This is an index of all the films and documentaries that deal with the Holocaust that took place in Europe between 1938 and 1945 .
Movies
1940s
| Year | country | Title | director | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | U.S | The great Dictator | Charlie Chaplin | English | Starring Charlie Chaplin , Paulette Goddard and Jack Oakie , it was released before the United States entered World War II . It is one of the first films that criticizes Hitler and the Nazi regime . |
| 1944 | U.S | The Seventh Cross | Fred Zinnemann | English | Starring Spencer Tracy , Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy |
| 1946 | U.S | The Stranger | Orson Welles | English | Starring Orson Welles , Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young . First film that included images of concentration camps . |
| 1948 | Poland | Ostatni etap | Wanda Jakuboska | Polish | Starring Tatjana Gorecka, Antonina Gordon-Górecka, Barbara Drapinska and Aleksandra Slaska. First dramatic film about the known Holocaust. |
| 1948 | Poland Israel | Our children | Natan Gross / Shaul Goskind | Yiddish | Starring Shimon Dzigan and Israel Schumacher . |
| 1948 | U.S | The Lost Angels | Fred Zinnemann | English | Starring Montgomery Clift |
| 1949 | United States West Germany | Lang ist der Weg | Herbert B. Fredersdorf and Marek Goldstein | Yiddish and Polish |
1950s
| Year | country | Title | director | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Czechoslovakia | Daleká cesta | Alfréd Radok | Czech | |
| 1953 | U.S | The Juggler | Edward Dmytryk | English | Starring Kirk Douglas |
| 1956 | U.S | Singing in the Dark | Max Nosseck | English | Musical about a Holocaust survivor with amnesia . |
| 1959 | East Germany Bulgaria | Sterne | Konrad Wolf | German and Bulgarian | |
| 1959 | U.S | Ana Frank’s diary | George Stevens | English | Winner of three Oscar Awards , including Best Supporting Actress for Shelley Winters |
| 1959 | Italy Yugoslavia France | Kapo | Gillo Pontecorvo | Italian |
Documentary
1940s
| Year | country | Title | director | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | U.S | Death Mills | Billy Wilder | German | |
| 1945 | Poland | Majdanek: cmentarzysko Europy | Aleksander Ford | Polish | |
| 1945 | U.S | Nazi Concentration Camps 1 | George Stevens | English | Presented as evidence in the Nuremberg Trials . |
| 1945 | U.S | The Nazi Plan | George Stevens | English | Presented as evidence in the Nuremberg Trials . |
| 1945 | Yugoslavia | Jasenovac 2 | Gustav Gavrin and Kosta Hlavaty | ||
| Circa 1946 | United Kingdom | Memory of the Camps 3 | Alfred Hitchcock | English | Unfinished, later rebuilt by the US Public Broadcasting Service . |
| 1946 | U.S | Seeds of Destiny | Gene Fowler Jr. | English | It shows the devastation and requests funds for care. |
| 1946 | France | Nous Continuons | Yiddish | Trafficking in children survivors of the Holocaust. | |
| 1947 | Soviet Union | Trials of Nuremberg | C Svilov | Russian | Soviet Perspective of the Nuremberg Trials |
1950s
| Year | country | Title | director | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | France | Night and Fog | Alain Resnais | French | Written by Jean Cayrol , a fugitive from the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp . Music by Hanns Eisler . |
References
- Back to top↑ Nazi Concentration Camps (Nuremberg Trial Film) on Google Videos
- Back to top↑ Jasenovac at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Back to top↑ Memory of the Camps