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SHOAH

Twelve years in the making, SHOAH is Lanzmann’s monumental epic on the Holocaust and features interviews with survivors, bystanders and perpetrators in 14 countries

Director: Claude Lanzmann

Language: English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 274+293 min.

Year of production: 1985

European History Genocide History Holocaust Human Rights Jewish Studies War

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Imaginary Witness

Through film excerpts of Hollywood's most important Holocaust movies this documentary tells the story of the American film industry's complex and contradictory responses to the horrors of Nazi Germany.

Director: Daniel Anker

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 92 min.

Year of production: 2004

Arts and Culture Cinema Holocaust Jewish Studies Media War

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RUTH – Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words

The improbable story of how Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who couldn’t get a job after graduating at the top of her law class, became a revered Justice of the Supreme Court and icon for gender equality and human rights

Director: Freida Lee Mock

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 89 min.

Year of production: 2021

Activism American History Arts and Culture Creative Current Affairs Diversity Education Family Gender History Human Rights Humor Jewish Studies Law and Justice Military Personal Story Politics Senior Citizenship Social Justice Women Youth

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Marry Me However

The film explores the lives Orthodox-Jewish LGBT members who willingly choose to marry heterosexuals and raise a heteronormative family, obeying the rules of their societies while denying their own identities

Director: Mordechai Vardi

Language: Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 63 min.

Year of production: 2020

Anthropology Family Gender Human Rights LGBTQIA+ Religion and Spirituality

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Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely

How did we come to this moment, where free speech issues have never felt more complicated and urgent, and where the nation is wondering a new: what price are we willing to pay for free speech?

Director: Yael Melamede

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 83 min.

Year of production: 2023

Activism American History Biography Education Human Rights Jewish Studies Law and Justice Politics

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Housewitz

In HOUSEWITZ, daughter and filmmaker Oeke Hoogendijk tries to find out the reason behind her mother’s categorically refusal to leave her house.

Director: Oeke Hoogendijk

Language: Dutch (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 71 min.

Year of production: 2021

Disability European History Family History Holocaust Personal Story Senior Citizenship War Women

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The Lost Key / La Llave Perdida

The Lost Key, an award-winning film featured on Netflix, reveals lost teachings to turn a sexual relationship into a healthy, spiritual experience where two people become One.

Director: Ricardo Adler

Language: English, Hebrew, Spanish (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 89 min.

Year of production: 2016

Addiction Author's POV Current Affairs Family Gender Jewish Studies Personal Story Religion and Spirituality Romance Sexuality Society Women

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The Partisan with the Leica Camera

A frightened look of a woman, from a rare self-portrait of a couple, leads the director to a shocking family story.

Director: Ruth Walk

Language: English, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 55 min.

Year of production: 2022

European History Family History Personal Story Photography

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Slowly Here Below. Four Monologues

How can life go on after the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald? Four Holocaust survivors talk about their lives afterwards.

Director: Siegfried Ressel | Hannes Richter

Language: English, French, German, Russian (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 122 min.

Year of production: 2021

Activism European History Genocide Holocaust Human Rights Jewish Studies Personal Story Senior Citizenship War

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Kinderland

The tale of a century-old rivalry between two progressive Jewish summer camps and their attempt at a newfound alliance, inspiring unity within today’s divided world.

Director: Amy Grappell

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 32 min.

Year of production: 2021

Activism American History Children Current Affairs Diversity Education Human Rights Jewish Studies Labor Politics Social Justice Society Youth

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Muranow

When the living disregard those buried below, their ghosts wage war against this indifference.

Director: Chen Shelach

Language: Hebrew, Polish (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 69 min.

Year of production: 2020

History Holocaust Jewish Studies

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Leaving Paradise

Discovery of their Jewish roots threatens the communal life of the family in Brazil.

Director: Ofer Freiman

Language: Hebrew, Portuguese, Spanish (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 86 min.

Year of production: 2020

Anthropology Immigration and Migration Jewish Studies Religion and Spirituality

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Yerusalem: The Incredible Story of Ethiopian Jewry

"Yerusalem" is a personal stories of people who took part in these events, and through them, bring to the screen an up to date view along with its hardships and hopes

Director: Levi Zini

Language: Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 92 min.

Year of production: 2021

Ethnography History Immigration and Migration Jewish Studies

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Covered Up

A personal journey by Rachel, an ultra-Orthodox director, through marriage, divorce, matchmaking, and head covering, records the world of ultra-Orthodox women and gives voice to their inner world for the first time

Director: Rachel Elitzur

Language: Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 53 min.

Year of production: 2018

Author's POV Family Jewish Studies Personal Story Religion and Spirituality Women

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Slaves of the Sword: Yitzhak Rabin

Rabin, the quintessential Israeli fighter, what drove him to turn diplomacy, to politics to the post of Prime Minister? Until Israeli militarism nurtured, among others, by Rabin, turned against him: he was assassinated by a Jewish fanatic

Director: Paul Jenkins

Language: Arabic, English, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 61 min.

Year of production: 2003

Biography Conflicts History Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Jewish Studies Middle Eastern Studies Military Politics War

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Slaves of the Sword: Moshe Dayan

“Rocking the boat is his favorite tactic, to sway it sufficiently for the helmsman to lose his grip” Moshe Dayan an enigma- a warrior, a farmer, a man of the world? A non conformist who defied norms and conventions

Director: Paul Jenkins

Language: Arabic, English, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 57 min.

Year of production: 2003

Biography Conflicts History Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Jewish Studies Middle Eastern Studies Military Politics

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The Age of the Generals: Begin

I hope to be remembered as someone who prevented civil war- this is more important than having been the supreme commander of the underground movement, prime minister or the peace treaty with Egypt. Begin in his own words

Director: Itay Ken Tor

Language: Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 59 min.

Year of production: 2003

Biography Conflicts History Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Jewish Studies Middle Eastern Studies Military

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Slaves of the Sword: Ariel Sharon

Sharon incorporated reliance on naked, brutal power when dealing with the Palestinians. Deviant in his tactics, he has changed the map of Israel almost to the point of no return. Until he too became a victim of his own manipulations

Director: Paul Jenkins

Language: English, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 57 min.

Year of production: 2003

Biography Conflicts History Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Jewish Studies Middle Eastern Studies Military Politics

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The Inner Tour

The Inner Tour is a sightseeing tour of the State of Israel of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank. Tourists in their homeland. The windows of the bus serve as a two-way mirror at the Palestinian tourists, at Israeli society

Director: Ra’anan Alexandrowicz

Language: Arabic, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 98 min.

Year of production: 2001

Conflicts History Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Jewish Studies Middle Eastern Studies

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Slaves of the Sword: Golda

The ultimate Jewish Mother, Golda Meir, turned out to be the Israeli Iron Lady, neither more civilian nor more feminine in her decisions than her male counterparts. She continued the power politics of Israeli leaders and personified Israel’s unyielding stand

Director: Ruth Walk

Language: English, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 55 min.

Year of production: 2003

Biography Conflicts History Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Jewish Studies Middle Eastern Studies Women

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Rabin – Shivah in November

Itzhak Rabin was assassinated in the middle of his groundbreaking peace initiative, by a political opponent. This is an authentic documentation of the immediate reactions of grief in Israel, before grasping that the course of history was forever changed

Director: Noemi Schory

Language: English, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 62 min.

Year of production: 1995

Conflicts Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Jewish Studies Middle Eastern Studies Politics

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The First Sea

A touching story from the midst of the Israel-Palestine conflict

Director: Clara Trischler

Language: Arabic, French, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 60 min.

Year of production: 2013

Activism Children Conflicts Current Affairs Education Ethnography Human Rights Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Jewish Studies Middle Eastern Studies Personal Story Politics Poverty Society War Youth

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