Streaming Feature Films
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008) Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences. Director: Mark Herman Writers: Novel - John Boyne; screen play - Mark Herman Stars: Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend
- Lore (2012) Left to fend for themselves after their SS officer father and mother, staunch Nazi believers, are interred by the victorious Allies at the end of World War II, five German children undertake a harrowing journey that exposes them to the reality and consequences of their parents' actions. Led by the eldest sibling, 14-year old Lore (striking newcomer Saskia Rosendahl), they set out on a journey across a devastated country to reach their grandmother in the north. After meeting the charismatic Thomas, a mysterious young refugee, Lore soon finds her world shattered by feelings of both hatred and desire as she must learn to trust the one person she has always been taught to hate in order to survive.
- Schindler's List (1993) In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis. Director: Steven Spielberg Writers: Thomas Keneally (book), Steven Zaillian (screenplay) Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley
- Sophie's Choice (1982) Harrowing, Oscar-winning story of a Holocaust survivor from Poland, her tortured lover and an aspiring writer in Brooklyn.
DVD Feature Films
- The Hiding PlaceCall Number: HID (Northwest)Publication Date: 1975With the Nazi invasion of Holland, Corrie ten Boom's family joins the resistance to help save persecuted Jewish families. When they are arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps themselves, they have nothing left to cling to but their faith.
- Holocaust : The Story of the Family WeissCall Number: HOL (Northwest)Television miniseries using the stories of two fictional families to portray the atrocities against the Jewish people from the 1930s to 1945. Starring Meryl Streep.
- I'm still here: Real diaries of young people who lived during the HolocaustCall Number: I'M (Northwest)Publication Date: 2008Brings to life the diaries of young people who witnessed first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust.
- One Survivor RemembersCall Number: ONE (Northwest)Publication Date: 1995Through a series of interviews, photographs and footage shot in the actual locations of her memories, Gerda Weissmann Klein takes us on her journey of survival of the Holocaust. "Academy Award winner: best documentary short film"
- The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Based on the book "Anne Frank: the diary of a young girl" by Anne Frank and from the play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
Originally released as a motion picture in 1959. - Diary of Anne Frank (BBC, 1996)The first authorized film based on actual entries of the real diary, Anne Frank's writings create a truthful and timeless picture of domestic life in all its pettiness and normalcy, in spite of living under intense pressure and constant threat of discovery and death. Aged four when she left her native Germany, thirteen when she went into hiding, Anne Frank was not yet sixteen when she died in a concentration camp, mere weeks before liberation
- Hidden in Silence (2010)
After German forces take over Poland during World War II, a Catholic teenager makes the choice to hide thirteen Jews in her attic despite the risk of capture and death - The Pianist (2002)
Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis - Sarah's Key (2011)
In modern-day Paris, a journalist finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel d'Hiv round up, which took place in Paris, in 1942. She stumbles upon a family secret which will link her forever to the destiny of a young Jewish girl, Sarah - Woman in Gold (2015)
Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I.
Streaming Holocaust Documentaries
- Elie Wiesel: Dead Stars, Dead Eyes In this powerful program narrated by William Hurt, Elie Wiesel shares his innermost beliefs as he talks about his commitment to Holocaust awareness, his ongoing fight against anti-Semitism, and his tireless efforts to help the weak. From his birthplace in the town of Sighet and back again via Auschwitz, postwar Paris, Jerusalem, and New York City, [he] talks about the things that matter most to him: family, Judaism, human rights, and, most of all, the duty to remember. (58 min)
- From Bitter Earth: Artists of the Holocaust Throughout the Holocaust, Jewish artists created work that vividly documented the horror of Hitler’s reign...In this program, artists who survived the camps discuss the risks they took in order to obtain simple materials—scraps of paper, pencils, and other basic supplies. They describe the inventive ways they found for hiding finished pieces from their Nazi captors. In an ironic twist, some tell how they were recruited to create Nazi propaganda art.
- Israel: The First Forty Years Showing Palestine under the British Protectorate and the arrival of Holocaust survivors in 1946, this program properly begins with David Ben-Gurion’s proclamation of the state of Israel, and proceeds through the tumultuous first 40 years of the oldest surviving nation and the newest democracy in the Middle East. Included in the program are the ’67 and ’73 wars, the invasion of Lebanon and the destruction of the Iraqi nuclear plant, the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Yad Vashem, life on a kibbutz
- The Jewish People: A Story of Survival—Educator’s Edition Despite centuries of suffering and displacement, the fabric of Jewish culture has never broken. This program examines the theme of survival and its connection to Jewish achievements. Viewers will encounter a wide range of topics, including the origins of Judaism, the world’s first major monotheistic religion; the flourishing of Jewish scholarship through Talmudic learning and Rabbinic Judaism; the golden age of Jewish creativity at the height of Islamic power; and the post-Holocaust continuity
- Never Again? Genocide Since the Holocaust After the atrocities of World War II, the cry of conscience was "never again!" As this program demonstrates, that bitterly learned injunction went unheeded throughout much of the world. The chronicle of genocide continues with a look at Mao’s purges in China, Cambodia under Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, the Arab/Israeli conflict, border wars in Pakistan and Bangladesh, and killing in Central America. (57 min)
- Propaganda Though they often work in the shadows, their efforts have affected the destinies of entire nations, in peacetime and war. This program focuses on dictators and spin doctors who shaped the perceptions of the masses in 20th-century Europe. Archival news film and footage and historical photos spotlight the propaganda of the Russian Revolution, World War II, the Gulf War, and the NATO attacks against Serbia, as well as the PR blitzes so much a part of today’s political scene. (29 min)
- World War II: The Road to War (31:00)
Chronicles the global events that ultimately led to U.S. action in World War II - Words and Actions: Contexts and Consequences of Propaganda—from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
DVD Documentaries
- Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi StateCall Number: AUS (Northwest)Publication Date: 2005VIEWER WARNING: THIS HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY INCLUDES SOME DISTURBING IMAGES.
This film is the result of three years of research, drawing on the close involvement of world experts, recently discovered documents and nearly 100 interviews with camp survivors and perpetrators, many of whom are speaking on the record for the first time - Holocaust : Ravensbruck and BuchenwaldCall Number: HOL (Northwest)VIEWER WARNING: THIS HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY CONTAINS SOME EXPLICIT SCENES OF A VIOLENT AND DISTURBING NATURE.
Ravensbruck Concentration Camp: Women from more than 20 countries were inmates between the years 1939 and 1945. They were maltreated, humiliated and tortured to death.
Buchenwald Concentration Camp: Established in summer 1937, Buchenwald soon developed into one of the largest concentration camps in Germany with 250.000 inmates from 35 countries imprisoned there over 8 years. More than 50,000 of them died.
The aim of this documentary is to keep alive the memory of the fate and the inhuman treatment that was suffered at these two camps. - Holocaust: The Liberation of AuschwitzCall Number: HOL (Northwest)VIEWER WARNING: THIS HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY CONTAINS SOME EXPLICIT SCENES OF A VIOLENT AND DISTURBING NATURE.
Film footage, taken by Soviet photographer Alexander Vorontsov, of the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz. - The Story of the Jews with Simon SchamaCall Number: STO (Northwest)Publication Date: 2014Chronicles the Jewish experience from ancient times to the present day through a cast of historical characters, vivid storytelling, location photography, and more
The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
- The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive is honoured to invite you to view our extensive online virtual cinema. Over the past few years the archive has uploaded over 600 films, a selection of the most impressive films of the archive's thousands of items. For your convenience, we have divided the films into categories. The categories allow for expedient search and easy access to the free collection.
Nuremberg Trials
- Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (01:21) Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (01:21) From Title: World War II
- The WPA Film Library: The Start of the Nuremberg Trials Part I, 1945 (03:00) The WPA Film Library: The Start of the Nuremberg Trials Part I, 1945 (03:00)
- The WPA Film Library: The Start of the Nuremberg Trials Part II, 1945 (01:00) The WPA Film Library: The Start of the Nuremberg Trials Part II, 1945 (01:00)
Streaming Film Databases
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