Best holocaust documentary

Im looking to watch a holocaust documentary. Which do you think is the best one? Im looking for a good blend between history and interest/entertainment.

Did I read that correctly? You want a Holocaust documentary for 'entertainment' purposes? Wow.

Auschwitz - The Nazis And The Final Solution

Originally Posted by Bovril

Did I read that correctly? You want a Holocaust documentary for 'entertainment' purposes? Wow.

I know. . . . I could understand interest in a Holocaust documentary, but entertainment?!

Originally Posted by Artorius Maximus

I know. . . . I could understand interest in a Holocaust documentary, but entertainment?!

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Schindler's List.

It's not a documentary but it is very historically accurate.

Originally Posted by Arian the Heretic

Schindler's List.

It's not a documentary but it is very historically accurate.

Or it's mawkish, emotionally manipulative pulp that takes the greatest tragedy in modern history and manages, beyond all hope, to reduce it to sentimentality. Spielberg is a hack.

If you want a real movie that (unlike Schindler's List) doesn't actually flinch away from what happened and shows the evil of the Holocaust for what it was then watch Tim Blake Nelson's The Grey Zone. Or Robert Young's Triumph of the Spirit. Neither movies are easy to watch, but they are both far superior to thin, mealy-mouthed over-rated crap like Schindler's List.

For the best documentaries on the Holocaust, I'd second the recommendation of Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' which is based on Laurence Rees' superb book by the same name. The episode on the Holocaust in the BBC's epic The World at War series from the 1970s - entitled "Genocide" - is also excellent.

But please, anything but bloody Spielberg and his sugar-coated Holocaust in Schindler's List.

Originally Posted by ThiudareiksGunthigg

Or it's mawkish, emotionally manipulative pulp that takes the greatest tragedy in modern history and manages, beyond all hope, to reduce it to sentimentality. Spielberg is a hack.

If you want a real movie that (unlike Schindler's List) doesn't actually flinch away from what happened and shows the evil of the Holocaust for what it was then watch Tim Blake Nelson's The Grey Zone. Or Robert Young's Triumph of the Spirit. Neither movies are easy to watch, but they are both far superior to thin, mealy-mouthed over-rated crap like Schindler's List.

For the best documentaries on the Holocaust, I'd second the recommendation of Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' which is based on Laurence Rees' superb book by the same name. The episode on the Holocaust in the BBC's epic The World at War series from the 1970s - entitled "Genocide" - is also excellent.

But please, anything but bloody Spielberg and his sugar-coated Holocaust in Schindler's List.

Im gunna check those 2 movies out. I never heard much on either one, but they have some pretty good actors in them. Respect!

Try this one also, it's Alfred Hitchcocks, "Memories of the camps". Filmed in 1945, it was censored by the British government and considerd too grisly to be shown. It was'nt shown publicly until 1984. It basically tours several of the more notorious concentration camps soon after their liberation filming the survivors and the aftermath. The commentary is obviously outdated but you don't even need to listen to it, you just need to watch the black and white cine reels of the heaps of corpse's being bulldozed into mass graves, or watch the captured SS guards having to drag bodies into pits.

It's extremely graphic but then there is no other way to show a concentration camp. It is 53 mins long. (It's also on Frontline PBS)

Graphic content.

Originally Posted by Yorkshireman

Try this one also, it's Alfred Hitchcocks, "Memories of the camps". Filmed in 1945, it was censored by the British government and considerd too grisly to be shown. It was'nt shown publicly until 1984. It basically tours several of the more notorious concentration camps soon after their liberation filming the survivors and the aftermath. The commentary is obviously outdated but you don't even need to listen to it, you just need to watch the black and white cine reels of the heaps of corpse's being bulldozed into mass graves, or watch the captured SS guards having to drag bodies into pits.

It's extremely graphic but then there is no other way to show a concentration camp. It is 53 mins long. (It's also on Frontline PBS)

Graphic content.

Hey, could you please tell me where I could find this? It seems to be evading me...

Not shown until 1984? How appropriate.

Shoah.

The movies listed above will give you a good idea of The Holocaust. For further expansion on the crimes of The Holocaust and one of the greater courtroom drama movies of all time, you should have a gander at:

Judgment at Nuremburg (1961)

IMDB: Here
Wiki: Here

If you don't know much about the period, the Nuremburg Trials were the trials of many Nazi notables after the war for counts of war crimes, conspiracy, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity. It gives a different take on the crimes of the holocaust by exposing them in a court of law. It also has some damn good actors.

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Im looking to watch a holocaust documentary. Which do you think is the best one? Im looking for a good blend between history and interest/entertainment.

Fateless

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Set in 1944, as Hitler's Final Solution becomes policy throughout Europe, "Fateless" is the semi-autobiographical tale of a 14 year-old Jewish boy from Budapest, who finds himself swept up by cataclysmic events beyond his comprehension. A perfectly normal metropolitan teen who has never felt particularly connected to his religion, he is suddenly separated from his family as part of the rushed and random deportation of his city's large Jewish population. Brought to a concentration camp, his existence becomes a surreal adventure in adversity and adaptation, and he is never quite sure if he is the victim of his captors, or of an absurd destiny that metes out salvation and suffering arbitrarily. When he returns home after the liberation, he misses the sense of community experienced in the camps, feeling alienated from both his Christian neighbors who turned a blind eye to his fate, and the Jewish family friends who avoided deportation and who now want to put the war behind them.

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US Holocaust Memorial Museum Gift Shop DVD page:
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum Online Exhibitions page:
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/

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