"The Diary of Anne Frank" is a 1959 film based on the real-life diary of a young Jewish girl named Anne Frank who, along with her family, went into hiding in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. The film was directed by George Stevens and stars Millie Perkins as Anne Frank, along with Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, and Richard Beymer. The story chronicles the two years the Frank family spent in hiding, living in a small attic above a business, and the re