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41) Ridley Road
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It tells the story of Vivien Epstein, a young Jewish woman who after falling in love with a member of the '62 Group', rejects her comfortable middle-class life in Manchester and joins the fight against fascism in London. Inspired by true events, it follows Vivien as she goes undercover into the NSM, a neo-Nazi movement that is becoming increasingly prominent in London.
42) Homicide
Series
Criterion collection volume 486
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Director-approved special edition, widescreen.
Language
English
Description
An inner-city detective is investigating the murder of an elderly candy shop owner and finds odd clues along the way, while at the same time trying to find out who he has become.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Israeli director Yoav Shamir embarks on a provocative and at times irreverent quest to answer the question: What is anti-Semitism today? Does it remain a dangerous and immediate threat? Or is it a scare tactic used by right-wing Zionists to discredit their critics? Speaking with an array of people from across the political spectrum and traveling to places like Auschwitz and Brooklyn, Shamir discovers the realities of anti-Semitism today.
45) Liberty Heights
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of "Diner," "Tin Men," and "Avalon," Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson continues with this story of 1950s Baltimore -- a period of great change with issues of race, religion and class distinction causing turmoil between two generations of a Jewish family. Starring Adrien Brody , Joe Mantegna , Neuwirth and Orlando Jones.
46) Live and become
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
עברית
Description
The magnificent, epic story of an Ethiopian boy who is airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel in 1984 during Operation Moses. Shlomo is plagued by two big secrets: He is neither a Jew nor an orphan, just an African boy who survived and wants, somehow, to fulfill his Ethiopian mother's parting request that he "go, live, and become." Buoyed by a profound and unfaltering motherly love - both in his memory and in the arms of his adoptive mother...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Shows daily life in the predominantly Jewish market town of Luboml in prewar Poland through the use of archival photos, film footage, and interviews with former residents. Also recounts the the Nazi destruction of the Jewish community and the execution of the Jewish citizens in 1942.
48) Hanukkah bear
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When a bear arrives at her door, Bubba Branya mistakenly believes he is her rabbi. Together they light the menorah, play the dreidel game, and eat all the latkes.
Pub. Date
2005
Language
עברית
Description
Set in 1962 and narrated from the perspective of a 10-year old boy whose parents cannot agree whether to move to Canada or remain in Israel, Menachem envisions better oppurtunities in Canada while Rosa perceives the family as too deeply rooted in Israel to move abroad.
50) Antisemitism
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Français
Description
Examines the history of antisemitism in France.
51) In darkness
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Polish
Description
Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The story of Jewish life in Eastern Europe is brought to life again by some of the remaining eyewitnesses ... accompanied by never-before-seen archival films ... This television special narrated by Academy Award nominated actor Elliott Gould explores everything ... This tape contains over 20 minutes of additional footage not seen in the broadcast.
55) Schindler's list
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
25th anniversary edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a German Catholic industrialist who, as a munitions manufacturer, saved more than 1,100 Jews from extermination during WWII by hiring them to work for him.
56) A bag of marbles
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
The travels of two Jewish boys in occupied France who attempt to escape to the free zone.
58) Shoah
Series
Criterion collection volume 1985
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Over a decade in the making, this monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, Claude Lanzmann instead focuses on first-person testimonies (of survivors and former Nazis, and other witnesses), employing a circular, free-associative method in assembling them. The intellectual yet emotionally overwhelming SHOAH is not a film about excavating the past but an intensive portrait...
59) The invisibles
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Description
While Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels infamously declared Berlin 'free of Jews' in 1943, 1,700 Jewish Berliners managed to survive in the Nazi capital. Claus Rafle's gripping docudrama traces the stories of four real-life survivors who learned to hide in plain sight.
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
A study of Jewish shtetl (small village) life before the Holocaust. Combines hundreds of rare archival photos and previously unseen film footage with live action sequences shot on location at the sites of former Jewish communities in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
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