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Top 10 Holocaust Films


how do you make a film about such
incomprehensible events welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 most
important Holocaust features of all time
what are you doing up here just a young
girl on that car to survive the gas
she’s still breathing
well there is really no way to fully
understand the events of the Holocaust
these movies and documentaries best
illustrate the horrors of one of the
greatest atrocities in human history
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number 10 Europa Europa this golden
globe-winning film is based on the true
story of solomon / L a German Jew who
hid from the Nazis at a communist
boarding school and then as a member of
the Hitler Youth based Oviatt agenda
you were perhaps no Holocaust movie is
able to show so many facets of the war
as Solomon’s surreal journey takes him
from Germany to occupied Poland to the
Soviet Union and back and in each place
he narrowly avoids capture store la
misma media is live but it Ruka meet an
arrest early wait there’s knife the
booth you know that’s the Nick why’d you
let me spit in a panic receipt number
nine in darkness yeah ways it ways it
was the boys so while not as famous as
the tale of Oscar Schindler
in darkness tells the true story of
Leopold socha another man who heroically
shielded Jews in Nazi occupied Poland
pretty guys bonds Eastern ethics you’re
a small-time thief with excellent
knowledge of the underground social
moves a group of Jews from sewer to
sewer to sewer for the duration of the
war agrees emma stone blossom little bit
you possibly school that’s it was lit no
not a forestry no point a pasta pasta
pot see this moving tale is simply
unforgettable with its harrowing and
thrilling story and difficult to watch
scenes
number eight
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photo doc give us a vasila an acclaimed
autobiographical film by French director
Louis mouth
au revoir glaze Alfa tells the story of
two young boys who become friends at a
boarding school in nazi-occupied France
what do they should is it suppose say
the only problem is one of them happens
to be a Jew hiding from Hitler’s forces
Young’s refused to just say well if
you’ve got some hate well JC haystack
you lot eat while you can imagine what
happens next
the film shows how close two people can
become when one of them doesn’t know
that society wants him to hate the other
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Cemetery on V number seven judgment at
Nuremburg men sterilized because
political be a mockery made of
friendship and faith the murder of
children featuring one of the greatest
casts ever assembled Stanley Kramer’s
three-hour fictionalization details the
prosecution of members of the Nazi Party
long after the war ended there was fear
fear of today feel tomorrow fee of our
neighbors and fear of ourselves
nominated for a total of 11 Oscars
judgment at Nuremburg features
passionate speeches by such actors as
Spencer Tracy Burt Lancaster Judy
Garland and maximilian schell who
received the Oscar for his work
very few German knew what was going on
very few none of us knew what was
happening
the place is shown on these films
intelligent and persuasive the film is
famous as one of the greatest courtroom
dramas ever he told me that it was no
use to repeat my story because no one
would believe me
number six the Diary of Anne Frank
look at the sky aren’t the clouds
beautiful
nothing nothing day of all the films
based on the life of Anne Frank a young
girl whose family was forced into hiding
by the Nazis it is George Stevens
version that is perhaps the most iconic
I expect I should be describing what
it’s like to go and hide but I don’t
really know yet myself based on a
Pulitzer prize-winning play and using
shots of the actual Dutch house where
Frank’s family hid the film is best
known for moving performances by Milly
Perkins and Shelley Winters someone now
knows that we’re up here hiding it’s a
thief you think the tape is gonna go to
the green police and say I was robbing a
place here tonight and I heard a noise
above my head you think of teeth is
gonna do that nominated for eight
Academy Awards and winning three the
Diary of Anne Frank brings to life the
poignancy of Anne’s plate you know what
I do I think I can’t stand another
minute of being cooped up I think myself
outside number five life is beautiful
Johanna NuVinci face both deeply
touching and at times raucously funny
this movie follows a Jewish Italian
father and his family as they’re sent to
a concentration camp during World War
two oh oh yeah Mario spike got away he
carries that unit well let a visitor in
America tricks my effervescent writer
and director Roberto Benigni
portrays the father of the film who
devises elaborate schemes to protect his
son from the horrors of the camp
Kamisha Choki Choki no Jenna tree yes I
close itemize Ian Johnson is a sly or
trans vote yet one sitting Jamila Bundy
people rushing together we shall try
Dartmouth away I’m all right Mallory
though some disapproved of beninese use
of humor in a Holocaust setting the film
was a critical and commercial smash that
won several Oscars
number four Shoah so what happened was a
following see a transport of Jews was
announced to come at 2 o’clock so when
the transports that I have to go station
Spanish with the announcement came to
the SS one of the most ambitious
documentaries ever made Shoah took
French director Claude Landsman over 10
years to complete due to his attention
to detail which also led to a runtime of
over 9 hours is a tradition in the
concentration camp what sir that was a
considerable amount of political
prisoners trade unionists social
democrats communists putting his team in
danger
Landsman travelled to the sites of
concentration camps interviewed
survivors and even secretly recorded as
conversations with former Nazi officials
yeah I’m gay I don’t snitch tonsure
vital Jahi get more guy lovely the
result is the most comprehensive and
penetrating film on the Holocaust to
date which is considered by many to be a
masterpiece
they came in and told us said ouch is
this a furnished on Slugger glad there
are chronic people number three the
pianist can you help
oh how you need me yes well you need not
can you help us of all the feature films
on our list Roman Polanski’s 2002 story
of a Polish piano players struggle to
elude the Nazis is perhaps the most
engrossing Yuja was their first as
Vladislav Spillman Adrien Brody
navigates Warsaw and the audience
witnesses the war-torn city literally
crumble around him coveted my chances
here that’s your decision but when they
stone the flat throw yourself out the
window don’t let them get your life
winning three Oscars including statues
for both Brody and Holocaust survivor
Polanski the pianist is the raw survival
story of a man who will do whatever he
can to stay alive especially via Henan
Duncan soda then it got licked Mia it’s
a sign vanilla sweet volume to Minnesota
mirin glory
number two night and fog
name a pig’s ass 20 you naming periodic
devon degaul boredom was Sandiford Alma
ten years after the end of World War two
director Alan tiny and his French film
crew returned to visit and observed the
remaining Nazi concentration camps which
were so numerous many had yet to be torn
down ma’am evidence protocols avec une
fois the ocular ship as compared to
simply no I can’t console physician the
filmmakers blended new footage with
archival illustrating the sheer
magnitude and impact of the Holocaust in
terms of buildings and bodies Gareth hua
Lamanna defend emotional Bosma elephant
to the devotees for song you sang shil
Madame Zaza female is groovy oddly
enough it’s the little details like
entire warehouses full of empty shoes
that are perhaps the most chilling
images in this documentary a Yankee
discovered a thong
before we unveil our number one pick
here are a few honorable mentions
who are you she doesn’t speak German I
don’t even think she speaks you don’t
understand me she’s from a convoy I
didn’t imagine she’s form our speech but
attends eonni manner and his ambiance
now from n sequence once and again
I cannot get to your sides just points
unlock a dozen transparent hair is he
tossed acaba wouldn’t I cancer look like
he the unconditional surrender of
Germany has just been announced
number one Schindler’s List midnight
tonight the war is over
the film that introduced a new era of
discourse on the subject Steven
Spielberg’s unflinching masterpiece
tells the story of Oskar Schindler a
Nazi businessman who shielded over 1,000
of his Jewish workers from the wrath of
the Third Reich 600 Spielberg’s epic
vision trails Polish Jews as they’re
evacuated from their homes and forced
into ghettos and eventually
concentration camps mostly shot in black
and white to ensure its agelessness
Schindler’s List is punctuated by an
iconic shot of a single girl in a red
coat which begins Schindler’s
transformation from opportunist to hero
do you agree with our list which
holocaust film best highlighted the
horror of its subject matter for you
tomorrow you’ll begin the process of
looking for survivors of your families
in most cases you won’t find them for
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