The Dangerous Journey

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit priest, Riccardo Fontana, but their protestations fall on deaf ears in the Vatican.

Runtime

2h 12m

Director

Costa-Gavras, Burkhard Heyl

Cast

Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe

During WWII, head priest Henri Kremer is mysteriously freed from Dachau. He learns that he can return home to Luxembourg, for only nine days, during which he'll have to face a persuasive Gestapo chief who will put his faith to the test.

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

Volker Schlöndorff

Cast

Ulrich Matthes, August Diehl, Hilmar Thate

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

Runtime

2h 18m

Director

Martin Scorsese

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley

Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as S...

Runtime

2h 31m

Director

Alan J. Pakula

Cast

Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol

A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror ...

Runtime

2h 42m

Director

Samuel Fuller

Cast

Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine