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Lo más cercano a Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution primero
Shoah 1985
Documentary
Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.
The sides of Shoah
- Survivors, bystanders and perpetrators interviewed
- The sites of the camps filmed decades later
- No archive footage at all
Good for you if
- you want the Holocaust told by those who were there.
- you can sit with long silences and slow train journeys.
- you can be moved to tears by a barber breaking down as he recalls Treblinka.
Bad for you if
- you can't give more than nine hours to one film.
- you won't read subtitles, and the film moves between many languages.
- you can't hear first-hand accounts of mass murder.
About: memory · testimony · genocide
The Last Days 1998
Documentary
This Oscar-winning documentary recounts the harrowing stories of five Hungarian Jews who endured the horrors of the Holocaust and Hitler's reign.
The sides of The Last Days
- Five Hungarian Jews who survived the Holocaust
- Survivors returning to their childhood homes
- Memories of the camps
Good for you if
- you want to hear survivors tell their own stories.
- you want to understand the Holocaust in Hungary through five lives.
- you're ready to be moved to tears by people going back to where it happened.
Bad for you if
- you can't bear firsthand accounts of the camps.
- you can't look at archive footage of bodies in the camps.
About: memory · survival · loss
Night and Fog 1956
Documentary
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
The sides of Night and Fog
- The grass grown back over Auschwitz ten years after
- Archive film and photographs from the camps
- A commentary written by a deported poet
Good for you if
- you want the camps documented a decade after, while the sites were still standing.
- you want the record itself, the archives and the places as they were left.
- you can face what was done there, stated plainly.
Bad for you if
- you can't look at archive images of the dead and the survivors of the camps.
- you need a film to leave you some hope, and this one closes by asking who is still keeping watch.
About: the camps · memory · war
La lista de Schindler 1993
Película
Oskar Schindler, un hombre de enorme astucia y talento para las relaciones públicas, organiza un ambicioso plan para ganarse la simpatía de los nazis. Después de la invasión de Polonia por los alemanes, consigue, gracias a sus relaciones con los nazis, la propiedad de una fábrica de Cracovia. Allí emplea a cientos de operarios judíos, cuya explotación le hace prosperar rápidamente. Su gerente, también judío, es el verdadero director en la sombra, pues Schindler no tiene el menor conocimiento industrial.
Las caras de La lista de Schindler
- Un empresario que salva a sus trabajadores
- Blanco y negro, y un abrigo rojo
- Una lista que significa vida
Buena para ti si
- te gustan las imágenes potentes en blanco y negro, y una niña con abrigo rojo que no olvidarás.
- te gusta un villano terriblemente humano.
- quieres entender una historia real desde dentro.
Mala para ti si
- el Holocausto en pantalla es demasiado para ti esta noche.
- más de tres horas es demasiado para una sola noche.
- el blanco y negro te echa para atrás.
Temas: la humanidad · el valor · el mal
Apocalypse: The Second World War 2009
Documentary
A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters and private citizens. The series is shown in color, with the black and white footage being fully colorized, save for some original color footage. The only exception to the treatment are most Holocaust scenes, which are presented in the original black and white.
The sides of Apocalypse: The Second World War
- Archive footage shot by soldiers and civilians
- Black and white images restored in color
- The whole war in six parts
Good for you if
- you want to see the Second World War through the eyes of those who filmed it.
- you like the whole war told from start to end in six episodes.
- you want to see black and white archive footage restored in colour.
Bad for you if
- you can't face the footage of the Holocaust.
- you can't watch real combat and real bodies.
About: war · memory · the Holocaust
El pianista 2002
Película
Varsovia, 1939. El pianista polaco de origen judío Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) interpreta un tema de Chopin en la radio nacional de Polonia mientras la aviación alemana bombardea la capital. El régimen nazi ha invadido el país, y como hace en otros países invadidos, lleva a cabo la misma política con respecto a los judíos. Así Szpilman y toda su familia -sus padres, su hermano y sus dos hermanas- se ven obligados a dejar su casa y todo lo que les pertenece para trasladarse con miles de personas de origen judío al ghetto de Varsovia. Mientras Wladyslaw trabaja como pianista en un restaurante propiedad de un judío que colabora con los nazis, su hermano Henryk (Ed Stoppard) prefiere luchar contra los nazis. Pero tres años más tarde, los habitantes del ghetto son trasladados en trenes hacia campos de concentración.
Las caras de El pianista
- Un pianista escondido en Varsovia
- Años solo en pisos vacíos
- Música para un oficial enemigo
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una interpretación callada de pura supervivencia.
- te gusta una historia real que se queda contigo.
- te gusta ver a alguien aguantar a pesar de todo.
Mala para ti si
- el Holocausto mostrado con detalle es demasiado esta noche.
- dos horas y media es demasiado para tu noche.
Temas: la supervivencia · el arte · la humanidad
The Devil Next Door 2019
Documentary
A Cleveland grandfather is brought to trial in Israel, accused of being the infamous Nazi death camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible.
The sides of The Devil Next Door
- A retired autoworker from Cleveland
- A trial in Jerusalem
- Holocaust survivors on the witness stand
Good for you if
- you want to understand the real trial of John Demjanjuk.
- you like a question of identity: a grandfather or a death camp guard.
- you like archive footage of a trial that gripped Israel in the 1980s.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch survivors describe the death camps.
- you need a clear answer on who the man really was.
About: justice · memory · identity

Taxi to the Dark Side 2008
Documentary
An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.
The sides of Taxi to the Dark Side
- An Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar
- Detention at Bagram and Guantanamo
- Soldiers and officials on interrogation orders
Good for you if
- you want the true story of one innocent man who died in US custody.
- you want to see how orders from the top reached a prison cell.
- you want to understand what the war on terror did behind closed doors.
Bad for you if
- you can't take a story of torture and death of an innocent man.
- you can't look at photos of prisoners being abused.
About: torture · responsibility · justice
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple 2006
Documentary
Featuring never-before-seen footage, this documentary delivers a startling new look at the Peoples Temple, headed by preacher Jim Jones who, in 1978, led more than 900 members to Guyana, where he orchestrated a mass suicide via tainted punch.
The sides of Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
- Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple
- Former members and survivors speaking
- The move to Guyana in 1978
Good for you if
- you want to understand how ordinary people followed Jim Jones.
- you like archive footage that shows a story from the inside.
- you can watch a slow descent you know will end in tragedy.
Bad for you if
- you can't face the deaths of more than 900 people, children among them.
- you need some hope at the end of a story.
About: faith · manipulation · belonging
The World at War 1973
Documentary
A documentary series that gives a historical account of the events of World War II, from its roots in the 1920s to the aftermath and the lives it profoundly influenced.
The sides of The World at War
- World War II from its roots to its aftermath
- Interviews with soldiers, civilians and leaders
- Archive footage narrated by Laurence Olivier
Good for you if
- you want the whole Second World War told in order, front by front.
- you like hearing soldiers who were there tell what they saw.
- you like the grave, haunting Carl Davis theme that opens every episode.
Bad for you if
- you find 1970s television and black and white archives dated.
- you can't watch footage of the camps and the dead.
- you won't commit to twenty six episodes of nearly an hour each.
About: war · memory · genocide
Waltz with Bashir 2008
Documentary
A film director from Israel interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
The sides of Waltz with Bashir
- An Israeli director who can't remember his war
- Interviews with fellow veterans of Lebanon, 1982
- Animated memories that end on real footage
Good for you if
- you want to know what a war does to the memory of those who fought it.
- you like a director investigating his own past.
- you like dreamlike animated images, like soldiers rising from the sea at night.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not see a war documentary in animation.
- you won't read subtitles. It's in Hebrew.
- you can't take a film about guilt and the dead of a war, seen through a soldier's nightmares.
About: memory · guilt · war

The Diary of Anne Frank 2009
Series
Five-part adaptation of Anne Frank's famous wartime diaries in which a young teenager and her family go into hiding from the Nazis in wartime Amsterdam.
The sides of The Diary of Anne Frank
- A teenage girl writing her diary
- A family hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam
- Eight people sharing a secret annex
Good for you if
- you want to understand daily life in hiding during the war.
- you want to hear Anne Frank's own words brought to the screen.
- you can be moved by a girl full of life whose fate you know.
Bad for you if
- the Holocaust is too painful for you to watch.
- you need momentum, and this stays inside a few small rooms.
About: adolescence · fear · hope
El niño con el pijama de rayas 2008
Película
Berlín, 1942. Bruno tiene ocho años y desconoce el significado de la Solución Final y del Holocausto. No es consciente de las pavorosas crueldades que su país, en plena guerra mundial, está infligiendo a los pueblos de Europa. Todo lo que sabe es que su padre -recién nombrado comandante de un campo de concentración- ha ascendido en el escalafón, y que ha pasado de vivir en una confortable casa de Berlín a una zona aislada. Todo cambia cuando conoce a Shamuel, un niño judío que vive una extraña existencia paralela al otro lado de la alambrada.
Las caras de El niño con el pijama de rayas
- El hijo de un oficial nazi cerca de un campo
- Un amigo al otro lado de la valla
- Una inocencia que no ve
Buena para ti si
- estás dispuesto a emocionarte con una amistad a través de la valla de un campo.
- puedes con una historia sin consuelo.
Mala para ti si
- un campo de concentración visto por un niño es demasiado esta noche.
- quieres el Holocausto contado a partir de testimonios reales. Es una historia inventada, sacada de una novela.
Temas: la inocencia · la amistad · el mal
20 Days in Mariupol 2023
Documentary
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.
The sides of 20 Days in Mariupol
- Ukrainian journalists trapped in a besieged city
- Hospitals filling with the wounded
- Getting the footage out
Good for you if
- you want to see what the first weeks of the invasion looked like on the ground.
- you want to understand what a siege does to a city and its people.
Bad for you if
- the grief of parents losing children is too much for you.
- you can't watch real dead and wounded people on screen.
About: war · the truth · grief · journalism
Hitler: A Career 1977
Documentary
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.
The sides of Hitler: A Career
- Archive footage of Hitler's rise
- Crowds at Nazi rallies
- The Weimar Republic sliding into dictatorship
Good for you if
- you want to understand how the Weimar Republic fell to the Nazis.
- you're interested in how crowds are swayed by propaganda.
- you want the story told through footage from the time.
Bad for you if
- two and a half hours of archive footage is too much for you.
- you can't sit through so many images of Nazi crowds and war.
About: propaganda · mass psychology · dictatorship
Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror 2021
Documentary
Modern history can be divided into two time frames: before 9/11 and after 9/11. This five-part docuseries is a cohesive chronicle of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S., offering illuminating perspectives and personal stories of how the catastrophic events of that day changed the course of the nation.
The sides of Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror
- The September 11 attacks
- Twenty years of war in Afghanistan
- Survivors, soldiers and officials remembering
Good for you if
- you want the personal stories of people who lived through that day.
- you like seeing how one day reshaped the following twenty years.
- you want to understand the choices made in Washington after the attacks.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch footage of the attacks and accounts of torture.
- you want something light for your evening.
About: terrorism · grief · security and freedom
The Look of Silence 2014
Documentary
An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the "Communist" purge occurred in 1965. His remaining family members lived in fear and silence until the making of this documentary. Adi, a brother of his, decided to revisit the horrific incident and visited the men who were responsible for the killings and one survivor of the purge. These meetings uncovered sadistic details of the murders and exposed raw emotions and reactions of the killers' family members about what happened in the past - much to Adi's disappointment.
The sides of The Look of Silence
- A man facing those who killed his brother
- Eye tests as a way into conversations
- Indonesia's 1965 killings
Good for you if
- you want to see a family ask the questions it was never allowed to ask.
- you want to understand a mass killing that is rarely talked about.
- you like quiet, patient conversations that say a lot.
Bad for you if
- you can't bear to hear killers calmly describe what they did.
- you won't read subtitles for a film in Indonesian.
About: guilt · memory · justice · grief
Barefoot Gen 1983
Anime
A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
The sides of Barefoot Gen
- A boy in Hiroshima in August 1945
- The bomb falling on an ordinary morning
- A child looking after his mother in the ruins
Good for you if
- you want to be moved by a child who keeps going after losing almost everything.
- you want to see the Hiroshima bombing through the eyes of one family.
- you want a war film about civilians, not soldiers.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch the death of children and parents on screen.
- you can't stand bodies burning and melting in graphic detail.
- you don't watch animated films.
About: grief · survival · war
Chernobyl 2019
Serie
En Abril de 1986, la Central Nuclear de Chernóbil en Ucrania (en aquel entonces, la Unión Soviética), sufrió una explosión masiva que liberó material radioactivo en Bielorrusia, Rusia, Ucrania, así como en zonas de Escandinavia y Europa Central. La serie relata lo que aconteció en 1986, en uno de los mayores desastres provocados por el hombre en la historia reciente, así como los sacrificios realizados para salvar al continente de un desastre sin precedentes.
Las caras de Chernobyl
- La noche en que explotó un reactor
- Científicos contra las mentiras de un Estado
- Hombres enviados al tejado
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una angustia que nunca suelta.
- quieres entender un desastre real.
- puedes con una historia sombría y sin adornos.
Mala para ti si
- la enfermedad por radiación mostrada con detalle es demasiado dura para ti.
- no soportas ver animales abatidos a tiros. Los soldados limpian la zona de las mascotas abandonadas.
Temas: la verdad · el sacrificio · la mentira
El hundimiento 2004
Película
Berlín, abril de 1945. En las calles de Berlín se libra una encarnizada batalla. Hitler y sus fieles se han atrincherado en un búnker. Entre ellos se encuentra Traudl Junge, la secretaria personal del Führer. En el exterior, la situación se recrudece. A pesar de que Berlín ya no puede resistir más, Hitler se niega a abandonar la ciudad y, acompañado de Eva Braun, prepara su despedida.
Las caras de El hundimiento
- Los últimos días de Hitler en su búnker de Berlín
- Su joven secretaria
- Berlín cayendo ante el ejército soviético
Buena para ti si
- quieres ver de cerca los últimos días del Tercer Reich.
- no puedes apartar la vista de Bruno Ganz como Hitler.
- te gusta la angustia asfixiante de un búnker mientras la ciudad cae arriba.
Mala para ti si
- no lees subtítulos en una película alemana.
- no soportas ver cómo se acumulan la desesperación y los suicidios en un búnker.
Temas: la negación · la lealtad ciega · la derrota