List of Favorite Movie and Television Productions About the HOLOCAUST

Below is a list of my favorite movie and television productions about the Holocaust released in chronological order: 



LIST OF FAVORITE MOVIE AND TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST



"The Search" (1948) - Fred Zinneman directed this Oscar winning movie about a young Auschwitz survivor and his mother who search for each other across post-World War II Europe. Oscar nominee Montgomery Clift and Oscar winner 
Ivan Jandl starred.






"The Diary of Anne Frank" (1959) - George Stevens directed this adaptation of the Broadway play about Holocaust victim Anne Frank, her family and their friends hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. The movie starred Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut and Oscar winner Shelley Winters.






"Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961) - Stanley Kramer directed this Oscar winner about an American military tribunal in post-war occupied Germany that tries four Nazi judges for war crimes. Oscar nominee Spencer Tracy, Marlene Dietrich and Oscar winner Maximilian Schell starred.






"Marathon Man" (1976) - Dustin Hoffman, Oscar nominee Laurence Olivier and Roy Schneider starred in this adaptation of William Goldman's 1974 novel about a history graduate student caught up in a conspiracy regarding stolen diamonds, a Nazi war criminal and a rogue government agent. John Schlesinger directed.






"Voyage of the Damned" (1976) - Faye Dunaway and Max von Sydow starred in this adaptation of Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts' 1974 book about the fate of the MS St. Louis ocean liner carrying Jewish refugees from Germany to Cuba in 1939. Stuart Rosenberg directed.






"Holocaust" (1978) - Gerald Green wrote and produced this Emmy winning miniseries about the experiences of a German Jewish family and a rising member of the SS during World War II. Fritz Weaver, Rosemary Harris and Emmy winners Meryl Streep and Michael Moriarty starred.






"Sophie’s Choice" (1982) - Oscar winner Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline and Peter MacNicol starred in this adaptation of William Styron's 1979 novel about an American writer's acquaintance with a Polish immigrant and Holocaust survivor in post-World War II New York City. The movie was directed by Alan J. Pakula.






"Escape From Sobibor" (1987) - Alan Arkin, Joanna Paula and Golden Globe winner Rutger Hauer starred in this television movie about the mass escape of Jewish prisoners from the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor in 1943. Jack Gold directed.






"War and Remembrance" (1988) - Dan Curtis produced, directed and co-wrote this Emmy winning television adaptation of Herman Wouk's 1978 novel about the experiences of a naval family and their in-laws during World War II. Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner and John Gielgud starred.






"Schindler’s List" (1993) - Steven Spielberg produced and directed this Oscar winning adaptation of Thomas Keneally's 1982 novel,"Schindler's Ark" about Nazi party member and businessman, Oscar Schindler, who helped saved many Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The movie starred Oscar nominees Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes and Ben Kingsley. 





"Life Is Beautiful" (1997) - Oscar winner Roberto Benigni starred, directed and co-wrote this Academy Award winning film about a Jewish-Italian book shop owner, who uses his imagination to shield his son from the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp. The movie co-starred Nicoletta Braschi and Giorgio Cantarini.






"The Pianist" (2002) - Roman Polanski directed this Oscar winning adaptation of Polish-Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's World War Ii memoirs. Oscar winner Adrien Brody and Thomas Kretschmann starred.






"Black Book" (2006) - Paul Verhoeven directed World War II tale about a Dutch-Jewish woman who becomes a spy for the Resistance after a tragic encounter with the Nazis. Carice van Houten and Sebastian Koch starred.






"The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" (2008) - Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, Vera Fermiga and David Thewlis starred in this adaptation of John Boyne's 2006 novel about a friendship between two eight year-olds - the son of an extermination camp commandant and a young Jewish inmate. Mark Herman directed. 






"Inglourious Basterds" (2009) - Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed this Oscar winning alternate-history tale about two separate plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's high political leadership at a film premiere in Nazi occupied Paris. The movie starred Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent and Oscar winner Christoph Waltz.