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Based on a true story SCHINDLER'S LIST is Steven Spielberg's epic drama of World War II Holocaust survivors and the man who unexpectedly came to be their savior. Unrepentant womanizer and war profiteer Oskar Schindler uses Polish Jews as cheap labor to produce cookware for the Third Reich. But after witnessing the violent liquidation of the walled ghetto where the Krakow Jews have been forced to live Schindler slowly begins to realize the immense evil of Nazism. When his employees are sent to a work camp they come under the terrorizing reign of sadistic Nazi Amon Goeth Ralph Fiennes. With the help of his accountant Itzhak Stern Ben Kingsley Schindler creates a list of "essential" Jews. Bribing Goeth Schindler manages to get 1100 people released from the camp and brought to the safety of his munitions factory in Czechoslovakia. Spielberg's glorious film is wondrously evocative visually stunning and emotionally stirring.

Conjuring keys and hats out of thin air Guido Roberto Benigni a clever Jewish-Italian waiter successfully courts Dora Nicoletta Braschi a beautiful local woman in Fascist pre-WWII Italy. His life however is turned upside down a few years later when he Dora and their young son Giosu Giorgio Cantarini are sent to a Nazi concentration camp. Refusing to give up hope Guido tries to protect his son's innocence by pretending that their imprisonment is just an elaborate game with the grand prize being a tank. For years the box-office champ in Italy and the country's most beloved slapstick comic the Chaplinesque Benigni took a huge risk with LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL. Many people worried that the film would be as offensive as plopping a cartoon character in Auschwitz. A similar work--THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED a Jerry Lewis film about a comedian in a concentration camp--turned out to be a disaster two decades earlier. Although LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL did provoke some controversy many people found the film to be a poignant tragicomic s

Based on Melissa Muller's book ANNE FRANK: A BIOGRAPHY this film covers young Anne Frank's life from her childhood before the war in Amsterdam through the harsh war years covered in her diary to her final days leading up to her death in a Nazi concentration camp. The resulting story is more heartbreaking than ever as the full scope of Anne's life and family are covered in greater scope than ever before featuring outstanding performances and a harsh unblinking look at the conditions experienced by millions during the dark days of World War II. As seen on ABC.

Hayao Miyazaki's epic environmentally conscious anime takes viewers on a voyage through time and space to the magical and dreamlike Valley of the Wind where good battles evil for the future of the human race. Faced with almost certain destruction of her planet's natural resources the warrior Princess Nausicaa must rally her people against an evil queen's brutal army to bring a new life to her homeland. Reminiscent of works by J.R.R. Tolkien this story of responsibility coming of age peace and redemption has proven to be one of the legendary Miyazaki's most enduring works. As opposed to the earlier release of this film titled WARRIORS OF THE WIND this release stays true to Miyazaki's original work.

Nominated* for eleven Academy Awards??(r), including Best Picture, Judgment at Nuremberg is "magnificent" (Los Angeles Times), "continuously exciting" (The New Yorker) andboasts brilliant performances by an all-star cast. American judge Dan Haywood (Spencer Tracy) presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood to make the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career. *1961: Actor (Maximilian Schell, won); Actor (Spencer Tracy); Supporting Actor (Montgomery Clift); Supporting Actress (Judy Garland); Director; Adapted Screenplay (won); Cinematography (B&W); Art Direction (B&W); Film Editing; Costume Design (B&W).

World War II was beginning to look impossible to win for the Nazi forces in 1942. The entry of the United States into the war coupled with a depleted military gave Germany virtually no chance to emerge victorious. January 20 1942 a special meeting was held elite Nazi commanders and government officials. From this meeting Hitler's "final solution" would result sealing the fate of six million people. This HBO feature film is based on the only account of this meeting. Kenneth Branagh won an Emmy for his portrayal of General Reinhard Heydrich and Loren Mandel earned an Emmy for his script work on this chilling portrait of this fateful meeting.

Faithfully adapted from Willian Styron's best-selling novel Alan J. Pakula's handsome production charts the course of an eccentric and intense love triangle in 1947 Brooklyn New York. Meryl Streep won an Academy Award for her carefully nuanced performance and perfect accent as Sophie a Polish survivor of WWII concentration camps who harbors a devastating secret. The film is told through the eyes of aspiring Southern author Stingo Emmy-nominated Peter MacNichol of TV's ALLY MCBEAL who moves to New York and strikes a friendship with Sophie and her boyfriend Nathan--played by Kevin Kline in his debut screen role.

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Sixty years ago (1945), Allied troops marching into Germany at the end of World War II found evidence of atrocities which have tortured the world's conscience ever since. As these troops entered Nazi concentration camps and faced the horrors of gas chambers, medical experimentation labs, crematoria, and haunted, starving survivors, they made a film record of what they saw. "Frontline" gave the film its first world broadcast in 1985.

This acclaimed film paints a wrenching portrait of the life of Australian piano virtuoso David Helfgott and his struggles with his war-traumatized demanding father; mental illness and asylum incarceration; and his obsession with the virtually unplayable Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 "Rach 3". Academy Award Nominations: 7 including Best Picture Best Director Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor--Armin Mueller-Stahl. Academy Awards: Best Actor--Geoffrey Rush.