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Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Simon Schama presents this epic series exploring the extraordinary story of the Jewish experience from ancient times to the present day. Both deeply historical and utterly contemporary, this is a compelling film about distinctiveness and difference, separation and isolation, tolerance and prejudice. It is also a celebration of the ways in which Jewish thought, imagination, and achievement have transformed the world for us all.
2) Crossfire
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 85 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A police captain methodically unravels the truth behind the brutal murder of an innocent Jewish man by a World War II soldier with a rabid hatred of Jews.
Series
Studio classic volume 2
Publisher
Twentieth Century Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-semitism decides to pose as a Jew and finds out first-hand what it is like to be the victim of intolerance.
4) Jojo Rabbit
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020].
Formats
Description
A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
5) Homicide
Series
Criterion collection volume 486
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
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.
6) The secrets
Publisher
Monterey Media
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While studying at a women's religious seminary in Safed, Naomi and her new friend explore the complexities of a religious lifestyle in a vibrant environment of youth, rebellion, and desire as they befriend a beautiful, mysterious older woman.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999], c1997
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. Then that life is threatened by World War II.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The life-affirming tale of 10,000 children saved from Hitler's grasp and placed with foster parents and hostels in Great Britain at the outbreak of World War II. Includes archival footage and decades-later rememberances of both the rescuers and the rescued.
Publisher
United King Ltd
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A tiny Israeli village in the Negev Desert is home to people from both Morocco and India. They have poverty in common and little else. Two families will be brought together by the unlikely friendship of daughters. There is the sultry Moroccan, Nicole, and the thoughtful Indian, Sara. The women's youth and lust for freedom overcome cultural prejudices. For this community and these two friends, the road to harmony is full of twists and turns.
11) The book thief
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
12) Afterward
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the context of the current re-emergence of anti-Semitism around the globe, director Ofra Bloch examines its history and, through interviews with people in Germany, Israel, and Palestine, tries to look at it both from the perspective of those who see Jews as victims as well as those who consider them to be victimizers.
13) Golden voices
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the Soviet Union collapses, a Russian Jewish couple, who made their careers as dubbing artists, decide to emigrate to Israel, where they struggle to find employment and attempt to use their talents in unconventional ways.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 DVD with special features
Description
A family on the run for their lives finds themselves in a beautiful but utterly unfamiliar world in this drama based on the autobiographical novel by Stefanie Zweig. Walter Redlich (Merab Ninidze) is a successful Jewish lawyer living in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. Aware of the increasing dangers of remaining in Germany, Walter seeks exile on a farm in Kenya, while his socially prominent wife, Jettel (Juliane Koehler), and his young...
15) Daniel Deronda
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (210 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Daniel Deronda is a sensitive, intelligent, young man haunted by secrets that shroud his birth. Gwendolen Harleth is a beautiful gambler short on cash. When the two meet, sparks fly.
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Today, Europe's fastest growing Jewish population is in Berlin. Germany is considered one of the most democratic societies in the world, assuming the position of moral leader of Europe as they embrace hundreds of thousands of refugees. This development couldn't have been imagined in 1945. Through personal stories Germans & Jews explores Germany's transformation as a society, from silence about the Holocaust to facing it head on. Unexpectedly, a nuanced...
17) Keep quiet
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the transformation of Csanad Szegedi from vice-president of Hungary's anti-Semitic, far-right extremist party Jobbik, to a man embracing his heritage after he discovers his maternal grandparents were Jewish and suffered through the Holocaust.
18) Europa Europa
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Jewish boy separated from his family during WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler youth
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young American man, with the help of a local who speaks weirdly broken English, journeys to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village that was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
20) The pianist
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (149 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
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