List of Holocaust films
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The is an index of all the films that deal with the Holocaust period in Europe approximately 1938-1945.
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[edit] Narrative films
[edit] 1940s
| Year | Country | Title | Directors | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States | The Seventh Cross | Fred Zinnemann | Starring: Spencer Tracy, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy |
| 1946 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States/Image:Flag of Germany.svg West Germany | Lang ist der Weg | Herbert B. Fredersdorf and Marek Goldstein | Yiddish title: Lang iz der Veg; English title: Long Is the Road; First known Holocaust drama |
| 1948 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States | The Search | Fred Zinnemann | Starring Montgomery Clift |
[edit] 1950s
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Image:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg Czechoslovakia | Daleká cesta | Alfred Radok | English title: Distant Journey |
| 1953 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States | The Juggler | Edward Dmytryk | Starring Kirk Douglas |
| 1956 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States | Singing in the Dark | Max Nosseck | Musical about Holocaust survivor with amnesia |
| 1959 | Image:Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany/Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria | Sterne | Konrad Wolf | English title: Stars |
| 1959 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States | The Diary of Anne Frank | George Stevens | |
| 1959 | Image:Flag of Italy.svg Italy/Image:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg Yugoslavia/Image:Flag of France.svg France | Kapò | Gillo Pontecorvo |
[edit] 1960s
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Image:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg Czechoslovakia | Romeo, Julia a tma | Jirí Weiss | English title:Romeo, Juliet and Darkness ; Concerns Operation Anthropoid |
| 1960 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States | Exodus | Otto Preminger | Based on the novel by Leon Uris; screenplay by Dalton Trumbo |
| 1960 | Image:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg Yugoslavia | Deveti krug | France Stiglic | English title:The Ninth Circle |
| 1961 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States | Judgment at Nuremberg | Stanley Kramer | |
| 1964 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States | The Pawnbroker | Sidney Lumet | The life of a Holocaust survivor in a contemporary New York ghetto |
| 1964 | Image:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg 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 | Image:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg 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 | Image:Flag of East Germany.svg 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 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States | The Diary of Anne Frank (TV) | Alex Segal |
[edit] 1970s
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Image:Flag of Italy.svg Italy/Image:Flag of Germany.svg 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 | Image:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg Yugoslavia | Hranjenik | Vatroslav Mimica | English title:The Fed Ones |
| 1970 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States/Image:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark/Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom/Image:Flag of Panama.svg Panama | The Only Way | Bent Christensen | Danish title:Oktober-Dage |
| 1972 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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 | Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg USSR | 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 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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 | Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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 | Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom/Image:Flag of Germany.svg West Germany | The Odessa File | Ronald Neame | based on Frederick Forsyth novel of same name |
| 1975 | Image:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg Yugoslavia | Crvena zemlja | Branimir Tori Jankovic | Concerns the massecre of Serbs at Kraljevo |
| 1975 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States | The Hiding Place | James F. Collier | Based on the autobiogray of Corrie ten Boom |
| 1975 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States | The Man in the Glass Booth | Arthur Hiller | Israeli agents capture and try an industrialist for war crimes |
| 1976 | Image:Flag of Italy.svg Italy | SS Experiment Camp | Sergio Garrone | Exploitation film set in a concentration camp. |
| 1977 | Image:Flag of Germany.svg 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 | Image:Flag of Italy.svg Italy | L'Ultima orgia del III Reich | Cesare Canevari | Exploitation film about the sexual exploitation of concentration camp inmates by SS soldiers. |
| 1977 | Image:Flag of Germany.svg West Germany | Reinhard Heydrich - Manager des Terrors | Heinz Schirk | the life of Reinhard Heydrich |
| 1978 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States | Holocaust (TV miniseries) | Marvin J. Chomsky | |
| 1978 | Image:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg Yugoslavia | Okupacija u 26 slika | Lordan Zafranovic | |
| 1979 | Image:Flag of Germany.svg West Germany | Baranski | Werner Masten |
[edit] 1980s
[edit] 1990s
[edit] 2000s
[edit] Documentary films
[edit] 1940s
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States | Death Mills | Billy Wilder | English Version of Die Todesmühlen |
| 1945 | Image:Flag of Poland.svg Poland | Majdanek - cmentarzysko Europy | Aleksander Ford | |
| 1945 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States | [|Nazi Concentration Camps] | George Stevens | Presented as evidence at Nuremburg |
| 1945 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States | The Nazi Plan | George Stevens | Presented as evidence at Nuremburg |
| 1945 | Image:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg Yugoslavia | [|Jasenovac] | Gustav Gavrin&Kosta Hlavaty | |
| circa 1946 | Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom | [|Memory of the Camps] | Alfred Hitchcock | Unfinished; later reconstructed by American PBS |
| 1946 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States | Seeds of Destiny | Gene Fowler Jr. | Shows devastation and solicits relief funds |
| 1947 | Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg USSR | The Nuremberg Trials | C Svilov | Soviet view of the Nuremberg Trials |
[edit] 1950s
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Image:Flag of France.svg France | Nuit et brouillard | Alain Resnais | English title: Night and Fog. Written by Jean Cayrol, an escapee of Mauthausen. Music by Hanns Eisler. |
[edit] 1960s
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Image:Flag of Germany.svg Germany | Der Vorletzte Akt | Walter Krüttner | English title:Last Act But One: Brundibar |
| 1965 | Image:Flag of Canada.svg Canada | Memorandum | Donald Brittain and John Spotton | French title:Pour mémoire |
| 1966 | Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK | Warsaw Ghetto | ||
| 1967 | Image:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark | Mordere iblandt os (TV) | Henning Knudsen | English title:Murderers Among Us |
| 1968 | Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | Jack Kaufman | William L. Shirer book |
| 1969 | Image:Flag of France.svg France / Image:Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland / Image:Flag of Germany.svg West Germany | Le Chagrin et la pitié | Marcel Ophüls | English title:The Sorrow and the Pity Vichy France government collaboration with Nazi Germany |
[edit] 1970s
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Image:Flag of Israel.svg Israel | Ha- Makah Hashmonim V'Echad | David Bergman, Jacques Ehrlich and Haim Gouri | English title:The 81st Blow |
| 1976 | Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom / Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States / Image:Flag of France.svg France / Image:Flag of Germany.svg West Germany | The Memory of Justice | Marcel Ophüls | 4.6 hours long Won Los Angeles Film Critics Special Award |
