Holocaust Education - Films Available at UNH
Adolf Hitler
11-minute speech at 1934 Nazi Party Congress, German with English subtitles, Communication Dept.
Includes some commentary on Hitler’s rhetorical style.
America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference
1994, TV documentary (The American Experience), 90 min.
Personal copies of Professor Jeff Diefendorf
Angry Harvest
1986, Agnieszka Holland, feature film, German with English subtitles, 102 min. German Dept.
Set in Silesia during WWII, this film is both a character study and a mesmerizing cat and mouse game between a Polish Catholic farmer and a Jewish woman who has escaped a train bound for the Nazi death camps.
The Architecture of Doom
documentary, 2 hrs. Communication Dept.
Deals with Nazi aesthetics.
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Louis Malle, feature film, Dimond Library
Broken Glass
Televised stage drama (PBS) by Arthur Miller, 1 hr. 55 min. Personal copy of Professor Diane Freedman
Children of the Holocaust
History Dept.
Degenerate Art
Documentary, 60 min. German Dept. and personal copy of Professor Jeff Diefendorf.
Deals with Hitler’s 1937 mock-trail/display of "degenerate art" that included the works of Expressionists Max Beckmann, Emil Nolde, Oscar Kokoschka, Otto von Dix, and Max Ernst. Intended to denigrate modern art, it attracted more than three million visitors.
Diamonds of the Night
1964, Jan Nemec, feature film, Czech with English subtitles, Communication Dept.
An abstract, surrealist study of two Jewish boys who escape from a train that is transporting them from one camp to another and are caught by a group of senile home-guardists.
The Dybbuk
1937, Michal Waszynsky, 125 min., Yiddish with English subtitles. Religous Studies Program
Enemies, A Love Story
1989, Paul Mazursky, feature film, 121 min. Personal copy of Professor Diane Freedman
The Eternal Jew
1940, Fritz Hippler, documentary, German with English subtitles, 62 min. German Dept.
An expression of racial hatred that portrays the world’s Jews from the viewpoint of anti-Semitism and Nazi ideology.
Europa, Europa
1992, Holland, feature film, German with English subtitles, 115 min. Dimond Library, German Dept., and History Dept.
The true story of Solomon Perel, a courageous German-Jewish teenager who survived WWII by concealing his identity and living as a Nazi for seven harrowing years in three countries.
Flames in the Ashes
1987, documentary, 90 min. Communication Dept.
The Fuehrer Gives a City to the Jews
Personal copy of Professor Jeff Diefendorf
Deals with Theriesienstadt.
Genocide 1941-1945
Personal copy of Professor Jeff Diefendorf
Germany, Pale Mother
1979, feature film, German with English subtitles, 123 min. German Dept.
A powerful love story set during and after the Nazi era, this film is an extraordinary dialogue with the German past. Sanders-Brahms explores the private lives of a young bride and her Nazi soldier husband as well as her parents, bystanders who tolerated Hitler.
The Holocaust
Documentary, 24 min., Communication Dept.
The Holocaust Secret
TV documentary (History Channel’s Sworn to Secrecy series), 55 min. Personal copy of Professor Beverly James
Holocaust on Trial
TV documentary (Nova), 60 min. Personal copy of Professor Beverly James
Re-enactment of trial in which Holocaust denier David Irving sues Deborah Lipstadt for libel.
Ich Klage an
1941, Liebeneiner, 199 min. German Dept.
A doctor kills his wife as she has requested, because she is suffering excruciating pain pending certain death from multiple sclerosis. When he is tried for murder, arguments for and against euthanasia are aired.
Jacob the Liar
feature film, 101 min., German Dept.
Set in the Warsaw ghetto, the film tells the story of Jacob Heim, played by Robin Williams, who tries to provide hope by passing on the news that the Red Army is advancing.
Jewish Life in Vilna
Personal copy of Professor Jeff Diefendorf
Jud Suss
1934, 105 min., German Dept.
Filmed with racial hatred as proganda, this is the story of the Jud Suss, who, in 1730, tried to gain power and prestige and failed. Based on Feuchtwanger's novel.
The Last Nasty Girl
"60 Minutes" segment, German Dept.
Life is Beautiful
Feature film, Dimond Library
Lodz Ghetto
Personal copy of Professor Jeff Diefendorf
Memory of Water
Feature film, Dimond Library
Mephisto
Feature film, Istvan Szabo, History Dept.
More than Broken Glass
Documentary, 57 min. Communication Dept.
Deals with Kristallnacht.
My Mother's Courage
1997, German with English subtitles, 88 min. German Dept.
Tells the story of Elsa Tabori, a quiet Budapest housewife who is arrested by Hungarian police one summer day in 1944.
The Nasty Girl
1991, feature film, German with English subtitles, 94 min. German Dept.
When Sonja investigates the secret past of her home town, she uncovers more than she expected and more than the townfolk want revealed. A provocative comedy.
Nazi Gold
Personal copy of Professor Jeff Diefendorf
Night and Fog
1955, Alain Resnais, documentary, 32 min. Dimond Library and personal copy of Professor Rachel Trubowitz, housed in English Dept.
Includes footage of Auschwitz and surroundings.
Nuremberg
Documentary from National Archives, personal copy of Professor Jeff Diefendorf
Opening the Gates of Hell
Documentary, Communication Dept.
Paragraph 175
2001, Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein, HBO documentary, 75 min. Personal copy of Professor Beverly James
Deals with Nazi persecution of homosexuals.
Prisoner of the Past
2001, Dana Rae Warren, Documentary, 28 min., Communication Dept.
A Jewish American WWII POW returns to Germany, accompanied by a Maine playwright who brings his story to the stage.
The Revolt of Job
1984, Imre Gyongyossy and Barna Kabay, feature film, Hungarian with English subtitles, Communication Dept.
Set in rural Hungary in WWII, the film tells the story of a childless Jewish couple who adopt a Christian orphan as a way of outwitting their fate.
Robert Clary A 5714: A Memoir of Liberation
Personal copy of Professor Jeff Diefendorf
Schindler's List
Steven Spielberg, feature film, 197 min. Dimond Library and personal copies of Professors Diane Freedman and Jeff Diefendorf
Shoah
Lanzmann, documentary, 9 ½ hrs., Dimond Library
Shop on Main Street
Feature film, Dimond Library
Shylock
1999, Pierre Lasry, documentary, 57 min. Communication Dept.
History of anti-Semitism.
Sophie's Choice
Feature film, Dimond Library
Survivors of the Holocaust
Steven Spielberg in association with Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, 70 min. Personal copy of Professor Diane Freedman.
Testimonials.
Traitors to Hitler
Personal copy of Professor Jeff Diefendorf
Trial of Klaus Barbie
Personal copy of Professor Jeff Diefendorf
Triumph of the Will
Leni Reifenstal, documentary, Dimond Library, Communication Dept., and History Dept.
Twilight Zone: Death's Head Revisited
TV drama, 30 min., Communication Dept.
Twilight Zone: He's Alive!
TV drama, 30 min. Communication Dept.
Untitled documentary about Jerusalum, National Geographic. Religious Studies Program
Untitled documentary about the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Personal copy of Professor Diane Freedman
The Visas that Saved Lives
Katsumi Ohyama, documentary, 115 min. Communication Dept.
Deals with issuing of visas to 2000 Jews by Sugihara, Japanese consul-general in Lithuania
Wannsee Conference
Personal copy of Professor Jeff Diefendorf
Weapons of the Spirit
Pierre Sauvage, documentary, 90 + 25 min. Personal copy of Professor Jeff Diefendorf.
Deals with French village of Le Chambon where almost every household took in a Jewish family
The White Rose
1983, Verhoevn, feature film, German with English subtitles, 123 min. German Dept.
Based on the true story of five German students and their professor who formed a secret society dedicated to protesting the Nazi regime. Known collectively as the "White Rose," Munich-based group distributed anti-Hitler literature in a resistance effort that cost them their lives.
World War II in Color
TV documentary (History Channel), Communication Dept.
World War II: The Propaganda Battle
1985, Bill Moyers’ series, A Walk Through the Twentieth Century, 55 min., Communication Dept.
Deals with Frank Kapra and chief Nazi filmmaker, Fritz Hippler.
You Are Free (Ihr Zent Frei)
Ilene Landis and Dea Brockman, 20 min. Personal copy of Professor Diane Freedman.
Contains archival footage.