Movies like The Diary of Anne Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) is a history movie directed by George Stevens. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Schindler's List (1993)
★ 8.6 · 18,037 votes · Drama, History, War
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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2. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
★ 7.8 · 7,881 votes · Drama, War, History
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.
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3. The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018)
★ 6.9 · 766 votes · Drama, History, Thriller
Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.
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4. Lee (2024)
★ 7.0 · 702 votes · History, Drama, War
The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.
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5. Jakob the Liar (1999)
★ 6.7 · 421 votes · Comedy, Drama, History
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.
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6. The Zone of Interest (2023)
★ 7.0 · 2,787 votes · Drama, History, War
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
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7. Denial (2016)
★ 6.8 · 717 votes · Drama, History
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
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8. The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
★ 7.3 · 1,594 votes · Drama, History, War
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
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9. The Imitation Game (2014)
★ 8.0 · 18,536 votes · History, Drama, Thriller
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
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10. Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
★ 8.2 · 15,409 votes · Drama, History, War
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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11. Oppenheimer (2023)
★ 8.0 · 12,691 votes · Drama, History
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
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12. The King's Speech (2010)
★ 7.7 · 9,584 votes · Drama, History
The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.
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13. The Way Back (2010)
★ 7.0 · 1,830 votes · Drama, Adventure, History
A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for freedom and survival.
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14. One Life (2023)
★ 7.8 · 1,002 votes · History, Drama
British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.
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15. Munich - The Edge of War (2021)
★ 6.9 · 690 votes · Drama, History
At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
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