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Jun 28, 2024 · Lists about the Hitler's Germany, which Der Führer ruled through fascism from 1933 to 1945. Explore this curated list of the best movies about Nazis and Nazi Germany, including Schindler's List, The Pianist, and more - ranked by viewers.
Parents need to know that Bad Grandmas is a comedy about a group of older female friends (including Florence Henderson and Pam Grier) who get mixed up in violent crime. While no blood or gore is shown on-screen -- and most of the violence is played for laughs -- it could be disturbing to younger viewers.
- Srikant Chellappa
- Michael Ordona
- Florence Henderson, Pam Grier, Judge Reinhold
- The Boy in The Striped Pajamas
- The Boat Is Full
- Naked Among Wolves
- The Counterfeiters
- Divided We Fall
- Escape from Sobibor
- Kapo
- Playing For Time
- In Darkness
- Korczak
Although some critics panned Mark Herman’s British venture, ‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas’, for overt commercialism and alleged departure from reality, it is undeniable that the movie is an important human document narrating the horrors of the Holocaust. The film tries to explore the brutalities of a Nazi Extermination Camp through the eyes of tw...
While all of Europe plunged itself into a devastating war, there was one country that wanted nothing to do with it. Switzerland closed itself from whatever its neighbours were fighting over and remained silent and unattached even in its aftermath. While it prizes itself for saving its people from the horrors of war, it isn’t completely blameless wh...
Based on the book of the same name by Bruno Apitz, this German drama is set in the Buchenwald concentration camp. The prisoners of the camp rescue a young boy from a Polishghetto and hide him amongst themselves. They are perfectly aware of the fate that awaits them if the soldiers find out about it. But more than what happens to them, they are conc...
The winner of Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2007, ‘The Counterfeiters’ is based on the life of a man called Adolf Burger. He would forge documents for fellow Jews to save them from deportation. When caught by the police, he is sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Owing to his unique talent, the Nazis force him to forge th...
This Academy Award-nominated film follows the story of a Czech couple who reluctantly allow a young Jewish man to find refuge in their house after he escapes from a concentration camp. The tension in the house is heightened with their own marital problems as well as the frequent visits of a Nazi co-worker who has grown suspicious of them.
‘Escape from Sobibor’ is a Golden Globe-winning film that is based on the mass escape of Jewish prisoners from Sobibor concentration camp. When Jews are brought to the camp, they are asked to choose their particular trades. Those left with nothing to contribute are killed in gas chambers. When the prisoners realise that they are in a death camp and...
When faced with an impossible situation, a person will do anything to survive. ‘Kapo’ tells one such story of survival. At the centre of this Academy Award-nominated movie, is a 14-year-old girl named Edith. Her parents perish in the concentration camps, but she survives with the help of the camp doctor. She assumes the identity of a non-Jewish gir...
Fania Fenelon was a famous French singer. Because of being Jewish, she was sent to the concentration camps. ‘Playing for Time’ is the story of her time in Auschwitz. When recognized as the famous musician, Fania is allowed to join a group of the female orchestra that plays for the Nazis. The members of the orchestra are treated better than other pr...
This Academy Award-nominated film follows the story of a man named Leopold Socha, a Polish Catholic working as a sewage inspector in German-occupied Lwow. One day, he discovers a group of Polish Jews hiding in the sewers to escape execution in the camps. Instead of reporting them, Socha decides to capitalise on this opportunity. He demands payment ...
When brought to the camps, the children were the first to be gassed, along with old and sick people. Janusz Korczak was a paediatrician in Warsaw who came up with an idea to save as many children as he could from this dark fate. He opened an orphanage in an abandoned school and housed the children whose parents had been sent to the camps or were ki...
Jan 27, 2015 · Swing Kids puts its audience in a difficult position: As a teen in Nazi Germany, how do you avoid being complicit in the Reich? Three young men, Peter, Thomas, and Arvid, are only interested in the illegal underground jazz scene, but soon find themselves struggling to avoid the recruiting efforts of the Hitler Youth organization.
May 21, 2021 · The story is told by 9-year-old Anna, who observes her parents’ fear, frustrations, and fury as the Nazi Party rises to power in Germany. Kerr, the daughter of renowned theater critic Alfred Kerr and composer Julia Kerr, grew up in a suburb of Berlin with her older brother, Michael.
- Rachel Myerson
May 7, 2018 · An autobiographical film, ‘Au revoir les enfants’ follows the bond two students share at a boarding school in Nazi-occupied France when one gets to know that the other is a Jew hiding from the Nazi soldiers.
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