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Jan 30, 2019 · Soviet troops liberated starving survivors at Auschwitz in January 1945. The Holocaust mini-series tells emotional personal stories of everyday people - easy for viewers to identify with and...
On its fortieth anniversary, in January 2019, the series was rebroadcast on German television, in connection with Alice Agneskirchner's documentary, How the Holocaust Came To TV, which described the impact of the broadcast on the original German audience.
May 24, 2024 · What does it mean — for the entertainment industry, and for the broader project of remembrance — to have so much Holocaust TV? Are the shows any good, or are they at least accurate?
- HOLOCAUST (1978) (NBC limited series) Director: Marvin J. Chomsky. Writer: Gerald Green. Starring James Woods, Meryl Streep, Michael Moriarty, Blanche Baker, Tovah Feldshuh, David Warner, Rosemary Harris, Sam Wanamaker.
- PLAYING FOR TIME (1980) (CBS TV movie) Director: Daniel Mann. Writer: Arthur Miller. Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Maud Adams, Christine Baranski, Shirley Knight, Verna Bloom, Marisa Berenson.
- WAR AND REMEMBRANCE (1988-89) (ABC limited series) Director: Dan Curtis. Writers: Dan Curtis, Earl W. Wallace, Herman Wouk, based on Wouk’s novel. Starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, John Gielgud, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant, Polly Bergen.
- THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (1967, 1980, 1987, 1988, 2001, 2009) Writers/Directors/Cast: Various. The famed 1947 book “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank has generated a number of successful dramatizations, including a 1955 Tony Award-winning play and a 1959 Oscar-winning film.
- Schindler's List (1993) Steven Spielberg's staggering biopic starring Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a wartime industrialist credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews, is widely considered to be one of the best films ever made.
- The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) Anne Frank's posthumously published The Diary of a Young Girl is the basis for numerous adaptations, most famously a Pulitzer Prize-winning 1955 play and George Stevens' acclaimed 1959 film.
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008) Hugo's Asa Butterfield stars alongside Vera Farmiga and David Thewlis in a film adaption of the 2006 novel about a forbidden friendship between two boys on either side of a concentration camp's barbed wire fence.
- Shoah (1985) Running over nine hours, Claude Lanzmann's documentary ("Shoah" means "the catastrophe in Hebrew) eschews any historical footage in favor of interviews with survivors, witnesses and perpetrators.
May 8, 2024 · Viewers witness suffering that fits our broadest conceptions of the camps: sadistic Nazis; lines of naked bodies slouching towards death; Jews praying and singing to reassert their humanity. The...
Holocaust: With Joseph Bottoms, Tovah Feldshuh, Rosemary Harris, Tony Haygarth. The saga of a Jewish family's struggle to survive the horror of Nazi Germany's systematic marginalization and extermination of their community.
