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8.7
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81
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82
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100
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97
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99
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cc age 15+

Shoah (1985)
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.
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Kanopy
89
8.6
/863101/
85
/13825/
84
/7961/
4.6
/1018323/
91
/162/
97
/15605/
79
/33/
cc age 18+

City of God (2002)
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
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Criterion Channel
89
8.6
/23231/
84
/589/
82
/540/
4.6
/55018/
100
/26/
95
/414/
cc age 15+

Night and Fog (1956)
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
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Criterion Channel
87
8.2
/3568/
81
/167/
75
/64/
4.4
/18284/
100
/12/

Streetwise (1984)
This documentary about teenagers living on the streets in Seattle began as a magazine article. The film follows nine teenagers who discuss how they live by panhandling, prostitution, and petty theft.
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Netflix
83
7.9
/6439/
75
/206/
74
/94/
4.0
/6011/
96
/23/
91
/35/
85
/25/
cc age 13+

The Last Days (1998)
Five Jewish Hungarians, now US citizens, tell their stories: before March 1944, when Nazis began to exterminate Hungarian Jews, months in concentration camps, and visiting childhood homes more than 50 years later. An historian, a Sonderkommando, a doctor who experimented on Auschwitz prisoners, and US soldiers who were part of the liberation in April 1945.
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fuboTV
82
7.5
/3285/
76
/209/
69
/42/
3.8
/8482/
100
/56/
87
/17/
87
/11/

Attica (2021)
Follows the largest prison uprising in US history, conducting dozens of new interviews with inmates, journalists, and other witnesses.
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81
8.1
/1454/
79
/48/
77
/23/
3.7
/599/
97
/30/
84
/88/
cc age 9+

Anne Frank Remembered (1995)
Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this Academy Award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first fully-rounded portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.
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83
75
8.0
/3683/
71
/203/
76
/85/
4.0
/2331/
100
/24/
93
/30/
85
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Night Will Fall (2014)
When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened. Making use of British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information’s Sidney Bernstein (later founder of Granada Television) aimed to create a documentary that would provide lasting, undeniable evidence of the Nazis’ unspeakable crimes. He commissioned a wealth of British talent, including editor Stewart McAllister, writer and future cabinet minister Richard Crossman – and, as treatment advisor, his friend Alfred Hitchcock. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US Governments, the film was shelved, and only now, 70 years on, has it been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums under its original title "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey".
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75
7.8
/5803/
73
/191/
71
/88/
3.7
/5089/
79
/20/

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006)
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.
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Fandango at Home Free
72
7.6
/272641/
74
/4083/
74
/3302/
3.6
/133404/
63
/201/
79
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58
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cc age 17+

The Reader (2008)
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
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Kanopy
71
7.2
/16830/
71
/421/
70
/290/
3.7
/9864/
74
/81/
78
/696/
63
/25/
cc age 17+

City of Men (2007)
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
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Kanopy
70
69
7.2
/15668/
71
/399/
69
/364/
3.6
/5635/
67
/49/
82
/174/
57
/19/

Amen. (2002)
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit priest, Riccardo Fontana, but their protestations fall on deaf ears in the Vatican.
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Hoopla
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69
7.4
/14469/
71
/274/
71
/368/
3.7
/7328/
81
/21/
77
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59
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cc age 12+

The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
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Kanopy
68
7.1
/9277/
70
/242/
68
/152/
3.6
/5888/
74
/23/
76
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Bent (1997)
Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.
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Kanopy
78
61
7.7
/2269/
70
/29/
65
/35/
3.8
/1221/
95
/19/
84
/57/
85
/14/

Paragraph 175 (2000)
During the Nazi regime, there was widespread persecution of homosexual men, which started in 1871 with the Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code. Thousands were murdered in concentration camps. This powerful and disturbing documentary, narrated by Rupert Everett, presents for the first time the largely untold testimonies of some of those who survived.
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MGM Plus
79
56
8.3
/1806/
75
/111/
77
/59/
4.2
/1918/

Nazi Concentration Camps (1945)
Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders, this film consists primarily of dead and surviving prisoners and of facilities used to kill and torture during the World War II.
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75
54
7.7
/2202/
74
/118/
75
/37/
3.7
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Louis Theroux: Behind Bars (2008)
For two weeks, Theroux visits the San Quentin State Prison.
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Criterion Channel
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51
7.6
/2911/
70
/42/
69
/80/
3.7
/2424/
57
/7/
84
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Kapo (1960)
Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessly guard other prisoners.
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Kanopy
78
51
7.4
/2419/
74
/45/
78
/144/
3.8
/6290/
88
/16/

The Rose Seller (1998)
Monica is 13 years old and has already created her own world, on the street, where she fights courageously to defend what little she has: her friends, her boyfriend, who sells drugs, and her dignity and pride that makes no concessions to anyone. On Christmas night, like every night, she sells roses to make a living. But life brings her a new appointment with loneliness, poverty, drugs and death.
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40
7.5
/2148/
62
/14/
74
/24/
3.5
/609/
80
/131/

Seven Waves Away (1957)
After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.
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37
7.4
/649/
73
/23/
62
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3.7
/660/
100
/18/
75
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81
/7/

Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001)
Documentary interview with Yehuda Lerner, who at 17 participated in a prisoner revolt at the Nazi-run Sobibor extermination camp. Originally filmed for inclusion in Lanzmann's 1985 documentary Shoah.
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fuboTV
49
33
5.3
/2997/
58
/31/
50
/34/
2.6
/1157/
40
/5/
40
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I Love You, I Love You Not (1996)
A school student and her European-born grandmother share sad stories of their lives.
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Amazon Prime Video
68
33
7.1
/1319/
68
/63/
68
/24/
3.3
/1193/

Jonestown: Paradise Lost (2007)
Jonestown: Paradise Lost is a documentary on the final days of Jonestown, the Peoples Temple, and Jim Jones. From eyewitness and survivor accounts, it recreates the last week before the mass murder-suicide on November 18, 1978.
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78
31
7.8
/1045/
78
/27/
74
/27/
3.8
/1198/
85
/6/

The Children of Leningradsky (2005)
Since the fall of the Iron Curtain an estimated four million children have found themselves living on the streets in the former countries of the Soviet Union. In the streets of Moscow alone there are over 30,000 surviving in this manner at the present time. The makers of the documentary film concentrated on a community of homeless children living hand to mouth in the Moscow train station Leningradsky. Eight-year-old Sasha, eleven-year-old Kristina, thirteen-year-old Misha and ten-year-old Andrej all dream of living in a communal home. They spend winter nights trying to stay warm by huddling together on hot water pipes and most of their days are spent begging. Andrej has found himself here because of disagreements with his family. Kristina was driven into this way of life by the hatred of her stepmother and twelve-year-old Roma by the regular beatings he received from his constantly drunk father. "When it is worst, we try to make money for food by prostitution," admits ...
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The Roku Channel
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24
6.7
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3.4
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Out of the Ashes (2003)
The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
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60
19
6.6
/491/
63
/18/
64
/64/
3.4
/467/
43
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Look to the Sky (1993)
A Jewish boy living in Amsterdam at the onset of World War II is taken to a concentration camp with his parents. Based on the memoir of Holocaust survivor Jona Oberski.
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15
6.5
/490/
68
/97/
60
/11/
3.3
/239/

Inside: Russia's Toughest Prisons (2009)
Three Russian prisons unlock their doors to an international film crew and reveal what life inside is like for the nation's most brutal criminals.
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48
11
5.5
/631/
55
/13/
47
/17/
3.1
/493/
23
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Guyana: Crime of the Century (1979)
This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones, a highly charismatic, but profoundly paranoid clergyman, who after years of evangelism and good deeds, begins his own church in the mid-western United States. When Jim Jones becomes increasingly obsessed with the belief that the CIA is "a wicked enemy" who is out to get him, he emigrates with his congregation to Guyana, where he plans to create a utopia. But Jim Jones' utopia consists of a society where he demands his followers turn their minds, bodies and possessions over to him, one that is rife with orgies, physical violence, mental torture, and sexual abuse of children and adults. Ultimately, Jim Jones' paranoia reaches a fevered pitch that culminates in him taking savage action against his own congregation. (VCI Home Video)
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Amazon Prime Video
32
6
2.5
/550/
32
/34/
30
/14/
2.4
/338/
29
/2/

The Jonestown Haunting (2020)
A survivor of the Jonestown massacre returns to the site 10 years later and discovers the cult's former home has become a breeding ground for the supernatural.
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?
4.9
/10/
40
/1/

Jonestown: The Final Reckoning (2024)
A survivor of the Jonestown massacre travels back to the jungles of Guyana with her daughter 30 years later to confront her demons, only to relive the horror in ways she never could have imagined.
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72
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5.6
/52/
65
/10/
75
/4/

Nazi Death Camp: The Great Escape (2014)
The secret Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on the 14th October 1943, in one of the biggest and most successful prison revolts of WWII, the inmates fought back.
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?
5.1
/70/
60
/1/

Three Days in Auschwitz (2015)
The director’s mother, Mirka Mora, avoided Auschwitz by one day. On his father’s side many perished in the Holocaust. These facts triggered three visits to Auschwitz by Mora from 2010 to 2014 in an effort to understand and remember.
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90
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8.1
/200/
100
/1/

Prisoner Number A26188: Henia Bryer
Born into a middle-class Jewish family, Henia lost her father, brother and sister during the German occupation. She survived. This extraordinarily moving documentary tells the story of holocaust survivor, Henia Bryer, in her own words.
poster
75
?
7.2
/105/
78
/6/

Jonestown (2013)
A thriller that dramatizes the last 24 hours in the lives of Jim Jones and The Peoples Temple Church through the eyes of a reporter.
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?
7.8
/14/
10
/1/

Deceived: The Jonestown Tragedy (1979)
Rev. Dr. Mel White’s famous documentary on the murderous cult leader, Rev. Jim Jones
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?
7.6
/44/
75
/2/

The Prison Within (2020)
Survivors of violent crimes and prisoners incarcerated for murder connect to undergo astonishing transformations, liberating themselves from the debilitating constraints of trauma, and shattering preconceptions of "us and them."
poster
73
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7.8
/162/
77
/14/
64
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Witness to Jonestown (2008)
Rare footage shot inside the People's Temple gives an insider's look at the tragic Jonestown Massacre that occurred in Guyana in 1978. Interviews with survivors attempt to shed light on how and why 900 Unitedstatians would follow one man to their deaths.
poster
66
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7.4
/109/
40
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70
/2/
82
/8/

The Liberation of Auschwitz (1986)
This chilling, vitally important documentary was produced to mark the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The film contains unedited, previously unavailable film footage of Auschwitz shot by the Soviet military forces between January 27 and February 28, 1945 and includes an interview with Alexander Voronsov, the cameraman who shot the footage. The horrifying images include: survivors; camp visit by Soviet investigation commission; criminal experiments; forced laborers; evacuation of ill and weak prisoners with the aid of Russian and Polish volunteers; aerial photos of the IG Farben Works in Monowitz; and pictures of local people cleaning up the camp under Soviet supervision. - Written by National Center for Jewish Film
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?
6.8
/56/

Decoding The Past: Cults - Dangerous Devotion (2006)
Is it brain-washing or like-mindedness? What attracts followers to cults and what holds them? This special feature-length documentary infiltrates the hidden world of these secretive groups.
poster
71
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6.9
/37/
63
/6/
83
/3/
3.5
/263/

605 Adults 304 Children (2019)
An immersive and intimate documentary filmed entirely by The Peoples Temple in Jonestown.
poster
78
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7.8
/334/
77
/14/
80
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One Day in Auschwitz (2015)
Auschwitz-Birkenau was designed to kill. Four gas chambers murdered thousands at a time, belching out smoke and human ashes. Starvation, thirst, disease, and hard labor reduced the average lifespan to less than three months. More than 1-million people perished in the largest German Nazi concentration and extermination camp. Seventy years after her liberation, Kitty Hart-Moxon makes a final return to Auschwitz-Birkenau to walk among the crumbling memorial with students Natalia and Lydia, who, at 16, are the same age now as she was then. As Kitty tells them her story of daily existence, themes begin to emerge: the ever-present threat of death, resilience, friendship, human strength, resisting the Nazis' constant lethal intent, and living like an animal while still remaining human. Natalia and Lydia ask questions; Kitty provides answers, passing her legacy to the next generation.
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60
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7.2
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60
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50
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Survivors of the Holocaust (1996)
This documentary blends personal accounts of what happened before, during and after WWII. One testimony tells of a sister sending tear-stained letters from the prison camp, while another survivor tells the story of how his father traded portions of the family's food that was being saved for the liberation march, a few slices of bread, for a Jewish prayer book in order to perform a Passover sedar and for Sabbath. Woven together with survivor testimonies, archival footage, original music, source music and survivors' personal photographs and artifacts, the documentary will show the richness of life before the war, the rise and fall of Nazi power, the liberation of the camps and life now, 50 years later, all as seen through the eyes of those who survived.
poster
?
7.1
/33/

Prison for Profit (2019)
The Mangaung Prison opened in 2001 as South Africa’s first privately run penitentiary. Its operator, the multi-billion-dollar British security firm G4S, promised the most humane treatment and the best facilities for its nearly 3,000 prisoners—and naturally at the lowest cost. Testimonials from whistleblowers and former prisoners, and the findings of investigative journalist Ruth Hopkins expose the reality of prison privatization. Guards are underpaid, overworked and fear every day for their lives. Prisoners are a source of income, so rehabilitation isn’t a priority. Prison for Profit shows how this profit maximization system works, and what happens when governmental tasks like detention are outsourced to powerful international corporations. And what are the negative consequences for society at large?
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72
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7.1
/107/
77
/8/
69
/7/

Auschwitz - One Day (2020)
Today, the word "Auschwitz" is a synonym for the Holocaust. Thousands of Jews died there every day. With the help of some acted scenes, photos and graphics, the film tells of a day in May 1944. The starting point is a unique document: a photo album created by the SS perpetrators themselves. Almost all of the photos were taken at the end of May 1944, in just a few days. They show the cruel routine, the arrival of the victims, their "selection" on the ramp, the robbery of their property and the transformation of all those who were not immediately killed, into shaved, uniformed slaves. One survivor is Irina Weiss. On a photo she recognizes her little brothers and her mother - waiting unsuspectingly near the crematorium. The SS photographers captured all of this. Their identity is known today: one of them was Bernhard Walter, a "Stabsscharführer" who lived with his wife and three children near the extermination camp.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
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7.2
/143/
73
/6/
70
/7/

The Cause (2019)
Documentary about a prison in Venezuela run by the prisoners themselves.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
53
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5.7
/209/
30
/1/
73
/3/

The Execution (1985)
The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as young girls. To their horror they learn that he has already been tried as a war criminal and has served but a few years for his crimes. They decide that they will "execute" him, drawing lots to determine which one will perform the act, without letting the others know who it is.
poster
68
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6.7
/92/
76
/6/
61
/13/

The Land of Rain Trees (2015)
Nobuyuki Sakisaka (Yuta Tamamori) is a salaryman. When he was in middle school student, he read light novel "Fairy Game”. He still has that light novel, because he was so shocked by the ending. One day, Nobuyuki Sakisaka browses the internet and comes across the blog "Rein Tsuri no Kuni.” He learns that the blog writer, Rika Hitomi (Mariya Nishiuchi), also was shocked by the ending in light novel "Fairy Game." Nobuyuki and Rika soon begin to exchange emails. Nobuyuki wants to meet Rika, but she refuses due to her secret.
poster
69
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7.2
/160/
71
/13/
67
/3/
3.4
/260/

Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost (2018)
Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost offers new insights into the Peoples Temple tragedy, exploring lingering questions about Pastor Jim Jones, his religious and social justice movement, and the deaths of his followers that day.


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