Finding films in the library
This is a selection of the many films related to the Holocaust in the library collection and available to stream for free. DVDs are listed first followed by streaming films. To find more films in the library, check out our Video Resources Guide.
DVDs in the library
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Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' WarCall Number: D804.66.S48D34 2016 DVDISBN: 1627898328Publication Date: 2016- A film unfinished by Call Number: D765.2.W3F55 2011 DVD
Frank Capra's Why We FightCall Number: D742.C35W66 2005 DVDISBN: 074111013XPublication Date: 1942-1945
I'm Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the HolocaustCall Number: D804.195.I4 2008 DVDISBN: 9781560865674Publication Date: 2008- The reader by Call Number: PN1997.2.R413 2009 DVD
- Saul fia = Son of Saul by Call Number: PN1997.2.S277 2016 DVD
- The Search by
"In post-World War II Germany, a small boy who survivied Auschwitz wanders alone -- feral, mute and terrified. He finds a makeshift home with a big-hearted GI, while the mother he does not remember searches desperately for him. Starring a then-unknown Montgomery Clift in his movie debut, directed in a near-documentary style by Fred Zinnemann and filmed in the ragged, rubble-strewn skeleton of Nuremberg, The Search vividly captures the horrifying human cost of war. This milestone of filmmaking won two 1948 Academy Awards: Best Motion Picture Story and a special award to Ivan Jandl for his haunting performance as the lost child."--Container.
Call Number: PN1995.9.W3S435 2009 DVDPublication Date: 1948
- Shoah by Call Number: D810.J4S52 2013 DVD
Streaming video
- Berga: Hitler's GI Death CampWhen Americans think of GI’s & the Holocaust, they envision young soldiers liberating death camps. They don’t think of American GI’s themselves as being victims in the Nazi’s Final Solution.
But in a place called Berga, American POW’s became just that, working and dying as slave laborers in one of Hitler’s most secretive concentration camps. - From Swastika to Jim CrowThis documentary, directed by Joel Sucher and Steven Fischler, is about refugee German scholars who taught in the historically black colleges in the South after they immigrated.
- The Path to Nazi GenocideThis 38-minute film introduces the history of the Holocaust.
- The Roosevelts : An intimate history. Episode 6, The common cause (1939-1944)Follow Ken Burns to survey FDR’s leadership during WWII, while Eleanor tends to wounded servicemen.
- The Roosevelts : an intimate history. Episode 7, A strong and active faith (1944-1962)Join Ken Burns to examine Eleanor's role as civil rights and U. N champion after FDR's death.
- The WarThe Emmy® award-winning documentary THE WAR explores the history and horror of World War II from an American perspective by following so-called ordinary men and women who became caught up in one of the greatest cataclysms in history. This epic film focuses on the stories of citizens from four American towns taking the viewer through their personal and harrowing journeys, painting vivid portraits of how the war altered their lives.
- Why We FightWhy We Fight is a series of seven propaganda films commissioned by the United States government during World War II to justify to U.S. soldiers their country's involvement in the war. Later on, they were also shown to the U.S. public to persuade them to support U.S. involvement in the war. Most of the films were directed by Frank Capra, who was daunted yet impressed and challenged by Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda film Triumph of the Will and worked in direct response to it.
- A Film Unfinished byAt the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film, having sat undisturbed in an East German archive, was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May 1942, and labeled simply "Ghetto," this footage quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto. However, the later discovery of a long-missing reel complicated earlier readings of the footage. A FILM UNFINISHED presents the raw footage in its entirety, carefully noting fictionalized sequences (including a staged dinner party) falsely showing "the good life" enjoyed by Jewish urbanites, and probes deep into the making of a now-infamous Nazi propaganda film. A FILM UNFINISHED is a film of enormous import, documenting some of the worst horrors of our time and exposing the efforts of its perpetrators to propel their agenda and cast it in a favorable light.
- Reckonings byPublication Date: 2022"They met in secret to negotiate the unthinkable -- compensation for the survivors of the largest mass genocide in history. Survivors were in urgent need of help, but how could reparations be determined for the unprecedented destruction and suffering of a people? Reckonings explores this untold true story set in the aftermath of the Holocaust."
- Son of Saul byOctober 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Saul (Géza Röhrig) is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners forced to assist the Nazis. While working, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body, find a rabbi to recite the mourner's Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.