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...

At a post-concert reception, a young jazz musician tries to survive aggressive grannies and other terrifying beasts.

Directed by Aaron Weinstein
United States, 2017
Comedy, Shorts, Animation, Fantasy, Jewish Culture
English
5 minutes

BERLIN CALLING follows the daughter of a Holocaust survivor (Kastle Waserman) on a journey of discovery, as she opens the paperwork the Nazis kept on her family, and hears her father's firsthand account of being a child under Hitler's oppression. In her research, Kastle also makes a surprising di...

AND NOW, LOVE is the story of 96 year-year-old Dr. Bernard W. Bail, a highly decorated Jewish World War II hero who was shot down over Nazi Germany. Imprisoned in a German Hospital, he began a clandestine affair with his nurse, Irmgard, who introduced him to a spiritual love unlike he had ever ex...

In a documentary exploring the life and career of Julius Shulman - widely regarded by experts as the greatest architectural photographer - director Eric Bricker reveals the man who was influential in bringing to light the architectural modernist movement. Shulman's work plays a significant role i...

An intimate portrait of Holocaust survivor Helena Weinrauch, who movingly tells her story of resiliency and courage in the face of Nazi brutality. Despite the many horrors she endured, she never loses her joie de vivre or her desire to forgive those who brutalized her in the past. ​

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Maurice Sendak, the award-winning author of “Where The Wild Things Are” reflects on his creative life, success, and frustrations, including interviews with his celebrity friends.

Directed by Lance Bangs and Spike Jonze
United States, 2009
Documentary, Literature, Kids,, LGBT Stories, Jewish Cult...

A poignant, thought-provoking account of friendship and the toll of inherited guilt, WHAT OUR FATHERS DID explores the relationship between two men, each of whom are the children of very high-ranking Nazi officials and possess starkly contrasting attitudes toward their fathers. Eminent human righ...

Smitten with a Jewish woman (Jennifer Love Hewitt), a gentile (Ivan Sergei) asks his Jewish pal (Joel David Moore) to advise him on how to act like a member of the community.

"Entertaining? Yes. Funny? Oh my God, yes! One of the funniest films of the year!" - Debbie Lynn Elias, Behind the Lens

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When Trinidadian-born filmmaker Su Goldfish discovers her father is a German Jew who fled the terrors of Kristallnacht to the only place that would let him in without a visa, she wonders what happened to the rest of the Goldfish family. Is she really the last one? Told through a personal archive ...

Award-winning film director Philippe Mora and music legend Eric Clapton have joined forces to co-produce a very personal film - Three Days in Auschwitz - which details life and death in the Auschwitz concentration camp. As a Jew, born in 1949, Philippe Mora is a second-generation holocaust surviv...

IN SEARCH OF MEMORY is a compelling blend of autobiography and history that recounts the life of one of the most important neuroscientists of the 20th century and illuminates scientific developments in our understanding of the brain's role in recording and preserving memory. In addition to archiv...

Cameras chronicle the experiences of three young men from Kosovo who arrived in the U.S. in May 1999. The men attempt to assimilate into American society; and later return to the former Yugoslavia to learn the fates of their family.

Directed by Curt Fissel
United States, 2003
English, Albanian (...

Based on a true story, Extra Innings is a beautiful, powerful family drama that will have you laughing one minute and crying the next! Set against the enchanting backdrop of 1960's Brooklyn, Extra Innings tells the story of David Sabah who is caught between pursing his dream of playing baseball a...

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 ...

WHEN MEMORY COMES: A FILM ABOUT SAUL FRIEDLANDER is a visually arresting documentary that interweaves leading Holocaust historian Saul Friedlander's personal story of survival with an introduction to his work and thought. This wide-ranging film looks at Friedlander's views on subjects ranging fro...

More than 40 years ago, the phone rang in Anny Stern's New York City home. It was a man she didn't know, calling to giver her a notebook. Covered in brown paper, its pages hand-sewn together, this was no ordinary notebook. It was one in which her mother, Mina, had hand-written recipes while inter...

Seeking safety and asylum, some 60,000 Africans have fled to Israel over the past decade. The country, founded as a haven for persecuted Jews in the aftermath of the Holocaust, has no policy, infrastructure or political will to handle this wave of migrants. 'African Exodus,' a documentary film by...

Though Nev is happily situated with his family in Los Angeles, he has yet to reveal his secret to his old school Jewish parents who are coming over to visit their new grandson for the first time.

A Film by Yaniv Rokah
United States, 2020
Drama, Comedy, Jewish Culture
English
15 minutes

YELLOW STARS OF TOLERANCE documents a project to preserve yellow stars that were painted during the Holocaust in World War II on a synagogue exterior wall in Normandy, France to terrorize the local Jewish community. The intent of the recent preservation project is to serve as a testament to that ...

'Flory's Flame' weaves the life story of 90-year old Sephardic US National Heritage Fellow musician Flory Jagoda with her 2013 Celebration Concert at the US Library of Congress. Raised in a musical household in Bosnia, Flory’s family roots go back centuries to pre-Inquisition Spain. With most of ...