivor inspires her family to connect to relatives they could never meet. Focusing on her brother Kalman, Anna recounts tales of a mischievous boy who tried to escape the Warsaw ghetto with her. more »
	Fragments of Isabella This riveting film recounts the true story of a young Hungarian Jew and her sisters interned in Auschwitz, their struggle to survive and their daring escape from a death march. Based on a Pulitzer Prize-nominated book by Isabella Leitner. more »
	The Mascot This multi-award-winning film tells the story of a disguised Jewish orphan who, ironically, became a poster boy for the Nazis more »
	Modus Operandi From 1942 to 1944, nearly twenty-five thousand Jewish men, women, and children were deported from Belgium to Auschwitz. Fewer than fifteen hundred survived. This film raises and systematically answers the question: How did just a handful of Nazis, with the help—voluntary or unwitting—of the Belgian authorities, bring about their destruction? more »
	A Place to Save Your Life: The Shanghai Jews During the Nazi years, some 17,000 European Jews fled to Shanghai, where no visa was required. Juxtaposing interviews with survivors with archival photographs, this film recounts the days when Jews lived in China under Japanese rule and Shanghai became a place of refuge. more »
	Poumy Eloquent and witty, 92-year-old Andree 'Poumy' Moreuil reflects on her adventures when, as a young Jewish mother, she joined the wartime resistance in France. Acting against oppression helped her transcend isolation and fear. more »
	Searching for Wallenberg Searching for Wallenberg tells the legendary story of Raoul Wallenberg, who as a Swedish diplomat in Budapest in 1944, saved tens of thousands of Jews from Nazi deportations and certain death. He accomplished this through intimidation, manipulation and sheer courage. more »
	Shoah by Bullet Father Patrick Desbois, a French Catholic priest, was haunted by his grandfather's stories about the extermination carried out by the Einsatzgruppen firing squads in the Ukraine between 1941 and 1944. He relentlessly searches for the truth about the murder of one and a half million Ukrainian Jews. more »
	Silence This haunting animation film captures the surreal world of a child survivor of Teresienstadt concentration camp whose pain had not been recognized or shared. At twenty, she was given letters written by her mother and finally had a bridge to the past, but it took many more for her to break the silence. more »
	Undying Love One does not usually associate the word 'love' with the Holocaust. Yet this tender documentary relates how love did surface, against all odds, in the DP camps after World War II. These tales of love blossoming in such unlikely circumstances is artfully captured on film by Helene Klodawsky, the noted documentarian whose own parents are part of the story. more »
	Where Birds Don’t Sing Where Birds Don’t Sing chronicles the horrifying stories of two concentration camps in the Third Reich, Ravensbruck and Sachsenhausen, and ends with a moving reunion of the survivors. more »
	Witnesses The terrible anti-Semitic massacre that occured on July 4, 1946 in Kielce, Poland is chillingly retold by the Polish people who were there. Some express horror but others seem indifferent. A miniature Shoah in its power to move audiences. more »
	Zygielbojm’s Death The tragic story of the efforts of a Polish Jewish official to warn the world of the Nazi horrors in Poland. more »