If You Liked The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, Watch These Next
Finished The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009) and want more of the same? These 18 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, most of them are drama, war.
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18 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.The World Will Tremble(2025)
7.4DramaWarHistoryAlso drama and war
The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.
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2.The Grey Zone(2001)
6.6DramaWarHistoryAlso drama and war
The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.
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3.Schindler's List(1993)
8.6DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and war
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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4.Adam Resurrected(2008)
6.1DramaWarAlso drama and war
After again attempting to commit murder, a Jewish man with a mysterious past and extraordinary intelligence, charisma, and body control returns to an insane asylum, where he makes a startling discovery.
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5.The Zookeeper's Wife(2017)
7.3DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and war
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
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6.Freedom Writers(2007)
7.9CrimeDramaAlso drama
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
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7.The Pawnbroker(1965)
7.1DramaAlso drama
A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.
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9.Resistance(2020)
7.0WarHistoryDramaAlso war and drama
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
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10.The Pianist(2002)
8.4DramaWarAlso drama and war
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into…
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12.Irena's Vow(2024)
7.7WarDramaHistoryAlso war and drama
19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of – the basement of the German Major's…
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13.Inglourious Basterds(2009)
8.2DramaThrillerWarAlso drama and war
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie…
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14.The Kill Team(2019)
6.5WarActionDramaAlso war and drama
When Andrew Briggman — a young soldier in the US Army during the invasion of Afghanistan — witnesses the murderous behavior of fellow soldiers, under the direction of a malevolent Sergeant, he faces a moral dilemma. His increasingly-violent platoon becomes suspicious that someone in their ranks has turned on them,…
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15.Field of Lost Shoes(2015)
6.1WarDramaHistoryAlso war and drama
A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley.
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16.Truth & Treason(2025)
7.9HistoryDramaThrillerAlso drama
When loyalty to country becomes loyalty to a lie, one teen risks everything to expose the truth. With the Gestapo closing in, he must decide what it really means to be a good German.
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17.Emancipation(2022)
7.7DramaWarHistoryAlso drama and war
Inspired by the gripping true story of a man who would do anything for his family—and for freedom. When Peter, an enslaved man, risks his life to escape and return to his family, he embarks on a perilous journey of love and endurance.
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18.Triumph of the Spirit(1989)
6.5DramaWarHistoryAlso drama and war
During World War II, Salamo Arouch, a passionate boxer, is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Soon, he is forced to box against his fellow prisoners for the sake of entertainment.
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