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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the heart of Lithuania, a Holocaust secret lies buried. A team of archaeologists probes the ruins of a Nazi death camp to find the truth behind tales of a tunnel dug by desperate Jewish prisoners and their daring escape.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 84 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This poignant and powerful documentary explores the complex history of interracial cooperation, urban change, and social conflict in Brownsville, a neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, from the 1930s to the 2000s. A case study of the tragedy of urban American race relations, the film recounts the transformation of Brownsville from a poor but racially harmonious area made up largely of Jews and blacks to a community made up almost entirely of people...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (179 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 compact disc.
Language
English
Description
Tevye the milkman struggles to raise five daughters as observant Jews in the rapidly changing society of pre-revolutionary Ukraine.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (7 hr., 29 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Follows the tragedy and triumph of the Weiss family of Berlin and intertwines their fate as European Jews with the story of a German family, the Dorfs, whose members include a high-ranking Nazi officer ... Uses the stories of these fictional families to portray the atrocities against the Jewish people from the 1930s to 1945, and presents a heart-wrenching portrait of their struggle"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When word of the Nazi plot to arrest Denmark's Jews leaks out, Christian families such as the Kosters band together to thwart the impending raid by aiding their Jewish neighbors in hiding.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 57 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A home of one's own: that's the American dream. But what happens when the dreamers are immigrants, factory workers, and Communists? In the mid-1920s, thousands of Jewish immigrant garment workers managed to catapult themselves out of urban slums and ghettos by pooling their resources and building four cooperatively owned and run apartment complexes in the Bronx. They believed that owning one's home went a long way toward controlling one's fate. At...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this extraordinarily intimate film, seven years in the making, we are taken into the depths of the Hasidim's joyous, sometimes harsh, and often beautiful world. With their use of the Yiddish language, their distinctive clothes and their strict observance to Jewish ritual and law, the Hasidim are considered by many an insular people with little connection to mainstream America. And yet their values are those that many Americans find most precious:...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
An inspiring documentary that tells the story of Marthe Cohn, a feisty young woman who joined the French Army during WWII after Hitler's rise power. After keeping silent for almost 60 years, Marthe now shares the extraordinary story of how she managed to beat the odds and fight the Nazis as a spy after her family fled to the south of France, and a sister was sent to Auschwitz.
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (71 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
Jan and Antonina Zabinski, the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo in Poland, saved nearly 300 Jews during the Second World War. This is a poignant documentary that is an extraordinary true story about the humanitarian spirit, as exemplified by two people who, with enormous personal risk to themselves, faced the most challenging circumstances with bravery and decency. In 1965, Jan and Antonina Zabinski were recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations....
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by New Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 47 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Describes the actions of Tuvia, Asael, and Zus Bielski during World War II. The three brothers, living in the Soviet Republic of Belorussia, built an elaborate village for rescued Jews. The forest haven included a bakery, communal bath, synagogue, and even a theater company. Although they mounted guerrilla attacks against the enemy, their priority was saving their people, eventually rescuing 1,200 men, women and children.
93) The pianist
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio).
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (47 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Born in Zakroczym, Poland in 1927, Holocaust Survivor Joe Engel was taken by the Nazis at 14 and never saw his parents again. Now 90 years old, Joe is the embodiment of living history and spends his retirement years ensuring the Holocaust is never forgotten. With the assistance of The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's film and photographic archives, filmmaker Ron Small has successfully weaved Joe Engel's incredible storytelling into a riveting...
95) Uncut gems
Series
Criterion collection volume 1101
Language
English
Formats
Description
This jolt of pure cinematic adrenaline affirmed directors Josh and Benny Safdie as heirs to the gritty, heightened realism of Martin Scorsese and John Cassavetes. Adam Sandler delivers an almost maniacally embodied performance as Howard Ratner, a fast-talking New York jeweler in relentless pursuit of the next big score. When he comes into possession of a rare opal, it seems Howard's ship has finally come in as long as he can stay one step ahead of...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called 'the most powerful movie musical ever made.' Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, it captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim puts us in the director's chair and Jewison's...
97) Keep quiet
Language
English
Formats
Description
As vice-president of Hungary's far-right extremist party, Csanad Szegedi espoused anti-Semitic rhetoric and Holocaust denials, and founded the Hungarian Guard, a now-banned militia inspired by a pro-Nazi group complicit in the murder of thousands of Jews during WWII. But his life was soon upended when Szegedi's maternal grandparents were revealed to be Jewish and his beloved grandmother an Auschwitz survivor who had hidden her faith, fearing further...
98) Golden voices
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Raya and Victor built a shared career as the Soviet Union's most beloved film dubbers, translating the work of Federico Fellini and Stanley Kubrick into Russian over the decades. Upon the collapse of the USSR in 1990, the Jewish couple must immigrate to Israel and reinvent their talents to find employment. As they strive to acclimate to their adopted home, opportunities for first-rate vocal performances are few and far between. Raya answers a help...
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