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1. Sometimes in April (2005 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 140 min | Drama, History, War
When the Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in Rwanda in April 1994, the violent uprising marked the beginning of one of the darkest times in African history which resulted in the deaths of almost 800,000 people.
Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: Idris Elba, Carole Karemera, Pamela Nomvete, Oris Erhuero
Votes: 6,038
2. Divided We Fall (2000)
PG-13 | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, War
In German-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia), a childless couple agree to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution.
Director: Jan Hrebejk | Stars: Bolek Polívka, Csongor Kassai, Jaroslav Dusek, Anna Sisková
Votes: 5,387 | Gross: $1.32M
3. Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985 TV Movie)
200 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Alice Krige, Kenneth Colley, Melanie Mayron
Votes: 430
4. Quezon's Game (2018)
PG-13 | 127 min | Drama, History
In 1938, Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon agrees to welcome Jewish refugees from Germany in the Philippines.
Director: Matthew E. Rosen | Stars: Raymond Bagatsing, Rachel Alejandro, Kate Alejandrino, Billy Ray Gallion
Votes: 225
5. Lisa (1962)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, History, Romance
At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
Director: Philip Dunne | Stars: Stephen Boyd, Dolores Hart, Leo McKern, Hugh Griffith
Votes: 461
6. Perlasca: Un eroe italiano (2002 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 104 min | Biography, Drama, History
The real story of Giorgio Perlasca (Luca Zingaretti). During the 1920s he was an Italian Fascist supporter, fighting in Africa and in the Spanish Civil War where he received safe conduct ... See full summary »
Director: Alberto Negrin | Stars: Luca Zingaretti, Jérôme Anger, Amanda Sandrelli, Franco Castellano
Votes: 546
7. Aristides de Sousa Mendes: A Rebel (2008 TV Movie)
104 min | Biography, Drama, History
Director: Joël Santoni | Stars: Bernard Le Coq, Nanou Garcia, Lionel Lingelser, Roger Souza
Votes: 45
8. It Happened One Night (1958)
98 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Based on a true story, this almost documentary-like drama tells the story of a young doctor, who in 1942, helped several Jewish children escape over the German border to neutral Sweden. Not... See full summary »
Director: Sigval Maartmann-Moe | Stars: Anne-Lise Tangstad, Joachim Holst-Jensen, Lalla Carlsen, Günther Hüttmann
Votes: 81
9. Sardari's Enigma (2017)
95 min | Documentary, Drama, History
An Iranian Consul risks his life to save many lives during the WWII in France. He creatively made up a new description of 'Djoguoten' for Iranian Jews to argue with German officials to exempt them from the German Racial Policy.
Director: Mahdieh zare Zardiny | Stars: Stephane Cornicard, Stephan Erdman, Darren Street
Votes: 54
10. Charlie Grant's War (1984 TV Movie)
125 min | Drama
A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of the Third Reich.
Director: Martin Lavut | Stars: R.H. Thomson, Jean Archambault, Chris Bark, Anthony Bekenn
Votes: 31
11. The Righteous Enemy (1987)
84 min | Documentary
Rochlitz's documentary about the non-Jewish Italian resistance to Hitler's "Final Solution" explores how Italian officials prevented the deportation of some 40,000 Jews in Italian-occupied France, Greece, and Yugoslavia.
Director: Joseph Rochlitz
Votes: 6
12. Crescent Star (2005)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short, Drama
In 1944, the Germans began rounding up the Jews of Rhodes. The Turkish Consul General, Selahattin Ulkumen, interceded on behalf of those Jewish who were Turkish nationals. By his efforts, ... See full summary »
Director: Turgut Turk Adiguzel | Stars: Sebestien Soliz, Darrell Geer, Olga Christodoulou, Michael Bond
Votes: 19
13. Ocskay László százados, az elfelejtett hös (2008)
70 min | Documentary
The film is based on the true story of László Ocskay, a Hungarian army officer who saved thousands of Jewish lives in the darkest hours of World War II. As a man who had little to gain and ... See full summary »
Director: Gergely Fonyó | Stars: Franciska Györy, Tamás Végvári
Votes: 11