The Banality of The Zone of Interest
German philosopher Hannah Arendt famously said in her book "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil", which she wrote after covering the trial of the Nazi war…
Review: Speer Goes to Hollywood
This documentary which won the Israeli equivalent of the Oscar is one of those unknown but true stories that was begging to be told. Following the publication of his bestselling…
Review: The Meaning of Hitler
This timely documentary takes on a huge question: Can we ever really understand Hitler and people's endless fascination with him? It's a daunting task, since there have been countless other…
Quickie review: The Tobacconist
In this coming-of-age story, set mostly in Vienna just as the Nazis are rising, 17-year-old Franz (Simon Morzé) arrives from the countryside to work at a tobacco shop owned by…
Review: Resistance
When you think of mime, you naturally think of Marcel Marceau. But you probably don't know how he saved a group of Jewish orphans from the Nazis during World War…
Review: Jojo Rabbit
Just when you thought there couldn’t possibly be a new way to tell a World War II / Nazi story on film, along comes Jojo Rabbit, to serve as both…
Review: The Captain (Der Hauptmann)
The Captain is not for the faint of heart. It's the true story (or some version of it) of a German deserter in World War II, who finds a suitcase…
Inglourious Basterds
Where to start with this one? Quentin Tarantino has basically taken every spaghetti western cliché he can think of mixed it into a Nazi war movie and patched it together…