Top 10 Holocaust Films

How do you make a film about such incomprehensible events?

Welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're counting down our picks for the top ten most important Holocaust features of all time.

- What are you doing up here?
- There's a young girl [?] survive the gas.

- She's still breathing. She should be burned alive.

While there's really no way to fully understand the events of the Holocaust,

these movies and documentaries best illustrate the horrors of one of the greatest atrocities in human history.

#10: Europa Europa.

This Golden Globe-winning film is based on the true story of Solomon Perel,

a German Jew who hid from the Nazis at a communist boarding school and then as a member of the Hitler Youth.

Perhaps no Holocaust movie is able to show so many facets of the war,

as Solomon's surreal journey takes him from Germany to occupied Poland to the Soviet Union and back.

And, in each place, he narrowly avoids capture.

#9: In Darkness.

While not as famous as the tale of Oscar Schindler, "In Darkness" tells the true story of Leopold Socha, another man who heroically shielded Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland.

A small-time thief with excellent knowledge of the underground, Socha moves a group of Jews from sewer to sewer to sewer for the duration of the war.

This moving tale is simply unforgettable, with its harrowing and thrilling story and difficult-to-watch scenes.

#8: Au Revoir Les Enfants.

An acclaimed autobiographical film by French director Louis Malle,

"Au Revoir Les Enfants" tells the story of two young boys who become friends at a boarding school in Nazi-occupied France.

The only problem is one of them happens to be a Jew hiding from Hitler's forces.

While you can imagine what happens next,

the film shows how close two people can become when one of them doesn't know that society wants him to hate the other.

#7: Judgement at Nuremberg.

- Men are sterilized because of political belief, a mockery made of friendship and faith, a murder of children.

Featuring one of the greatest casts ever assembled,

Stanley Kramer's three-hour fictionalization details the prosecution of members of the Nazi party long after the war ended.

- There was fear. Fear of today, fear of tomorrow, fear of our neighbors, and fear of ourselves.

Nominated for a total of eleven Oscars,

"Judgement at Nuremberg" features passionate speeches by such actors as Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, and Maximilian Schell,

who received the Oscar for his work.

- Very few German knew what was going on. Very few!

- None of us knew what was happening. The places shown in these films...

Intelligent and persuasive, the film is famous as one of the greatest courtroom dramas ever.

- He told me that it was no use to repeat my story because no one would believe me.

#6: The Diary of Anne Frank.

- Look at the sky. Aren't the clouds beautiful? Lovely, lovely day.

Of all the films based on the life of Anne Frank, a young girl whose family was forced into hiding by the Nazis,

it is George Stevens's version that is perhaps the most iconic.

- I expect I should be describing what it's like to go into hiding, but I don't really know yet myself.

Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play and using shots of the actual Dutch house where Frank's family hid,

the film is best known for moving performances by Millie Perkins and Shelley Winters.

- Someone now knows that we're up here hiding!

- It's a thief. You think the thief is gonna go to the green police and say ,"I was robbing a place at night and I heard a noise above my head." You think is gonna do that?

Nominated for eight Academy Awards and winning three, "The Diary of Anne Frank" brings to life the poignancy of Anne's plight.