![]() | Unlikely Heroes
Buy used from: $29.99 Stories of Jewish resistance not part of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Ben Kingsley narates.
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![]() | Everything Is Illuminated
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.75 2005 art flick masterpiece. A visually beautiful, serio-comic, evocative, personal, and different, yet powerful, approach to remembering the Holocaust.
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![]() | Out of the Ashes
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $7.08 Docudrama starring Christine Lahti as Dr. G. Perl being interrogated by INS panel for US citizenship (which would determine whether she could practice medicine) and in flashback recalling her Aucshwitz experience with Mengele (Jonathan Cake, chilling) as INS evaluates her ethics. Beau Bridges as INS questioner. Based on Perl's book "I Was a Doctor at Auschwitz."
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![]() | Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $8.05 Recommend buying this famous movie solo, not as part of the Spielberg 2-pack to include Munich, which is a delusional movie, dangerous to the survival of Israel.
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![]() | Schindler (1983 documentary) [VHS]
Buy used from: $9.00 Not be confused with Schindler's List, this is the VHS documentary look at Schindler, faults and all. Interviews with widow, driver, and those Schindler saved. Footage of Schindler himself.
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![]() | The Long Way Home
Buy used from: $64.95 Superb documentary better to buy than only rent, as it should be shared, rewatched, shown to history classes, etc. Jewish refugees/displaced persons after liberation and the Holocaust-Israel connection, as well as the international reaction to the situation, British betrayal, etc. Warning: very graphic (living skeletons, corpse mounds, etc)
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![]() | Amen
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.98 Suspense drama. Two men plead with Vatican to protest exterminations of Jews--a chemist SS officer (true person) who supplied Zyklon B for vermin, then saw it used for gassing Jews, and begged Catholics (& Protestants) to intercede, and a priest (fictional). Sickening detachment, infuriating indifference, conspiracy of silence. Subtly brilliant film, courageous in topic confronted.
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![]() | Bonhoeffer
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $12.65 Documentary on martyred pastor Bonhoeffer in context of messed up Church that was mostly complicit with Nazis. Captivating quality production gives insight into past shame and heroics, while suggesting serious applications for today's Christians, individually and corporately.
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![]() | Into The Arms Of Strangers - Stories Of The Kindertransport
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $5.08 Acad. Award winning documentary about the 10,000 children that left parents for safety in Britain
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![]() | The Pianist
Buy used from: $2.88 Adrian Brody masterfully stars as pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman in this dramatization of his survival story. While both documentaries and dramas are helpful, seeing the events play out in detail has a different effect than just hearing them recounted. Takes place in Poland and the cinematography is excellent. Won 3 Academy Awards.
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![]() | The Grey Zone
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $6.07 Partly based on eyewitness account by Jewish Auschwitz doctor, the drama depicts the uprising by the 12th of .13 Jewish Sonderkommando units (Jews who helped in extermination process by ushering into gas chambers, etc), who destroyed almost 1/2 of Auschwitz ovens.
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![]() | Gray Matter
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $13.01 Decades after the Nazi eugenics program hundreds of murdered handicapped kids' brains were still being experimented on.
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![]() | Uprising
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $7.90 Drama about the Jewish resistance known as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Big name stars (David Schwimmer, Jon Voight, Donald Sutherland, Hank Azaria, Leelee Sobieski.)
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![]() | Triumph of the Will
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $17.02 2006 release of the Nazi propaganda film circulated to rally Nazi support.
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![]() | Genocide
Buy used from: $44.95 Academy Award Best Documentary 1981. Elizabeth Taylor and Orson Welles narrate.
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![]() | Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $14.55 Based on true events of Wallenberg's attempts to secure Hungarian Jews' asylum in Sweden.
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![]() | Auschwitz - Inside the Nazi State
Buy new: $24.99 / Used from: $18.75 Surprisingly good considering it's by BBC--usual documentary approach: archival footage, testimonies, reenactments.
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![]() | Never Forget [VHS]
Buy used from: $12.49 Based on true story of Holocaust survivor's ingenius tactic to confront Holocaust denying organization by getting himself sued so court could acknowledge Holocaust. Leonard Nimoy, Blythe Danner.
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![]() | Shoah
Buy used from: $399.99 This 9-1/2 hour documentary is expensive, but it can be checked out at some public libraries.
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![]() | Billy Graham Presents: The Hiding Place
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $7.31 Classic story of righteous Gentile Corrie ten Boom and her family. Corrie was only family member to survive.
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![]() | Nuremberg
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $4.50 DVD not VHS(despite photo); dramatization of Nuremberg trial of 21 Nazis. Alec Baldwin.
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![]() | Life Is Beautiful
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $4.70 Beloved classic (drama).
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![]() | The Goebbels Experiment
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $19.84 From the diaries of Goebbels we hear the words of Hitler's master propagandist.
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![]() | Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
Buy new: $20.49 / Used from: $14.25 Docu-drama about Sophie, her brother and others in the White Rose movement, who got busted distributing resistance leaflets and maintained their integrity, not betraying their conscience avoid execution. Some Christian themes (Sophie was Protestant), but little explicit that'd be offensive or even noticed by nonChristian viewers.
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![]() | Escape from Sobibor
Buy used from: $9.06 Based on the mass escape from Sobibor death camp. Suspenseful.
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![]() | Secret Lives - Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $8.99 Documentary of adults who were saved from Holocaust by being hidden as children by rescuers from all walks of life-explores emotional connections.
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![]() | Anne Frank Remembered
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.25 Academy Award Best Doccumentary. Kenneth Branagh narrates. (Also recommend the other A. Frank movies.)
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![]() | Conspiracy
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![]() | Sugihara - Conspiracy of Kindness
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $11.50 Documentary about Japanese Righteous Gentile Sugihara, who as Japanese Counsul to Lithuania saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust.
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![]() | Fateless
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.99 Rather existentialist (sort of like a cross between Kafka's "The Trial" and, more especially, Camus' "The Stranger"), this based-on-true-story drama follows a Hungarian teen sent to the concentration camps and his return to Hungary.
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![]() | Berga: Soldiers of Another War
Simple documentary worth seeing because of uniqueness of topic: American GIs separated from other POWs and taken to slave labor camps b/c suspected of being Jewish.
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![]() | Downfall
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $6.36 Drama of the last days of Hitler, the Goebbels family, and others in his private headquarters. Largely based on eyewitness account from Hitler's secretary, it humanizes Hitler too much--neglects his antiJewish remarks in will dictated to secretary, for ex. Blood, amputating of body parts, some nudity.
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![]() | Blind Spot - Hitler's Secretary
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $8.32 Documentary of Hitler's secretary being interviewed sharing her recollections about her experience--her naivete, Hitler's human side, the shock of truth, and her later regret. Filmed shortly before her death; no archival footage.
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![]() | American Experience - America and the Holocaust
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $8.00 Shameful USA action/inaction. (For US corporate shame see "IBM and the Holocaust" VHS, not on Amazon)
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![]() | Paper Clips
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.99 Documentary about White, Protestant, rural Tennessee community's middle school simple awareness-raising Holocaust Project gone huge--collected clips as symbols of victims, with clips accompanied by stories, Holocaust survivors visit, a boxcar memorial is set up. Healing.
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![]() | Shtetl: A Journal of the Holocaust [VHS]
Buy used from: $3.82 Excellent 3 hour VHS, survivor from Bransk, Poland shtetl (wiped out in a day) joins gentile historian to find out what happened when 25,000 Bransk Jews died in 24 hours.
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![]() | Lost Children of Berlin [VHS]
Buy used from: $4.29 (A Spielberg/Survivors of Shoah movie)1996 pilgrimage/reunion and pre-war reflections of 50 Jews who were from the last Jewish school in Berlin to be shut down.(Also, "Survivors of the Holocaust"VHS )
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![]() | Zvi: The Return [VHS]
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $17.00 Zvi, Holocaust survivor and Israeli-Arab war hero revisits Poland. (Also see, "Elie Wiesel Goes Home," "Kovino Ghetto," "Janovska" and "Zamir")
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![]() | Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $10.78 2005 release of the 1962 Academy Award Best Documentary about Hitler. Marlene Dietrich narrates.
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