Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "the-holocaust"

1. Europa: The Last Battle (2017)

746 min | Documentary, History, War

World War II revisionist film that claims Jews deliberately caused both World Wars--and that Hitler was only trying to save Germany from the Jews--as part of a plot to found the nation of Israel.

Director: Tobias B. | Stars: Muhammad Ali, Winston Churchill, Henry Ford, Joseph Goebbels

Votes: 2,345

2. Escape from Sobibor (1987 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 143 min | Drama, History, War

German death camp in Sobibor, Poland, killed two hundred fifty thousand Jews. It had the most successful prisoner escape in World War II on October 14, 1943.

Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula, Rutger Hauer, Hartmut Becker

Votes: 9,826

3. Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)

48 min | Documentary, History, War

The history of the Final Solution phase of the Nazi Holocaust, particularly with the most infamous of the death camps.

Stars: Samuel West, Linda Hunt, Gert Heidenreich, Horst Günter Marx

Votes: 4,653

4. Berlin 1945 (2020)

52 min | Documentary, History, War

Life in Berlin in 1945 before, during and after the battle of Berlin seen through the eyes of those who were there at the time from common Berliners to Allied troops.

Stars: Simon Brauer, Konstantin Achmed Bürger, Yvette Coetzee, Lucie David

Votes: 319

5. The Last Days of the Big Lie (2009 Video)

125 min | Documentary, History

A controversial documentary that debunks many of the facts presented in the Oscar winning Holocaust themed documentary The Last Days, produced by Steven Spielberg. Throughout the film, its ... See full summary »

Director: Eric Hunt | Stars: Nayirah al-Sabah, Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah, Leon Bass, Michael Berenbaum

Votes: 99

6. Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )

Documentary, History, War

It showcases the twisted motivations and origins of the SS (the Schutzstaffel), which was Nazi Germany's paramilitary unit that was a key architect of the Holocaust.

Stars: Richard John Evans, Bastian Hein, James Newton, Alexandra Richie

Votes: 17

7. The Last Survivors (2019 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, History

Documentary compiling the testimonies of the last remaining Holocaust survivors living in Britain, all of whom were children at the time, and following them over the course of a year as they embark upon personal and profound journeys.

Director: Arthur Cary

Votes: 109

8. Child of the Forest

Biography, Drama, War | Announced

Based on the award-winning book, Child of the Forest is a 7-part streaming series chronicling the life of Holocaust survivor and living witness Charlene Perlmutter Schiff. Known as "Musia" ... See full summary »

Director: Joanne Hock

9. One Day You'll Understand (2008)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama

A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.

Director: Amos Gitai | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Hippolyte Girardot, Emmanuelle Devos, Dominique Blanc

Votes: 374 | Gross: $0.15M

10. Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II (1992 TV Movie)

90 min | Documentary, War

An account of Black American soldiers in World War II who combated racism in the segregated military and on the home front. In April 1945, some Black American soldiers were among the first ... See full summary »

Directors: William Miles, Nina Rosenblum | Stars: Denzel Washington, Louis Gossett Jr., Leon Bass, Benjamin Bender

Votes: 98

11. Battle for Warsaw (1978)

Not Rated | 48 min | Documentary, History, War

Using rare newly found footage and eye-witness accounts from survivors, 'Battle for Warsaw' tells the tragic story of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising in which nearly a quarter of a million Poles lost their lives.

Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Bernard Archard, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Wladyslaw Sikorski

Votes: 16

12. 1944: Should We Bomb Auschwitz? (2019 TV Movie)

59 min | Documentary, Drama, History

After two men escape from the death camp at Auschwitz to tell the world the details of the Nazi genocide there, the Allies face a moral dilemma: to stop further killings, should we bomb Auschwitz?

Director: Tim Dunn | Stars: Nikolaus Wachsmann, Deborah Lipstadt, Michael Berenbaum, Rebecca Erbelding

Votes: 85

13. Butterflies in Berlin - Diary of a Soul Split in two (2019)

30 min | Animation, Short, Biography

Are you willing to pay the cost of being yourself, even if it differs from and challenges others? Find the courage to be yourself to inspire an awareness of diversity, to break down the barriers of discrimination.

Director: Monica Manganelli

Votes: 146

14. Remember Us: The Hungarian Hidden Children (2020)

149 min | Documentary, History

A documentary about the hidden children of The Holocaust.

Director: Rudy Vegliante | Stars: Judy Abrams, John Armstrong, Marika Barnett, Jan Beatty

Votes: 16

15. Voices Across the Divide (2013)

57 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Millions of dollars are spent on campus groups and in the media, aggressively promoting an Israel-right-or-wrong political stand and actively attacking students, professors, writers, and ... See full summary »

Director: Alice Rothchild

16. Murder of the Jews (1981 TV Movie)

110 min | Documentary, History

The testimony of Germans and Austrians who were part of the Nazi murder machine. Everything from ordinary citizens recruited to the German armed forces, to the SS /Schutzstaffel, or staff ... See full summary »

Director: Alexandre Szombati | Stars: Wolfgang Dorchel, Helmut Frank, Kurt Franz, Hans Hellmunk

17. Confronting Holocaust Denial with David Baddiel (2020 TV Movie)

59 min | Documentary, History

Investigating the history and modern face of Holocaust denial.

Director: Laurence Turnbull | Star: David Baddiel

Votes: 84

18. Never Give Up: The Man Behind National Animal Rights Day (2022)

13 min | Short, Documentary

Meet the former Israeli officer and second generation to Holocaust survivors, who created National Animal Rights Day - a global memorial ceremony for all animals killed by humans, commemorated in more than 50 countries around the world.

Director: Jane Velez-Mitchell | Stars: Aylam Orian, Lindsey Baker, Carole Davis

19. One Man, Four Lives (2013)

26 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

Emmy® Award winner Allen Morris captures the emotional conflict of denying one's heritage and faith while coming to terms with a world that allowed the unspeakable. Born in Poland, one of ... See full summary »

Director: Allen Morris

20. Berlin's Jewish Museum: A Personal Tour with Daniel Libeskind (2001)

58 min | Documentary

This extraordinary haunting building, a zig-zag form reflecting an invisible matrix of addresses of Jewish Berliners who once lived in the area, is Daniel Libeskind's first commission. It ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Blackwood | Stars: Daniel Libeskind, Alan Riding

21. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: Genocide: 1941-1945 (1974)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

The history of the Nazi persecution of the Jews, showing events leading to the "Final Solution". Footage and Interviews with SS officers and Jewish survivors from various countries describe... See full summary »

Director: Michael Darlow | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Karl Wolff, Wilhelm Hoettl, Avraham Kochavi

Votes: 451

22. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: Inside the Reich: Germany - 1940-1944 (1974)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

Germany is jubilant after the surrender of France. Then the unsuccessful expansion of the war to include Russia and England gradually turns German morale from joy to fatalism. Even der ... See full summary »

Stars: Laurence Olivier, Marlene Tucking, Hans Kehrl, Christabel Bielenberg

Votes: 388

23. My Grandparents' War (2019– )
Episode: Helena Bonham Carter (2019)

47 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Helena Bonham Carter goes in search of the truth behind her relatives' involvement in World War II. Both sets of her grandparents, one pair in France the other in England, were unconventional war heroes.

Director: Francis Hanly | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Caroline Catz

Votes: 62

24. Peston (2018– )
Episode: Episode #5.11 (2020)

47 min | News, Talk-Show

Robert discusses with his guests - Christmas, the ban on the sale of petrol and diesel cars in ten years, ending homelessness, Jeremy Corbyn's expulsion from the Labour Party and Dominic Cummings's departure from Downing Street.

Director: Erron Gordon | Stars: Robert Peston, Anushka Asthana, John Edmunds, George Eustice

25. Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012– )
Episode: On Broadway (2021)

TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History

Broadway superstar Audra McDonald learns about her proud ancestors who excelled at their line of work despite racism. The star of film, television and Broadway Mandy Patinkin learns about his Jewish ancestors who perished in Europe.

Directors: Sabin Streeter, Krista Whetstone | Stars: Sean 'Diddy' Combs, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Adolf Hitler, Audra McDonald

Votes: 34

26. The Nostradamus Effect (2009– )
Episode: The Third Antichrist (2009)

Documentary, History

Several religious traditions refer to an Antichrist. This program focuses on Eurocentric interpretations of Nostradamus' three Antichrist's which cast Napoleon and Hitler as the first two, ... See full summary »

Directors: Luke Ellis, Richard Monahan | Stars: Phil Crowley, Joseph Eid, Arick Salmea

Votes: 36

27. World War Weird (2017– )
Episode: Episode #1.2 (2017)

Documentary, History, War

Were strange glowing orbs spotted by night pilots in WWII a secret German weapon or alien life? Tune in to hear about some wartime weirdness, including an army of killer bats.

Director: Pascal Hughes | Stars: Joshua Levine, Andrew Gough, Stephen Wisdom, Nick Pope

28. World War Weird (2017– )
Episode: Episode #1.3 (2017)

Documentary, History, War

Stalin's canine army, Rommel's hidden hoard of Nazi gold, and mysterious circles reported by RAF pilots across Britain. Hear about war at its weirdest in this intriguing series.

Director: Pascal Hughes | Stars: Stephen Wisdom, Guy Walters, Matthew Green, Kate Vigurs

29. World War Weird (2017– )
Episode: Episode #2.3 (2018)

Documentary, History, War

Crossword puzzles in a national newspaper begin to attract the attention of MI5, the answers are code words for the upcoming D-Day operation. Is this the work of a spy?

Director: Mike Ibeji | Stars: Andrew Robertshaw, Martin K.A. Morgan, Guy Walters, Joshua Levine

30. Apocalypse Hitler attaque à l'Est (2021)
Episode: Conquérir l'Espace Vital (2021)

Documentary, History, War

June 1941, Hitler invades the USSR: he wants to conquer this "Living space" of which he dreams for his Reich, and conquer the largest country in the world.

Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rashbrook, Nathan Rippy, Martin Bormann

Votes: 35

31. Apocalypse Hitler attaque à l'Est (2021)
Episode: La Lutte décisive (2021)

Documentary, History, War

October 1941: as Hitler believes his triumph imminent, his men and tanks are freezing where they stand. Meanwhile, the Red Army consolidates his positions.

Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rashbrook, Nathan Rippy, Lavrenti Beria

Votes: 33

32. War Stories with Mark Felton (2019– )
Episode: Auschwitz - The 1944 Revolt (2021)

28 min | Documentary

The Auschwitz Birkenau was designed an built to perform mass executions. But not all prisoners were immediately slated for death. Many served as slave labor in the munitions camps nearby. ... See full summary »

Star: Mark Felton

33. Rise of the Nazis (2019–2023)
Episode: The Home Front (2022)

Documentary, History

Facing defeat on the Eastern Front, Hitler retreats. Deep rifts emerge, and his inner circle vies for power. The resistance gets a student voice, and an enemy within plots to kill Hitler.

Director: Julian Jones | Stars: Richard John Evans, Pablo de Orellana, Afua Hirsch, Christian Goeschel

Votes: 65

34. Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode: Hitler's Last Days (2000)

TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, History, War

Secret Nazi attempts to turn the tide of war as Berlin crumbled. Joseph Goebbel's diaries provide a fresh understanding of life inside Hitler's bunker in the final days of the Reich.

Stars: Charlton Heston, Thomas B. Allen, Thomas Fuchs, Julian Lieb

35. Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode: Bio-Chemical Weapons

TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

Get a closer look at chemical and biological agents, the deadliest of secret weapons. From mustard gas artillery shells used along the trenches in WWI to the U. S. gas stockpiles in the ... See full summary »

Stars: Charlton Heston, Matthew Meselson, John Moon, Mark Wheelis

36. Adolf Hitler's War (2020)
Episode: Vernichtsungskrieg (2020)

Documentary, History, War

Adolf Hitler has his mind on making Germany into a great empire by expanding eastwards. but his invasion of Poland tips the world into a violent and bloody war.

Directors: Michael Cove, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Kate Reynolds, Tomasz Szarota, Karol Mazur, Ihar Melnikau

37. Adolf Hitler's War (2020)
Episode: A Superhuman Act of Inhumanity (2020)

Documentary, History, War

Betrayed, Stalin fights the German army in the Soviet states. The German occupation policies lead to the first extermination policies "undesirables".

Directors: Michael Cove, Mike Kenneally | Stars: David Stahel, Alexander Vershinin, Vitaly Makarevich, Vasil Pavlov

38. Adolf Hitler's War (2020)
Episode: Moscow Is Behind Us (2020)

Documentary, History, War

As Hitler's troops advance, occupants in Ukraine, Belarus and Poland take the brunt of the occupying forces cruelty; and the first concentration camps are created.

Directors: Michael Cove, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Vasil Pavlov, Vitaly Makarevich, Sergei Kudryashov, Liudmila Rybchenko

39. Adolf Hitler's War (2020)
Episode: Now People Rise Up! (2020)

Documentary, History, War

The Red Army develops strength and Hitler's Spring Offensive is stopped at Stalingrad; and in the largest ghetto the inhabitants fight back in the Warsaw Uprising.

Directors: Michael Cove, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Kate Reynolds, Alex J. Kay, Vasil Pavlov, David Stahel

40. Adolf Hitler's War (2020)
Episode: Scorched Earth (2020)

Documentary, History, War

In Kursk, a battlefield the size of Wales, the tide turns and the Soviets push back, but as Germany retreats, they destroy all evidence of their genocidal activities.

Directors: Michael Cove, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Sergei Kudryashov, Alexander Vershinin, Ivan Patrylyak, Ihar Melnikau

41. Adolf Hitler's War (2020)
Episode: This Has Happened (2020)

Documentary, History, War

Hitler's War moves to its endgame as the Soviets cross the German border - with a death toll of over 40 million, a new scarred, Europe will emerge.

Directors: Michael Cove, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Aliaksandr Kakhanouski, David Stahel, Sergei Kudryashov, Dzmitry Kryvashei

42. TopTenz (2010– )
Episode: 10 Historic Landmarks That Were Shaped by War (2022)

11 min | Documentary

Whistler identifies ten historic battle sites that are interpreted for visitors.

Star: Simon Whistler

43. The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode: The Homeless, The Tempest-Tossed (1942-) (2022)

TV-14 | 131 min | Documentary, History

A group of government officials supports and finances rescue operations. Allied soldiers begin to liberate concentration camps and find mass graves. The public sees the sheer scale of the Holocaust.

Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Deborah Lipstadt, Eva Geiringer

Votes: 146

44. The Balkans in Flames (2021–2022)
Episode: Tinderbox Yugoslavia (2021)

Documentary, History, War

We begin with the search for traces in Yugoslavia's prehistory. Under the influence of changing rulers and empires, the country's structure is formed over centuries as home to five ... See full summary »

Stars: Misha Glenny, Marie-Janine Calic, Herfried Münkler, James Gow

45. Apocalypse, le crépuscule d'Hitler (2023)
Episode: Le grand choc (2023)

Documentary, History, War

Summer 1943: Hitler wants to turn the tide of the war. The brand-new armored vehicles he has been waiting for a long time are finally gathered at the Ukrainian border, in Kursk. They are ... See full summary »

Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rashbrook, Ion Antonescu, Blondi

Votes: 9

46. Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode: Bugging Hitler's Soldiers (2013)

TV-PG | 54 min | Documentary, History, War

An examination of British Intelligence's World War II systematic eavesdropping on German prisoners of war.

Director: Christopher Spencer | Stars: David Barrass, Nicholas Farrell, Jack Fortune, Rupert Frazer

Votes: 83

47. PBS Origin of Everything (2017– )
Episode: The History of Reparations (2020)

14 min | History

There is a long history of reparations in many different forms in the United States and around the world beginning after the American Civil War. Here is a brief summary of the scope of these reparations.

Star: Danielle Bainbridge

48. Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich (2023–2024)
Episode: Albert Speer (2023)

Documentary, History, War

In his role as Adolf Hitler's favourite architect, Albert Speer was a central figure in the Fuhrer's inner circle and helped cement his position in power.

Director: Tom Williams | Stars: Karina Urbach, Magnus Brechtken, Paul B. Jaskot, Alexander Schmidt

49. Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich (2023–2024)
Episode: Hans Kammler (2023)

Documentary, History, War

Hans Kammler's fingerprints can be found all over the Third Reich's most prestigious and deadly engineering projects, including rockets and concentration camps.

Director: Matt Bone | Stars: Paul B. Jaskot, Michael Allen, Nigel Jones, Karina Urbach

50. Apocalypse: Stalin (2015)
Episode: Le Possédé (2015)

TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

Episode covers Joseph Stalin's early life and his early political activities which resulted in his rose to power with the help of Lenin. October Revolution and Lenin's construction of new ... See full summary »

Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Doug Rand, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Inessa Armand

Votes: 92