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1. Transatlantic (2023)
TV-14 | 50 min | Drama, History
An American journalist who spent 13 months in France 1940-41 managed to arrange safe passage to the US for over 2,000 refugees; who were in danger of losing their lives.
Stars: Gillian Jacobs, Lucas Englander, Cory Michael Smith, Corey Stoll
Votes: 5,624
2. The Great Dictator (1940)
G | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 237,914 | Gross: $0.29M
3. Ghosts of War (2020)
R | 94 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Five American soldiers assigned to hold a French Chateau near the end of World War II. This unexpected respite quickly descends into madness when they encounter a supernatural enemy more terrifying than anything seen on the battlefield.
Director: Eric Bress | Stars: Brenton Thwaites, Kyle Gallner, Alan Ritchson, Theo Rossi
Votes: 12,121
4. Exodus (1960)
Approved | 208 min | Action, Drama, War
The State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford
Votes: 11,441 | Gross: $18.97M
5. Voyage of the Damned (1976)
PG | 155 min | Drama, War
The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Sam Wanamaker
Votes: 3,425
6. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (2019)
119 min | Biography, Drama, Family
A Jewish family in Berlin family must flee the Nazis. First, they go to Zürich. From there they go to Paris, and finally to London.
Director: Caroline Link | Stars: Riva Krymalowski, Marinus Hohmann, Carla Juri, Oliver Masucci
Votes: 3,403
7. The Camomile Lawn (1992)
258 min | Drama, Romance, War
In 1939, young Oliver, Calypso, Polly and Walter visit friends and family in Cornwall. Spanish Civil War is over and WW2 has begun, so they enjoy their love life while they can. Decades later, they gather again, this time for a funeral.
Stars: Felicity Kendal, Claire Bloom, Jennifer Ehle, Richard Johnson
Votes: 944
8. Eyewitness (1981)
R | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A janitor who claims he's seen a murder becomes romantically involved with the glamorous TV reporter covering the story.
Director: Peter Yates | Stars: William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer, James Woods
Votes: 5,743 | Gross: $6.40M
9. Islands in the Stream (1977)
PG | 104 min | Drama
An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland, Susan Tyrrell
Votes: 1,644 | Gross: $8.00M
10. In Darkness (2011)
R | 145 min | Drama, War
A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the German-occupied Polish city of Lvov.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Maria Schrader
Votes: 11,180 | Gross: $1.04M
11. My Name Is Sara (2019)
111 min | Biography, Drama, War
Sara is a a 13 year-old Polish Jew who finds refuge and is taken in by a farmer and his wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers' marriage, compounding the greatest secret she must strive to protect, her true identity.
Director: Steven Oritt | Stars: Zuzanna Surowy, Konrad Cichon, Pawel Królikowski, Piotr Nerlewski
Votes: 841
12. Charlotte (III) (2021)
Not Rated | 92 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
An account of German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon's life in the south of France between 1941 and 1943, before she was sent to Auschwitz during World War II. Inspired by her memoir "Life? or Theatre?".
Directors: Tahir Rana, Éric Warin | Stars: Keira Knightley, Marion Cotillard, Brenda Blethyn, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 488
13. The Only Way (1970)
G | 86 min | Drama, War
A Jewish family tries to escape from Denmark in October 1943 during the German occupation.
Director: Bent Christensen | Stars: Ebbe Rode, Helle Virkner, Jane Seymour, Ove Sprogøe
Votes: 326
14. The Last Train (1973)
PG | 95 min | Drama, Romance, War
Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Maurice Biraud, Paul Amiot
Votes: 1,742
15. Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016)
106 min | Biography, Drama, History
Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" toward the events in war torn Europe, and his search for a new home.
Director: Maria Schrader | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Tómas Lemarquis, Aenne Schwarz, Valerie Pachner
Votes: 2,668 | Gross: $0.08M
16. The Assisi Underground (1985)
PG | 115 min | Drama, History, War
A simple friar and a local bishop set up a pipeline for hundreds of Jews to hide and escape the Nazis in World War II Assisi.
Director: Alexander Ramati | Stars: Ben Cross, James Mason, Irene Papas, Maximilian Schell
Votes: 457
17. The Long Way Home (1997)
Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary, History, War
The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
Director: Mark Jonathan Harris | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Israel Lau, Livia Shacter, Abraham Klausner
Votes: 1,274
18. Simon och ekarna (2011)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama
Two boys come of age in Sweden during World War II.
Director: Lisa Ohlin | Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Helen Sjöholm, Jan Josef Liefers, Stefan Gödicke
Votes: 3,067 | Gross: $0.15M
19. 15 Amore (1998)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Romance, War
Peace within war. An adult voice narrates a story of childhood during World War II.
Director: Maurice Murphy | Stars: Lisa Hensley, Steve Bastoni, Domenic Galati, Tara Jakszewicz
Votes: 232
20. Alan & Naomi (1992)
PG | 96 min | Drama, Family
Set in the forties. A young Jewish boy is called on by his parents to help a young girl come out of her shell, imposed after she watched her father die at the hands of the Nazis.
Director: Sterling Van Wagenen | Stars: Lukas Haas, Vanessa Zaoui, Michael Gross, Amy Aquino
Votes: 483 | Gross: $0.26M
21. Sword in the Desert (1949)
Approved | 101 min | Action, Drama, History
In 1947, with only months remaining until the partition of British-administered Palestine, an American freighter captain smuggles European Jewish refugees ashore under the nose of the British authorities.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, Stephen McNally, Jeff Chandler
Votes: 320
22. Santo in the Wax Museum (1963)
92 min | Action, Horror, Mystery
El Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler, investigates a series of kidnappings. He discovers that the mysterious Doctor Caroll is using the victims as part of his experiments to develop an ... See full summary »
Directors: Alfonso Corona Blake, Manuel San Fernando | Stars: Santo, Claudio Brook, Norma Mora, Rubén Rojo
Votes: 352
23. Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes (2018)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, History, Music
A revelatory, thrilling and emotional journey behind the scenes of Blue Note Records, the pioneering label that gave voice to some of the finest jazz artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Director: Sophie Huber | Stars: Robert Glasper, Ambrose Akinmusire, Marcus Strickland, Lionel Loueke
Votes: 626
24. Pillar of Fire (1981)
50 min | Documentary, History
Documentary mini series about the History of Zionism.
Stars: Yossi Banai, Ian McKellen
Votes: 79
25. Ein Sommer in Oxford (2018 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Romance
English history student Daniel Miller pays some rent at Molly Robinson's student B&B as resident handyman. Thus fixing the shower he bumps, uninformed, into undressed workaholic Marburg (... See full summary »
Director: Karola Meeder | Stars: Mira Bartuschek, Dominic Raacke, Michael Raphael Klein, Barbara Spitz
Votes: 44
26. Revivre (2009)
45 min | Drama, History
The story of the illegal immigrant Yehuda Halevi ship that brought immigrants to Israel from Morocco in 1947. On her way to Israel stopped in France to collect holocaust survivors.
Stars: Bernard Campan, Marie-France Pisier, Jocelyn Quivrin, Marc Ruchmann
Votes: 33
27. 1944: Should We Bomb Auschwitz? (2019 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary, Drama, History
After two men escape from the death camp at Auschwitz to tell the world the details of the Nazi genocide there, the Allies face a moral dilemma: to stop further killings, should we bomb Auschwitz?
Director: Tim Dunn | Stars: Nikolaus Wachsmann, Deborah Lipstadt, Michael Berenbaum, Rebecca Erbelding
Votes: 87
28. Waves of Memory (2013)
75 min | Documentary, Animation, History
Memory can be a tricky thing. In this moving documentary we learn about an historical event that is remembered differently by its various participants. A 1946 shipwrecked boat with Jewish ... See full summary »
Director: Gadi Aisen
29. Santa Fe (1986 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama
Santa Fe begins where Corti's 1982 film God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore leaves off. In 1940, a ship arrives in New York harbor filled with exhausted Jewish immigrants desperate to begin ... See full summary »
Director: Axel Corti | Stars: Valda Aviks, Gabriel Barylli, Monica Bleibtreu, Tilli Breidenbach
Votes: 112
30. The Story of Ottilie Moore
150 min | Biography | Post-production
A post-modernist documentary about the filmmaker's great aunt, Ottilie Moore, a widowed heiress from Brooklyn, New York, of German descent, who provided safe-haven for Jewish children at ... See full summary »
Director: Dana Plays | Stars: Ernest Hemingway, Charlotte Salomon, Paul Henot, Ottilie Gobel Moore
31. In Our Own Hands (2000)
85 min | Documentary, War
The story of the only all-Jewish fighting force in World War II.
Director: Chuck Olin | Stars: Peter Thomas, Mike Nussbaum, Nicholas Rudall, Arie Amir
Votes: 50
32. Waves of Freedom (2008 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, History
Interviewees, supported by authentic documentary footage, reminisce about defying the British blockade to bring Jewish refugees into the future state of Israel.
Director: Alan Rosenthal | Stars: Murray Greenfield, Harold Katz
33. After the War: Memoirs of Exile (2014)
52 min | Documentary, Biography, History
In 1945, a young German officer is shot dead by Soviet soldiers in front of his Jewish Ukrainian wife, and his 4-year old daughter. Seventy years later, three generations reflect on the memories and untold psychological trauma of the War.
Director: PJ Marcellino | Stars: Lara Borys, Andrew Waschuk, Astrid Waschuk, Lesia Waschuk
34. Ma'abarot (2019)
50 min | Documentary
A four episodes documentary series that unveils one of the most controversial topics in the history of the Israeli state. Rare archival materials and testimonials of former residents tell ... See full summary »
Stars: Yaël Abecassis, Yossi Alfi, Sammy Smooha, Sami Shalom Chetrit
Votes: 9
35. Hitler's Victory (2002 TV Movie)
PG | 95 min | Documentary, War
What if the Nazis had invaded and occupied Britain during World War II?
Director: Richard Bond | Stars: Diego Matamoros, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, King George VI
Votes: 168
36. The Custard Boys (1979)
82 min | Drama, Family
Director: Colin Finbow | Stars: Chris Chescoe, Eric Milliet, Ben Clennell, Andrew Atkinson
Votes: 18
37. Mussolini, Churchill e cartoline (2003)
65 min | Documentary
Director: Villi Hermann | Stars: Gaetano Afeltra, Ares Pedroli, Enrica Colotti Pischel, Paolo Ravenna
38. Luigi Einaudi. Diario dell'esilio svizzero (2000)
75 min | Documentary, Biography, History
On the 8th of September 1943 Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961), future first president of the Italian Republic, abandoned Turin, which was occupied by the Wehrmacht, and went to Switzerland. It was... See full summary »
Director: Villi Hermann | Stars: Omero Antonutti, Roberto Einaudi, Mario Ansermin, Zaccaria Aldo Curtaz
39. Pirtukuningas (1986 TV Movie)
48 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Timo Jokinen | Stars: Celia Andersson, Nils Dahlman, Fred Fagerström, Matti Jämsä
40. Salvador - The Ship of Shattered Hopes (2006)
70 min | Documentary
On the night of December 3, 1940, at the Black Sea port of Varna, Bulgaria, the Salvador - a rickety, old, sail-powered coal freighter - is finally towed out to sea. 352 Bulgarian Jews ... See full summary »
Director: Nissim Mossek
41. The Last Sea (1984)
100 min | Documentary
This film, the second in a trilogy deals with the illegal Jewish immigrants - Holocaust survivors - who, between 1945 and 1948, overcame incredible hardships to get to Israel and, by their ... See full summary »
Directors: David Bergman, Jacques Ehrlich, Haim Gouri
42.
History's Mysteries (1998–2011)
Episode:
Exodus: Desperate Voyage
(2001)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, History, Mystery
Directors: Jim Milio, Damian Weyand | Stars: David Ackroyd, Holly Aird, Bill Bernstein, Ernest Bevin
Votes: 8
43.
Maigret (1992–1993)
Episode:
The Patience of Maigret
(1992)
TV-PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Maigret's sneaking affection for a paralyzed criminal Manuel Palmari propels him to pursue his murderer despite the mastermind's involvement in a current jewel robbery.
Director: James Cellan Jones | Stars: Michael Gambon, Ciaran Madden, Geoffrey Hutchings, Jack Galloway
Votes: 202
44.
The Waltons (1972–1981)
Episode:
The Ceremony
(1972)
TV-G | 60 min | Drama, Family, Romance
A family of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany move to Walton's Mountain, where they try to hide their Judaism for fears of antisemitism.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Michael Learned, Ellen Corby
Votes: 237
45.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Clocks
(2009)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Four clocks surround an unidentified corpse in a blind woman's house, and a young typist is summoned to the crime scene. However, Poirot is convinced that the complicated setup is merely hiding a simpler solution.
Director: Charlie Palmer | Stars: David Suchet, Olivia Grant, Anna Skellern, Tom Burke
Votes: 2,231
46.
My Grandparents' War (2019– )
Episode:
Helena Bonham Carter
(2019)
47 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Helena Bonham Carter goes in search of the truth behind her relatives' involvement in World War II. Both sets of her grandparents, one pair in France the other in England, were unconventional war heroes.
Director: Francis Hanly | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Caroline Catz
Votes: 63
47.
Foyle's War (2002–2015)
Episode:
Broken Souls
(2008)
TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Foyles homes in on two murders: an unpopular psychiatrist in a trauma facility and a low security German POW on work release to a local farm.
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Joseph Mawle, Jonathan Forbes, Louis Nummy, Natasha Little
Votes: 617
48.
Das Boot (2018– )
Episode:
Sabotage
(2020)
TV-MA | 53 min | Drama, War
While chasing U-822, Wrangel's frustration with his crew grows. Greenwood extorts more information from Hoffmann. Margot is stuck with the gold leaf in St. Rémy.
Director: Matthias Glasner | Stars: Tom Wlaschiha, Rochelle Neil, Clemens Schick, Rick Okon
Votes: 235
49.
The Winds of War (1983)
Episode:
Into the Maelstrom
(1983)
142 min | Drama, Romance, War
Still assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Pug Henry saves the day when friction rises between the Russian hosts and their visitors at a State dinner. In return, Stalin agrees to greater... See full summary »
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Houseman
Votes: 139
50.
The Winds of War (1983)
Episode:
Of Love and War
(1983)
93 min | Drama, Romance, War
Safely back from the bombing mission, Pug Henry begins to realize the strength of the mutual affection he and Pamela Tudsbury share for one another. Any plans to spend some time together ... See full summary »
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Houseman
Votes: 133