It's one of my favorite films and among the first to address a view of the world by a holocaust survivor. It's not specifically about the time of the holocaust but about the way a survivor sees the world like no one else can. I think it's a masterpiece.

I walked out of the theater drained when I first saw it as a young man and was shaken when I saw it a few years ago.
It captures so many themes.

Not about the Holocost but the French Resistence and the people who sold
out to the Nazis....very. very depressing but exellent .

A story about a young boy in a concentration camp and a young German boy who befriended him. -- bring a box of Kleenex for the ending.

In Darkness -- true story of how a sewer worker hid Jews in the sewers when the Nazis occupied Lvov Poland.

Walking with the Enemy -- a true story about a young man in Hungary and his efforts to save Jews from the camps. A 10-hankie ending.

Defiance
Judgement at Nuremberg (of course)
Sarah's Key
The Island on Bird Street

I've seen all of the above. I could go on and on -- this is one of my favorite genres of movies. I'm particularly interested in movies that are based on the lives of the Righteous Among the Nations, non-Jews who helped Jews during WW II.

For a list of more movies, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Holocaust_films

Such a great film.

Took me forever to get the courage to see it, but it's a great movie.

Sophie's Choice. I can't in good conscience tell you to watch that. It bothered me (and still does).

not a true Holocaust movie in the traditional sense, but one that still resonates deeply.

Winds of War (1983)
War and Remembrance(1986) though I liked the books better (Herman Wouk)

starring Adrien Brody, who won an Oscar for this performance.

using real camp film footage like a documentary with contemporary perspectives. I haven't seen it but just read good things about it. Major films for me, 'Schindler's List', 'The Diary of Anne Frank', 'Shoah', 'Sophie's Choice'. There's a list on wiki that has other, later movies but misses some of these.

I showed it to all my students when I taught history in the public schools.. It is the most horrific film ever made. 32 minutes...
maybe I saw it 30 times....Showed in on a big screen in class.., 16mm film.. Be warned you will never ever forget it..here is a link at IMBD..read the reviews by viewers, just the first 9 or ten User Reviews........ 32 minutes..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048434/?ref_=nv_sr_1

worked on? The famous early camp footage held back by Britain 70 years that HBO aired last night and UK Channel 4 last wkend? Your students must have been high schoolers, how did they react?

It's in French with Italian subtitles unfortunately. But the powerful images convey a great deal of meaning.


http://vimeo.com/20103124

Records of the National Archives where I worked, also the collections of the US Holocaust Museum in WDC. My father was with the 7th Army Liberation of Dachau, April 1945.

I thought it was overly dramatic, if that makes sense.

But I'd add The Grey Zone, really intense and not to be watched lightly. Escape from Sobibor and Schindler's List to your list.

in the Munich, Germany area who bravely tried to fight Nazi ideology through spreading pamphlets and information. Some of them were killed, even beheaded for their opposition to Hitler's Fascism during the war.

Its small connection to the Holocaust would be a bit of a spoiler, but it's still a fine movie.