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  • Once a Nazi...

    Movie

    A "Whodunit" documentary thriller; Once a Nazi is Adalbert Lallier's tragic story, a man haunted by his connection to the most infamous group of mass murderers of the twentieth century - the notorious Waffen SS.

    Today Lallier wrestles with the demons in his soul; a passive participant still tryi...

  • Memory Is Our Homeland

    Movie

    You think you’ve heard every story about World War II? You haven’t heard this one!

    Beginning in 2008, filmmaker Jonathan Durand began interviewing his grandmother about her childhood stories of growing up as a Polish refugee in East Africa. Say it again, “Polish refugees in East Africa.” It’s t...

  • Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream

    Movie + 4 extras

    For more than 90 years, the Streit’s matzo factory sat in a low-slung tenement building on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. While other matzo companies modernized, Streit’s remained a piece of living history, churning out 40 percent of the nation’s unleavened bread on pre-War machinery as old as the ...

  • Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen

    Movie

    Produced in 1965, this intimate portrait of the legendary Leonard Cohen captures his life as an acclaimed poet and novelist before he launched his career as a singer-songwriter in 1967. Follow Cohen through his hometown of Montreal as he performs his poetry for rapt audiences, makes television ap...

  • Dealers Among Dealers

    Movie + 1 extra

    Go inside the virtually impenetrable world of New York diamond and precious stone trading, from the street exchanges to the world's great auction houses of Sotheby's and Christie's. Since its broadcast on the prestigious PBS' POV series, it remains the only film to reveal this amazing society, ca...

  • Cap or Kippah

    Movie

    Cap or Kippah is about a child living in two worlds. In the one, he prefers to cover up the fact that he’s Jewish, in the other he comes clean about it.

    Bram (14) keeps it a secret at his secondary school that he is Jewish, because he’s afraid he will get bullied because of it. He grew up in a ...

  • The Mystery of Femma

    Movie

    In 1944, 16-year-old Femma Swaalep ended up in extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The man responsible for the deportation of this half-Jewish girl was the German racial specialist Hans Calmeyer. Miraculously Femma survives the horrors, but recently the now 92-year-old is plagued by the knowle...

  • The Bentwich Syndrome

    Movie

    The saga of a restless and relentless Anglo-Jewish Family which according to its founding fathers, served as God's gift to Zionism, is exposed by the director, a member of the family himself, from an alternative humorous angle.

    Nominated for Best Documentary | Israeli Ophir Awards 2015

    Directed...

  • The Archive

    Movie

    The Archive tells the incredible story of David Drucker, a lawyer in 1940s America. Employed by the Soviet Union and communist China to broker trade deals with the west, his work quickly brought him to the attention of J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Always traveling with...

  • Liberation, Dignity, Resilience, Compassion -The Story of Le Chambon

    Movie

    Discover the inspiring, little-known story of Le Chambon, a Huguenot village in France who took in close to 5,000 Jewish children during the Holocaust at great risk to themselves. With little financial resources, an act of defiance and spiritual audacity, this small town makes its mark in the his...

  • An Encounter with Simone Weil

    Movie

    What response does seeing human suffering demand of us? Filmmaker Julia Haslett seeks an answer in the life and work of controversial French thinker, activist, and mystic Simone Weil (1909-1943) –– a woman Albert Camus described as “the only great spirit of our time.”

    "A profound and moving film...

  • Witness Theater

    Movie

    Filmmaker Oren Rudavsky follows the journeys of Holocaust survivors and high school students as they share stories of loss, struggle, and lives rebuilt and experience the healing power of intergenerational relationships, culminating in the public performance of a play based on the survivors’ stor...

  • My Mother's Lost Children

    Movie

    Sprawling across four continents, My Mother’s Lost Children is the story of Melbourne filmmaker Danny Ben-Moshe’s (Shalom Bollywood) extraordinary, truth-is-stranger-than-fiction family story. Growing up in the Yiddish-speaking East End of London, Ben-Moshe’s mother, Lillian, was 15 when met and ...

  • The Ride: Overcoming the Impossible

    Movie

    A diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma is basically a painful death sentence. Moshe a 65 year old survivor, celebrates the outcomes of his battle with a 125-mile bike ride, full of its own challenges and surprises along the way. Experience how a positive attitude, support, an educated proactive patient ...

  • Odessa... Odessa!

    Movie

    Take a journey across three Odessas – from Odessa, Ukraine to “Little Odessa” New York and Ashdod, Israël – revealing the wanderings, hopes and illusions of the vanishing Odessa Jewish community.

    CICAE Arthouse Prize | Berlin International Film Festival 2005
    Cinmema du Réel Film Festival - Prix...

  • Human Failure

    Movie

    Award-winning filmmaker Michael Verhoeven ("The White Rose", "The Nasty Girl") goes on a search to unearth evidence documenting one of the greatest robberies in human history - the expropriation of assets from German Jews during the Third Reich.

    This benefited virtually every German citizen. It ...

  • Scandal in Ivansk

    Movie

    In the small Polish town of Ivansk, one word ignites a nationwide controversy. Most of Ivansk’s Jews were killed by the Nazis, and the headstones in the Jewish cemetery were plundered for construction purposes. A group of descendants of Ivansk Jews restore the town’s cemetery, retrieving what hea...

  • Tunnel of Hope

    Movie

    The unbelievable escape story of the grandmother of Jared Kushner...

    In 1943, 250 Jewish slave workers successfully escaped from a Nazi labor camp in Novogrudok, Belarus, via a tunnel they dug. The film follows the remaining escapees, accompanied by their descendants, in an attempt to find the t...

  • My Grandparents Had a Hotel

    Movie

    Award-winning filmmaker Karen Shopsowitz shares the precious, nostalgic story of The Monteith Inn, located in Canada's Muskokas region (known as "The Malibu of the North"), which was run by her grandparents, Harry and Jennie Shopsowitz, from 1935–49. Originally seen as a haven for Canadian (and A...

  • America Undiscovered

    1 season

    Journey across North America in this original and imaginative documentary series showcasing engaging and uplifting stories of amazing Jewish individuals and communities that have been overlooked or undiscovered. Hosted by Susan Neisloss, the series brings to light positive stories about the uniqu...

  • Why The Jews?

    Movie

    The stunning accomplishments of the Jews raise a question no film has dared ask before. How do they do it? Some of the world’s most prominent thinkers (including Nobel Prize laureate Shimon Peres, chess genius Judit Polgar, radical thinker Noam Chomsky, sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer and star ...

  • The Impure

    Movie

    A dark story which took place in Argentina in the early 20th century. The “Impure” was how the Argentinian Jewish pimps were called by the “normal” Jewish community. They were vicious organization leaders and brothel owners who practiced religious lives while trafficking thousands of unfortunate ...

  • Rabin In His Own Words

    Movie + 1 extra

    Rabin In His Own Words is an “autobiography” of sorts, the story is told entirely in Rabin’s own voice. Through a combination of rare archival footage, home movies and private letters, his personal and professional dramas unfold before the viewer's eyes - from his childhood as the son of a labor ...

  • Gefilte

    Movie

    The story of one American-Jewish family’s obsession with gefilte fish and the ritual of making it – in huge quantities – every Passover. As the Hermelins all agree, like Proust’s madeleine, the beloved dish is so much more than just food: it’s also memories, tradition and what binds them together...