Holocaust (1978)

Drama · History · Romance

Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the entire Weiss family are caught up in the maelstrom of the Nazi regime, the storms of World War II and the horrors of the criminal Final Solution, the Holocaust, the Shoah; while Erik Dorf, an ambitious lawyer, undertakes his fall into hell at the hands of the sinister Reinhard Heydrich.

IMDb rating: 8.0 (6,115 votes)
Episode average: 7.9 -0.1 vs IMDb
Seasons: 1
Language: EN
Type: Mini-series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 1 season indexed

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Seasons

Season 1 (1978)

7.88 avg 5 episodes 7.9 → 7.6 90 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Part 1: 1935-1940	7.9	286
2	Part 2: 1941-1942	7.9	256
3	Part 3: 1942-1944	7.9	220
4	Part 4: 1944-1945	8.1	233
5	Part 5: The Liberation	7.6	74