Docuseek Watch Guide, January 2026 | | |
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This month, we are highlighting essential films for Holocaust Remembrance Day. We have curated a selection of films, powerful stories that not only showcase the resilience and heroism that emerged in the face of the unimaginable, but also that challenge us to reflect on the lasting legacy of this tragic chapter. As we remember and honor these stories, we look to fulfill our collective obligation to ensure that the lessons learned resonate with current and future generations, fostering critical thinking and social awareness in our pursuit of a more informed and compassionate society. Bernice King says, “Never forget hot it came to be: little by little…hateful rhetoric, strategic fear-mongering, designations of discrimination, radically inhumane nationalism, armed hate-enforcers disappearing neighbors, neighbors near and far remaining silent…all festering until reality reflected rhetoric, until it was time to break silence then. This is a time to break the silence now.”
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In 1961, Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity. While this judgment was met with consensus on a national level, some spoke out against it. (Icarus Films)
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The story of Andre Steiner, dubbed "the Jewish Schindler," who saved thousands of Slovak Jews during the Holocaust. (Icarus Films)
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Director Ilan Ziv traces the origins of antisemitism in France from the Middle Ages to the Dreyfus Affair. (Icarus Films)
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Holocaust survivor Simone Lagrange vividly recounts her experiences in Auschwitz, and the role she played in bringing Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie to justice. (Icarus Films)
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Belgians recount how they saved Jewish children during WWII. (Icarus Films)
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An emotional piece of experimental historiography which focuses on French children whose lives were upended by WWII. (Icarus Films)
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A Holocaust survivor takes revenge. (First Hand Films)
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Japanese Americans, European Jews and peace activists who came of age during the Depression and WWII address the political storm clouds gathering today. (Bullfrog Films)
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Searing first-person interview with a feisty Holocaust survivor. (Icarus Films)
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The administrator of the mass deportation of Jews to the Nazi death camps, Adolf Eichmann, was hanged in Israel's first and only execution. Shalom Nagar, a religious Jewish ritual slaughterer and street philosopher who believes in charity, was the hangman. (First Hand Films)
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Explores the revolution of Art Spiegelman's graphic novel masterpiece, Maus, with humor and finesse. (Icarus Films)
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On the night of February 27, 1933, the German Parliament building burned down, and democracy went along with it. In just a few hours, then a few days, the fates of an entire country and of all of Europe were upended. The Reichstag Fire was used as a pretext to establish Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship. (Cinétévé)
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Relates the life of Adolf Hitler as it interacts with and responds to Austrian and German society as well as the national and international political currents during the first half of the 20th century. (First Hand Films)
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A brilliant and epic Academy® Award-winning examination of the Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie, the infamous "Butcher of Lyon". (Icarus Films)
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Filmmaker Michael Turner (The Way We Talk) documents his first visit to a Holocaust memorial created by his grandmother Lici, a Hungarian Jew whose parents and sister were killed in Auschwitz. (Collective Eye Films)
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Highlights six different poets, who individually survived Hiroshima, the Holocaust, China’s Cultural Revolution, the Kurdish Genocide in Iraq, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Iranian Revolution. (Women Make Movies)
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Too controversial to be shown on French TV when first released, this is the story of Eastern Europeans, mostly Jews, who fought the German occupation of Paris during WWII. (Icarus Films)
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An interview film on the emotion of resentment and how it defines culture and politics today. (Bullfrog Films)
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Two elderly men possess starkly contrasting attitudes towards their high-ranking Nazi fathers. A study of brutality, self-deception, guilt and the nature of justice. (Bullfrog Films)
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