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  • After Munich

    Movie

    Whether you witnessed it live, learnt about it or never even heard of the Munich Massacre at all - this event changed your life. September 5th 1972, the tenth day of the Munich Olympics, the Palestinian terrorist group Black September stormed the Israeli athletes' quarters. The world watched live...

  • Culinary Judaics Academy

    1 season

    Culinary Judaics Academy is an empowering and meaningful program for ALL in the Jewish world - no matter your age, affiliation or practice - which uses cooking as a vehicle to teach about Jewish values, holidays, Torah, Israel and more! Cook and learn together with the enthusiastic father-daughte...

  • Polonsky

    Movie

    The film portrays the renowned illustrator David Polonsky, during his work on a new children’s book. Along with his masterpieces: “Waltz with Bashir” (Winner of the Golden Globe) “The Congress” (Winner of the European Film Awards) and “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation” (published all ov...

  • That Orchestra with the Broken Instruments

    Movie

    A broken string, fractured echo chamber, rusting valves. One brilliant conductor, three gifted composers, and 100 musicians meet for four days of rehearsals. They speak different languages. Their instruments are broken. An orchestra of professional and amateur musicians, young and old, prepare, a...

  • Family in Transition

    Movie

    The story of a family in Nahariya, a small traditional town in Israel, whose lives change completely after their father finally decides to tell his family that he's a transgender woman. Their mother chooses to stay with her spouse through the whole process, but just as it seems that life is back ...

  • Solomon Simon: Yiddish Writer and Pedagogue | Yiddish Book Center

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    The Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project presents a portrait of prolific writer and Jewish thinker Solomon Simon, through the lens of oral history.

    The prolific Yiddish writer Solomon Simon was born Shlomo Simonovich in a shtetl in what is now Belarus. At 13, he went to his first o...

  • The Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project

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    ChaiFlicks is proud to partner with the Yiddish Book Center to present a variety of documentary films from the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project, including shorts featuring famed actor and director Leonard Nimoy (“Star Trek”).

    The Yiddish Book Center recovers, preserves, teaches,...

  • Who Will Remain?

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    The Yiddish Book Center presents "Who Will Remain?", a new feature documentary produced by The Wexler Oral History Project! | Attempting to better understand her grandfather Avrom Sutzkever, Israeli actress Hadas Kalderon travels to Lithuania, using her grandfather’s diary to trace his early life...

  • Homeboys

    Movie

    Samuel and Isaac are South Sudanese teenage refugees who grew up in Israel but were deported. They now live in Uganda, and dream of making their musical talent known to the world. Amir, an Israeli musician, arrives to help them produce their music and put on an unforgettable show, within their co...

  • The Green Prince

    Movie

    Set against the chaotic backdrop of recent events in the Middle East, Nadav Schirman’s THE GREEN PRINCE retraces the details of a highly unprecedented partnership that developed between sworn enemies. In the style of a tense psychological thriller, this extraordinary documentary recounts the true...

  • Our Natural Right
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    Our Natural Right

    Movie + 1 extra

    Over seven decades ago, the members of the People's Council sat down to draft the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel. Every word and comma led to hours of debate. The declaration was signed, the State established, but the debate still rages. The grandchildren of the signers of the...

  • Reckonings

    Movie

    In the aftermath of the Holocaust, German and Jewish leaders met in secret to negotiate the unthinkable – compensation for the survivors of the largest mass genocide in history. Survivors were in urgent need of help, but how could reparations be determined for the unprecedented destruction and s...

  • On Moral Grounds

    Movie

    A ChaiFlicks Exclusive Premiere! | In a relentless pursuit of justice, lawyer Lisa Stern unearths a haunting truth: Holocaust victims, denied even in death, were systematically betrayed by unpaid life insurance claims, while major European Insurance companies were complicit with Hitler and the Na...

  • Game Changers

    Movie

    How did a football match between enemies become a turning point in history? Twenty-five years after the Holocaust, Israel national team and German Borussia Munchegladbach met in a match whose importance marked the beginning of the normalization between Israel and Germany. Through interviews with ...

  • Minkowski Saga

    Movie

    The rise of Nazi Germany destroyed the Minkowski family; philanthropists and members of Warsaw's elite society before the war. A work opportunity brings French opera conductor Marc Minkowski to the former home of his great-grandparents where he enlists the aid of Polish historians and descendants...

  • The Hangman

    Movie

    Notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel's first and only execution. Shalom Nagar, a religious Jewish ritual slaughterer and street philosopher who believes in charity, was chosen to be the hangman. This film reveals a complex portrait of a character who repeatedly finds hi...

  • Photographer

    Movie

    In 1987, in a Viennese antique shop, hundreds of color slides from World War II were found. It turned out they had been made in the Lodz Ghetto by the Ghetto's chief accountant Genewein. The colorful world in the slides is set against vivid recollections of Arnold Mostowicz - a man who was a Jewi...

  • Imber's Left Hand

    Movie

    This inspiring documentary chronicles the life and career of renowned painter Jon Imber, who faced great adversity after being diagnosed with ALS. Director Richard Kane follows Imber as he remains determined to continue his work as an artist, despite his condition. Knowing what his fate holds, J...

  • 24 Hours Jerusalem

    1 season

    Shot simultaneously by 70 crews, this is a portrait of one day in the life of the world's most famous city full of contradictions, a multi-level unique experience. Behind the harsh politics of our days lie personal daily routines familiar to all. Following protagonists from all religions and back...

  • The Levys of Monticello

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    When Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, he left behind a mountain of personal debt, which forced his heirs to sell his beloved Monticello home and all of its possessions. THE LEVYS OF MONTICELLO reveals the little-known story of the Levy family, which owned and carefully preserved Monticello for near...

  • Pollard
    1 season

    Pollard

    1 season

    Watch the Complete Series Exclusively on ChaiFlicks! | POLLARD is a documentary series about the Jonathan Pollard spying scandal that is still seen as the most significant trauma in Israel-United States relations, which since the 1960s have been characterized by strategic, close and warm relation...

  • The Times of Israel presents: Times of War

    1 season

    ChaiFlicks is proud to partner with The Times of Israel to present their new original documentary series TIMES OF WAR, which takes a deeper look at how Israelis are responding to the events of October 7, 2023 and the ensuing Israel-Hamas war.

    A Times of Israel Original Documentary Series
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  • Birth of a Conflict

    1 season

    Take an unprecedented dive into the genesis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the groundbreaking three-part documentary series BIRTH OF A CONFLICT, streaming now on ChaiFlicks.

    The series reveals a perspective that has been repeatedly overlooked—the British Imperialist point of view and th...

  • Shadow in Baghdad

    Movie

    A thrilling cinematic journey from Israel to Baghdad in search of a missing father and a lost community. A young journalist from Baghdad sets out to write about Linda Abdul Aziz, who escaped from Iraq to Israel in the early 1970's, and about her father, who was kidnapped and disappeared and his f...