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  • The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022–2022)
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    TV Mini-series | 133 min | Documentary, History
The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022–2022)
TV-14
TV Mini-series | 133 min | Documentary, History
Explores America's response to the Holocaust, and how it challenged the ideals of democracy.
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Seasons
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Producers
Sarah Botstein (producer) | Ken Burns (producer) | Lynn Novick (producer) | Mike Welt (producer)
Cinematographers
Buddy Squires | Wojciech Staron
Editors
Charles E. Horton | Chase Horton | Tricia Reidy
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Status
Edit Released
Updated Sep 18, 2022
Release date (First episode)
Sep 18, 2022 (United States)
Awards
Won 1 Primetime Emmy Award. Another 1 win & 7 nominations

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141 cast members
Name Episodes Known for
Adolf Hitler
Self - Fuehrer and Chancellor of Germany (archive footage) Self - Fuehrer and Chancellor of Germany (archive footage)   See fewer
3
Triumph of the Will (1935)
Hermann Göring
Self - Commander in Chief of the Luftwaffe (archive footage) Self - Commander in Chief of the Luftwaffe (archive footage)   See fewer
3
Wunder des Fliegens: Der Film eines deutschen Fliegers (1935)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self - 32nd President of the United States (archive footage) Self - 32nd President of the United States (archive footage)   See fewer
3
The President's Mystery (1936)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Self - First Lady of the United States (archive footage) Self - First Lady of the United States (archive footage)   See fewer
3
Women in Defense (1941)
Stephen Wise
Self - Rabbi (archive footage) Self - Rabbi (archive footage)   See fewer
3
Julius Stern
Self - Father of Günther Stern (archive footage) Self - Father of Günther Stern (archive footage)   See fewer
3
Peter Coyote
Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice)   See fewer
3
Bitter Moon (1992)
Daniel Mendelsohn
Self - Writer Self - Writer   See fewer
3
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
Peter Hayes
Self - Historian Self - Historian   See fewer
3
About Face: The Story of the Jewish Refugee Soldiers of World War II (2020)
Deborah Lipstadt
Self - Historian Self - Historian   See fewer
3
Denial (II) (2016)
Daniel Greene
Self - Historian Self - Historian   See fewer
3
The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Guy Stern
Self - Hildesheim, Germany / Self - St. Louis, Missouri / Self - U.S. Army (as Günther Stern) Self - Hildesheim, Germany / Self - St. Louis, Missouri / Self - U.S. Army (as Günther Stern)   See fewer
3
The Ritchie Boys (2004)
Rebecca Erbelding
Self - Historian Self - Historian   See fewer
3
Never Again: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - A Tour with Wolf Blitzer (2022)
Sol Messinger
Self - Berlin, Germany / Self - Buffalo, New York Self - Berlin, Germany / Self - Buffalo, New York   See fewer
3
A korabl plyvet (2025)
Nell Irvin Painter
Self - Historian Self - Historian   See fewer
3
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (2014)
Eva Geiringer
Self - Vienna, Austria / Self - Amsterdam, The Netherlands Self - Vienna, Austria / Self - Amsterdam, The Netherlands   See fewer
3
Eva's Promise (2022)
Timothy Snyder
Self - Historian Self - Historian   See fewer
3
Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski (2018)
Adam Arkin
Self (voice) Self (voice)   See fewer
3
Get Shorty (2017)
Murphy Guyer
Self (voice) Self (voice)   See fewer
3
Arthur (I) (2011)
Carolyn McCormick
Self (voice) Self (voice)   See fewer
3
Law & Order (1990)
Joe Morton
Self (voice) Self (voice)   See fewer
3
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Matthew Rhys
Self (voice) Self (voice)   See fewer
3
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
Heinrich Himmler
Self - Reichsführer-SS (archive footage) Self - Reichsführer-SS (archive footage)   See fewer
2
Victory of the Faith (1933)
Anne Frank
Self - Jewish Victim of the Holocaust (archive footage) Self - Jewish Victim of the Holocaust (archive footage)   See fewer
2
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Edward R. Murrow
Self - Radio Journalist (archive footage) Self - Radio Journalist (archive footage)   See fewer
2
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Henry Ford
Self - Founder of Ford Motor Company / Self - Member of America First Committee (archive footage) Self - Founder of Ford Motor Company / Self - Member of America First Committee (archive footage)   See fewer
2
Upcoming Ford Project (2021)
Adolf Eichmann
Self - S.S. Final Solution Administrator (archive footage) Self - S.S. Final Solution Administrator (archive footage)   See fewer
2
Eine Epoche vor Gericht (1961)
Margot Frank
Self - Sister of Anne Frank (archive footage) Self - Sister of Anne Frank (archive footage)   See fewer
2
Witness History: Archive 2012 (2012)
Otto Frank
Self - Father of Anne and Margot Frank (archive footage) Self - Father of Anne and Margot Frank (archive footage)   See fewer
2
Les dossiers de l'écran (1967)
Alfred E. Smith
Self - Former Governor of New York (archive footage) (as Al Smith) Self - Former Governor of New York (archive footage) (as Al Smith)   See fewer
2
The Volcano (1919)
Father Coughlin
Self - Priest & Radio Personality (archive footage) Self - Priest & Radio Personality (archive footage)   See fewer
2
Cordell Hull
Self - U.S. Secretary of State (archive footage) Self - U.S. Secretary of State (archive footage)   See fewer
2
World Leaders on Peace and Democracy (1939)
Avery Brundage
Self - President of the United States Olympic Committee / Self - Member of America First Committee (archive footage) Self - President of the United States Olympic Committee / Self - Member of America First Committee (archive footage)   See fewer
2
Prazdnik nashey molodosti (1955)
Edith Frank
Self - Mother of Anne and Margot Frank (archive footage) Self - Mother of Anne and Margot Frank (archive footage)   See fewer
2
Witness History: Archive 2012 (2012)
Henry Morgenthau Jr.
Self - U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (archive footage) Self - U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (archive footage)   See fewer
2
Morgenthau Trailer (1942)
Breckenridge Long
Self - U.S. Assistant Secretary of State (archive footage) Self - U.S. Assistant Secretary of State (archive footage)   See fewer
2
Animated Weekly, No. 86 (1917)
Emanuel Celler
Self - U.S. Congressman from New York (archive footage) Self - U.S. Congressman from New York (archive footage)   See fewer
2
Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? (1981)
Shmiel Jaeger
Self - Daniel Mendelsohn's Great Uncle (archive footage) Self - Daniel Mendelsohn's Great Uncle (archive footage)   See fewer
2
Ruchele Jaeger
Self - Shmiel Jaeger's Third Daughter (archive footage) Self - Shmiel Jaeger's Third Daughter (archive footage)   See fewer
2
Hedwig Stern
Self - Mother of Günther Stern (archive footage) Self - Mother of Günther Stern (archive footage)   See fewer
2
Josh Lucas
Self (voice) Self (voice)   See fewer
2
Ford v Ferrari (2019)
Susan Hilsenrath
Self - Bad Kreuznach, Germany Self - Bad Kreuznach, Germany   See fewer
2
The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Meryl Streep
Eleanor Roosevelt (voice) Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)   See fewer
2
Out of Africa (1985)
Joseph Hilsenrath
Self - Bad Kreuznach, Germany Self - Bad Kreuznach, Germany   See fewer
2
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Marlene Jaeger Mendelsohn
Self - Shmiel's Niece Self - Shmiel's Niece   See fewer
2
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Paul Corning
Self (voice) Self (voice)   See fewer
2
Bachelorette (2012)
Leon Dische Becker
Self (voice) (as Léon Dische Becker) Self (voice) (as Léon Dische Becker)   See fewer
2
The Honey Trap (2024)
Paul Giamatti
Madison Grant (voice) Madison Grant (voice)   See fewer
2
Sideways (2004)
Olivia Gilliatt
Self (voice) Self (voice)   See fewer
2
A Vigilante (2018)
Elliott Gould
Self Self   See fewer
2
M*A*S*H (1970)
Bradley Whitford
Thomas Wolfe / Senator William Borah (voice) Thomas Wolfe / Senator William Borah (voice)   See fewer
2
Get Out (I) (2017)
Liam Neeson
Polish Holocaust victim (voice) Polish Holocaust victim (voice)   See fewer
1
Kinsey (2004)
Werner Herzog
Hermann Göring (voice) Hermann Göring (voice)   See fewer
1
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Hope Davis
Self (voice) Self (voice)   See fewer
1
American Splendor (2003)
Lillian Gish
Self - Member of America First Committee (archive footage) Self - Member of America First Committee (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Cecil B. DeMille
Self - Film Director (archive footage) Self - Film Director (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Paul Muni
Self - Jewish American Actor (archive footage) Self - Jewish American Actor (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Scarface (1932)
Joseph Goebbels
Self - Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (archive footage) Self - Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Der Führer (1932)
Winston Churchill
Self - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (archive footage) Self - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Matinee Theatre (1955)
Mariusz Glabinski
Self (voice) Self (voice)   See fewer
1
Rebel Ridge (2024)
Joseph Stalin
Self - Leader of the Soviet Union (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin) Self - Leader of the Soviet Union (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin)   See fewer
1
One Inch from Victory (1944)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self - 36th President of the United States (archive footage) Self - 36th President of the United States (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Spartamerika
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self - Supreme Allied Commander (archive footage) (as General Dwight Eisenhower) Self - Supreme Allied Commander (archive footage) (as General Dwight Eisenhower)   See fewer
1
Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps (1945)
Helen Keller
Self - Author & Disability Rights Advocate (archive footage) Self - Author & Disability Rights Advocate (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Whirlpool (I) (2017)
J. Edgar Hoover
Self - Head of the FBI (archive footage) Self - Head of the FBI (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The Next of Kin (1942)
Theodore Roosevelt
Self - 26th President of the United States (archive footage) Self - 26th President of the United States (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Simple Gifts (1978)
Jesse Owens
Self - Olympics Athlete (archive footage) Self - Olympics Athlete (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Kings of the Olympics (1948)
Neville Chamberlain
Self - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (archive footage) Self - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Reinhard Heydrich
Self - S.S. Second in Command (archive footage) Self - S.S. Second in Command (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Triumph of the Will (1935)
Rudolf Hess
Self - Defendant in the Nuremberg Trials (archive footage) Self - Defendant in the Nuremberg Trials (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Triumph of the Will (1935)
Golda Meir
Self - Future Prime Minister of Israel (archive footage) Self - Future Prime Minister of Israel (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The Simpsons (1989)
Raoul Wallenberg
Self - Swedish Diplomat (archive footage) Self - Swedish Diplomat (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Vyacheslav Molotov
Self - Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (archive footage) Self - Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Krymskaya konferentsiya (1945)
Georgi Zhukov
Self - Soviet General (archive footage) Self - Soviet General (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The Fall of Berlin (1945)
Lou Dobbs
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
State of Play (2009)
Fulton J. Sheen
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The Eternal Gift (1941)
Charles A. Lindbergh
Self - Chief Spokesman, America First Committee (archive footage) Self - Chief Spokesman, America First Committee (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Herbert Hoover
Self - 31st President of the United States (archive footage) Self - 31st President of the United States (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Public Be Damned (1917)
Alexander Graham Bell
Self - Inventor (archive footage) Self - Inventor (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Selig-Tribune, No. 24 (1916)
Wilhelm Keitel
Self - Defendant in the Nuremberg Trials (archive footage) Self - Defendant in the Nuremberg Trials (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The Fall of Berlin (1945)
Calvin Coolidge
Self - 30th President of the United States (archive footage) Self - 30th President of the United States (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Screen Snapshots, Series 9, No. 14 (1930)
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Self - Reichsminister of Foreign Affairs (archive footage) Self - Reichsminister of Foreign Affairs (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The Nazi Plan (1945)
Thomas E. Dewey
Self - New York County District Attorney (archive footage) Self - New York County District Attorney (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Gillette Cavalcade of Sports (1944)
William Dudley Pelley
Self - Founder of the Silver Legion of America (archive footage) Self - Founder of the Silver Legion of America (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Come Across (1929)
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Self - Wife of Charles Lindberg (archive footage) Self - Wife of Charles Lindberg (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Conversations with Eric Sevareid (1975)
Eddie Rickenbacker
Self - Member of America First Committee (archive footage) Self - Member of America First Committee (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Ace Drummond (1936)
Wendell Willkie
Self - Republican Presidential Nominee 1940 (archive footage) Self - Republican Presidential Nominee 1940 (archive footage)   See fewer
1
World Heavyweight Championship: Joe Louis vs. Buddy Baer (1942)
Fritz Kuhn
Self - German-American Bund Leader (archive footage) Self - German-American Bund Leader (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Volks-Deutsche/Jungen in USA (1937)
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Self - Member of America First Committee (archive footage) Self - Member of America First Committee (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Launch of the Kaiser's Yacht 'Meteor' (1902)
Édouard Daladier
Self - Prime Minister of France (archive footage) Self - Prime Minister of France (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Jornal do INCE n. 1 (1939)
Henry Wallace
Self - Vice President of the United States (archive footage) Self - Vice President of the United States (archive footage)   See fewer
1
One Inch from Victory (1944)
Franz von Papen
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Deutschland erwacht - Ein Dokument von der Wiedergeburt Deutschlands (1933)
Emma Lazarus
Self - Writer & Poet (archive footage) Self - Writer & Poet (archive footage)   See fewer
1
American Experience (1988)
Herschel Grynszpan
Self - German Jew Who Killed Ernst vom Rath (archive footage) Self - German Jew Who Killed Ernst vom Rath (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Frances Perkins
Self - U.S. Secretary of Labor (archive footage) Self - U.S. Secretary of Labor (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Dorothy Thompson
Self - Journalist (archive footage) Self - Journalist (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Little Isles of Freedom (1943)
John J. McCloy
Self - U.S. Assistant Secretary of War (archive footage) Self - U.S. Assistant Secretary of War (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The World at War (1973)
Miklós Horthy
Self - Regent of Hungary (archive footage) Self - Regent of Hungary (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Varian Fry
Self - Writer & Member of Emergency Rescue Committee (archive footage) Self - Writer & Member of Emergency Rescue Committee (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Elegie (1946)
Henry Morgenthau
Self - Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (archive footage) Self - Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Auction of Souls (1919)
Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze
Self - Speaker at German-American Bund Rally (archive footage) (voice) Self - Speaker at German-American Bund Rally (archive footage) (voice)   See fewer
1
Volks-Deutsche/Jungen in USA (1937)
Margaret Sanger
Self - Birth Control Activist (archive footage) Self - Birth Control Activist (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Birth Control (1917)
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Self - Writer & Poet (archive footage) Self - Writer & Poet (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Her Condoned Sin (1917)
Elfriede Geiringer
Self - Eva Geiringer's Mother (archive footage) (as Fritzi Geiringer) Self - Eva Geiringer's Mother (archive footage) (as Fritzi Geiringer)   See fewer
1
Seeking Answers (2017)
Jan Karski
Self - Courier for the Polish Underground (archive footage) Self - Courier for the Polish Underground (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Shoah (1985)
Gerhart M. Riegner
Self - World Jewish Congress Representative (archive footage) Self - World Jewish Congress Representative (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? (1981)
Raphael Lemkin
Self - Coined the Word 'Genocide' (archive footage) Self - Coined the Word 'Genocide' (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Heinz Geiringer
Self - Eva Geiringer's Older Brother (archive footage) Self - Eva Geiringer's Older Brother (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The Diary of Anne Frank: A Tale of Two Sisters (2015)
William E. Dodd
Self - U.S. Ambassador to Germany (archive footage) Self - U.S. Ambassador to Germany (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Inside Nazi Germany (1938)
Erich Geiringer
Self - Eva Geiringer's Father (archive footage) Self - Eva Geiringer's Father (archive footage)   See fewer
1
A Tale of Two Sisters (2015)
Peter Bergson
Self - Jewish American Activist (archive footage) Self - Jewish American Activist (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Not Idly by: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust
John Pehle
Self - Head of the War Refugee Board (archive footage) Self - Head of the War Refugee Board (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? (1981)
Madison Grant
Self - Conservationist (archive footage) Self - Conservationist (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Carl Lutz
Self - Swiss Vice-Consul (archive footage) Self - Swiss Vice-Consul (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Abraham Jaeger
Self - Daniel Mendelsohn's Grandfather (archive footage) Self - Daniel Mendelsohn's Grandfather (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Robert E. Wood
Self - Co-Founder of America First Committee (archive footage) (as General Robert E. Wood) Self - Co-Founder of America First Committee (archive footage) (as General Robert E. Wood)   See fewer
1
Nathan Straus Jr.
Self - Head of U.S. Federal Housing Authority (archive footage) (as Charley Straus) Self - Head of U.S. Federal Housing Authority (archive footage) (as Charley Straus)   See fewer
1
Lorka Jaeger
Self - Shmiel Jaeger's Oldest Daughter (archive footage) Self - Shmiel Jaeger's Oldest Daughter (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Ida Mae Schwartzberg
Self - Günther Stern's Girlfriend (archive footage) Self - Günther Stern's Girlfriend (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Frydka Jaeger
Self - Shmiel Jaeger's Second Daughter (archive footage) Self - Shmiel Jaeger's Second Daughter (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Hiram Bingham IV
Self - American Vice Consul in Marseilles, France (archive footage) Self - American Vice Consul in Marseilles, France (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Joseph A. Wyant
Self - U.S. Army (archive footage) Self - U.S. Army (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Wolf Gold
Self - Rabbi (archive footage) Self - Rabbi (archive footage)   See fewer
1
David Max Eichhorn
Self - Captain U.S. Army (archive footage) (as Rabbi David Max Eichhorn) Self - Captain U.S. Army (archive footage) (as Rabbi David Max Eichhorn)   See fewer
1
Joseph Proskauer
Self - New York Supreme Court Justice (archive footage) Self - New York Supreme Court Justice (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Ester Jaeger
Self - Daniel Mendelsohn's Great Aunt (archive footage) Self - Daniel Mendelsohn's Great Aunt (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Lotte Bland
Self - Polish American Jew (archive footage) Self - Polish American Jew (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Louis Brodsky
Self - Judge (archive footage) Self - Judge (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Bronia Jaeger
Self - Shmiel Jaeger's Youngest Daughter (archive footage) Self - Shmiel Jaeger's Youngest Daughter (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Herman Bland
Self - Polish American Jew (archive footage) Self - Polish American Jew (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Gerald Nye
Self - U.S. Senator from North Dakota (archive footage) Self - U.S. Senator from North Dakota (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Edgar Ansel Mower
Self - Journalist, Chicago Daily News (archive footage) Self - Journalist, Chicago Daily News (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Gustave Schröder
Self - Captain of the 'St. Lous' (archive footage) Self - Captain of the 'St. Lous' (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Sumner Welles
Self - U.S. Undersecretary of the State (archive footage) Self - U.S. Undersecretary of the State (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Robert Reynolds
Self - U.S. Senator from North Carolina (archive footage) Self - U.S. Senator from North Carolina (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Mae Ngai
Self - Historian Self - Historian   See fewer
1
The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America
Daniel Okrent
Self - Writer Self - Writer   See fewer
1
Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Benjamin Ferencz
Self - U.S. Army Self - U.S. Army   See fewer
1
Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018)
Marlena Grzaslewicz
Self (voice) Self (voice)   See fewer
1
Beirut (2018)
Agata Was
Self (voice) Self (voice)   See fewer
1
Zle uczynki (2016)
Helena Zengel
Self (voice) Self (voice)   See fewer
1
News of the World (2020)
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