A 2022 Emmy winner for Best Historical Documentary, this is the true story of the Neiger family's miraculous escape from certain death by the Nazis during World War II. A story of endurance, unity and hope.

Directed by John Rokosny
United States, 2021
Documentary
English
73 minutes

This short symphonic documentary offers a glimpse into the unique religious co-existence found along No. 5 Road in Richmond, British Columbia. Highway to Heaven takes audiences into many of the temples, mosques, and churches that call No. 5 home, revealing unity despite difference across these di...

From the Emmy Award-winning director of "Unorthodox"! Ya'ara has everything: She is pretty, happily married and has excellent prospects for a university career. Yet when she meets the much older Arie, a friend of her father, her perfect world falls apart. She succumbs to his fascinating, erotic a...

Exclusively on ChaiFlicks! | YidLife Crisis presents CHEWDAISM: A Taste of Jewish Montreal; a funny, heimish and enlightening historical and cultural tour of Jewish Montreal centered around its legendary foods. YidLife Crisis' Jamie Elman and Eli Batalion gorge themselves in choice eateries as th...

Two sisters living in Paris during the late 1930s possess the supernatural ability to connect with ghosts. After a world tour performing séances for socialites, they meet a visionary French producer who hires them to shoot an ambitious experimental film. What they perceive as a perfect opportunit...

The little-known story of Jews who fled the pogroms and hardships of Eastern Europe and traveled to California to become chicken ranchers. Even in the sweatshops of New York they heard about Petaluma where the Jews were not the shopkeepers and the professionals, they were the farmers.

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This “ambitious and provocative” documentary is about the relationship between Eric Trules - a prize-winning poet and performer - and his uncle, Harvey Rosenberg - an underworld enforcer and career criminal. It’s a story about crime, family, morality, and redemption, as told by two very articulat...

This animated short from Sheldon Cohen (The Sweater) tells the true story of a "nice Jewish boy with Buddhist inclinations" who suffers a heart attack. At the crossroads of documentary and animation, the film combines wry humour and philosophical musings to show that, sometimes, what feels like t...

Haunted from the beginning to the very end, Still Alive (Noch Am Leben) is the story of a woman’s recollection of her mad Holocaust survivor great aunt. Through the ghetto to cradling her dying sister, Eva Nagler left her mind on the beaches of the Baltic Sea during one of the largest death march...

A "Whodunit" documentary thriller; Once a Nazi is Adalbert Lallier's tragic story, a man haunted by his connection to the most infamous group of mass murderers of the twentieth century - the notorious Waffen SS.

Today Lallier wrestles with the demons in his soul; a passive participant still tryi...

Produced in 1965, this intimate portrait of the legendary Leonard Cohen captures his life as an acclaimed poet and novelist before he launched his career as a singer-songwriter in 1967. Follow Cohen through his hometown of Montreal as he performs his poetry for rapt audiences, makes television ap...

While it is widely known that the Germans built seven death camps and many concentration camps and ghettos within Poland as part of their plan to annihilate the Jewish people during World War II, few are aware that the country is also lined with mass burial grounds of tens of thousands of Jewish ...

As Maya Angelou narrates this powerful documentary, she reveals the story of a brave group of people who fought Hitler with the only weapons they had: charcoal, pencil stubs, shreds of paper and memories etched in their minds. These artists took their fate into their own hands to make a compellin...

Moshe Rynecki (1881-1943) was a prolific Warsaw-based artist who painted scenes of the Polish-Jewish community until he was murdered at Majdanek concentration camp. For more than a decade his great-granddaughter Elizabeth searched for his missing art, with remarkable and unexpected success. Spann...

A stirring story of sports, patriotism and personal growth, Heading Home charts the underdog journey of Israel's national baseball team competing for the first time in the World Baseball Classic. After years of defeat, Team Israel is finally ranked among the world's best in 2017, eligible to comp...

Meet Scott Gerber, an unlikely mix of Yiddish and cowboy cultures. A descendant of the left wing Petaluma chicken ranchers, Scott learned Yiddish and progressive songs from his mother and grandmother, and carries on their traditions while proudly working in agriculture today. He rides the range a...

The stunning accomplishments of the Jews raise a question no film has dared ask before. How do they do it? Some of the world’s most prominent thinkers (including Nobel Prize laureate Shimon Peres, chess genius Judit Polgar, radical thinker Noam Chomsky, sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer and star ...

The story of one American-Jewish family’s obsession with gefilte fish and the ritual of making it – in huge quantities – every Passover. As the Hermelins all agree, like Proust’s madeleine, the beloved dish is so much more than just food: it’s also memories, tradition and what binds them together...

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Discover the remarkable story of Bert Trautmann (David Kross, "The Reader"), a German soldier and prisoner of war who, against a backdrop of British post-war protest and prejudice, secures the position of Goalk...

The Archive tells the incredible story of David Drucker, a lawyer in 1940s America. Employed by the Soviet Union and communist China to broker trade deals with the west, his work quickly brought him to the attention of J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Always traveling with...