List of Holocaust films

These films deal with the Holocaust in Europe, comprising both documentaries and narratives. They began to be produced in the early [|1940s] before the extent of the Holocaust at that time was widely recognized.
The films span a range of genres, with documentary films including footage filmed both by the Germans for propaganda and by the Allies, compilations, survivor accounts and docudramas, and narrative films including war films, action films, love stories, psychological dramas, and even comedies.

Narrative films: 1940s1950s1960s1970s1980s 1980s1990s2000s2010s2020s

Documentary films: 1940s1950s1960s1970s1980s 1990s2000s2010s2020s

See alsoReferences

1940s

Year	Country	Title	Director	Notes
1940		Night Train to Munich	Carol Reed	First feature film to depict German concentration camps.
1940		The Mortal Storm	Frank Borzage	One character is sent to a concentration camp and dies there, while his family is trying to leave Nazi Germany.
1940		The Great Dictator	Charlie Chaplin	A condemnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis. The film focuses on two men: a ruthless fascist dictator named Adenoid Hynkel and a persecuted Jewish barber. The Jewish barber is sent to a concentration camp, but manages to escape. In one scene, Herring makes a passing mention that they have discovered a new poison gas, that will kill everybody. In his 1964 autobiography, Chaplin stated that he could not have made the film if he had known about the true extent of the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps at that time.
1942		To Be Or Not To Be	Ernst Lubitsch	One villain is jokingly -and repeatedly- called “concentration camp Erhardt”.
1942		Once Upon a Honeymoon	Leo McCarey	Ginger Rogers' character helps her Jewish maid and the maid's two children escape Poland by switching passports with her. Nazi soldiers subsequently notice Rogers' passport, and she and Cary Grant's character are put in a concentration camp populated by prisoners in Orthodox Jewish dress. Rogers and Grant are later sprung by the American consulate.
1944	United States	The Seventh Cross	Fred Zinneman	Seven inmates, one Jewish, escape from a concentration camp
1944	Poland	Majdanek: Cemetery of Europe	Aleksander Ford	One of the first films to include footage of concentration camps
1945	Soviet Union	The Unvanquished	Mark Donskoy	First feature film to show mass murder of Jews and hunting for them on the occupied territories. 1946 Venice festival award.
1946	United States	The Stranger	Orson Welles	First feature film to include footage of concentration camps
1946	Germany	Die Mörder sind unter uns	Wolfgang Staudte	The first Rubble Film and the first German film to address Nazi atrocities. English title: Murderers Among Us
1947	Germany	Ehe im Schatten	Kurt Maetzig	One of the earliest DEFA productions. English title: Marriage in the Shadows
1947	Germany	Zwischen Gestern und Morgen	Harald Braun	One of the first German films to be made in Munich after the war and the first to openly address the Holocaust. English title: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
1948	Germany	Morituri	Eugen York	-
1948	United States	The Search	Fred Zinnemann	In post-war Berlin, an American private helps a lost Czech boy find his mother.
1948	Poland	Ulica Graniczna	Aleksander Ford	A Polish film about the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, it premieres at the Venice Film Festival; it is released in English as Border Street in 1950.
1948	Poland	The Last Stage	Wanda Jakubowska	English titles: The Last Stage, The Last Stop
1949	Italy		Goffredo Alessandrini	First Italian film to openly address the Holocaust
1949	United States West Germany	Lang ist der Weg	Herbert B. Fredersdorf Marek Goldstein	Yiddish title: Lang iz der Veg; English title: Long Is the Road