Under Anden Verdenskrig flygter den unge jøde Shosanna til Paris efter at have set sin familie blive henrettet af naziobersten Landa. Samtidig samler den hårdkogte løjtnant Aldo Raine en gruppe jødisk-amerikanske soldater, der skal føre guerillakrig mod nazisterne i Europa. Det bringer dem til sidst til Paris, hvor Shosanna er blevet biografejer med egne planer om hævn mod Landa, Hitler og resten af nazislænget.

Den charmerende levemand Oskar Schindler ankommer til Polen i hælene på den sejrrige tyske hær. Han gør sig hurtigt venner med indflydelsesrige tyske officerer og benytter sine kontakter til at opbygge en succesrig forretning – baseret på tvangsudskrevne jødiske arbejdere. Midt i den brændende krig slår han pludselig øjnene op for alle grusomhederne og – den mindst sandsynlige person af alle – anvender hele sin formue, alle sine kontakter og sætter sit eget liv i fare for at frikøbe sine jødiske arbejdere og dermed redde 1100 menneskeliv fra gaskammeret...

På Jesu tid bliver den jødiske prins Ben-Hur udsat for falske anklager og sendt til galejerne, mens hans mor og søster kommer i fængsel. Under et søslag redder Ben-Hur kaptajnens liv og adopteres af ham som en søn. Årene går, og Ben-Hur bliver en dreven deltager i hestevæddeløb. Men trods sit nye liv har han ikke opgivet at finde sin familie og få hævn over arkitekterne bag anklagerne.

Polen, anden verdenskrig. Den jødiske Wladyslaw Szpilman er en talentfuld jødiske pianist, der undgår deportation. I lighed med tusindvis andre jøder bliver han tvunget til at leve under usle forhold i en ghetto midt i Warszawa. Han formår, at stikke af og gemmer sig i storbyens ruiner. En tysk officer yder hjælp til den hårdt plagede Szpilman.

Ensomme Jojo på 10 år er medlem af Hiltlerjugend, hvor de andre unge nazister driller ham. Men hans usynlige ven Adolf Hitler giver ham nyt mod. Da Jojo opdager, at hans enlige mor skjuler en ung, jødisk pige på loftet, bliver hans verden vendt på hovedet. Kan Jojo holde fast i sin fanatiske nationalisme? Ærkefjenden virker jo meget sød...

Guido kører ind i en lille italiensk by i en by med defekte bremser og fortsætter i hæsblæsende tempo. Han svøber den smukke Dora i sin drømmeverden, og sammen får de sønnen Giosué. Men krigen truer. Og den lille familie sendes i koncentrationslejr. Men på fantasien og humorens vinger kan man svæve næsten helt hen til håbet.

England, 1021. Rob Cole, en dreng født i en elendig mineby, sværger til at blive læge og overvinde sygdom og død. Hans barske vej gennem mange år, en søgen efter viden belejret af utallige udfordringer og ofre, fører ham til det afsidesliggende Isfahan i Persien, hvor han møder Ibn Sina, sin tids største healer.

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.

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1944, during World War II. Andries Riphagen, a powerful underworld boss, has made his fortune by putting his many criminal talents at the service of the Nazi occupiers. But the long battle is about to end and the freedom fighters, who have been persecuted and murdered for years, are abandoning their hideouts to mercilessly hunt down those who have collaborated with the killers.

Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys and hardships of life by working as an apprentice to the mutilated war veteran Otto Trsnjek in a small tobacco shop, where he meets the famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, who will become a valuable friend in times of chaos and uncertainty.

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.

Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish girl from Trondheim, arrives at an isolated farm where she must assume a new identity in order to survive the Nazi persecution.

Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with whom he could be mistakenly identified, something dangerous in such harsh times.

Tyskland 1944. 16-årige Lenya lever sit liv i frygt. Hendes mor er hvid tysker, hendes far er sort. Trods sin tyske opvækst afslører hendes hudfarve, at hun ikke er arisk. Da hun møder Lutz, forelsker de sig hovedkulds. Men han er medlem af Hilterjugend og søn af en fremtrædende SS-officer. Deres kærlighed kan blive dødbringende. Baseret på historiske hændelser.

In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with its lovely grounds, and try to keep the rest of the world at bay. But tensions between them all grow as anti-Semitism rises in Fascist Italy, and even the Finzi-Continis will have to confront the Holocaust.

In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes from the Germans and comes to his former home. When Batignole finds him, he feels sorry for the boy and lodges him, hiding Simon from Pierre-Jean and also from his wife. Later, two cousins of Simon meet him in the cellar of the grocery. When Pierre-Jean finds the children, Batignole decides to travel with the children to Switzerland.

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940: fight and resistance, fear and resignation, collaboration and high treason.

Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.

Slovakia, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. The family of the young Jewish Martin Friedmann gathers to celebrate his bar mitzvah and make a solemn promise that they will all meet again a year later around the same table; but the storms of war and anti-Semitic fanaticism will lead each of them down very different paths.