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Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In October 1942, Esther Stermer, the matriarch of a Jewish family in the Ukraine, leads her family underground to hide from the pursuing Nazis – and stays nearly a year and a half. Their harrowing story of survival living in near total darkness in two cold, damp caves is one like no other ever told. It was life...like No Place On Earth.
6) Shtetlers
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
For several centuries and until the fall of the Soviet Union, shtetls were inhabited by tight-knit Yiddish-speaking communities, living side by side with their non-Jewish neighbors. Now scattered around the world, SHTETLERS gather and trace the remains of a lost world.
8) Never Again?
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A documentary about the horrors of antisemitism and the power of survival and redemption. Go on a journey with a Holocaust survivor and a formerly radicalized anti-Semite that’ll shed light on this modern-day hatred.
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
The final film from groundbreaking auteur Chantal Akerman, NO HOME MOVIE is a portrait of her relationship with her mother, Natalia, a Holocaust survivor and familiar presence in many of her daughter's films. At once disarmingly intimate and formally rigorous, NO HOME MOVIE is a singualr exploration of family, memory and history.
10) About Face
Publisher
Stadium Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Documents the as-yet-untold WWII story of young Jewish men and women who escaped certain death at the hands of the Nazis…and returned to fight them in Europe and North Africa. Told via the recollections of these brave men and women, the film chronicles the journey from Nazi victim, to refugee and finally, to Allied soldiers and spies.
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
It is not widely known that a handful of prisoners in the Nazi death camps managed somehow to take clandestine photographs of the hell that was being hidden from the world. Director Christophe Cognet retraces the footsteps of these courageous men and women in a quest to unearth the circumstances and the stories behind their photographs.
15) Genocide
Publisher
MulticomTV
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
GENOCIDE, an Academy Award winning documentary, takes a harrowing look at life during the Holocaust. Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor lend their voices to this heartbreaking historical account. **Academy Awards** Winner for Best Documentary, Features.
16) Antisemitism
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This documentary masterfully traces the history of anti-Semitism and its effects, from cartoon-like medieval church iconography showing Jews with funnels on their heads, to WWII propaganda comparing Jews to rats and neo-Nazis marching in the streets of modern day France.
17) Shalom Bollywood
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A celebration of the all-singing, all-dancing history of Indian cinema, SHALOM BOLLYWOOD reveals the unlikely story of the 2000 year old Indian Jewish community and its formative place in shaping the world’s largest film industry. Official Selection at the **UK Asian Film Festival** and the **UK International Jewish Festival**. "*Lively, upbeat and entertaining.*" - Deborah Young, **Hollywood Reporter**
18) The Ritchie Boys
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
THE RITCHIE BOYS is the riveting, untold story of a group of young men who fled Nazi Germany and returned as soldiers in U.S. uniforms. They knew the psychology and the language of the enemy better than anyone. In Camp Ritchie, Maryland, they were trained in intelligence and psychological warfare. Determined, bright, and inventive, they fought their own kind of war; they were victors, not victims.
19) Beyond the Bolex
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When visionary Jewish immigrant Jacques Bolsey invents the Bolex in the 1920's, he puts the first home movie camera in the hands of everyday folks, fomenting a film revolution that still inspires artists to this day. Nearly a century later, Alyssa Bolsey uncovers his long lost archive and journeys to discover the man behind the machine through his personal and professional struggles.
20) I am Here
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A life-affirming documentary that celebrates the remarkable life of Ella Blumenthal, whose magnetic personality and spirit has remained undimmed despite living through one of history’s darkest chapters. One of the oldest living survivors of the Holocaust, she celebrates her 98th birthday where she reveals to her loved one’s profound memories of her incredible survival like never before.
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