List of World War II documentary films

The following is an incomplete list of World War II documentary films.

For a list of propaganda films, see: List of Allied propaganda films of World War II.

For a list of feature films and series, see: List of World War II films. For shorts and cartoons, see: List of World War II short films.

1940s

Year	Country	Title	Director(s)
1940	Nazi Germany	Deutsche Panzer	Walter Ruttmann Walter Ruttmann Walter Ruttmann was a German film director and along with Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling was an early German practitioner of experimental film....
1940	Nazi Germany	Deutsche Waffenschmieden	Walter Ruttmann Walter Ruttmann Walter Ruttmann was a German film director and along with Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling was an early German practitioner of experimental film....
1940	Nazi Germany	Feldzug in Polen Feldzug in Polen Feldzug in Polen is a 69 minute documentary/Nazi propaganda film depicting the 1939 invasion of Poland and directed by Fritz Hippler...
1941	Canada	Churchill's Island Churchill's Island Churchill's Island is a 1941 propaganda film chronicling the defence of Great Britain during World War II...	Stuart Legg Stuart Legg Stuart Legg was a documentary film-maker.As part of the British Documentary Film Movement, he worked with the General Post Office film unit from 1933, before replacing Paul Rotha as head of Strand Films in 1937...
1941	Canada	Inside Fighting China Inside Fighting China Inside Fighting China is a 1941 Canadian short documentary film directed by Stuart Legg, and narrated by Lorne Greene. The film documents China's resistance to Japan's invasion during World War II...	Stuart Legg Stuart Legg Stuart Legg was a documentary film-maker.As part of the British Documentary Film Movement, he worked with the General Post Office film unit from 1933, before replacing Paul Rotha as head of Strand Films in 1937...
1941	United States	Kukan Kukan Kukan is a documentary film by Rey Scott about the Chinese resistance to Japanese aggression during the early part of World War II . The film, subtitled The Battle Cry of China, was given an Honorary Academy Award...	Rey Scott
1941	Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)	Uomini sul fondo	Francesco De Robertis
1942	Nazi Germany	Männer, Meer und Stürme	Heinrich Hauser, Hubert Schonger
1942	United Kingdom	The Soldier's Food The Soldier's Food The Soldier's Food is a 1942 British, black-and-white, sponsored film, of unknown direction and starring Ronald Shiner as a cast member. It was produced by Verity Films and the Army Kinematograph Service for the Royal Army Ordnance Corps.-Synopsis:...	unknown
1944	Nazi Germany	Panorama Panorama (German news series) Panorama was a quarterly colour newsreel series that focused on "human interest" stories in 1944. It only lasted for that year, since the Third Reich fell in the spring of 1945, before another installment could be produced...
1944	USA	The Battle for the Marianas	Gordon Hollingshead Gordon Hollingshead Gordon Hollingshead was an American movie producer, associate producer and assistant director....
1945	Denmark	Danmark i Lænker	Sven Methling Sven Methling Sven Johan Methling or Sven Methling Jr., , was a Danish film director and screenwriter. The son of actor and film director Svend Methling, Methling Jr. was best known for a series of light-hearted comedies. His 1959 comedy Vi er allesammen tossede received the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film...
1946	United States	Let There Be Light Let There Be Light (film) Let There Be Light is a 1946 American documentary film directed by John Huston.The film, commissioned by the United States Army Signal Corps, was the final entry in a John Huston trilogy of films produced at the request of the U.S. Government. This documentary film follows 75 U.S. soldiers who have...	John Huston John Huston John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The Asphalt Jungle , The African Queen , Moulin Rouge...

1950s

Year	Country	Title	Director(s)
1952	United States	Victory at Sea Victory at Sea Victory at Sea is a documentary television series about naval warfare during World War II that was originally broadcast by NBC in the USA in 1952–1953. It was condensed into a film in 1954. The music soundtrack, by Richard Rodgers and Robert Russell Bennett, was re-recorded and sold as record albums...	M. Clay Adams
1955	Early Modern France	Night and Fog Night and Fog (film) Night and Fog is a 1955 French documentary short film. Directed by Alain Resnais, it was made ten years after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. The documentary features the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek while describing the lives of prisoners in the camps. Night and Fog was...	Alain Resnais Alain Resnais Alain Resnais is a French film director whose career has extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Nuit et Brouillard , an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.He began...

1960s

Year	Country	Title	Director(s)
1965	Soviet Union	Ordinary Fascism Ordinary Fascism Ordinary Fascism is a 1965 documentary film by Mikhail Romm about the German society, Nazi Germany government and Holocaust during World War II....	Mikhail Romm Mikhail Romm Mikhail Ilych Romm was a Soviet film director.He was born in Irkutsk. His father was a social democrat of Jewish descent who had been exiled there. He graduated from gymnasium in 1917 and entered the Moscow College for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture...
1965	Canada	Memorandum Memorandum (film) Memorandum is a one-hour 1965 documentary co-directed by Donald Brittain and John Spotton, following a Jewish Holocaust survivor on an emotional pilgrimage back to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Produced by John Kemeny for the National Film Board of Canada, the film received several awards...	Donald Brittain Donald Brittain Donald Brittain, O.C. was a film director and producer with the National Film Board of Canada.Fields of Sacrifice is considered Brittain's first major film as director.... , John Spotton
1968	United States	The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is a 1960 non-fiction book by William L. Shirer chronicling the general history of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945...	Jack Kaufman
1969	Early Modern France	The Sorrow and the Pity The Sorrow and the Pity The Sorrow and the Pity is a two-part 1969 documentary film by Marcel Ophüls about the French Resistance and collaboration between the Vichy government and Nazi Germany during World War II. The film uses interviews with a German officer, collaborators, and resistance fighters from...	Marcel Ophüls Marcel Ophuls Marcel Ophüls is a documentary film maker and former actor.He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, the son of the director Max Ophüls...

1970s

Year	Country	Title	Director(s)
1973		The World at War	Miscellaneous
1974	Israel	The 81st Blow The 81st Blow The 81st Blow is a 1974 Israeli documentary film directed by Haim Gouri. The film covers the oppression of Jews under the Nazis and features rare historical footage of concentration camps. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature. The title is derived from a comment by a...	Haim Gouri Haim Gouri Haim Gouri is an Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker.-Biography:Haim Gouri was born in Tel Aviv. After studying at the Kadoorie Agricultural High School, he joined the Palmach militia. In 1947 he was sent to Hungary to assist Holocaust survivors to come to Palestine...
1976		The Memory of Justice The Memory of Justice The Memory of Justice is a 1976 documentary film directed by Marcel Ophüls. It explores the subject of atrocities committed in wartime and features Joan Baez, Karl Dönitz, Hermann Göring, Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, Yehudi Menuhin, Albert Speer and Telford Taylor.The film was inspired by Telford...	Marcel Ophüls Marcel Ophuls Marcel Ophüls is a documentary film maker and former actor.He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, the son of the director Max Ophüls...
1978	Soviet Union	The Unknown War The Unknown War (documentary) The Unknown War is an American documentary television series, detailing the drama of the Eastern European front. It covers the period of history from June 1941, when Germany launched its surprise attack on Russia, through to the end of WWII....	Isaac Kleinerman, Roman Karmen Roman Karmen Roman Lazarevich Karmen was a Soviet war camera-man and film director and one of the most influential figures in documentary film making; insofar as his propaganda is concerned he could be considered USSR's answer to Leni Riefenstahl, though the comparison is by no means absolute.-Communist...

1980s

Year	Country	Title	Director(s)
1980	West Germany	The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45 The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45 The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45 is a 1980 German documentary film directed by Dieter Hildebrandt. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature....	Dieter Hildebrandt Dieter Hildebrandt Dieter Hildebrandt is a German Kabarett artist.Born in Bunzlau, Lower Silesia, Hildebrandt attended school until he became an assistant for the German Air Force in World War II...
1981	United States	The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter is a 1980 documentary film by Connie Field about the American women who went to work during World War II to do "men's jobs"...	Connie Field
1982	United States	Genocide Genocide (film) Genocide is a 1982 documentary by Arnold Schwartzman concerning the Holocaust. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature....	Arnold Schwartzman
1982	Sweden	The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Łódź is a 1982 documentary that uses archival film footage and photographs to narrate the story of one of the Holocaust's most controversial figures...	Peter Chohen, Bo Kuritzen
1982	United States	Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die is a 1982 documentary that asks whether the United States could have stopped the Holocaust. The film combines previously classified information, rare newsreel footage, and interviews with the politicians who were in office at the time, to tell a behind-the-scenes...	Laurence Jarvik
1985	Early Modern France	Shoah Shoah (film) This page is about the film by the name of Shoah. For other uses, see Shoah Shoah is a 1985 French documentary film directed by Claude Lanzmann about the Holocaust...	Claude Lanzmann Claude Lanzmann Claude Lanzmann is a French filmmaker and professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.-Biography:Lanzmann attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in Auvergne...
1985	United States	Unfinished Business Unfinished Business (1985 film) Unfinished Business is a 1985 documentary film directed by Steven Okazaki which centered on Min Yasui, an attorney from Oregon, Gordon Hirabayashi, a Quaker college student in Washington, and Fred Korematsu, a San Francisco welder and how their lives were affected by Japanese American internment...	Steven Okazaki Steven Okazaki Steven Okazaki is an American filmmaker. He is Sansei Japanese American and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area...
1987	Japan	The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On is an award-winning 1987 documentary by director Kazuo Hara. The documentary centers on 62-year-old veteran of Japan's Second World War campaign in New Guinea, Kenzo Okuzaki, and follows him around as he searches out those responsible for the unexplained deaths of two soldiers in his old unit...	Kazuo Hara Kazuo Hara is a Japanese documentary film director. He won the award for Best Director at the 12th Hochi Film Award and at the 9th Yokohama Film Festival for The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On...
1988	Early Modern France	Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie is a 1988 documentary film directed by Marcel Ophüls about the life of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie...	Marcel Ophüls Marcel Ophuls Marcel Ophüls is a documentary film maker and former actor.He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, the son of the director Max Ophüls...
1989		Fascist Legacy Fascist Legacy Fascist Legacy is a documentary film about Italian war crimes during World War II. It was recorded by the BBC in 1989 and consists of two parts.----Fascist Legacy, UK 1989, 2x50 minutes...	Ken Kirby
1989	Sweden	The Architecture of Doom The Architecture of Doom Undergångens arkitektur is a 1989 documentary directed by Swedish director Peter Cohen and narrated by Rolf Arsenius...	Peter Cohen Peter Cohen (director) Peter Cohen is a Swedish film director, writer, editor and producer. His works include the documentaries The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz , The Architecture of Doom and Homo Sapiens 1900 ....

1990s

Year	Country	Title	Director(s)
1990	United States	Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo Days of Waiting is a documentary short film by Steven Okazaki, about Estelle Ishigo, a Caucasian artist who went voluntarily to an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II...	Steven Okazaki Steven Okazaki Steven Okazaki is an American filmmaker. He is Sansei Japanese American and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area...
1990	Germany	Mein Krieg	Harriet Eder, Thomas Kufus
1992	Canada	The Valour and the Horror The Valour and the Horror The Valour and the Horror was a Canadian television documentary miniseries, which aired on CBC Television in 1992. It was a co-production between the CBC. the National Film Board of Canada and Galafilm Inc. The films were also broadcast by Radio-Canada, the French network of the CBC...	Brian McKenna Brian McKenna Brian McKenna is an award winning Canadian documentary filmmaker.He has been a frequent collaborator with his brother Terence McKenna, also an award winning filmmaker, in particular on The Valour and the Horror, a film about strategic bombing during World War 2.-References:...
1993	Early Modern France	L'Œil de Vichy The Eye of Vichy The Eye of Vichy is a 1993 film directed by Claude Chabrol. The documentary is about propaganda produced by Nazi-occupied France during World War II from 1940 to 1944. The film documents the pro-Nazi sentiments of Philippe Pétain's Vichy regime and its efforts to spread propaganda against both the...	Claude Chabrol Claude Chabrol Claude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s...
1994	United States	Battlefield Battlefield (TV series) Battlefield is a documentary series initially shown in 1994 that explores the most important battles fought primarily during the Second World War but also the Vietnam War...	Miscellaneous
1994	Germany	The Jewess and the Captain The Jewess and the Captain The Jewess And The Captain is a 1994 documentary, directed by Ulf von Mechow about a Holocaust love affair between Ilse Stein, an eighteen-year-old Jewish girl, and Willi Schultz, the Nazi captain in charge of the Minsk ghetto....	Ulf von Mechow
1994	Spain	Memory of Water Memory of Water (film) Memory of Water is a 1994 Spanish-Argentine drama film directed by Héctor Fáver. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Isabel Abad* Nicolás Alvarez* Héctor Fáver* Ana Llobet* Cristina Peralta...	Héctor Fáver Héctor Fáver Héctor Fáver is an Argentine film producer and director. His film Memory of Water was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-External links:...
1995		Anne Frank Remembered	Jon Blair Jon Blair Jon Blair is a South African born writer, producer and director of documentary films, drama and comedy who has lived in England and the United States ever since he was drafted into the South African army in the late 1960s...
1995	United States	One Survivor Remembers One Survivor Remembers One Survivor Remembers is a 1995 documentary short film by Kary Antholis in which Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein recounts her six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty, including the loss of her parents, brother, friends, home, possessions, and community.A production of HBO and the...	Kary Antholis Kary Antholis Kary Antholis is an American executive at the television network HBO who has overseen some of its groundbreaking socially conscious programming. He is also an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker.-Biography:...
1995	South Korea	Najeun moksori	Young-Joo Byun
1996	United States	Fire on the Mountain Fire on the Mountain (1996 film) Fire on the Mountain is a 1996 documentary about the 10th Mountain Division during World War II. The film follows the division from its training at Camp Hale in Colorado through its campaign in Italy. The end of the film shows the careers of 10th Mountain Division veterans, who were involved in...	Beth Gage, George Gage
1997	United States	The Long Way Home The Long Way Home (1997 film) The Long Way Home is a 1997 documentary film directed by Mark Jonathan Harris. It depicts the plight of Jewish refugees after World War II that contributed to the creation of the State of Israel....	Mark Jonathan Harris Mark Jonathan Harris Mark Jonathan Harris is an American documentary filmmaker probably best known for his films Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport and The Long Way Home...
1997		The Nazis: A Warning from History The Nazis: A Warning from History The Nazis: A Warning from History is a 1997 BBC documentary film series that examines Adolf Hitler and the Nazis' rise to power, their zenith, their decline and fall, and the consequences of their reign. It featured archive footage and interviews with eye witnesses and was shown in six...	Laurence Rees Laurence Rees Laurence Rees is a British historian. He is the former Creative Director of History Programs for the BBC, a documentary filmmaker, and the author of five books on war.-Biography:... , Tilman Remme
1997	Estonia	We Lived for Estonia We Lived for Estonia We Lived for Estonia is a documentary film about the Forest brothers during World War II.-Synopsis:During June 1941, Nazi forces occupied Estonia. By 1944, when the Soviet-Nazi frontline was drawing towards the Estonian border from the East, Alfred Käärmann was conscripted into the German...	Andres Sööt
1998	United States	Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy, directed by Tracy Atkinson and Joan Baran, narrated by Malcolm McDowell, is an English language 1998 Discovery Channel documentary regarding Nazi occultism.-Soundtrack:...	Tracy Atkinson, Joan Baran
1998	United States	Pola's March Pola's March Pola's March is a 2001 documentary made by Jonathan Gruber about a Holocaust survivor, Pola Susswein's emotional trip back to her childhood home in Poland after fifty years spent in Israel, trying to forget her painful past.-Summary:...	Jonathan Gruber Jonathan Gruber (filmmaker) Jonathan Gruber is the executive producer of documentary film company Black Eye Productions. He has been producing and directing documentaries, films, videos and interactive media since 1995....
1998	United States	The Last Days The Last Days The Last Days is a documentary, directed by James Moll and produced by June Beallor and Kenneth Lipper in 1998. Steven Spielberg was one of the executive producers, in his role as founder of the Shoah Foundation. The film tells the the stories of five Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust...	James Moll James Moll James Moll is a film director and producer.His company, Allentown Productions, has been based at Universal Studios since 1994, primarily producing film and television projects focused on stories of non-fiction....
1998	Netherlands	The Saved The Saved The Saved is a Dutch documentary released in 1998, it was directed by Paul Cohen and Oeke Hoogendijk.-Plot summary:The Saved movingly portrays the true story of about 600 Jews from Holland and uncovers the shame that haunts them decades subsequent to their experience...	Paul Cohen, Oeke Hoogendijk
1998	United States	Voices of the Children Voices of the Children Voices of the Children is an Emmy-Award winning documentary film that tells the story of three people who were imprisoned as children in the Terezin concentration camp. 16mm - color - 80min.- Content :...	Zuzana Justman Zuzana Justman Zuzana Justman is a native of the former Czechoslovakia, which she left in 1948. A documentary filmmaker and writer, she now lives in New York, but she has filmed most of her documentaries in the country of her birth and other European countries.-Early life:Her brother was Jiří Robert Pick , Czech...
1998	Canada	Unwanted Soldiers Unwanted Soldiers Unwanted Soldiers is a 1999 made-for-TV documentary written, directed and narrated by Jari Osborne for the National Film Board of Canada. It won the Canada Award at the 2000 Gemini Awards....	Jari Osborne
1999		The Second World War in Colour	Polly Bide
1999		War of the Century War of the Century The War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin, is a BBC documentary film series that examines Adolf Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 and the "no holds barred" war on both sides...	Laurence Rees Laurence Rees Laurence Rees is a British historian. He is the former Creative Director of History Programs for the BBC, a documentary filmmaker, and the author of five books on war.-Biography:...

2000

Country	Title	Director(s)
Czech Republic	A Story about a Bad Dream A Story about a Bad Dream A Story about a Bad Dream was made in 2000 by director Pavel Stingl and brings to life the diary of Eva Erbenova, a little girl who survived the Holocaust...	Pavel Stingl
United States	From Swastika to Jim Crow From Swastika to Jim Crow From Swastika to Jim Crow is a 2000 documentary that explores the similarities between Nazism in Germany and racism in the American south . In 1939, the Nazi government expelled Jewish scholars from German universities...	Lori Cheatle, Martin D. Toub
United States	Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport is a 2000 documentary film directed by Mark Jonathan Harris and narrated by Judi Dench. It tells the story of the kindertransport, an underground railroad that saved the lives of over 10,000 Jewish children...	Mark Jonathan Harris Mark Jonathan Harris Mark Jonathan Harris is an American documentary filmmaker probably best known for his films Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport and The Long Way Home...
Germany	Paragraph 175 Paragraph 175 (film) Paragraph 175 is a documentary film released in 2000, directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, and narrated by Rupert Everett. The film was produced by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Janet Cole, Michael Ehrenzweig, Sheila Nevins and Howard Rosenman. The film chronicles the lives of several gay...	Rob Epstein Rob Epstein Rob Epstein, also credited as Robert P. Epstein, is a director, producer, writer and editor. Epstein has won two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature for the films The Times of Harvey Milk and Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt.... , Jeffrey Friedman Jeffrey Friedman (filmmaker) Jeffrey Friedman is a non-fiction filmmaker, director, producer, writer and editor. Friedman has won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the film Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt....
Germany	Shadows of Memory Shadows of Memory Shadows of Memory is a 2000 documentary by Claudia von Alemann that describes the rise and fall of Hitler from the perspective of a Nazi supporter—Alemann's 84-year-old mother.-Summary:...	Claudia von Alemann
United States	Sisters in Resistance Sisters in Resistance Sisters in Resistance is a 2000 documentary by Maia Wechsler that tells the story of four young, beautiful Frenchwomen who fought against the German occupation of France during World War II. The film won Outstanding Documentary by the Academy Award Screening Committee and won Best Documentary in...	Maia Wechsler
	The Children Who Cheated the Nazis The Children Who Cheated the Nazis The Children Who Cheated the Nazis is a documentary about the Kindertransport, by the director Sue Read and producer Jim Goulding. This documentary film was broadcast by Channel 4 on September 28th, 2000, and has since been broadcast in America, Israel, France, Australia, Spain and worldwide.The...	Sue Read

2001

Country	Title	Director(s)
	Horror in the East Horror in the East Horror in the East: Japan and the Atrocities of World War II , is a BBC documentary film series that examines certain actions, including atrocities, and attitudes, of the Imperial Japanese Army in the lead up to and during World War II. The film also examines attitudes held by the British and...	Laurence Rees Laurence Rees Laurence Rees is a British historian. He is the former Creative Director of History Programs for the BBC, a documentary filmmaker, and the author of five books on war.-Biography:... , Martina Balazova
Japan	Japanese Devils Japanese Devils Japanese Devils is a Japanese documentary about the war crimes committed by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II...	Minoru Matsui
Early Modern France	Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. is a 2001 French documentary film directed by Claude Lanzmann. It was screened out of competition at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. The title and date refer to the Sobibor revolt, one of only two successful uprisings at a Nazi extermination camp during the Second...	Claude Lanzmann Claude Lanzmann Claude Lanzmann is a French filmmaker and professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.-Biography:Lanzmann attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in Auvergne...

2002

Country	Title	Director(s)
United States	A Yiddish World Remembered A Yiddish World Remembered A Yiddish World Remembered is a 2002 Emmy-award-winning documentary by Andrew Goldberg that uses archival photographs, never-before-seen archival videos, and survivor testimony to reconstruct the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, which were destroyed by the Holocaust...	Andrew Goldberg Andrew Goldberg (director) Andrew Goldberg is a producer and director, and is the founder and owner of Two Cats Productions in New York City. An Emmy Award winner, Goldberg's credits include producing/directing documentaries and news and long-form programming for PBS, ABC News, MSNBC and many others. His works include...
Austria	Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary Im toten Winkel Im toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin is a 2002 Austrian documentary directed by André Heller and Othmar Schmiderer.- Description :...	André Heller André Heller Franz André Heller is an Austrian artist, author, singer and actor.- Biography :Heller was born in Vienna into a wealthy Jewish family of sweets manufacturers . His almost daily visits to the Café Hawelka were in his opinion a key element in the development of his literary orientation... , Othmar Schmiderer
United States	Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII is a 2002 documentary directed by Aviva Slesin. It deals with the complicated associations involving two groups of guardians and the children who are grateful to each pair.-Summary:...	Aviva Slesin Aviva Slesin Aviva Slesin is a documentary film-maker.Slesin was awarded the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary for her film The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table in 1987. She is member of the Directors Guild of America and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
Canada	The Boys of Buchenwald The Boys of Buchenwald The Boys of Buchenwald is a 2002 documentary film that examines how the child survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp had to assimilate themselves back into normal society after having experienced the brutality of the Holocaust...	Audrey Mehler

2003

Country	Title	Director(s)
United States	Marion's Triumph Marion's Triumph Marion's Triumph is a 2003 documentary that tells the story of Marion Blumenthal Lazan, a child Holocaust survivor, who recounts her painful childhood memories in order to preserve history. The film combines rare historic footage, animated flashbacks, and family photographs to illustrate the...	John Chua
Denmark	Med ret til at dræbe (With a Right to Kill)	Morten Henriksen, Peter Øvig Knudsen
Canada	Prisoner of Paradise Prisoner of Paradise Prisoner of Paradise is a 2003 Canadian documentary film directed by Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender. The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where he was commanded to write...	Malcolm Clarke Malcolm Clarke Malcolm Clarke was a British composer, and a member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop for 25 years from 1969 to 1994.Clarke proved somewhat controversial when he joined the workshop, due to his views that Radiophonic music should be, in his words, "fine art," a philosophy that was not shared by... , Stuart Sender
United States	The Holocaust Experience The Holocaust Experience The Holocaust Experience is a 2003 documentary by Oeke Hoogendijk that takes a serious, slightly critical, look at Holocaust museums around the globe...	Oeke Hoogendijk

2004

Country	Title	Director(s)
	Dunkirk Dunkirk (TV series) Dunkirk is a 2004 BBC television docudrama about the Battle of Dunkirk and the Dunkirk evacuation in World War II.-Awards:BAFTA Awards 2005*Won: Huw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual: Robert Warr & Alex Holmes...	Alex Holmes Alex Holmes Alex Holmes was a National Football League tight end.-Professional career:Holmes played for the Miami Dolphins in 2005 and signed as a free agent with the Saint Louis Rams for 2006...
Netherlands	Goodbye Holland Goodbye Holland Goodbye Holland is a 2004 documentary about the extermination of Dutch Jews during World War II. The film debunks the accepted notion that the Dutch were 'good' during the war, exposing how Dutch police and civil servants helped the Nazis implement massive deportations, which resulted in the death...	Willy Lindwer Willy Lindwer Wolf "Willy" Lindwer is a Dutch documentary filmmaker.-Biography:Willy Lindwer was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where he studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy. When Lindwer finished his study, he worked for several Dutch Public TV stations...
United States	Hidden Fuhrer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality Hidden Fuhrer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality is a documentary film based on the research of German Professor Lothar Machtan for his 2001 book The Hidden Hitler that claimed Adolf Hitler was a homosexual...	Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
United States	Hiding and Seeking Hiding and Seeking Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust is 2004 documentary film about Menachem Daum, an Orthodox Jew and son of German Nazi Holocaust survivors who has spent his life interviewing survivors about the impact of the Holocaust on their lives...	Menachem Daum Menachem Daum Menachem Daum is an Orthodox Jews and a documentary film-maker. Born in displaced persons camp in Germany, to refugees from Poland who had survied the Holocaust. Being Jewish, many of his relatives perished in Nazi Germany's genocide... , Oren Rudavsky Oren Rudavsky Oren Rudavsky is an award-winning documentary filmmaker specializing in work on religion outside the mainstream. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1979.- As director :* At the Crossroads: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Today...

2005

Country	Title	Director(s)
Germany	2 or 3 Things I Know About Him 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him is a documentary film in which German director Malte Ludin examines the impact of Nazism in his family. Malte's father, Hanns Ludin, was the Third Reich's ambassador to Slovakia. As such, he signed deportation orders that sent thousands of Jews to Auschwitz...	Malte Ludin Malte Ludin Malte Ludin is a German filmmaker. He was born in Bratislava, Slovakia in 1942.He studied political science at the Free University of Berlin....
United States	A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin is a 2005 documentary short subject about writer Norman Corwin. In addition to Corwin, the cast includes Robert Altman, Norman Lear, Walter Cronkite, Studs Terkel, and radio historians Timothy Troy and Norman Gilliland.On March 5, 2006 it won the...	Eric Simonson Eric Simonson Eric Simonson is an American writer and director in theatre, film and opera. He was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 1993 for The Song of Jacob Zulu.- Personal life :...
	Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'	Laurence Rees Laurence Rees Laurence Rees is a British historian. He is the former Creative Director of History Programs for the BBC, a documentary filmmaker, and the author of five books on war.-Biography:... , Catherine Tatge
	Hiroshima	Paul Wilmshurst
United States	The 11th Day: Crete 1941 The 11th Day: Crete 1941 The 11th Day: Crete 1941 is a 2005 documentary film featuring eyewitness accounts from survivors of the Battle for Crete during World War II. The film was created by producer-director Christos Epperson and writer-producer Michael Epperson, and funded by Alex Spanos. Among the eyewitnesses are...	Christos Epperson
United States	The Mushroom Club The Mushroom Club The Mushroom Club is a 2005 documentary short subject, directed by Steven Okazaki.The short film is about the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima and its effects on the residents of that city sixty years later....	Steven Okazaki Steven Okazaki Steven Okazaki is an American filmmaker. He is Sansei Japanese American and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area...
Poland	The Portraitist The Portraitist The Portraitist is a 2005 Polish television documentary film about the life and work of Wilhelm Brasse, the famous "photographer of Auschwitz", made for TVP1, Poland, which first aired in its "Proud to Present" series on January 1, 2006...	Ireneusz Dobrowolski
Austria	Unwanted Cinema Unwanted Cinema Unwanted Cinema is a documentary film by Petrus van der Let and Armin Loacker that looks at the lives and careers of Jewish filmmakers in Budapest and Vienna during the 1930s after Hitler came to power...	Petrus van der Let

2006

Country	Title	Director(s)
Russia	Blokada	Sergei Loznitsa Sergei Loznitsa Sergei Loznitsa is a Ukrainian director mostly known for his documentary films.-Biography:In 1987 he graduated from Kiev Polytechnic Institute as a mathematician. Between 1987 and 1991 he worked in the Institute of Cybernetics. He developed expert systems, systems of design-making and work on...
United States	Forgiving Dr. Mengele Forgiving Dr. Mengele Forgiving Dr. Mengele is a documentary film about Eva Mozes Kor, a victim of the Holocaust and her decision to forgive the Nazis who killed her family and in particular Dr...	Bob Hercules, Cheri Pugh
United States	The Rape of Europa The Rape of Europa The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War is a book and a subsequent documentary film of somewhat related material. The book, by Lynn H. Nicholas, explores the Nazi plunder of looted art treasures from occupied countries, and the consequences...	Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Nicole Newnham
Estonia	The Blue Hills	Raimo Jõerand

2007

Country	Title	Director(s)
United States	A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day is a television documentary program that was produced for The History Channel by Flight 33 Productions in 2007. Executive Producers were Douglas Cohen , Louis Tarantino and Dolores Gavin . The program was written by Douglas Cohen and produced by Samuel K...	Douglas Cohen
Canada	My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner My Opposition: the Diaries of Friedrich Kellner My Opposition - The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner is a 2007 documentary film about an orphaned American who went in search of his German grandfather and discovered a secret diary written during the time of the Third Reich. The film is a production of Abella Entertainment Ltd...	Fern Levitt
United States	Nanking Nanking (film) Nanking is a 2007 film about the 1937 Nanking Massacre committed by the Japanese army in the former capital city Nanjing, China. The film draws on letters and diaries from the era as well as archive footage and interviews with surviving victims and perpetrators of the massacre...	Bill Guttentag Bill Guttentag Bill Guttentag is a two-time Oscar winning documentary and feature film writer-producer-director.-Career:In 1988, Guttentag won an Oscar for Best Documentary with his HBO film "You Don't Have to Die," telling the story of one boy's battle against cancer... , Dan Sturman
United States	Order Castles of the Third Reich Order Castles of the Third Reich A documentary motion picture, Order Castles of the Third Reich tells the history and purpose of the three NSDAP Order Castles, Ordensburg Krössinsee, Ordensburg Vogelsang, and Ordensburg Sonthofen . Written and directed by R.J...	R.J. Adams
United States	Ruins of the Reich Ruins of the Reich Ruins of the Reich is a documentary series that traces the rise & fall of the Third Reich through its architecture. Written and directed by film maker R.J...	R.J. Adams
Israel	Stalags Stalags (film) Stalags is a 2007 documentary film produced by Barak Heymann and directed by Ari Libsker. The film examines the history of Stalags, pornography books that featured sexy female Nazi officers sexually abusing camp prisoners...	Ari Libsker Ari Libsker Ari Libsker featured in The New York Times and won several awards.-Film Making:One of his first ones, Circumcision dealt with the effect of circumcision on the sex life of Jewish people, connecting it to castration. Channel 2 tried to censor the movie and in the end broadcast it at a late hour...
United States	The War The War (documentary) The War is a 2007 American seven-part documentary television mini-series about World War II from the perspective of the United States that premiered on September 23, 2007...	Ken Burns Ken Burns Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns is an American director and producer of documentary films, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs... , Lynn Novick Lynn Novick Lynn Novick is an American director and producer of documentary films known for mostly for her work with Ken Burns. Among her most notable collaborations with Burns are The War , Baseball: The Tenth Inning . and Prohibition . Their next project is a Vietnam War history planned for 2016...
United States	White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is an HBO documentary film that was directed and produced by Steven Okazaki and was released on August 6, 2007 on HBO, marking the 62nd anniversary of the first atomic bombing...	Steven Okazaki Steven Okazaki Steven Okazaki is an American filmmaker. He is Sansei Japanese American and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area...
United States	Wings of Defeat Wings of Defeat Wings of Defeat is a documentary feature film in which former Kamikaze reveal they were not fanatics but were ordered to die by a desperate military...	Risa Morimoto
Japan	Yasukuni Yasukuni (2007 film) is the title of a 2007 film made by Japan-resident Chinese director Li Ying . It took 10 years to complete and had been screened at the Pusan International Film Festival 2007, World Cinema Competition Sundance Film Festival 2008 and Berlin Film Festival 2008...	Li Ying

2008

Country	Title	Director(s)
United States	Battle 360° Battle 360° Battle 360°, also written as Battle 360, was an American documentary television series that originally aired from February 29 to May 2, 2008 on History. The program focused on the World War II-era aircraft carrier . The show was produced by Flight 33 Productions.Battle 360° made extensive use of...	Tony Long
Germany	Harlan – In the Shadow of Jew Süss Harlan – In the Shadow of Jew Süss Harlan – In the Shadow of Jew Süss is a 2008 documentary film by German director Felix Moeller about one of the most notorious Nazi German filmmakers, Veit Harlan and his family...	Felix Moeller
Netherlands	Tulip Time: The Rise and Fall of the Trio Lescano Tulip Time: The Rise and Fall of the Trio Lescano Tulip Time: The Rise and Fall of the Trio Lescano is a documentary film about the Italian close harmony group Trio Lescano, their rise, downfall, and eventual arrest by Italian fascists. After a farewell radio broadcast on September 1, 1945, the trio moved to South America to resume their...	Tonino Boniotti, Marco De Stefanis
Latvia	The Soviet Story The Soviet Story The Soviet Story is a 2008 documentary film about Soviet Communism and Soviet-German collaboration before 1941 written and directed by Edvīns Šnore and sponsored by the UEN Group in the European Parliament....	Edvīns Šnore Edvīns Šnore Edvīns Šnore is a Latvian film director.He has become known for his 2008 documentary The Soviet Story. For this film, he was awarded with the Latvian Order of the Three Stars in 2008, and the Estonian Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana in 2009....
	World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West WWII Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West is a BBC / PBS documentary film on the role of Joseph Stalin during World War II. The 2008 film combines narrative-led documentary segments, interwoven by dramatic re-enactments, with actors representing main political figures of the period....	Laurence Rees Laurence Rees Laurence Rees is a British historian. He is the former Creative Director of History Programs for the BBC, a documentary filmmaker, and the author of five books on war.-Biography:... , Andrew Williams

2009

Country	Title	Director(s)
Early Modern France	Apocalypse: The Second World War Apocalypse: The Second World War Apocalypse: The Second World War is a six-part French documentary by Daniel Costelle and Isabelle Clarke about the Second World War...	Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle
United States	The Inheritance of War	Ashley Karras
Netherlands	Patton 360° Patton 360° Patton 360° was a weekly television series that originally ran from April 10 to June 26, 2009, on the History channel. It was produced by Flight 33 Productions in Los Angeles , and featured a mixture of CGI, archival footage, recreations, and interviews with World War II veterans and historians....	Tony Long
Finland	Sisters Across the Gulf of Finland	Imbi Paju Imbi Paju Imbi Paju is an Estonian-born journalist, writer and filmmaker resident in Finland.Paju has been operating in Finland as a correspondent of the Estonian newspapers Eesti Päevaleht and Postimees...
	The Week We Went to War	Malcolm McKissock, Louise Pirie
United States	WWII in HD WWII in HD WWII in HD is a 10-part American documentary television miniseries that originally aired from November 15 to November 19, 2009 on the History Channel...	Frederic Lumiere, Matthew Ginsburg

2010

Country	Title	Director(s)
Canada	War Music	David Porteous David Porteous David Porteous is a Canadian singer/songwriter, music producer, and documentary filmmaker from Toronto, Canada.David Porteous has written and recorded 23 music releases, had his first radio play on CBC Radio 2 at the age of 14, wrote music for an HBO pilot, and has released a documentary film...

2011

Country	Title	Director(s)
United States	We Were There	Jarod O'Flaherty

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