The Stranger (Orson Wells & Loretta Young) 1946
(Includes early footage of the Holocaust)
The Diary of Anne Frank (with Millie Perkins & Shelly Winters) 1959
*The Pawnbroker (with Rod Steiger) 1964
(A concentration camp survivor suffers flashbacks of his past Nazi imprisonment while living in the ghetto of New York.)
*The Hiding Place (with Julie Harris) 1975
(The film is based on the novel by Corrie Ten Boom, and deals with her family’s imprisonment for allowing Jews to hide in their home.)
Marathon Man (with Laurence Olivier & Dustin Hoffman) 1976
*Playing For Time (with Vanessa Redgrave) 1980
(The film is based on Fania Fenelon’s experience as a female prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she and a group of classical musicians were spared in return for performing music for their captors.)
*Sophie’s Choice (with Meryl Streep & Kevin Kline) 1982
(Sophie is a Polish immigrant who is forced to choose which one of her two children is gassed and which proceeds to the concentration camp.)
*Au Revoir, Les Enfants (1987)
A French boarding school seems to be a haven during WWII until a new student arrives with a secret.
Schindler’s List - (Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, & Ralph Fiennes) 1995
*Voices of the Children – (Documentary) 1996
The documentary tells the story of three people who were imprisoned as children in the Terezin concentration camp. It traces their lives through personal drawings and journals.)
*Apt Pupil (with Brad Renfro & John Hurt) 1998
This film l is considered a study in cruelty with Nazism only serving as a vehicle for the capacity of evil.
*The Pianist (with Adrien Brody) 2002
Life is Beautiful (with Roberto Benigni) 1998
*The Last Days (Documentary) 1998
*Paper Clips (2004)
An inspiring documentary that captures how middle school students in a small rural community promised to honor every lost soul by collecting one paper clip for each individual exterminated by the Nazis.
*Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
This is a BBC production that uses Archival footage and the latest academic discoveries to detail the atrocities of a camp that was known as the “killing factory”.