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1. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
R | 153 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent
Votes: 1,592,494 | Gross: $120.54M
2. The Pianist (2002)
R | 150 min | Biography, Drama, Music
During WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox
Votes: 917,248 | Gross: $32.57M
3. Defiance (I) (2008)
R | 137 min | Action, Drama, History
Jewish brothers in German-occupied Eastern Europe escape into a Belorussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-combatants.
Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos
Votes: 155,966 | Gross: $28.64M
4. 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: 9,890
5. Sobibor (2018)
TV-MA | 118 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky organizes a revolt and mass escape of prisoners from Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943.
Director: Konstantin Khabenskiy | Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Christopher Lambert, Felice Jankell, Dainius Kazlauskas
Votes: 5,808
6. Uprising (2001 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 177 min | Drama, War
Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
Director: Jon Avnet | Stars: Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer, Jon Voight
Votes: 5,135
7. Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, History, War
A gripping account of the prisoners uprising at the Nazi extermination camp of Sobibor in 1943.
Director: Claude Lanzmann | Stars: Yehuda Lerner, Francine Kaufmann, Claude Lanzmann
Votes: 601 | Gross: $0.03M
8. Pillar of Fire (1981)
50 min | Documentary, History
Documentary mini series about the History of Zionism.
Stars: Yossi Banai, Ian McKellen
Votes: 79
9. Partisans of Vilna (1986)
130 min | Documentary
This film tells the story of the men and women who formed the Jewish partisan movement in Vilna, Lithuania, during World War II.
Director: Joshua Waletzky | Stars: Abba Kovner, Alexander Bogen, Roberta Wallach
Votes: 100
10. Swastika
Action, Drama | Pre-production
The Jewish Resistance in the streets of Warsaw, Poland during the Nazi occupation.
Director: Orestes Matacena | Stars: Orestes Matacena, Ruben Rabasa, Orna Rachovitsky
11. Ghetto Uprising - The Untold Story (2017)
61 min | Documentary, Animation, Drama
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising has become a symbol of heroism throughout the world, but it's generally accepted story is incomplete. Among the fighters was a group that was not granted ... See full summary »
Directors: Yuval Haimovich-Zuser, Simon Shechter | Stars: Yitzak Arad, Moshe Arens, Tatiana Bobrikova, Konstantin Boyko
Votes: 26
12. Operation Shtreimel (1984)
89 min | Action, Comedy, War
Three friends, with the aid of an American agent, set out to knock the German Army off its feet.
Director: Benni Shvily | Stars: Ya'ackov Ben-Sira, Yehuda Efroni, Walter Flash, Beatrice Geier
Votes: 41
13. Flames in the Ashes (1985)
96 min | Documentary
This film, the third in a trilogy examines Jewish resistance during World War II.
Directors: Jacques Ehrlich, Haim Gouri
14. Le Tunnel de Drancy (1993)
48 min | Documentary
Former members of the Jewish Resistance recount the story of their internment at the Drancy concentration camp, their attempt to escape via a tunnel in November 1943, and their eventual escape from the train taking them to Auschwitz.
Director: Claudine Drame | Stars: Roger Schandalow, André Ullmo
15. There, Where One Has Lived (2016)
6 min | Short
"There, where a person has lived, their spirit continues to dwell." « Là, où une personne a vécu, son esprit continue à y habiter. » "Overture, Shabbat Evening Prayer Service and Kaddish" (... See full summary »
Director: Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham | Stars: Frédéric Boisseau, Philippe Braham, Franck Brinsolaro, Cabu
16. Sobibor: The Plan, the Revolt, the Escape (2010)
19 min | Documentary, Short, History
The survivor accounts of the planning, the revolt and the escape from any Nazi concentration/death camp resulting one month later in the camp's destruction by the humiliated Nazis.
Directors: Karen Lynne Bloom, Richard Bloom | Stars: Philip Bialowitz, Thomas 'Toivi' Blatt, Chaim Engel, Selma Engel-Wijnberg
17. The Same Snowy Ground (2020)
43 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
A journey through a place of an eternal past; where the grandson of a Jewish partisan sets out to experience the dramatic events and places that shaped his grandfather's war time.
Director: Matan Tal
18. The Brave Fighters: Resistance Stories Near Hitler's Ukrainian Headquarters (2010)
60 min | Documentary, Action, History
During World War II, ordinary citizens rescued many lives near Hitler's Headquarters in Ukraine. These are their stories.
Director: Edward Halitsky | Stars: Roxanne Halitsky, Steve Halitsky
Votes: 11
19.
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
Episode:
Corruption
(2005)
TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary, History, War
By 1943, corruption is running rampant at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The camp also gains another source of income - clothes and valuables taken from Jews arriving to be gassed.
Directors: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge | Stars: Gert Heidenreich, Linda Hunt, Samuel West, Dario Gabbai
Votes: 174
20.
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
21.
Nazi Hunters (2009– )
Episode:
The Jewish Avengers
(2010)
Documentary
Nazi Hunters examines the story of Holocaust survivors who in the wake of World War II decide to enact a brutal and shocking "eye for an eye" revenge against the Germans. They kidnapped ... See full summary »
Stars: Alisdair Simpson, Chaim Miller, Dina Porat, Menachem
Votes: 19