Film Resources by Type

Documentaries

Title Year Run Time Subject America & the Holocaust- 1994 90 min. Antisemitism in American society and government and the Deceit and Indifference lack of response to the Holocaust. PBS. Berga: Soldiers of Another War 2003 90 min. American soldiers who were captured at the Battle of the Bulge and held as slave laborers at a Nazi concentration camp. PBS. Camps of Death 2983 60 min. Hitler’s rise to power, the concentration camps, and the Nuremberg Trials in graphic detail Daniel’s Story 1993 16 min. Compiles many Jewish German families’ stories into one recounting of persecution, deportation, and concentration camps The Devil is a Gentleman 1997 14 min. Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann's career in the Nazi party and subsequent trial in Israel. Segment of CBS 60 Minutes Displaced Persons 1995 50 min. Survivors of the Holocaust seeking safety and a new life in pre-state Palestine and the difficulties associated with their immigration journey European Antisemitism from its -- 13 min. Background and contextual information on the history of Origins to the Holocaust antisemitism in Europe and of the Holocaust. Produced by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum The Eye of Vichy 1993 110 min. Film and newsreel footage produced by Nazis and their French collaborators A Film Unfinished 2010 89 min. A look at two sets of raw Nazi propaganda film covering the Warsaw Ghetto First Person Singular: Elie 2002 60 min. Nobel Peace Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel’s childhood, Wiesel later life, and observations on current events. Includes excerpts from his memoir Night For the Living: The Story of the -- 57 min. The creation of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum US Holocaust Memorial Museum Forest of Valor 1989 52 min. who fought the German army in the forests of during WWII From Swastika to Jim Crow 2000 60 min. The partnership between Jewish intellectuals who escaped to the US and the HBCUs of the segregated American South Genocide 1941-45 1974 60 min. Nazi ideology and systemized antisemitism from its formation to the end of the war Hitler’s Perfect Children: The -- 56 min. The genetic experiment in which Nazi encouraged Lebensborn Program women with their preferred genetic traits to have more children and kidnapped such children from other nations Hitler: Tyrant of Terror 2003 120 min. Tracing Hitler’s reign from his Chancellorship in 1933 until the end of WWII. Note: includes TV commercials Hitler’s Women 2001 120 min. Influential women of the Third Reich, including Winifred Wagner and Zarah Leander. Note: includes TV commercials The Holocaust & Yad Vashem -- 30 min. The rise of antisemitism in Germany, concentration camps, the lives of Eastern European Jews before the Holocaust, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and Jewish partisan resistance Holocaust on Trial 2000 56 min. Uses a recent trial as a springboard to examine and successfully challenge the notion of Holocaust denial. PBS NOVA. Holocaust: The Untold Story 2001 55 min. Examining allegations that the press failed to report adequately on the Holocaust, despite having access to information as early as June 1942. Newseum. Homage to Chagall 1977 90 min. The life and works of Russian Jewish painter Marc Chagall Into the Arms of Strangers 2000 117 min. The children who escaped on the Kindertransport, their parents, and their rescuers Leni Riefenstahl: The Fuhrer’s 1996 56 min. Biographical documentary of Leni Riefenstahl, who directed Filmmaker two celebrated Nazi films "Triumph of the Will" and "Olympia." Let Memory Speak 2000 27 min. Personalizes the lives of the children who lived through the Holocaust The Long Way Home 1997 116 min. The challenges Holocaust survivors faced from 1945-1948 The Longest Hatred: The 1993 150 min. The 2,000-year history of anti-Jewish sentiment and its History of Antisemitism frequent expression in acts of hatred and violence. Lodz Ghetto 1989 118 min. The struggle for survival that was the daily lot of the people trapped in Lodz Ghetto Night & Fog 1955 32 min. 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 These Years 2010 62 min. How the residents of the German village of Rhina view its history and what role they played in the Holocaust One Human Spirit 2002 24 min. The testimony of 25 survivors, with quotes from political leaders, historical figures, and poets Outcast: Jewish Persecution in -- 40 min. The persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany during from 1933- Nazi Germany 1933-1938 38 A Painful Reminder: Evidence 1985 69 min. Hitler’s rise to power, details of concentration and for All Mankind extermination camps, and the stories of several Jewish survivors. Paradise Camp- Theresienstadt 1986 58 min. Nazi deception of Jews and of the Red Cross in relation to Theresienstadt So Many Miracles 1987 62 min. Two survivors’ emotional return journey to Poland to reunite with the woman who saved their lives 40 years earlier The Story of Chaim Rumkowski 1982 55 min. One of the Holocaust's most controversial figures, Chaim and the Jews of Lodz Rumkowski, a Polish Jew put in charge of the Łódź ghetto Sugihara: Conspiracy of 2000 113 min. Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara and the Jewish refugees Kindness that he helped save Survival in the Forest: Isadore -- 28 min. Two brothers look for traces of their grandfather, a Jewish Karten and the Partisans resistance fighter who helped save over 400 Jews Trial at Nuremberg 1958 27 min. A review of the Nuremberg Trials and captured Germany Army film footage. Part of CBS “The Twentieth Century” series The Trial of Adolf Eichmann 2011 90 min. Detailed accounts of Eichmann’s capture, the drama in the courtroom, and reactions to the trial from around the world. Note: French and German with English subtitles Warsaw Ghetto 1966 31 min. The daily struggle to survive, poor sanitation, smuggling, deportations, collaboration, and resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1993 22 min. Deportation, life in the ghetto, the formation of a resistance organization, and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Warsaw Rising: The Forgotten 2004 44 min. The story of the Polish resistance and its 63-day battle against Soldiers of WWII the Nazis in 1944. CNN Presents. Weapons of the Spirit 1987 60 min. The story of a small French village that defied the French collaborationist government and harbored those who were fleeing the Nazis We Remember 2012 59 min. Auschwitz from the perspective of six eye-witnesses being interviewed by two teens from a Jewish Youth Group Who Shall Live & Who Shall Die 1982 90 min. A hard look at the US failure to open its doors to Jewish refugees during the Holocaust WWII: The German Front 1940- 205 min. Prelude to War, The Nazi Strike, The Secret Life of Hitler, and 46 Nuremberg Trials A Yiddish World Remembered 2004 79 min. The story of pre-war Jewish life in Eastern Europe

Movies

Title Year Run Time Subject Au Revoir, Les Enfants 1987 103 min. A boy in France helps hide his Jewish friend from the Gestapo. Note: French with English subtitles Charlie Chaplin- the Great 1940 126 min. Satiric look at the interwar period in a fictional country in Dictator which Charlie Chaplin is both a persecuted Jewish citizen and a Hitler-esque dictator The Devil’s Arithmetic 1999 95 min. A Jewish teen finds herself transported through time to Poland in 1941 and faces the horrors of the Holocaust Escape from Sobibor 1987 116 min. 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. Europa, Europa 1990 115 min. A boy in Nazi Germany joins that Nazi youth to conceal that he is Jewish. Based on a true story. Haven 2001 202 min. An American government official escorts Holocaust survivors from Europe to America in 1944. Based on a true story. Note: includes TV commercials The Last Stage 1948 105 min. Female prisoners of various ethnic backgrounds struggle to survive the hardships of Auschwitz Long is the Road 1948 77 min. Follows a Polish Jewish family from their refugee life in the DP camps to a new life in Israel. Note: German with English subtitles Transport from Paradise 1963 94 min. The story of Jews being held in the Ghetto who are unknowingly waiting to be sent to Auschwitz. Note: Czech with English subtitles The Wannsee Conference 1984 85 min. Real-time recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference The Wave 1981 46 min. The forces of group pressure that pervaded Nazism are recreated in the classroom when a history teacher introduces a “new” system to his students.

Series (non-fiction)

Title Year Run Time Subject Broken Silence: Children of the 2002 56 min. The Holocaust in the Soviet Union, with emphasis on Abyss children’s experiences. Part of a TV series. Broken Silence: Eyes of the 2002 56 min. The Holocaust in Hungary, with emphasis on children’s Holocaust experiences. Part of a TV series. Broken Silence: Hell on Earth 2002 56 min. The Holocaust in . Part of a TV series. Broken Silence: Some Who 2002 56 min. Holocaust survivors who now live in Argentina and Lived antisemitism in Argentina. Part of a TV series. Lost Neighbors, Kids from 2006 30 min. Teen cameras search for traces of Jewish fellow citizens Hartmanice Lost Neighbors, Expedition: 2006 47 min. Teen cameras search for traces of Jewish fellow citizens Jews from Litomysl Shoah Part 1 1985 120 min. Interviews with survivors, witnesses and perpetrators during visits to German Holocaust sites across Poland, including extermination camps. Note: German with English subtitles Shoah Part 2 1985 119 in. “” Shoah Part 3 1985 101 min. “” Shoah Part 4 1985 116 min. “” Shoah Part 5 1985 120 min. “” The SS Part 1: Power Struggle 2003 60 min. The history of the SS and its ascension to the most powerful institution of terror in the Third Reich. Note: includes TV commercial breaks The SS Part 2: Himmler’s Mania 2003 60 min. Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Security Police in Nazi Germany. Note: includes TV commercial breaks The SS Part 3: Heydrich, the 2003 60 min. Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the Security Police and the Hangman lead planner of the Final Solution. Note: includes TV commercial breaks The SS Part 4: Death’s Head 2003 60 min. The history of the “Death’s Head Unit” of the SS Note: includes TV commercial breaks The SS Part 5: Waffen-SS 2003 60 min. The history of the armed wing of the SS Note: includes TV commercial breaks World War II- Europe -- 32 min. From TIME, historical information about the European Front during WWII World War II- Pacific -- 32 min. From TIME, historical information about the Pacific Front during WWII

Series (fiction)

Title Year Run Time Subject The Oppermans 1983 225 min. How one wealthy German Jewish family dealt with the rising power of the Nazis in their nation. German with some English subtitles