Topic: Nazism

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Liam Neeson · Ben Kingsley · Ralph Fiennes · Caroline Goodall

Synopsis Schindler's List (1993) follows Oskar Schindler, a shrewd German businessman who arrives in Kraków during World War II. Initially seeking profit, he employs Jewish laborers in his factory. As the Holocaust intensifies, Schindler witnesses the brutal persecution of Jews by...

Direction Daniel Costelle · Isabelle Clarke

Cast Mathieu Kassovitz

Synopsis Apocalypse: The Second World War (TV Miniseries) (2009) is a gripping documentary series that chronicles the global conflict of World War II through rare, restored footage and firsthand accounts. Spanning six episodes, it vividly portrays the war's key events, from...

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Paulette Goddard · Jack Oakie · Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis The Great Dictator (1940) is a satirical comedy-drama directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin. The story follows a humble Jewish barber who, after suffering amnesia during World War I, returns to his country only to find it under the oppressive...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Carole Lombard · Jack Benny · Robert Stack · Stanley Ridges

Synopsis To Be or Not to Be (1942) is a daring wartime comedy set in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. The story follows a troupe of Polish actors who use their theatrical skills to outwit the invading forces. When a daring spy mission goes...

Direction Roberto Benigni

Cast Roberto Benigni · Nicoletta Braschi · Giorgio Cantarini · Marisa Paredes

Synopsis Life Is Beautiful (1997) follows Guido, a charming and imaginative Italian Jew, who uses humor and wit to win over his beloved Dora. Their idyllic life is shattered when World War II erupts, and they are sent to a concentration...

Direction Claude Lanzmann

Cast Simon Srebnik · Michael Podchlebnik · Motke Zaïdl · Hanna Zaïdl

Synopsis Claude Lanzmann directed this 9 1/2 hour documentary of the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage. He interviews survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis (whom he had to film secretly since though only agreed to be interviewed by audio)....

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Ingrid Bergman · Paul Henreid · Claude Rains

Synopsis In Casablanca (1942), Rick Blaine, a cynical American expatriate, runs a popular nightclub in the Moroccan city during World War II. When his former lover, Ilsa Lund, unexpectedly arrives with her husband, Victor Laszlo, a renowned resistance leader, Rick's world...

Direction Tony Kaye

Cast Edward Norton · Edward Furlong · Fairuza Balk · Stacy Keach

Synopsis American History X (1998) follows the story of Derek Vinyard, a former neo-Nazi leader, who is released from prison after serving time for a violent hate crime. Determined to prevent his younger brother, Danny, from following the same destructive path,...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast François Leterrier · Roland Monod · Charles Le Clainche · Maurice Beerblock

Synopsis April 1943, during WWII. Fontaine, a 27 years old young man who is a member of the French Resistance fighting against the nazis, is arrested by the Gestapo in order to be interrogated. Fontaine suspects that he will be executed,...

Direction John Sturges

Cast Steve McQueen · James Garner · Charles Bronson · Richard Attenborough

Synopsis The Great Escape (1963) follows a group of Allied prisoners of war during World War II who are transferred to a high-security German camp designed to hold escape-prone captives. Determined to break free, the prisoners devise an elaborate plan to...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Burt Lancaster · Richard Widmark · Marlene Dietrich

Synopsis Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) is a gripping courtroom drama set in post-World War II Germany. The film follows an American judge who presides over the trial of four German judges accused of crimes against humanity for their roles in the...

Direction Alain Resnais

Synopsis Night and Fog (1955) is a powerful documentary short that contrasts the serene present-day remnants of Nazi concentration camps with harrowing archival footage from World War II. Directed by Alain Resnais, the film juxtaposes tranquil landscapes with stark black-and-white images...

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Adrien Brody · Thomas Kretschmann · Maureen Lipman · Ed Stoppard

Synopsis The Pianist (2002) follows the harrowing journey of Władysław Szpilman, a talented Jewish pianist in Warsaw, as he struggles to survive the devastation of World War II. As the Nazis occupy Poland, Szpilman's life is upended, and he is forced...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Cary Grant · Ingrid Bergman · Claude Rains · Louis Calhern

Synopsis In Notorious (1946), a gripping tale of espionage and romance unfolds as a woman with a tarnished past is recruited by a government agent to infiltrate a group of Nazis in post-World War II Brazil. Tasked with seducing a key...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Hara · George Sanders · Walter Slezak

Synopsis A mild-mannered schoolteacher in a Nazi occupied town during WWII finds himself being torn between collaboration and resistance.

Direction Laurence Rees · Tilman Remme

Synopsis An examination of how a cultured people could have allowed Hitler's rise to power.

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Harrison Ford · Sean Connery · Alison Doody · Denholm Elliott

Synopsis It’s 1938 and Indy (Harrison Ford) receives word that his archaeologist dad, Professor Henry Jones (Sean Connery), has disappeared while on a quest for the Holy Grail. Indy embarks on a search for both his dad and the much-coveted artifact.

Direction Elem Klimov

Cast Alexei Kravchenko · Olga Mironova · Liubomiras Laucevicius · Vladas Bagdonas

Synopsis Come and See (1985) follows Florya, a young Belarusian boy who eagerly joins the Soviet partisans during World War II, only to witness the brutal horrors of Nazi occupation. As he traverses a ravaged landscape, his innocence is shattered by...

Direction Philipp Kadelbach

Cast Volker Bruch · Tom Schilling · Katharina Schüttler · Miriam Stein

Synopsis Generation War (TV Miniseries) (2013) follows five close friends in Berlin as World War II erupts in 1941. Idealistic brothers Wilhelm and Friedhelm enlist in the German army, while their Jewish friend Viktor faces persecution. Charlotte, a nurse, and Greta,...

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Nikolay Burlyaev · Valentin Zubkov · Yevgeni Zharikov · Stepan Krylov

Synopsis Ivan's Childhood (1962) follows Ivan, a 12-year-old boy orphaned by World War II, who works as a scout for the Soviet army. Haunted by memories of his lost family, he channels his grief into a fierce determination to fight the...