Genocide movies and TV shows – page 5

List of genocide movies

Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.
Style: contemplative, bleak, emotional, uplifting, thought provoking ...
Plot: world war two, genocide, politics, rescue, nazi, holocaust, world war, revolutionary war, diplomacy, judaism, revolutionary, israeli ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: israel, hungary, europe, moscow russia, stockholm sweden ...
Is relevant ?
 8.0
 5K
Holocaust (1978)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 475 min.
TV show
Story: Holocaust is an American television miniseries broadcast in four parts in 1978 on the NBC television network. The series tells the story of the Holocaust from the perspective of the Weiss family of German Jews and that of a rising member of the SS, ...
Style: historical drama, depressing, anthology, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, nazi, world war two, ss officer, world war, nazi germany, shoah, fictional history, wartime, terrorism, intrigue ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1935, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place: germany, poland, berlin germany, europe
Is relevant ?
Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With ...
Style: suspense, exciting, dramatic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: sniper, military, survival, behind enemy lines, courage, fighter pilot, u.s. navy, war crime, fighter plane, rescue, bosnian war, aviation ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, year 1995, 21st century
Place: bosnia, balkan, serbia, former yugoslavia, europe ...
Is relevant ?
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with ...
Style: disturbing, compassionate, emotional, breathtaking, talky ...
Plot: fascism, holocaust, world war two, unrequited love, anti semitism, assassination, tennis, family relations, brother sister relationship, family life, nazi germany, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, ancient times, year 1970
Place: italy, europe, africa
Is relevant ?
Related movie lists
Roza of Smyrna (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece, Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An avid collector of Greek objects in Asia Minor, Dimitris, prepares an exhibition on multicultural life in Smyrna before World War I. In a trip to Izmir his girlfriend Rita, he finds in a small antique shop a Greek wedding dress that is stained ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, melancholic, exciting, romantic ...
Plot: greek, family secret, genocide, secret, inheritance, marriage, grandmother granddaughter relationship, hostility, dispute, love affair, conflict, granddaughter ...
Time: 80s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: greece, athens greece, hellas, ottoman empire
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 60K
Ida (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Denmark, France, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Anna, a young novitiate in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.
Style: black and white, art house, emotional, melancholic, visually stunning ...
Plot: nun, world war two, faith, family secret, anti semitism, judaism, holocaust, religion, character study, orphan, suicide, self discovery ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 2014, year 2013, year 2016 ...
Place: poland, israel, eastern europe, europe, denmark
Is relevant ?
 6.9
 6K
Soldier Blue (1970)
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US ...
Style: disturbing, serious, rough, bleak, controversial ...
Plot: native american white relationships, native american, native american attack, soldier, massacre, village, survival, military, fall in love, wild west, society, opposites attract ...
Time: 1860s, 1870s, 19th century
Place: persia, usa, colorado
Is relevant ?
Trees of Peace (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In April of 1994, four women from different backgrounds and beliefs are trapped and hiding during the Rwandan genocide. Their fight for survival against all odds unites the women in an unbreakable sisterhood.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, tense
Plot: genocide, survival, women's rights, struggle for survival, woman in danger, political unrest, female protagonist, civil rights movement, leader, sorority, deathtrap, civil rights ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: rwanda, africa
Is relevant ?
Small Country: An African Childhood (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Gabriel, aged 10, lives in a comfortable ex-pat neighborhood in Burundi, his ‘small country’. Gabriel is a normal kid, happy, carefree and having adventures with his friends and little sister. Then in 1993, tensions in neighboring Rwanda spill ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: children, family relations, genocide, election, birthday, school teacher, culture clash, friendship, parents and children, mentor, dishonesty, brutality ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, year 1993, year 1992
Place: africa
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 1K
Freedom (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A Gypsy family travels the French roads during the Second World War, followed by Little Claude, a young boy seeking a new family after his parents "left and never returned". Upon reaching a town where they traditionally stop for a few ...
Style: emotional, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: world war two, gypsy, holocaust, racism, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, social differences, family in danger, rebelliousness, rebellion, concentration camp, on the run ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2009
Place: france, europe
Is relevant ?
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether ...
Style: futuristic, intense, serious, apocalyptic, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, apocalypse, robot, cyberpunk, future war, androids and robots, post apocalypse, distopia, man versus machine, dystopian future, time travel, artificial intelligence ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, 2010s, year 2003 ...
Place: los angeles, california, san francisco
Is relevant ?
Jacob the Liar (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, War
Country: East Germany, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his companion in misfortune, Mischa, ...
Style: realistic, emotional, uplifting, tragicomedy, tense ...
Plot: holocaust, judaism, world war two, nazi, death, friendship, genocide, hopes, gestapo, radio, military, murder ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: east germany, israel, poland, germany, europe ...
Is relevant ?
Related movie lists
jews movies
304
nazis movies
416
world war movies
1068
judaism movies
498
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and ...
Style: intense, factual, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: native american, indians, apache, civil war, betrayal, unlikely friendships, prejudice, interracial romance, wilderness, justice, love story, cavalry ...
Time: year 1993, ancient times, 19th century
Place: mexico, arizona, america, latin america, tucson arizona ...
Is relevant ?
My Mother's Courage (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, UK, Austria, Ireland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator's mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you'd least expect it.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, genocide, wartime life, world war, rape, hopes, concentration camp, deportation, moral dilemma, war, danger ...
Time: 1940s
Place: berlin germany, hungary, budapest
Is relevant ?
 8.6
 542
500 Nations (1995)
Genre: History
Country: USA
Duration: 374 min.
TV show
Story: 500 Nations is a documentary which explores the history of the indigenous peoples of North and Central America, from pre-Colombian times, through the period of European contact and colonization, to the end of the 19th century and the subjugation of ...
Style: profound, informative, contemplative, captivating, thought provoking ...
Audience: kids
Plot: native american, native, conquering, genocide, iroquois tribe, indigenous people, against humanity, archaeology, racism, fictional history, indians, american indian ...
Time: 15th century, 17th century, 19th century, 16th century, 18th century
Place: latin america, montana, usa
Is relevant ?
Echoes of the Past (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A lawyer, who represents the German government against the Greek reparation claims for Nazi crimes in World War II, travels to Greece and meets one of the remaining survivors of the Kalavryta massacre that took place in 1943.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, social ...
Plot: genocide, war crime, world war two, nazi occupation, german occupation, tragic past, investigation, troubled past, war violence, attorney, nazi, mass murder
Place: germany
Is relevant ?
 6.2
 1K
Killing God (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Carlos (Eduardo Antuña) invites his father (Boris Ruiz) and his brother (David Pareja) to spend a pleasant New Year in a strange house isolated in the forest with him and his wife Ana (Itziar Castro). But what promised to be a quiet family ...
Style: psychotronic, scary, humorous, surreal, suspense ...
Plot: fear, love hate relationship, apocalypse, family relations, panic, survival, brother brother relationship, husband wife relationship, prophecy, murder, loss of father, death of brother ...
Place: europe
Is relevant ?
In the Life of Music (2018)
Genre: Drama, Family, History, Music, Romance, War
Country: USA, Cambodia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The story of how one song 'Champa Battambang,' a song made famous by Sinn Sisamuth (the King of Khmer Music), plays a role in the lives of three different generations.
Style: captivating, romantic, thought provoking, independent film
Plot: genocide, three generations, society, life, war, generation, social relations, music, life is a bitch, cambodian civil war, khmer rouge
Place: cambodia
Is relevant ?
Related movie lists
Dick Figures: The Movie (2013)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Two best friends, Red and Blue, risk everything to find the greatest treasure of all time.
Style: adult animation, buddy comedy, exciting, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: anthropomorphism, raccoon, irony, pursuit, betrayal, stupidity, cruise ship, adultery, girlfriend, nightmare, manhunt, genocide ...
Place: japan
Is relevant ?
 6.0
 496
Kilometer Zero (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Iraq, Finland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Set during the Iraq-Iran war in the 80s, the film tells of a tragicomic road trip set in Iraq's Kurdistan.
Style: emotional, captivating, serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot: on the road, travel, kurd, military life, military, society, obsessive quest, escapades, genocide, oppression, life & death, arab ...
Time: 80s
Place: kurdistan, iraq, middle east, iran, paris france
Is relevant ?
 3.4
 1K
Flying Virus (2001)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After a series of Amazonian Indian attacks on US owned petroleum installation in Brazil, both governments start a secret 'special program'. In fact colonel Ezekial's men use GM killer bees to eradicate the tribes. During an Indian ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: political conspiracy, bio weapon, heroic mission, save the day, survival, deadly creature, chaos, plague, escapades, rescue, supernatural, journalism ...
Place: brazil, latin america, new york, usa
Is relevant ?
The Book of Esther (2013)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Ester becomes King Xerxes’ queen, her Cousin Mordecai and that despicable Haman engage in a dangerous game of intrigue for control of the young Persian King Xerxes.
Style: biblical, epic, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: bible, religions or cults, self discovery, danger, betrayal, society, heroic mission, genocide, palace intrigue, female protagonist, eunuch, christian ...
Time: 5th century
Place: persia
Is relevant ?
The Final Solution: The Wannsee Conference (1984)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Austria, West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A real time recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which leading SS and Nazi Party officals gathered to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Led by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, the Wannsee Conference was the ...
Style: contemplative, bleak, disturbing, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, nazi, world war, nazi germany, war, anti semitism, genocide, racism, international relations, nazi concentration camp, politics ...
Time: year 1942, 1940s
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, palestine, warsaw poland
Is relevant ?
Related movie lists
shoah movies
108
wartime movies
1109
anti war movies
594
 7.6
 114K
The Wave (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily ...
Style: philosophical, political, disturbing, thought provoking, suspense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: fascism, experiment, suicide, nazism, teacher, bullying, teachers and students, high school, dictatorship, dictator, fanaticism, education ...
Time: year 2008, year 2011, 20th century
Place: germany, middle east, israel, europe
Is relevant ?
Beasts of No Nation (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country. Follows the journey of a young boy, Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in a fictional West African country. While Agu fears ...
Style: disturbing, political, bleak, harsh, dramatic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: war, civil war, child soldier, life is a bitch, children in wartime, adaptation, violence, justice, military, moral ambiguity, violent, culture clash ...
Time: year 2015, 90s, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place: africa, west africa
Is relevant ?
In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: During the Bosnian War, Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, re-encounters Ajla, a Bosnian who's now a captive in his camp he oversees. Their once promising connection has become ambiguous as their motives have changed.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, romantic drama ...
Plot: bosnian war, soldier, muslim, forbidden love, war, rape, life is a bitch, love affair, escape, love and romance, couple relations, couples ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: sarajevo, bosnia, bosnia herzegovina, europe, former yugoslavia
Is relevant ?
The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Style: factual, rough, sad, costume drama, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: holocaust, zoo, nazi, world war two, hiding place, marriage, women, zookeeper, nazi occupied poland, world war, shoah, biopic ...
Time: 1930s, year 2017, 1940s
Place: warsaw poland, poland, germany, central europe
Is relevant ?
Goodbye, Children (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.
Style: sad, heartbreaking, depressing, art house, christian film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: nazi, world war two, nazism, french resistance, friendship, childhood, coming of age, schoolboy, children, gestapo, school, teacher ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: france, israel, vichy, paris france, europe ...
Is relevant ?
Where the Spirit Lives (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be ...
Plot: native american, native, kidnapping, genocide, child abuse, indians, american indian, historical event, indigenous people, boarding school, school, culture clash ...
Place: canada
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 12K
Hannah Arendt (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, France, Israel
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Hannah Arendt is a portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem, Arendt dares to write about the Holocaust in terms no one has ever ...
Style: psychological, realistic, thought provoking, philosophical, political ...
Plot: holocaust, philosopher, nazi, strong female character, feminist, philosophy, strong female lead, biopic, world war two, war crime, legal, legal action ...
Time: 20th century, year 2012, 60s, year 1961
Place: israel, germany, jerusalem, usa, new york
Is relevant ?
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
Related movie lists