Fairly early in "The Pianist' (2002), there is a scene of the Szpilman family members pooling their pocket change while waiting to be transported, to buy a small piece of caramel at an extortionate price from a street vendor. They carefully share out small pieces, in what turns out to be the last communal meal for the family. At the time, it seemed to me a little bit too much like an anvil falling on the heads of the viewers, but maybe from now on I'll just think of it as the candy that the wrapper came from.
(you may not have seen this - I know that some people won't see anything associated with Roman Polanski).

I spent so much time immersed in Harry Turtledove's alternate history WWII in which aliens arrived (thousands of pages, many volumes) that I can't think of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising without sort of waiting for the space ships to show up. In that version, more of the famous fighters in the uprising survived than actually did in our historical timeline.