75: Holocaust Films

List of Holocaust films

1940 United Kingdom    Night Train to Munich   First feature film to depict concentration camps.

1945  Soviet Union The Unvanquished   First feature film to show mass murder of Jews and hunting for them on the occupied territories. 1946 Venice festival award.

1946   United States   The Stranger   First feature film to include footage of concentration camps

1946 Allied-occupied Germany  Die Mörder sind unter uns  The first Rubble Film and the first German film to address Nazi atrocities. English title: Murderers Among Us

1947   Poland    The Last Stage   

1947 Soviet-occupied Germany  Ehe im Schatten   One of the earliest DEFA productions. English title: Marriage in the Shadows

1947  Allied-occupied Germany  Zwischen Gestern und Morgen   One of the first German films to be made in Munich after the war and the first to openly address the Holocaust. English title: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

1948   United States   The Search  In post-war Berlin, an American private (Montgomery Clift) helps a lost Czech boy find his mother.

1948  Poland   Ulica Graniczna  A Polish film about the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, it premieres at the Venice Film Festival; it is released in English as Border Street in 1950.

1949  Italy  L'ebreo errante   First Italian film to openly address the Holocaust

1953 United States   The Juggler  In 1949, former concentration camp inmate and Berlin native Hans Muller (Kirk Douglas), immigrates to Israel where, due to psychological problems, he can't adjust to peacetime life.

1959   United States   The Diary of Anne Frank   Won 3 Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress

1959 Italy, Yugoslavia and France  Kapò

1960  United States   Exodus    Based on the novel by Leon Uris; screenplay by Dalton Trumbo.

1961   United States    Judgment at Nuremberg   Winner of 2 Academy Awards For Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay

1965   Czechoslovakia   The Shop On Main Street

1967  United States  The Diary of Anne Frank  TV movie: Harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.

1970  Italy and West Germany  The Garden of the Finzi-Continis   Italian title: Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini; based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani; Oscar for Best Foreign Film

1975   East Germany   Jacob the Liar    Based on the novel by Jurek Becker

1975  United States  The Hiding Place   Based on the autobiography of Corrie ten Boom

1976  Spain   Voyage of the Damned

1978   United States   Holocaust  TV miniseries, popularised the term 'Holocaust'.

1980  United States  The Diary of Anne Frank   TV movie

1980  United States   Playing For Time  TV film; based on the autobiography of Fania Fénelon; adaptation by Arthur Miller

1982  United States  Sophie's Choice   Based on the novel by William Styron; Meryl Streep won Academy Award for Best Actress

1983  France and Canada  Au Nom de Tous les Miens   English title: For Those I Loved; based on the book by Martin Gray

1983 United States, West Germany and Italy  The Scarlet and the Black   TV movie; based on the J.P. Gallagher novel "The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican"

1983  United States  To Be Or Not To Be   A remake of the 1942 comedy, starring Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft.

1984   West Germany  Wannseekonferenz  TV movie, English Title: Wannsee Conference

1985  United States  Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

1987 United Kingdom and Yugoslavia  Escape from Sobibor  Based on the book by Richard Rashke Nominated for 3 Golden Globe Awards; won 2 including Best Limited Series or Motion Picture made for Television

1987  France  Au Revoir, Les Enfants

1988  United States  The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank   TV movie

1988  United States   War and Remembrance  TV mini-series; based on the novel by Herman Wouk, and the sequel to The Winds of War Nominated for 15 Primetime Emmy Awards; won 3 including Outstanding Miniseries

1990   Poland   Korczak  Based on the true story of Dr. Janusz Korczak and his attempt to keep alive the children in his Warsaw Ghetto orphanage.

1990 Germany, France and Poland    Europa Europa  Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

1993  United States  Schindler's List   Based on the novel by Thomas Kenneally about the real-life Schindler, a popular industrialist who cleverly manipulated the Nazis to save others, this movie won 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

1995   France   Les Misérables

1995   Japan   Anne no nikki    Anime adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank

1996  United States   Hidden in Silence  A True Story about the Podgórski sisters who rescued 13 Jews from the Przemyśl Ghetto.

1996   United States   The Ring   TV film; based on the novel by Danielle Steel

1996  Hungary  A hetedik szoba  English title: The Seventh Room. Dramatic portrayal of the life of Edith Stein, a nun and Auschwitz victim who was later canonized in the Roman Catholic Church

1997   Italy   La vita è bella  English title: Life is Beautiful. Won 3 Academy Awards Including Best Actor for Robert Benigni

1997  United Kingdom   Bent   Based on the play by Martin Sherman

1998   United States   Miracle at Midnight   TV movie

1998 France, Belgium, Netherlands and Israel   Train of Life

1999  United States   The Devil's Arithmetic   Based on the novel by Jane Yolen

1999   United States   Jakob the Liar    Based on the novel by Jurek Becker

2000  Czech Republic  Musíme si pomáhat   English title: Divided We Fall

2000   Canada   Nuremberg   TV movie; based on the book by Joseph E. Persico

2001  United States  Anne Frank: The Whole Story   TV movie; based on the book by Melissa Müller

2001  United States  The Grey Zone   Based on the book

2001   Germany   Nirgendwo in Afrika   English title: Nowhere in Africa; adaptation of Stefanie Zweig's autobiographical novel

2001  United States   Uprising    TV movie

2002 France, Germany, United Kingdom and Poland  The Pianist  Based on the autobiography by Wladyslaw Szpilman; Won 3 Academy Awards

2003  United States  Out of the Ashes   Based on the book I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz by Gisella Perl

2003  Germany  Babiy Yar

2005  France  A Love to Hide   TV movie

 2005  Hungary   Fateless   Based on the book by Imre Kertész

2006  Netherlands  Black Book

2006 Germany and Czech Republic  Der Letzte Zug   English title: The Last Train

2007  Germany and Austria  The Counterfeiters   Based on a memoir written by Adolf Burger; won the 2007 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 80th Academy Awards.

2008  United Kingdom and the United States  The Boy in the Striped Pajamas   Adaptation of John Boyne's novel

2008  United States  Defiance   Based on the book by Nechama Tec; nomination for an Academy Award in the category of Best Original Score

2009  France  L'armée du crime   English title: The Army of Crime

2009  United States, Poland and Canada  The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler   TV movie

2010  France   The Round Up   The Vel' d'Hiv Roundup.

2010  China   A Jewish Girl in Shanghai   Animated. Life of a Jewish girl with her little brother in Shanghai, and her parents in Europe.

2011  Poland   In Darkness   Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.

2012  Netherlands  Süskind   Based on the true story of Walter Süskind

2013  Germany  An Apartment in Berlin  German TV film. The story of the family Adler living in Berlin, betrayed by Stella Goldschlag murdered in Auschwitz in 1944 and three young students moving from Israel to Berlin.

2013  Switzerland  Akte Grüninger   Based on the true story of Paul Grüninger.

2015   Hungary   Son of Saul   Won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards; Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival; Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Category at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards; Winner of Best International Film at the 31st Independent Spirit Awards

2015  Germany   Meine Tochter Anne Frank   German television film about Anne Frank, on the view of her father

2016  Germany  Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank   German cinematographic feature about Anne Frank

2017  United States and the United Kingdom  The Zookeeper's Wife   Adaptation of the novel The Zookeeper's Wife

2018  Russia  Sobibor

2018 the Philippines  Quezon's Game   Features Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon's plan to provide refuge for Jews fleeing from Nazi Germany.

2018  Spain  The Photographer of Mauthausen   Story of Francisco Boix and his covert documentation of life at Mauthausen Concentration Camp

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