Holocaust: Videos

Runtime: 84 minutes. Weaves together interviews, official photos and documents, home movies, and archival film to explore the social and political factors that shaped America's response to the Holocaust.

Runtime: 147 minutes. Contains 2 programs: Buchenwald 1937-1942 and Buchenwald 1942-1945.

Runtime: 67 minutes. Looks at the inhuman brutality and bloodshed that was endemic at Dachau and how it did not come to an end with its 1945 liberation.

Runtime: 67 minutes. Focusing on the Dachau camp, shows the horrors of the Nazi regime, from the infamous shower rooms to the crematorium that ran day and night disposing of human remains.

Runtime: 31 minutes. Episode 41 of Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World.

Runtime: 69 minutes. Examines archival footage and documents to investigate how much the Allies knew about the mass murder of Europe's Jews and why they did not do more to stop it.

Runtime: 31 minutes. Learn about German goals and actions, Nazi collaborators who helped produce the Holocaust, and resistance from within the Jewish community and in the world at large.

A three-part, six-hour series directed and produced by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein exploring America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century.

Episode 1: The Golden Door
Reversing open borders, a xenophobic backlash prompts Congress to restrict immigration.

Episode 2: Yearning to Breathe Free
As war begins, some Americans work tirelessly to help refugees while others remain indifferent.

Episode 3: The Homeless, Tempest-Tossed
As the Allies liberate German camps, the public sees the sheer scale of the Holocaust.

Runtime: 1:29:21. A discussion to answer one of the most vexing questions of the Holocaust.

Runtime: 38:31. Documentary.

Runtime: 1:21:42. Historian Peter Hayes speaks at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to discuss his new book, "Why? Explaining the Holocaust."

Runtime: 15:21. Historian Deborah Lipstadt tells the story of her research into Holocaust deniers and their deliberate distortion of history.

Runtime: 11:52. Eddie Jaku, a 99-year-old Holocaust survivor, recounts his experiences and the powerful lessons he learned about the search for happiness.

Runtime: 10:52. Holocaust survivor Werner Reich recounts his harrowing adolescence as a prisoner transported between concentration camps and shares how a small, kind act can inspire a lifetime of compassion.