There are plenty of well-known Oscar-winning World War 2 films from Saving Private Ryan to Oppenheimer. But a lesser-known 1959 classic is the biopic The Diary of Anne Frank, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT The latter was based on the posthumously published diary of a German-born Jewish girl who hid with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam in a secret annexe. George Stevens, who directed Millie Perkins as Anne Frank, had previously been involved in filming evidence of concentration camps during the war. Anne’s father, Otto Frank, went on to...