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1. The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
PG-13 | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History
Keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, must save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion in WWII Poland.
Director: Niki Caro | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl, Timothy Radford
Votes: 46,562 | Gross: $17.45M
2. Holocaust (1978)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, History, Romance
The saga of a Jewish family's struggle to survive the horror of Nazi Germany's systematic marginalization and extermination of their community.
Stars: Joseph Bottoms, Tovah Feldshuh, Rosemary Harris, Tony Haygarth
Votes: 5,497
3. The Night of the Generals (1967)
Not Rated | 148 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1942, a Polish prostitute and German Agent is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three Generals, and Major Grau of German Intelligence seeks justice which ends up taking decades.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 8,770
4. The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 95 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Irena Sendler, a social worker who was part of the Polish underground during World War II and was arrested by the Nazis for saving the lives of nearly 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto.
Director: John Kent Harrison | Stars: Anna Paquin, Goran Visnjic, Michelle Dockery, Danuta Stenka
Votes: 4,658
5. 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: 5,120
6. Irena Sendler (II)
Biography, Drama, History | Pre-production
The story of Polish nurse and social worker Irena Sendler, and her activities with the Polish Underground Resistance in German-occupied Warsaw during World War 2.
Star: Gal Gadot
7. A Film Unfinished (2010)
Unrated | 88 min | Documentary, Drama, History
A film about an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the cinematic manipulation forever changing the way we look at historic images.
Director: Yael Hersonski | Stars: Alexander Beyer, Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Avrutzki, Luba Gewisser
Votes: 1,899 | Gross: $0.31M
8. Irena Sendler: In the Name of Their Mothers (2011)
60 min | Documentary, Biography, War
95-year-old Polish heroine Irena Sendler tells the unknown story of a conspiracy of women who outwitted the Nazis and rescued thousands of Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto during WWII.
Director: Mary Skinner | Stars: Irena Sendlerowa, Jan Becker
Votes: 61
9. The Wall (1982 TV Movie)
Unrated | 135 min | Action, War, Drama
A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: Tom Conti, Lisa Eichhorn, Gerald Hiken, Rachel Roberts
Votes: 227
10. Nürnberg und seine Lehre (1948)
Approved | 78 min | Documentary
The official U.S. government film about the 1st Nuremberg trial (The Trial of the Major Nazi War Criminals) which lasted from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946.
Director: Stuart Schulberg | Stars: Francis Biddle, Karl Dönitz, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick
Votes: 196
11. Naked Among Wolves (1963)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, War
In the last weeks of World War II, inmates of Buchenwald concentration camp hide a Polish child from the SS guards, hoping that the advance of the American forces will set them free.
Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Erwin Geschonneck, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Krystyn Wójcik, Fred Delmare
Votes: 837
12. In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, War
A Rabbi in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland in 1942 fights to maintain his stance of peace and acceptance of his fellow man despite the growing turmoil and atrocities created by the Germans. ... See full summary »
Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Charles Dance, Elina Löwensohn, Chad Lowe
Votes: 363
13. A German Life (2016)
107 min | Documentary, Biography
Brunhilde Pomsel describes herself as an "apolitical girl" and a "figure on the margins," but she got closer to one of the worst criminals in world history than anyone else left alive. ... See full summary »
Directors: Christian Krönes, Olaf S. Müller, Roland Schrotthofer, Florian Weigensamer | Star: Brunhilde Pomsel
Votes: 451
14. Who Will Write Our History (2018)
95 min | Documentary, History
Who Will Write Our History tells the story of Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, the secret archive he created and led in the Warsaw Ghetto. With 30,000 pages of writing, ... See full summary »
Director: Roberta Grossman | Stars: Jowita Budnik, Piotr Glowacki, Piotr Jankowski, Wojciech Zielinski
Votes: 217 | Gross: $0.14M
15. Warsaw: Year 5703 (1992)
110 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the atrocities underway in Warsaw ghetto. Alek, entrusted with undeveloped photos of the horrors within... See full summary »
Director: Janusz Kijowski | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Hanna Schygulla, Julie Delpy, Wladyslaw Kowalski
Votes: 191
16. Border Street (1948)
110 min | Drama, War
The story of Polish and Jewish families living side by side in one Warsaw street. Everything changes once and for all with the Nazi invasion.
Director: Aleksander Ford | Stars: Mieczyslawa Cwiklinska, Jerzy Leszczynski, Wladyslaw Godik, Wladyslaw Walter
Votes: 254
17. Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo (2009)
29 min | Short, War
As the Nazis liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto, many will die. Three hundred will live when they find safe haven at the Warsaw Zoo.
Director: Gary Lester | Stars: Asia Doliner, Anthony Reece, Moshe Tirosh, Ryszard Zabinski
Votes: 22
18. From a Far Country (1981)
140 min | Biography, Drama
The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtyla was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Thirteen years later, Nazi Germany attacks ... See full summary »
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi | Stars: Sam Neill, Christopher Cazenove, Lisa Harrow, John Welsh
Votes: 202
19. Samson (1961)
117 min | Drama, Romance, War
During the Nazi occupation, Jewish prisoner Jakub Gold is released from jail and works as a gravedigger in the Warsaw ghetto. Although he manages to escape and keeps hiding in private apartments, he tries to get back to the ghetto.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Serge Merlin, Alina Janowska, Elzbieta Kepinska, Jan Ciecierski
Votes: 238
20. Mein Leben - Marcel Reich-Ranicki (2009 TV Movie)
90 min | Biography, Drama
In 1929, the 9 year old Polish Jew Marcel Reich-Ranicki is sent by his artistic mother to Berlin to study. Marcel loves the German literature and music, but in October 1938 the Nazis deport... See full summary »
Director: Dror Zahavi | Stars: Matthias Schweighöfer, Katharina Schüttler, Maja Maranow, Joachim Król
Votes: 390
21. Sie sind frei, Doktor Korczak (1974)
90 min | Drama
A Jewish doctor chooses to follow orphans taken from the Warsaw ghetto by the Nazis.
Director: Aleksander Ford | Stars: Leo Genn, Orna Porat, Efrat Lavie, Chad Kaplan
Votes: 21
22. Good Times, Wonderful Times (1965)
Not Rated | 70 min | Documentary, Drama, War
GOOD TIMES, WONDERFUL TIMES was Lionel Rogosin's plea for humanity and against war and fascism. For two years, Rogosin traveled to twelve countries to collect footage of war atrocities from... See full summary »
Director: Lionel Rogosin | Star: Molly Parkin
Votes: 151
23. Battle for Warsaw (1978)
Not Rated | 48 min | Documentary, History, War
Using rare newly found footage and eye-witness accounts from survivors, 'Battle for Warsaw' tells the tragic story of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising in which nearly a quarter of a million Poles lost their lives.
Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Bernard Archard, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Wladyslaw Sikorski
Votes: 16
24. Ninas resa (2005)
120 min | Drama
Nina's Journey is a feature film, but with an authentic narrator. We follow Nina and her family during six dramatic years, half of them spent in the Warsaw ghetto. The film tells the story ... See full summary »
Director: Lena Einhorn | Stars: Agnieszka Grochowska, Maria Chwalibóg, Andrzej Brzeski, Pawel Iwanicki
Votes: 378
25. 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
26. Muranow (2020)
70 min | Documentary
The Muranow neighborhood in Warsaw was once a flourishing and important center of Jewish life. During World War II the neighborhood was turned into the Warsaw Ghetto. When the war ended, ... See full summary »
Director: Chen Shelach
Votes: 20
27. Memories of the Warsaw Ghetto (2016)
63 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Told through the memories and drawings of little Genio and narrated by family friend, Bernard Bragg, 'Memories of the Warsaw Ghetto' is a docudrama film about a boyhood resident of that ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Genievsky | Stars: Pam Balcke, Peter Balcke, Bronek Bergman, Eugene Bergman
28. 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
30. Requiem dla 500 tysiecy (1963)
29 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Jerzy Bossak, Waclaw Kazmierczak
Votes: 32
31. The Warsaw Ghetto (1940-1943) (2007)
34 min | Documentary, Short, History
Archival footage taken by the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War 2. This is scenes of what it was like, what really happened, no punches are pulled, it is extremely graphic.
Director: Warsaw Jews | Star: Warsaw Jews
Votes: 10
32. Lastauspaikka - Umschlagplatz (1987 TV Movie)
48 min | Documentary
Director: Jarmo Jääskeläinen | Star: Marek Edelman
33. Finding Kalman (2011)
29 min | Documentary, Short
How will we tell the story of the Holocaust when the survivors are gone? In this profoundly touching, intergenerational documentary a charismatic Holocaust survivor inspires her family to ... See full summary »
Directors: Roz Jacobs, Laurie Weisman | Stars: Roy Gross, Maya Jacobs, Roz Jacobs
34. 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
35. Emanuel Ringelblum: The Oyneg Shabbes Underground Archive in the Warsaw Ghetto (2016– )
35 min | Documentary
In September 1939, Nazi Germany conquered Poland. Shortly after, historian Emanuel Ringelblum began chronicling the events overtaking the Jews of Warsaw and the surrounding areas under Nazi... See full summary »
Stars: Michael Harpaz, Cassie Hirsh, Bryan Kopta, Joy Pincus
36. Janusz Korczak (2004)
45 min | Biography
Director: Semyon Vinokur | Stars: Evgeny Treliski, Shmuel Vilozni
37. Wiera Gran (2012)
67 min | Documentary
Wiera Gran was a popular Polish-Jewish singer who managed to survive the Holocaust. However, all of her later life was doomed due to the accusation of being a Nazi collaborator in the Warsaw Ghetto. Was she really a traitor?
Director: Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz | Stars: Wiera Gran, Agata Tuszynska, Nina Andrycz, Stefania Grodzienska
Votes: 11
38. Kronika powstania w getcie warszawskim wg Marka Edelmana (1993)
74 min | Documentary
Marek Edelman, a member of the Jewish Labor Bund and a leading participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, gives a daily account of events from April 19 through May 10, 1942.
Director: Jolanta Dylewska | Stars: Marek Edelman, Mordechaj Anielewicz, Celina, Eliezer Celler
Votes: 8
39. The Last Fighters (2006)
76 min | Documentary
Directors: Yael Kipper Zaretzky, Ronen Zaretsky | Stars: Aharon Carmi, Marek Edelman, Pnina Grynszpan-Frymer, Masha Putermilch
40. How One Person Saved Over 2,000 Children from the Nazis (2021)
6 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Director: Chloé Gérard | Star: Bethany Cutmore-Scott
41. Rotem (2013)
75 min | Documentary
Simha Rotem aka Kazik Ratajzer, a Polish-Jewish hero who fought in two Warsaw uprisings during WW2, tells the story of his long, traumatic, but ultimately satisfying life.
Director: Agnieszka Arnold | Stars: Simha Rotem, Marek Edelman
Votes: 7
42. A Web of War (1996)
51 min | Documentary, War
The stories of the battles that brought together a Polish cavalry officer, a Canadian captain, and a polish underground member are told by the very same Canadians who survived them.
Director: Brian McKenna | Stars: Terence McKenna, Andreas Apergis, Tamara Gorski, Irena Bellert
Votes: 11
43. Encounters (2004)
55 min | Documentary, Biography
The documentary director's reminiscences of his past protagonists, themes and inspirations as well as meetings with old friends and colleagues.
Director: Kazimierz Karabasz | Stars: Kazimierz Karabasz, Jan Lomnicki, Jerzy Mierzejewski, Stanislaw Niedbalski
44. Poika Varsovasta (1990 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
Director: Ilkka Ahjopalo | Stars: Jouni Karakorpi, Matti-Juhani Karila, Rea Mauranen, Tsvi Nussbaum
45. Nobody in Sight (2015)
35 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
Nobody is a tragicomic character. He is a filmmaker prone to doubt and melancholy. Crushed by the weight of memories from the two World Wars, Nobody carries on nonetheless a quest for love and happiness.
Directors: Edelman, Aleksander Edelman | Stars: Lamache, Kokkini, Ficheux, Clain
46.
The Decalogue (1989–1990)
Episode:
Dekalog, osiem
(1989)
TV-MA | 56 min | Drama
A researcher meets a professor and reveals herself as the child to whom she refused to shelter during World War II.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Maria Koscialkowska, Teresa Marczewska, Artur Barcis, Tadeusz Lomnicki
Votes: 3,660
47.
Highlander (1992–1998)
Episode:
Sins of the Father
(1997)
TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Immortal Alex couldn't keep the Nazis from killing her Jewish love, so she aids his son in righting a wrong done to a group of murdered Jews from the Warsaw ghetto, killing one of Duncan's friends in the process.
Director: Dennis Berry | Stars: Adrian Paul, Elizabeth Gracen, Peter Wingfield, Jim Byrnes
Votes: 150
48.
Playhouse 90 (1956–1961)
Episode:
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
(1960)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In the Warsaw ghetto, a Jewish man seeks revenge for the rape of his sister by a German soldier.
Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: Charles Laughton, Arthur Kennedy, Susan Kohner, Oscar Homolka
Votes: 23
49.
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
50.
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
Episode:
Factories of Death
(2005)
TV-14 | 49 min | Documentary, History, War
The year 1942 is to be the most significant of 'the Final Solution' as the Nazis now begin to comb western Europe, even taking Jews from as far afield as the British Channel Islands.
Directors: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge | Stars: Gert Heidenreich, Linda Hunt, Samuel West, Annette Muller
Votes: 182