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1) Jojo Rabbit
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Many Latinos in the American Southwest wear amulets and perform certain practices different from their fellow Latino Catholics--and are discovering only now, to their amazement, that they are descended from Jews who chose conversion rather than death at the time of the great expulsion from Spain in 1492. This program looks at remnants of what was once the great Jewish civilization in Spain: the artifacts, which were Christianized or destroyed; and...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. 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.
Series
Studio classic volume 2
Publisher
Twentieth Century Home Entertainment
Language
English
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.
Publisher
UCM
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
עברית
Description
A comedy set in Ashdod, Israel. Grisha, has almost given up on his dream of opening his own restaurant and serving his specialty dishes. The sudden death of a rich uncle in Russia changes all that. The uncle bequeaths all his money to his only and beloved nephew, so that he may open a restaurant. The problem is that all his life, the uncle was a sworn Communist, and his condition for granting the inheritance is that the restaurant be dedicated the...
Series
Publisher
Oxford Film & Television
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the Jewish experience from ancient times to the present day through a cast of historical characters, vivid storytelling, location photography, and more. A companion to The Story of the Jews: finding the words, 1000 BC - 1492 AD by Simon Schama.
11) A Day in October
Publisher
Academy Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
In 1943 love flourishes between a Danish resistance fighter and a young Jewish girl as a brilliant attack and daring escape take place in the real life plot that spared the lives of all but 500 Danish Jews.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Departing Hamburg in high spirits, 937 Jewish Germans have been offered safe haven in Havana, Cuba, in 1939. The passengers are looking forward to their new life. However, the whole voyage is actually a Nazi propaganda scheme and the passengers are never really intended to be allowed ashore once they reach their destination. After weeks of unsuccessful pleas they are forced to return back to Europe. Based on the tragic 1939 voyage of the SS St. Louis....
13) Glamour
Publisher
Bunyik Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Hungarian
Description
Follows the lives and fortunes of an Orthodox Jewish family and their furniture manufacturing business in Budapest from the end of World War I through the Stalinist era.
14) Uncut gems
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A charismatic jeweler makes a high-stakes bet that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. In a precarious high-wire act, he must balance business, family, and adversaries on all sides in pursuit of the ultimate win.
17) All Jews out!
Publisher
National Center for Jewish Film
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The film maker travels from New York to Goppingen, Germany. He interviews many Jews who relate their recollections of the Holocaust and events leading up to it.
18) Bye bye Germany
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Frankfurt, 1946. David Bermann and his Jewish friends have escaped the Nazi regime and are now dreaming of leaving for America. But how will they get the money in these tough post-war times? The smooth-talking businessman focuses on what the Germans now need most: fine bed linens nicely wrapped in amusing stories. The six talented entertainers go from home to home, praising housewives with ashy chutzpah until the flattered ladies have no choice but...
19) The pianist
Language
English
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.
20) Europa Europa
Series
Publisher
[distributed by] MGM/UA Home Video]
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The true story of a Jewish teenager who survived World War II by living as a Nazi for 7 years.