Suggestions for WW2 movies/documentaries?

Does the Sound of Music count?   ☺

Among the Righteous – Stories of Jews among the Arabs of N. Africa-middle/high (Doc.)

Hanna’s War – PG-13 – Story of Hannah Szenes – WW II/Zionism

Wallenburg: A Hero’s Story (1985) miniseries -high school/adult

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008 PG-13) DVD – (age 14/15+ IMO)

Tora!Tora!Tora! – Tells American and Japenese versions of the Peral harbor attack – excellent – 1970 (Netflix)

John Wayne WWII movies esp.: The Longest Day; Sands of Iwo Jima; The Green Berets; They Were Expendable.

Valkyrie – Tom Cruise – about plot to assassinate Hitler -PG-13

Schindler’s List – R – for viewing with your children at your discretion. I’m waiting till mine are 17.

Secrets of the Dead: Churchill’s Deadly Decision (Netflix)

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel – 1951

Patton – 1970 – preview for language?

Defiance – R – Daniel Craig – based on Bielski Brothers creating a city in the forest of USSR during WWII.

Ken Burns: The War

The Goebbels Experiment – troubling, but informative – preview

Judgement at Nuremburg – 1961 – classic

Secrets of the Dead: Deadliest Battle – Netflix – Germany’s invasion of Soviet Union

Bonhoeffer – 2003 Documentary

Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace – movie – 2000

The Hiding Place – 1975 movie

Victory at Sea series has real footage. I watched this show when I was little with my ex-Navy grandfather. http://www.amazon.com/Victory-Sea-The-Complete-Series/dp/B008XJM7T2

There are documentaries from National Geographic on Netflix about specific topics. They are short episodes.

The Pianist – R – very good, based on true story, but adult, like the previous rated R movies

Conspiracy – Kenneth Branaugh – R

Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State – rough doc. for HS

Frontline PBS: Memory of the Camps

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport – doc.

I’ve watched so many docs on WWII topics, from the Pacific to the Atlantic, I can’t remember them all. Hopefully, this will get you started.

There is a famous mini-series with Meryl Streep that affected my mom from the late 70’s that is considered very good and would probably be family friendly (10+?) I haven’t seen it yet: Holocaust.

Most of those can be watched on Netflix and/or Amazon.

HTH,

Rachel

I would add in a recent documentary  that covered so much, so well in an incremental way from WWI, which many other docs don’t go into:

Hitler and the Nazis (Netflix)

Plus, we just rewatched an episode of The Twilight Zone we hadn’t seen in a while: S3:E9 – Death’s – Head Revisited (1960)

It seemed to be strangely prescient about the Adolf Eichman capture in Argentina (’61) and his subsequent trial in Israel which happened in ’62 (poetic justice?). The character is former SS, who’s been living under an assumed name in S. America who – in the twilight zone – ends up being tried by the Jewish people from within the ruins of the Dachau Concentration Camp.

It’s not for those under 14, IMO; but is very effective. Highly recommend.