Best Holocaust

Art Spiegelman's Maus is a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel that recounts his father's experiences as a Polish Jew during the Holocaust. Using anthropomorphic animal representations (Jews as mice,...

Steven Spielbergs magnum opus tells the harrowing true story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved over a thousand Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. Shot in stark, haunting black-and-...

Art Spiegelman's 'Maus' is a powerful and groundbreaking memoir depicting his father's experiences as a Polish Jew during the Holocaust. The story is told through anthropomorphic animals Jews as mice...

Jonathan Glazers film is a masterclass in auditory intensity. By focusing on the mundane domestic life of a Nazi commandant living directly adjacent to Auschwitz, the film forces the audience to confr...

Claude Lanzmanns nine-hour epic is perhaps the most important documentary ever made about the Holocaust. It contains no archival footage, relying instead on interviews with survivors, witnesses, and p...

Jonathan Glazers chilling masterpiece focuses on the domestic life of Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, and his wife as they build a dream life in a house directly adjacent to the camp. The fi...

While technically a diary, Anne Franks account of her time in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands is one of the most powerful biographical documents in history. It provides a raw, int...

Schindler's List portrays Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved over a thousand Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust during World War II. Directed by Steven Spielberg, the film meticulo...

This gripping series follows the trial of John Demjanjuk, a retired Cleveland autoworker accused of being 'Ivan the Terrible,' a notorious Nazi death camp guard. The series explores the complexities o...

This epic drama explores the complexities of justice in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Focusing on the trial of four German judges who served under the Nazi regime, the film examines the question of...

Anne Frank's 'The Diary of a Young Girl' is a profoundly moving and historically significant biography, presented as a diary. It chronicles her experiences hiding from the Nazis during World War II. T...

Alain Resnaiss short documentary is a haunting, poetic meditation on the Holocaust. By contrasting the peaceful, overgrown ruins of the Auschwitz and Majdanek camps with the horrific archival footage...

This film creates intensity through what is heard rather than what is seen. It follows the domestic life of a Nazi commandant living next to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The contrast between the...

Alain Resnaiss short documentary is a haunting, poetic meditation on the Holocaust. By contrasting the peaceful, overgrown ruins of Auschwitz with the horrific archival footage of the camps operation,...

Vittorio De Sicas 1970 film is a beautiful and tragic story set in Ferrara during the rise of fascism. It follows a wealthy Jewish family who try to maintain their way of life as the world around them...

Roman Polanskis The Pianist is a harrowing, deeply moving account of a Jewish musicians struggle to survive in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Adrien Brody delivers an incredible, transformativ...

Jane Yolens 1998 novel, while technically fiction, powerfully portrays the horrors of the Holocaust through the eyes of a young Jewish girl transported back in time. The book serves as a poignant remi...

This documentary tells the incredible true story of a group of Jews who hid in caves in Ukraine during World War II. It explores the psychological toll of living in constant fear and the resilience of...

Joan Bieder's 'The Storyteller' recounts the remarkable life of her father, a Hungarian Jew who survived the Holocaust by using his storytelling abilities to entertain Nazi officers. The book is a mov...

Life is Beautiful (La Vita è Bella) is an Italian film that tells the story of Guido Orefice, a Jewish-Italian waiter who uses humor and imagination to shield his son from the horrors of a Nazi concen...