Movie reviews

The 2016 TV Series “Tokyo Trial” tells the story of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, also known as the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, which trialed the military leaders of Japan following the end of World War II. While these proceedings were (and still are) far less prominent …

The Accountant of Auschwitz is a 2018 documentary by Matthew Shoychet about the 2015 trial of Oskar Groening, an SS Unterscharführer responsible with sorting valuables and personal properties of Auschwitz prisoners. The story is simple. In the 2000s, as the Germans were running out of Nazis to put on trial, …

My Honor was Loyalty – Leibstandarte is an Italian low budget, independent production by Alessandro Pepe, which aims to depict the experience of World War II from the point of view of German Soldiers (one soldier in particular) and to answer a delicate question: was it really as simple as …

This 10 episode Docu-Series launched in 2018, on Netflix, tells the story of the leading Third Reich officials who were at Hitler’s side through the rise and fall of Germany before and during World War Two. It combines artistic re-enactment with archival footage and context offered by a few historians. …

The tale of Anne Frank (whose diary sold more than 25 million copies!) is by now embedded in popular culture. There have been countless attempts at telling her story, some more successful than others, but this 1995 documentary by Jon Blair is quite possibly the best which has been made …

Sophie Scholl: Die Letzen Tage (Sophie Scholl – The Final Days) is a 2005 historical drama directed by Marc Rothemund, depicting the final days of White Rose resistance member Sophie Scholl, from her arrest to her execution. Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans Scholl and Christoph Probst were all members of …

A Norwegian historical drama / thriller by director Harald Zwart, The 12th Man tells the story of Jan Baalsrud, the only person out of a group of 12 Norwegian commandos who managed to evade capture during a failed resistance operation carried out in Tromso. The film tells the story of …