Top Five Holocaust Films Shown on American Screens in 2008
by Ernie on 03/02/09 at 10:50 am
5. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: The improbable tale of a concentration camp guard’s son who becomes friends with a concentration camp prisoner
4. The Reader: Kate Winslet as a former concentration camp guard on trial for war crimes
3. Adam Resurrected: Jeff Goldblum as Holocaust survivor in mental institution in Israel years later
2. Defiance: three Polish Jewish brothers who fight Nazis
1. The Counterfeiters: Jewish prisoners forced to counterfeit money for the Nazis’ plan to destabilize allied currency
Other Holocaust films of 2008 that don’t fit on the list, to make ten.
6. Valkyrie: Nazi officers plot to kill Hitler
7. Downfall: the last few days of the Nazi regime, in Hitler’s secret bunker. German
8. Black Book: a Jewish woman hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands who falls in love with a Nazi commander, who in turn falls in love with her. Dutch
9. A Secret: nobody knows what it’s about . . . because it’s a secret. Plus it’s French.
10. One Day You’ll Understand: a man searches for information about his grandparents, who died in a concentration camp. Also French
