Film Resources by Title

Title Year Type Run Time # Subject America & the 1994 Documentary 90 min. 1 Antisemitism in American society and Holocaust- Deceit government and the lack of response to the and Indifference Holocaust. PBS. Au Revoir, Les 1987 Movie 103 min. 2 A boy in France helps hide his Jewish friend Enfants from the Gestapo. Note: French with English subtitles Berga: Soldiers of 2003 Documentary 90 min. 2 American soldiers who were captured at the Another War Battle of the Bulge and held as slave laborers at a Nazi concentration camp. PBS. Broken Silence: 2002 Documentary 56 min. 2 The Holocaust in the Soviet Union, with Children of the Abyss emphasis on children’s experiences. Part of a TV series. Broken Silence: Eyes 2002 Documentary 56 min. 1 The Holocaust in Hungary, with emphasis on of the Holocaust children’s experiences. Part of a TV series. Broken Silence: Hell 2002 Documentary 56 min. 2 The Holocaust in Czechoslovakia, including the on Earth Theresienstadt concentration camp, the ghettos, and deportation. Part of a TV series. Broken Silence: Some 2002 Documentary 56 min. 2 Holocaust survivors who now live in Argentina Who Lived and antisemitism in Argentina. Part of a TV series. Camps of Death 2983 Documentary 60 min. 2 Hitler’s rise to power, the concentration camps, and the Nuremberg Trials in graphic detail Charlie Chaplin- the 1940 Movie 126 min. 2 Satiric look at the interwar period in a fictional Great Dictator country in which Charlie Chaplin is both a persecuted Jewish citizen and a Hitler-esque dictator Daniel’s Story 1993 Documentary 16 min. 2 Compiles many Jewish German families’ stories into one recounting of persecution, deportation, and concentration camps The Devil is a 1997 Documentary 14 min. 2 Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann's career in Gentleman the Nazi party and subsequent trial in Israel. Segment of CBS 60 Minutes The Devil’s 1999 Movie 95 min. 2 A Jewish teen finds herself transported through Arithmetic time to Poland in 1941 and faces the horrors of the Holocaust Displaced Persons 1995 Documentary 50 min. 2 Survivors of the Holocaust seeking safety and a new life in pre-state Palestine and the difficulties associated with their immigration journey Escape from Sobibor 1987 Movie 116 min. 2 The planning and carrying out of the largest escape from a prison camp of any kind in Europe during WWII. Based on a true story. European -- Documentary 13 min. 4 Background and contextual information on the Antisemitism from history of antisemitism in Europe and of the its Origins to the Holocaust. Produced by the US Holocaust Holocaust Memorial Museum Europa, Europa 1990 Movie 115 min. 3 A boy in Nazi Germany joins that Nazi youth to conceal that he is Jewish. Based on a true story. The Eye of Vichy 1993 Documentary 110 min. 2 Film and newsreel footage produced by Nazis and their French collaborators A Film Unfinished 2010 Documentary 89 min. 3 A look at two sets of raw Nazi propaganda film covering the Warsaw Ghetto First Person Singular: 2002 Documentary 60 min. 2 Nobel Peace Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel’s Elie Wiesel childhood, later life, and observations on current events. Includes excerpts from his memoir Night For the Living: The -- Documentary 57 min. 2 The creation of the US Holocaust Memorial Story of the US Museum Holocaust Memorial Museum Forest of Valor 1989 Documentary 52 min. 2 Jews who fought the German army in the forests of Eastern Europe during WWII From Swastika to Jim 2000 Documentary 60 min. 3 The partnership between Jewish intellectuals Crow who escaped to the US and the HBCUs of the segregated American South Genocide 1941-45 1974 Documentary 60 min. 2 Nazi ideology and systemized antisemitism from its formation to the end of the war Haven 2001 Movie 202 min. 2 An American government official escorts Holocaust survivors from Europe to America in 1944. Based on a true story. Note: includes TV commercials Hitler’s Perfect -- Documentary 56 min. 2 The genetic experiment in which Nazi Germany Children: The encouraged women with their preferred Lebensborn Program genetic traits to have more children and kidnapped such children from other nations Hitler: Tyrant of 2003 Documentary 120 min. 2 Tracing Hitler’s reign from his Chancellorship in Terror 1933 until the end of WWII. Note: includes TV commercials Hitler’s Women 2001 Documentary 120 min. 2 Influential women of the Third Reich, including Winifred Wagner and Zarah Leander. Note: includes TV commercials The Holocaust & Yad -- Documentary 30 min. 2 The rise of antisemitism in Germany, Vashem concentration camps, the lives of Eastern European Jews before the Holocaust, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and Jewish partisan resistance Holocaust on Trial 2000 Documentary 56 min. 2 Uses a recent trial as a springboard to examine and successfully challenge the notion of Holocaust denial. PBS NOVA. Holocaust: The 2001 Documentary 55 min. 3 Examining allegations that the press failed to Untold Story report adequately on the Holocaust, despite having access to information as early as June 1942. Newseum. Homage to Chagall 1977 Documentary 90 min. 2 The life and works of Russian Jewish painter Marc Chagall Into the Arms of 2000 Documentary 117 min. 2 The children who escaped on the Strangers Kindertransport, their parents, and their rescuers The Last Stage 1948 Movie 105 min. 2 Female prisoners of various ethnic backgrounds struggle to survive the hardships of Auschwitz Leni Riefenstahl: The 1996 Documentary 56 min. 2 Biographical documentary of Leni Riefenstahl, Fuhrer’s Filmmaker who directed two celebrated Nazi films "Triumph of the Will" and "Olympia." Let Memory Speak 2000 Documentary 27 min. 2 Personalizes the lives of the children who lived through the Holocaust Long is the Road 1948 Movie 77 min. 2 Follows a Polish Jewish family from their refugee life in the DP camps to a new life in Israel. Note: German with English subtitles The Long Way Home 1997 Documentary 116 min. 1 The challenges Holocaust survivors faced from 1945-1948 The Longest Hatred: 1993 Documentary 150 min. 2 The 2,000-year history of anti-Jewish sentiment The History of and its frequent expression in acts of hatred Antisemitism and violence. Lodz Ghetto 1989 Documentary 118 min. 2 The struggle for survival that was the daily lot of the people trapped in Lodz Ghetto Lost Neighbors, Kids 2006 Documentary 30 min., 47 2 Teen cameras search for traces of Jewish fellow from Hartmanice & min. citizens Expedition: Jews from Litomysl Night & Fog 1955 Documentary 32 min. 3 Actual footage of the inside of Hitler’s concentration camps with script written by a Holocaust survivor. Note: French with English subtitles Now… After All 2010 Documentary 62 min. 2 How the residents of the German village of These Years Rhina view its history and what role they played in the Holocaust One Human Spirit 2002 Documentary 24 min. 2 The testimony of 25 survivors, with quotes from political leaders, historical figures, and poets The Oppermans 1983 TV miniseries 225 min. 2 How one wealthy German Jewish family dealt with the rising power of the Nazis in their nation. German with some English subtitles Outcast: Jewish -- Documentary 40 min. 3 The persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany Persecution in Nazi during from 1933-38 Germany 1933-1938 A Painful Reminder: 1985 Documentary 69 min. 2 Hitler’s rise to power, details of concentration Evidence for All and extermination camps, and the stories of Mankind several Jewish survivors. Paradise Camp- 1986 Documentary 58 min. 2 Nazi deception of Jews and of the Red Cross in Theresienstadt relation to Theresienstadt Shoah (presented in 1985 Documentary 120 min., 119 2 Interviews with survivors, witnesses and 5 parts) min., 101 min., perpetrators during visits to German Holocaust 116 min., 120 sites across Poland, including extermination min. camps. Note: German with English subtitles So Many Miracles 1987 Documentary 62 min. 2 Two survivors’ emotional return journey to Poland to reunite with the woman who saved their lives 40 years earlier The SS Part 4: 2003 Documentary 60 min. 2 The history of the “Death’s Head Unit” of the SS Death’s Head Series Note: includes TV commercial breaks The SS Part 3: 2003 Documentary 60 min. 2 Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the Security Heydrich, the series Police and the lead planner of the Final Hangman Solution. Note: includes TV commercial breaks The SS Part 2: 2003 Documentary 60 min. 2 Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Security Himmler’s Mania series Police in Nazi Germany. Note: includes TV commercial breaks The SS Part 1: Power 2003 Documentary 60 min. 2 The history of the SS and its ascension to the Struggle series most powerful institution of terror in the Third Reich. Note: includes TV commercial breaks The SS Part 5: 2003 Documentary 60 min. 2 The history of the armed wing of the SS Waffen-SS series Note: includes TV commercial breaks The Story of Chaim 1982 Documentary 55 min. 2 One of the Holocaust's most controversial Rumkowski and the figures, Chaim Rumkowski, a Polish Jew put in Jews of Lodz charge of the Łódź ghetto Sugihara: Conspiracy 2000 Documentary 113 min. 3 Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara and the of Kindness Jewish refugees that he helped save Survival in the -- Documentary 28 min. 2 Two brothers look for traces of their Forest: Isadore grandfather, a Jewish resistance fighter who Karten and the helped save over 400 Jews Partisans Transport from 1963 Movie 94 min. 3 The story of Jews being held in the Terezin Paradise Ghetto who are unknowingly waiting to be sent to Auschwitz. Note: Czech with English subtitles Trial at Nuremberg 1958 Documentary 27 min. 2 A review of the Nuremberg Trials and captured Germany Army film footage. Part of CBS “The Twentieth Century” series The Trial of Adolf 2011 Documentary 90 min. 2 Detailed accounts of Eichmann’s capture, the Eichmann drama in the courtroom, and reactions to the trial from around the world. Note: French and German with English subtitles The Wannsee 1984 Movie 85 min. 2 Real-time recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference Conference Warsaw Ghetto 1966 Documentary 31 min. 2 The daily struggle to survive, poor sanitation, smuggling, deportations, collaboration, and resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto Warsaw Ghetto 1993 Documentary 22 min. 2 Deportation, life in the ghetto, the formation of Uprising a resistance organization, and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Warsaw Rising: The 2004 Documentary 44 min. 2 The story of the Polish resistance and its 63-day Forgotten Soldiers of battle against the Nazis in 1944. CNN Presents. WWII The Wave 1981 Movie 46 min. 2 The forces of group pressure that pervaded Nazism are recreated in the classroom when a history teacher introduces a “new” system to his students. Weapons of the 1987 Documentary 60 min. 2 The story of a small French village that defied Spirit the French collaborationist government and harbored those who were fleeing the Nazis We Remember 2012 Documentary 59 min. 3 Auschwitz from the perspective of six eye- witnesses being interviewed by two teens from a Jewish Youth Group Who Shall Live & 1982 Documentary 90 min. 2 A hard look at the US failure to open its doors Who Shall Die to Jewish refugees during the Holocaust World War II- Europe -- Documentary 32 min. 2 From TIME, historical information about the European Front during WWII WWII: The German 1940- Documentary 205 min. 3 Prelude to War, The Nazi Strike, The Secret Life Front 46 series of Hitler, and Nuremberg Trials World War II- Pacific -- Documentary 32 min. 2 From TIME, historical information about the Pacific Front during WWII A Yiddish World 2004 Documentary 79 min. 2 The story of pre-war Jewish life in Eastern Remembered Europe