Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "jewish-resistance"

1. Inglourious Basterds (2009)

R | 153 min | Adventure, Drama, War

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.

Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent

Votes: 1,584,585 | Gross: $120.54M

2. The Pianist (2002)

R | 150 min | Biography, Drama, Music

During WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox

Votes: 912,494 | Gross: $32.57M

3. Defiance (I) (2008)

R | 137 min | Action, Drama, History

Jewish brothers in German-occupied Eastern Europe escape into a Belorussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-combatants.

Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos

Votes: 155,697 | Gross: $28.64M

4. Escape from Sobibor (1987 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 143 min | Drama, History, War

German death camp in Sobibor, Poland, killed two hundred fifty thousand Jews. It had the most successful prisoner escape in World War II on October 14, 1943.

Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula, Rutger Hauer, Hartmut Becker

Votes: 9,827

5. Sobibor (2018)

TV-MA | 118 min | Drama, History, Thriller

Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky organizes a revolt and mass escape of prisoners from Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943.

Director: Konstantin Khabenskiy | Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Christopher Lambert, Felice Jankell, Dainius Kazlauskas

Votes: 5,767

6. Uprising (2001 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 177 min | Drama, War

Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.

Director: Jon Avnet | Stars: Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer, Jon Voight

Votes: 5,122

7. Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001)

Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, History, War

A gripping account of the prisoners uprising at the Nazi extermination camp of Sobibor in 1943.

Director: Claude Lanzmann | Stars: Yehuda Lerner, Francine Kaufmann, Claude Lanzmann

Votes: 598 | Gross: $0.03M

8. Pillar of Fire (1981)

50 min | Documentary, History

Documentary mini series about the History of Zionism.

Stars: Yossi Banai, Ian McKellen

Votes: 79

9. Ghetto Uprising - The Untold Story (2017)

61 min | Documentary, Animation, Drama

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising has become a symbol of heroism throughout the world, but it's generally accepted story is incomplete. Among the fighters was a group that was not granted ... See full summary »

Directors: Yuval Haimovich-Zuser, Simon Shechter | Stars: Yitzak Arad, Moshe Arens, Tatiana Bobrikova, Konstantin Boyko

Votes: 26

10. Partisans of Vilna (1986)

130 min | Documentary

This film tells the story of the men and women who formed the Jewish partisan movement in Vilna, Lithuania, during World War II.

Director: Joshua Waletzky | Stars: Abba Kovner, Alexander Bogen, Roberta Wallach

Votes: 100

11. Swastika

Action, Drama | Pre-production

The Jewish Resistance in the streets of Warsaw, Poland during the Nazi occupation.

Director: Orestes Matacena | Stars: Orestes Matacena, Ruben Rabasa, Orna Rachovitsky

12. Operation Shtreimel (1984)

89 min | Action, Comedy, War

Three friends, with the aid of an American agent, set out to knock the German Army off its feet.

Director: Benni Shvily | Stars: Ya'ackov Ben-Sira, Yehuda Efroni, Walter Flash, Beatrice Geier

Votes: 40

13. The Same Snowy Ground (2020)

43 min | Documentary, Short, Drama

A journey through a place of an eternal past; where the grandson of a Jewish partisan sets out to experience the dramatic events and places that shaped his grandfather's war time.

Director: Matan Tal

14. There, Where One Has Lived (2016)

6 min | Short

"There, where a person has lived, their spirit continues to dwell." « Là, où une personne a vécu, son esprit continue à y habiter. » "Overture, Shabbat Evening Prayer Service and Kaddish" (... See full summary »

Director: Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham | Stars: Frédéric Boisseau, Philippe Braham, Franck Brinsolaro, Cabu

15. Le Tunnel de Drancy (1993)

48 min | Documentary

Former members of the Jewish Resistance recount the story of their internment at the Drancy concentration camp, their attempt to escape via a tunnel in November 1943, and their eventual escape from the train taking them to Auschwitz.

Director: Claudine Drame | Stars: Roger Schandalow, André Ullmo

16. Flames in the Ashes (1985)

96 min | Documentary

This film, the third in a trilogy examines Jewish resistance during World War II.

Directors: Jacques Ehrlich, Haim Gouri

17. Sobibor: The Plan, the Revolt, the Escape (2010)

19 min | Documentary, Short, History

The survivor accounts of the planning, the revolt and the escape from any Nazi concentration/death camp resulting one month later in the camp's destruction by the humiliated Nazis.

Directors: Karen Lynne Bloom, Richard Bloom | Stars: Philip Bialowitz, Thomas 'Toivi' Blatt, Chaim Engel, Selma Engel-Wijnberg

18. The Brave Fighters: Resistance Stories Near Hitler's Ukrainian Headquarters (2010)

60 min | Documentary, Action, History

During World War II, ordinary citizens rescued many lives near Hitler's Headquarters in Ukraine. These are their stories.

Director: Edward Halitsky | Stars: Roxanne Halitsky, Steve Halitsky

Votes: 11

19. Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
Episode: Corruption (2005)

TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary, History, War

By 1943, corruption is running rampant at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The camp also gains another source of income - clothes and valuables taken from Jews arriving to be gassed.

Directors: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge | Stars: Gert Heidenreich, Linda Hunt, Samuel West, Dario Gabbai

Votes: 174

20. The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode: The Homeless, The Tempest-Tossed (1942-) (2022)

TV-14 | 131 min | Documentary, History

A group of government officials supports and finances rescue operations. Allied soldiers begin to liberate concentration camps and find mass graves. The public sees the sheer scale of the Holocaust.

Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Deborah Lipstadt, Eva Geiringer

Votes: 146

21. Nazi Hunters (2009– )
Episode: The Jewish Avengers (2010)

Documentary

Nazi Hunters examines the story of Holocaust survivors who in the wake of World War II decide to enact a brutal and shocking "eye for an eye" revenge against the Germans. They kidnapped ... See full summary »

Stars: Alisdair Simpson, Chaim Miller, Dina Porat, Menachem

Votes: 18