Movies Like Shoah
If you liked Shoah (1985), a documentary and history movie directed by Claude Lanzmann, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Human (2015)
★ 8.4/10Also documentaryA collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human. Through these stories full of love and happiness, as well as hatred and violence, it brings us face…
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Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also documentaryA documentary about how a dominant cultural and demographic institution both sustains their traditional activities and adapts to the digital revolution.
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Woody Allen: A Documentary (2011)
★ 6.9/10Also documentaryAn intense portrait of the iconic filmmaker, writer, actor, comedian and musician Woody Allen: his life, family and friends; his writing and directing habits, and his relationship with performers.
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The Untold History Of The United States (2012)
★ 8.2/10Also documentary and historyOliver Stone charts the history of the United States from the Second World War to the present.
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
★ 7.8/10Also documentaryA chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.
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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010)
★ 7.8/10Also documentaryFor decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
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The Disappearance of Josef Mengele (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also historyIn the aftermath of the Second World War, Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor at Auschwitz, escapes to South America to rebuild his life in hiding. Through the eyes of his son who finds him again, Mengele is confronted with…
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A Bridge Too Far (1977)
★ 7.2/10Also historyThe story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of…
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Wings Up (1943)
★ 5.7/10Also documentaryClark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Forces.
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Shooting War (2000)
★ 6.4/10Also documentary and historyA remarkable film that takes a special look at the first war to be truly reported and recorded by one of the more unsung heroes of World War II: the combat photographer. Through the unflinching eye of their camera's…
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Nostradamus Decoded (2009)
★ 5/10Also documentary and historyDebunking the mythology surrounding the 16th century French prophet, Nostradamus.
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D-Day: Normandy 1944 (2014)
★ 6.9/10Also documentary and historyJune 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know in detail exactly why and how, from the end of 1943 through August 1944, this region became the most important…
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Battle for Saipan (2022)
★ 5.6/10Also historyOn July 7, 1944, a U.S. Army hospital on the remote island of Saipan is overrun by Japanese forces during a relentless attack. Outgunned and surrounded by the enemy, a lone medic puts it all on the line to lead a band…
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Leningrad. Stimmen einer belagerten Stadt (2024)
★ 7.8/10Also documentary and historyIt was one of the great crimes of the Second World War: from 1941 to 1944, a total of 872 days, the siege and starvation of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht on Hitler's orders lasted. Over a million people fell victim…
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JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (2021)
★ 7/10Also documentary and historyThirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which took place in Dallas on November 22…
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The Roman Fleet (2024)
★ 7/10Also documentary and historyBetween spring and autumn, thousands of ships traversed the Roman Empire to transport goods and troops. For a long time, it was assumed that they primarily followed coastal routes. The Bissula team has reached…
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Stalingrad (1993)
★ 7.3/10Also historyA German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his…
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Patton (1970)
★ 7.4/10Also history"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third…
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Breakthrough (1979)
★ 5.8/10Also historyStarting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it…
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Never Again: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - A Tour with Wolf Blitzer (2022)
Also documentaryThe child of Holocaust survivors, CNN Anchor Wolf Blitzer, takes viewers through the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and beyond, connecting the hours of the Holocaust and their modern parallels and his family…