Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Holocaust Documentaries

 Holocaust Documentary Films:

1945  United Kingdom  German Concentration Camps Factual Survey   long shelved, completed in 2014; Alfred Hitchcock collaborated on production

1945  United States  Death Mills   English Version of Die Todesmühlen; excerpted from German Concentration Camps Factual Survey

1945  Poland   Majdanek - cmentarzysko Europy   English title: Majdanek: Cemetery of Europe

1945  United States  Nazi Concentration Camps   Presented as evidence at The Nuremberg trials.

1945  United States   The Nazi Plan   Presented as evidence at The Nuremberg trials

1947  Soviet Union  The Nuremberg Trials   Soviet view of the Nuremberg Trials

1956   France   Nuit et brouillard   English title: Night and Fog. Written by Jean Cayrol, an escapee of Mauthausen. Music by Hanns Eisler.

1965  West Germany   Der Vorletzte Akt   English title: Last Act But One: Brundibar

1967   Denmark   Mordere iblandt os (TV)    English title: Murderers Among Us

1969  France, Switzerland and West Germany  Le Chagrin et la pitié  English title: The Sorrow and the Pity Vichy France government collaboration with Nazi Germany during the war.

1974  Israel   The 81st Blow

1974  United Kingdom  The World at War (TV)   Episode 20 Genocide

1976 United Kingdom, United States, France and West Germany  The Memory of Justice   4.6 hours long Won Los Angeles Film Critics Special Award

1982  United States  Genocide   Best Documentary Feature Oscar winner

1982  Sweden  The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz

1983  United Kingdom  Schindler: The Documentary (TV)   Released in the US in 1994 as Schindler: The Real Story

1985  Soviet Union   Babiy Yar: Lessons of History

1985  West Germany  Die Befreiung von Auschwitz   English title: Liberation of Auschwitz 1945

1985  France  Shoah   9½ hours long

1986  United States  Partisans of Vilna  Documentary produced by Aviva Kempner about the Jewish resistance in the Vilna Ghetto.

1989  United States  Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future

1990  United States  C.A.N.D.L.E.S.: The Story of the Mengele Twins (TV)

1991  Canada  A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Birthday Trip in Hell  Based on the diaries of Warsaw ghetto inmates

1991  United States  They Risked Their Lives: Rescuers of the Holocaust

1992  Japan  The Visas That Saved Lives

1994  United States  The Holocaust: In Memory of Millions (TV)   Hosted by Walter Cronkite

1994  Austria  Die Kunst des Erinnerns - Simon Wiesenthal   English title: The Art of Remembrance - Simon Wiesenthal

1995 United States, United Kingdom and the Netherlands  Anne Frank Remembered (TV)

1997  Italy  Memoria  Selected for the "Berlin International Film Festival". Collection of about ninety eyewitnesses' interviews, the voices of the Italian survivors of the Shoah.

1998  United States  The Last Days   Won Academy Award for Documentary Feature

1999  United States  Witness: Voices from the Holocaust

2000  United Kingdom and the United States  Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

2000  United States  Paragraph 175  Documentary about gays and the Holocaust

2001  France  Sobibor, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures  English title: Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m.

2004 Canada  Against the Odds

2004  United States  Paper Clips  About the Paper Clips Project

2004  United Kingdom  Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' Also known as Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State

2008  Israel  Classmates of Anne Frank

2010  Israel and Germany  A Film Unfinished

2011  Germany   Auschwitz

2012  United States  No Place on Earth  Documentary about a group of Jews who lived in caves in Ukraine for nearly 18 months to escape the Holocaust.

2012  Netherlands, Belgium and the United States  Transport XX to Auschwitz

2013 Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom  The Lady in Number 6

2018  United States  Who Will Write Our History

2018  Canada  The Accountant of Auschwitz  Trial of Oskar Gröning who worked as accountant in Auschwitz, responsible for murder of over 300,000 Jews.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Holocaust_films

 

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