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ADAM RESURRECTED
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In Paul Schrader's survivor story, Jeff Goldblum is Adam Stein, a Jewish comedian who endures through the horrors of the Holocaust by entertaining a Nazi officer (Willem Dafoe). Flash-forward to the early 1960s, a still-tormented Adam is living in a mental hospital in the Israeli desert, where a doctor (Derek Jacobi) and nurse (Ayelet Zurer) are trying to penetrate his bipolar facade. "Akin to Fellini's 8 1/2...one cannot recommend this film strongly enough" (The Village Voice).
Paul Schrader---Germany/USA/Israel---2008---106 mins.
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AMERICA AND THE HOLOCAUST
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Could the U.S. have done more to save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust? This documentary raises the questions of anti-Semitism, government inaction, suppressed information and blocked action that paints a troubling picture of the United States during the late 1930's. USA, 90 mins.
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ANNE FRANK (2001)
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Based on Melissa Muller's acclaimed book, Anne Frank: A Biography, this television feature puts a personal light on the tragically short life of the girl whose diary became one of the most intimate documents of the Holocaust. Hannah Taylor Gordon is Anne, with Ben Kinglsey as Otto Frank, Lili Taylor as Miep Gies, and Brenda Blethyn as Auguste Van Pels. Robert Dornhelm---USA---2001---189 mins.
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ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED
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Family members, childhood friends and the people who hid the Franks bring to life the girl behind the diary. Academy Award winner for Best Documentary of 1995, narrated by Kenneth Branagh with selections from Anne's diary read by Glenn Close. In German, Dutch and English with English subtitles. Jon Blair---Great Britain/USA---1995---117 mins.
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AS SEEN THROUGH THESE EYES
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Maya Angelou narrates this heavy documentary about young artists imprisoned at concentration camps during the Holocaust. By any means necessary, they created works and smuggled their creations to the outside world, where to this day the paintings act as evocative primary documents of the ghoulish events they witnessed.
Hilary Helstein---USA---2008---74 mins.
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BIELSKI BROTHERS (HISTORY CHAN
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During WWII, three Russian brothers from Belorussia fled to the woods in order to escape the Nazis. There, they established a camp complex for rescued Jews. Though they mounted guerilla attacks against the Nazis, their main goal was saving some 1,200 men, women, and children. Nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research, Jerusalem in the Woods tells the true story of these unsung heroes, who were later the subject of the major motion picture Defiance. Originally aired on
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CHOOSING ONE'S WAY: RESISTANCE
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Crematorium ? was destroyed by inmates who succeeded in smuggling gun powder past Nazi guards. This act of heroism uses archival footage to tell a story nearly forgotten. Ellyn Burstyn narrates. Winner of the Hugo, 1994 Chicago Film Festival. 30 mins.
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CONVOYS OF SHAME, THE
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When France was overrun by Germany in World War II, the armistice they signed and the subsequent occupation spared many Frenchmen from death in combat and allowed Hitler to focus on toppling Great Britain. However, the treaty demanded some dark concessions on the part of the new French government. This documentary looks at Vichy France's collaboration with the Third Reich in transporting Jews and other "undesirables" to concentration camps. In French with English subtitles.
Raphael Delpard---France---2010---104 mins.
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DIAMONDS IN THE SNOW
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Thousands of Jewish children lived in the Polish city of Bendzin before the Nazi Holocaust. Barely a dozen survived the community's destruction. Through interviews and rare archival film and photos, this remarkable documentary tells the story of three of these children, one of them the filmmaker. These women recount their memories of a childhood spent hiding from the Nazis and reflect on the courage of those individuals and families who helped three little girls survive. The film thus not only documents a tragic historical period but also examines the complexity of human nature, undermining stereotypes about the behavior of Jews, Poles, and even some Germans during Mira Reym Binford---USA---1994---59 mins.
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DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, THE (BBC)
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In this five-part BBC adaptation of Anne Frank's diary, Ellie Kendrick delivers a bold, nuanced performance as the teenage Jewish girl hiding with her family from the Nazis in occupied Amsterdam. "As well as being a true heroine, she is also tart and willful and naughty; this is a thoroughly unsentimental rendering of the story, and all the more powerful for it" (The Independent). Featuring Kate Ashfield and Iain Glen.
Jon Jones---Great Britain---2009---150 mins.
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DOUBLE CROSSING: VOYAGE OF ST.
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A film about the May 1939 voyage from Hamburg to Havana of some 900 Jewish refugees, that was aborted when Cuban authorities reneged on their promise and refused them admittance. The documentary includes archival footage and contemporary interviews with survivors of the journey. 29 mins.
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DOUBLE HEADED EAGLE
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Through the use of newsreel footage and feature film clips, this daring documentary presents an unnerving view of the rise of the Nazi party from the perspective of a neutral bystander. The movie footage dates from 1918 to 1933, showing the gradual but steady growth of the Nazis from a handful of extremists to a governing power, and the rise of Hitler from political enthusiast to leader of one of the most destructive forces the world has ever seen. A powerful encapsulation of how the unthinkable came to be. Lutz Becker---Great Britain---1973---86 mins.
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DRANCY AVENIR
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Comprising three narratives, Arnaud des Pallieres' profound film meditates on the lingering impact of the Holocaust on France. The first tale concerns the last survivor, who laments not leaving behind an account of the horrors he witnessed. In the second, a young historian researching the deportation camp in Drancy, France, discovers the site is now occupied by a deplorable housing project called La Muette ("The Silent"). In the final chapter, a ship's captain recounts a journey up an uncharted river towards a little-known civilization. "After Resnais' Nuit et Brouillard and Lanzmann's Shoah, Drancy Avenir can be defined as the film of the third generation..." (Le Monde). In French with English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Hungarian or Hebrew subtitles. Arnaud des Pallieres---France---1996---84 mins.
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EIGHTY-FIRST BLOW
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An historical document made up of footage and stills shot by the Nazis. A compilation of testimony from witnesses who appeared at the Eichmann trial provides a telling narrative. The film's title refers to the story of a Jewish boy in one of the ghettoes who was struck with 80 blows. He survived and immigrated to Israel, where he found that no one believed his story--which for him was the 81st blow. Academy Award nominee. Jacquot Ehrlich/David Bergman/Haim Gouri---Israel---1974---115 mins.
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ELIE WIESEL GOES HOME
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This powerful documentary follows Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel as he returns to his homeland 50 years after being imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps. Wiesel's journey also includes emotional visits to Auschwitz and Birkenau. This is a most intimate portrait of the author and activist who continues to speak out against oppression the world over. Narrated by William Judit Elek---Hungary/France---1996---108 mins.
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EXODUS 1947
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An examination of the history and impact of the Exodus 1947, the most infamous of the Aliyah Bet ships that tried to run the British blockade of Palestine. In the summer of 1947,the aging steamer ship, crewed by former Jewish-American GIs, attempted to transport Holocaust survivors from France to Palestine. After a bloody battle on the high seas with the British, these immigrants were sent back to displaced persons camps in occupied Germany. This aborted voyage would help galvanize support for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. A "splendid, carefully researched and assembled documentary" (Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times). Narrated by Morley Safer. Elizabeth Rodgers/Robby Henson---USA---1996---60 mins.
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FATE DID NOT LET ME GO
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The story behind a mother's farewell letter to her young son, written days before she died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust, is chronicled in this moving documentary. A heartbreakingly honest expression of a true love that transcends life and death, the letter was lost for nearly 50 years, but finally reached the son in 1985. A family secret until the son's death, the letter was finally read aloud at his funeral, revealing its universal significance. Narrated by Liv Ullmann. With Martin Sheen. Dominik Sedlar/Jakov Sedlar---USA---2002---30 mins.
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FATELESS
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Legendary cinematographer Lajos Koltai (Mephisto) makes his directorial debut with this near-universally acclaimed account of a 14-year-old Jewish boy from Budapest who is swept into the horror and turmoil of WWII. After his father is taken to a concentration camp, Gyurka (Marcell Nagy) is instructed to look after his stepmother. No sooner does he get his bearings than the boy is sent to Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Zeitz, where he's exposed to the surreal horrors of the Final Solution. Visually dazzling, Koltai's film is also lifted by Imre Kertesz's powerful screenplay and Ennio Morricone's haunting score. "Ranks among the best nondocumentary cinematic treatments of the Holocaust yet produced" (A.O. Scott, The New York Times). In Hungarian with English Lajos Koltai---Germany/Hungary/Great Britain---2005---136 mins.
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FIGHTER (AMIR BAR-LEV)
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Two remarkable men take an unforgettable, combative journey back to the darkest years of their pasts in this fantastic documentary. The film revisits the dramatic, life-and-death story of Jan Wiener, whose fighting spirit helped him survive the ghettos of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and fascist Italy before he joined up with England's Royal Air Force. Later he was imprisoned for five years by the Communists in his home country. At 77, Wiener takes to the road with another Holocaust survivor, acclaimed Czech writer Arnost Lustig. While both men lost most of their families during the war, their outlooks and temperaments are drastically different and their interactions become especially hostile when Lustig's brief membership in the Communist Party is raised. "Fighter addresses the war and its oft-toxic reverberations with refreshing impudence and candor" (Scott Tobias, Onion Amir Bar-Lev---USA---2001---91 mins.
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FILM UNFINISHED, A
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Filmmaker Yael Hersonski, the granddaughter of a Warsaw Ghetto survivor, has not only reassembled, but has annotated Das Ghetto, a Nazi propaganda film disguised as a documentary about how the rich Jews of Warsaw were responsible for the poor, sick, and dying in the streets. "Moving, mysterious and intellectually provocative" (NY Times).
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