25 Best Holocaust Movies on Netflix You Need to Watch
If you are looking to watch holocaust movies on your favorite streaming network, you are in the right place. In this article, we are bringing you the best holocaust movies on Netflix you can watch right now.
As with all streaming platforms, movies often come and go, so it is unfortunately not different with Netflix. Because of that, it is possible that not all of these holocaust movies will be available to watch on Netflix, but we will try to update our list when things change.
Now, let’s see what are the best movies about the holocaust on Netflix and choose your next watch below.
The Zookeeper’s Wife (2017)
A touching true story about the married couple Zabinski, Antonina and Jan, the director of the zoo in Warsaw, who saved more than 300 Jews during the German occupation of Poland in 1939.
Hitler: A Career (1977)
The film, exclusively utilizing archival footage, closely examines Hitler’s rise to power, and also aims to explain why people living in Germany loved Hitler. Fest argues that Hitler was a clever, scheming and incredibly adaptable politician, who was keen to exploit any weakness he saw in the political system and in the masses who, humiliated by the outcome of WWI, were willing to support a voice that spoke for them.
Naked Among Wolves (2015)
The film takes place in the years 1944 and 1945 towards the end of World War II in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Prisoners in the Nazi concentration camp risk their lives by taking in a young Jewish boy rescued from a ghetto in Poland. The camp commander hears about the boy and tightens up on the already cruelly treated prisoners.
They whisk the boy away from being discovered, always staying one step ahead of the Nazi guards and the ireful commandant. The boy is eventually discovered and the prisoners who protected him now face certain death. They are freed by the Allies in a dramatic but altogether expected turn of events.
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
The history of the Final Solution phase of the Nazi Holocaust, particularly with the most infamous of the death camps.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
On the British island of Guernsey, during the Second World War, a society was founded with an interesting and endearing name – the Guernsey Potato Pie and Literature Society. The successful London writer Juliet Ashton, who is currently searching for a new topic for her book, becomes acquainted with the establishment and activities of this unusual society, quite unexpectedly.
Most of these people picked up a book for the first time during the war, but what they found in books was much more than words – they found life force, inspiration, comfort, the knowledge that everything can be seen and expressed in a different way.
The Accountant of Auschwitz (2018)
The film centers on lawyer Thomas Walther’s prosecution in the 2010s of former Schutzstaffel member Oskar Gröning, focusing in part on the ethical debate around whether there’s any useful purpose to be served in prosecuting an elderly man for crimes he committed 60 years earlier.
My Führer – The Really Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler (2007)
The action comedy is set in 1944. Hitler appears in it as a physically and mentally destroyed person who takes the advice of Goebbels in the actor-teacher of the Jewish concentration camp for lessons eloquence to inspire the German people to further fight.
Hitler’s Circle of Evil (2018)
This is the story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich told like the drama it really was: through the personal relationships of the movers and shakers of the Nazi Party.
The Forgotten Battle (2021)
1944, the Second World War. A British glider pilot, a Dutch boy fighting on the German side and a Dutch female resistance member all end up involved in the Battle of the Schelde. Their choices differ, but their goal is the same: freedom.
Schindler’s List (1993)
Womanizer and war profiteer Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), with his wife Emilie (Caroline Goodall) lives a peaceful life, on a high footing, until he is convinced of the evil that Nazism brings. During his stay in the Krakow ghetto, he witnessed the cruel liquidation of Jews. Oskar uses Polish Jews as cheap labor to produce food for the countries of the Third Reich, and his employees are sent to work where they come under the terror of the sadistic Nazi Amon Goethe (Ralph Fiennes).
Amon Goethe is a man who lives according to the beliefs of stubborn Nazis, and blindly believes in Nazi laws. In his cruelty, Amon also abuses his maid Helen Hirsch (Embeth Davidtz). Oskar Schindler, with the help of his associate Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley), compiles a list of influential Jews. By bribing Amon Goethe, and nurturing their good relationship, Schindler manages to rescue 1100 people from the camp and bring them to safety, to his ammunition factory, which is located in Czechoslovakia.
The Last Days (1998)
The film tells the stories of five Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust (also known as the Shoah), focusing on the last year of World War II, when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary and began mass deportations of Jews in the country to concentration and extermination camps, primarily Auschwitz. It depicts on the horrors of life in the camps, but also stresses the optimism and perseverance of the survivors.
Suite Francaise (2014)
A romantic war drama about the love that was born at the beginning of the Nazi occupation of France between a French woman and a German soldier. Lucile Angellier (M. Williams) lives in the countryside and waits with her authoritarian mother-in-law Madame Angellier (K. Scott Thomas) for news about her husband, who is in the army.
The Germans occupy France and the soldiers are placed in the houses of the villagers. German lieutenant Bruno von Falk (M. Schoenaerts) is assigned to the household of the Angellier family. At first, Lucile tries to ignore him, but his kind demeanor and playing still catch her attention. And when she finds out about her husband’s secret relationship, she turns to Bruni…
The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018)
Based on the true story of Spanish Civil War veteran Francisco Boix, a prisoner at Nazi German Mauthausen concentration camp, who preserved and hid photographs of the conditions at the camp. Boix and his fellow prisoners risked their lives to save negatives and evidence of the atrocities committed at Mauthausen.
#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories (2019)
It is based on five women who did survive the Holocaust but shared the same fate of “deportation, suffering and being denied their childhood and adolescence,” according to promotional materials.
Holocaust Escape Tunnel (2017)
Documentary about the holocaust in Lithuania and the story of Lithuanian holocaust survivors of an escape tunnel they dug.
Downfall (2004)
It is set during the Battle of Berlin in World War II, when Nazi Germany is on the verge of defeat, and depicts the final days of Adolf Hitler (portrayed by Bruno Ganz).
The Devil’s Mistress (2016)
The film largely centers around the experiences of LÃda Baarová and her feelings regarding the moral dilemma of being romantically involved with a senior Nazi officer. Political and social turmoil within early Nazi Germany are also shown, with the ending of the film featuring the events of Kristallnacht.
Jewish persecution is also a feature of this film, but this is opposed by the colorful depictions of Nazi brass engaging in quaint social festivities. The film never shows crude depictions of the Holocaust, but instead shows the lighter side of the upper crust of Nazi Germany’s officials.
Run Boy Run (2013)
8-year-old Srulik flees from the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 and attempts to survive, at first alone in the forest, and then on a farm as a Christian orphan named Jurek. Throughout his ordeal, he is in danger of losing his Jewish identity. Based on the bestseller by Uri Orlev.
The Last Nazis (2009)
The generation of Nazis who fought during World War 2 is almost gone, their lives, their actions, and their crimes are soon to be consigned to history forever. It’s the last chance to tell these stories, to speak to these men; to enter their worlds; and to uncover the impact their existence has had on others.
Riphagen – The Untouchable (2016)
The story is about Riphagen, a cunning Dutch traitor during WW2 who helped Nazis round up Jews, stealing their treasures for himself. He destroyed Resistance groups, making many who pursued justice after the war look like fools.
Operation Finale (2018)
Fifteen years after the end of World War II, a team of Israeli secret agents travel to Argentina to find Adolf Eichmann, the former SS officer who masterminded the transportation logistics that led millions of innocent Jews to their deaths in concentration camps.
Wanting to sneak him out of the country to stand trial, Agent Peter Malkin begins a deadly game of cat and mouse with the notorious war criminal.
Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis (2021)
At the height of WWII, a group of young Jewish refugees are sent to a secret POW camp near Washington, D.C. The recent refugees soon discover that the prisoners are no other than Hitler’s top scientists.
The Resistance Banker (2018)
In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, banker brothers Walraven and Gijs van Hall face their greatest challenge yet when they decide to help fund the Dutch resistance.
Defiance (2008)
Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-combatants.
Steal a Pencil For Me (2007)
Director Michèle Ohayon’s moving documentary chronicles the unshakeable romance between Jack Polak and Ina Soep of Amsterdam, who met and fell in love despite their deportation to Nazi concentration camps during the war.
