Films about Antisemitism and the Holocaust
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- DirectorJames RouthStarsDavid BaddielSarah SilvermanJonathan Safran FoerThe writer and comedian looks at antisemitism and the progressive left. From theatre to football, Baddiel explores a political blindspot with Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes and Neil Gaiman.
- DirectorMaxim PozdorovkinStarsJason AlexanderLake BellRebecca GibelThe hateful conspiracy that just won't go away - that somehow a cabal of Jewish people control the world - sends filmmaker Maxim Pozdorovkin to detail 250 years of antisemitism.
- DirectorPhilippe Le GuayStarsFrançois CluzetJérémie RenierBérénice BejoAfter a Jewish couple sells their basement to a former history teacher, they discover his secret life as an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist. As the couple struggles to rescind the sale, the buyer befriends their naive teenage daughter.
- DirectorYvan AttalStarsYvan AttalFrançois BureloupTobie NathanA French-Jewish actor seeks counseling and discusses a number of stereotypes concerning Jewish people. Told in the form of short stories that accompany each stereotype.
- DirectorSam BlairJoe MartinStarsCsanad SzegediAn anti-Semitic far-right politician's astonishing transformation after finding out he is Jewish.
- DirectorYael HersonskiStarsAlexander BeyerRüdiger VoglerHanna AvrutzkiA film about an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the cinematic manipulation forever changing the way we look at historic images.
- DirectorFelix MoellerStarsAugust ZirnerAlice HarlanLotte HarlanThough almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany's most notorious filmmakers. His most perfidious film was the treacherous anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süß (1940) - required viewing for all SS members. An unrepentant and blindly obsessive craftsman, no figure - save for Leni Riefenstahl - is as closely associated with the cinema of the Holocaust years. (Harlan's epic Burning Hearts (1945) was the basis for Inglourious Basterds (2009)'s pivotal film-within-a-film Stolz Der Nation.) This documentary is an eye-opening examination of World War II film history as well as the story of a German family from the Third Reich to the present; one that is marked by reckoning, denial and liberation.
- DirectorMarc LevinStarsMarc LevinKofi AnnanJoanne BaronA documentary about the rise of anti-Semitism in the USA after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
- DirectorElia KazanStarsGregory PeckDorothy McGuireJohn GarfieldA reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.
- DirectorLuke HollandAn urgent portrait of the last living generation of Hitler's Third Reich in never-before-seen interviews raising vital questions about authority, conformity, national identity, and their own roles in the greatest human crimes in history.
- DirectorRichard TrankStarsKevin CostnerDyab Abou JahjahMilo AdonerEver Again examines the sweeping resurgence of antisemitism in 21st century Europe and its connection to global terrorism.
- StarsPeter CoyoteDaniel MendelsohnPeter HayesExplores America's response to the Holocaust, and how it challenged the ideals of democracy.
- DirectorPeter YostStarsArnie BernsteinSarah ChurchwellFather CoughlinThe story of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group active across the US in the 1930's.
- DirectorCalvin AurandStarsAlan DershowitzEyal DrorKasim Hafeez"Never Again?" seeks to educate others on the horrors and consequences of anti-Semitism. The film follows the journey of a Holocaust Survivor and former radical Islamist as they seek to leave behind a legacy of love over hate.
- DirectorAndrew GoldbergStarsAndrew GoldbergRussell WalkerEric WardAntisemitism in the US and Europe is spreading and is seemingly unstoppable. Andrew Goldberg examines its rise, traveling through four countries to follow antisemites and their victims, along with experts, politicians and locals.
- DirectorIlan ZivStarsRachida BrakniDenis CharbitHugolin Chevrette-LandesqueDirector Ilan Ziv traces the origins of antisemitism in France from the Middle Ages to the Dreyfus Affair. Combining personal and collective narratives, Ziv showcases how the depiction of "the Jew" in society established an ideology of hate that eventually led to the Holocaust. In the aftermath of the war, a devastated France continued this ideology of antisemitism that set the stage for a modern wave of anti-Jewish sentiment and attacks, including the murders of Ilan Halimi and Mireille Knoll.
- DirectorSvaantje SchröderStarsBen SalomoRosa JellinekMoshe ZimmermannSince the massacre by the terrorist organization Hamas on October 7, 2023, it has been clear that anti-Semitism is also a massive problem in Germany. The media reports on anti-Semitic incidents almost every day. Jews no longer feel safe and are often victims of discrimination and hatred. More than 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Jewish life in Germany is still often exposed to anti-Semitic hostility. Schools, kindergartens and synagogues must be guarded. In the wake of pro-Palestinian demonstrations on German streets, aggressive anti-Semitic agitation by angry Islamist mobs is increasingly occurring. Politics is failing to act on its promise. But the breeding ground for this is older. The documentary attempts to show that, based on age-old hatred, stereotypes and prejudices, anti-Semitism from the right-wing, from left-progressive circles and the middle of society is omnipresent in Germany.
- DirectorDavid McKenzieStarsMenhaz AfridiAndrew AnglinWes BellamyFilmmaker David McKenzie examines the rise of anti-Semitic hate crimes across the world.
- DirectorAlexandre ArcadyStarsZabou BreitmanPascal ElbéJacques GamblinWhen Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because he's Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardJack OakieDictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
- DirectorPeter LilienthalStarsMario FischelWalter TaubIrena VrkljanDavid (Mario Fischel), the son of a local rabbi (Walter Taub), sees the rise in anti-Semitism in 1930s Germany, but it isn't until his father's synagogue is burned down and his mother (Irene Vrkijan) is harassed and intimidated that he realizes just how dangerous Germany has become. For a while, he and his family manage to survive underground in Berlin. But a close encounter with a German officer convinces him to break ties with everyone he loves and head out on his own.
- DirectorHerbert WiseStarsDanny KayeJohn RubinsteinCarl ReinerA dramatization of the controversial trial concerning the right for Neo-Nazis to march in the predominately Jewish community of Skokie.
- DirectorRobert MandelStarsBrendan FraserMatt DamonChris O'DonnellIn 1959, a star quarterback from a working-class family is given an opportunity to attend an elite New England preparatory school, but he is conflicted about whether or not to tell his Evangelical classmates that he is Jewish.
- DirectorDan GevaNoit GevaSeventy years after the 1929 Hebron massacre, directors Noit and Dan Geva bring us the personal testimony of 12 people who survived the atrocity. Noit Geva's grandmother, who was only 16 years old at the time of the massacre, was so traumatized by the event that she never spoke of her experience, but recorded what she witnessed in a journal entry entitled "What I Saw in Hebron." This gripping documentary allows a rare glimpse into a little-known moment in Israel's history.
- DirectorHenry BeanStarsRyan GoslingSummer PhoenixPeter MeadowsA young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic philosophy. Based on the factual story of a K.K.K. member in the 1960s who was revealed to be Jewish by a New York Times reporter.