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Bride Flight
Movie
Co-Starring Rutger Hauer! | This lavish romantic drama charts the lives of three women who escape the gloom of post-WWII Holland for what they hope will be a better life in New Zealand. Ada, the shy but sensual farm girl, Marjorie, who dreams of a big family, and Esther, a Holocaust survivor who ...
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Minkowski Saga
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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...
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Photographer
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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...
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Frau Stern
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90-year-old Frau Stern is in remarkable shape for a woman her age. Her physical health is excellent, her daughter and granddaughter are doting on her, her hairdresser supplies her with recreational drugs and she is surrounded by friends who are still in their 20s. But the Holocaust survivor from ...
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The Hitler Chronicles
1 season
Watch the complete series now! | As never seen before, and more topical today than any other Hitler biography, THE HITLER CHRONICLES depict everyday European life between 1889 and 1945 in impressive images, many of them in color. Based on the most extensive compilation of archive material to date...
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Free Men
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This Cannes Film Festival favorite tells the story of an Algerian black marketeer (played by Tahar Rahim, breakout star of Academy Award-nominated film A PROPHET ) in Nazi-occupied France is arrested and agrees to spy on a local mosque, but he joins the Resistance after finding his loyalties torn...
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Aliyah
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Parisian drug dealer Alex finds hope for a new start when his cousin offers him a job in Israel. Now he must make the final score, while balancing a new romance with Jeanne (Adèle Haenel, "Portrait of a Lady on Fire") a past lover, a lifelong friendship and the addiction of his brother (actor/fil...
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Those Who Remained
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Having survived the camps, 42-year old Aldo lives a solitary life as a doctor in Budapest. 16-year old Klara lives reluctantly with her great-aunt, holding on to hope that her father and mother will return. She meets Aldo, and soon the two of them find something in each other that has long been a...
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Winter Journey
Movie + 1 extra
Watch Now Exclusively on ChaiFlicks! | American radio host Martin Goldsmith never knew what happened to his parents before they escaped from Germany in 1941. Both were talented musicians, but after the Nuremberg Laws were enacted in 1935 they were only able to perform as members of the Jewish Cul...
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Line 41
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During the Holocaust, there was no other city in Europe where Germans, Poles and Jews lived so closely together and yet worlds apart as Lodz. Several times a day for four years, the Line 41 streetcar passed through the Lodz Ghetto, but would never stop, making the suffering of the Jewish people a...
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Back to the Fatherland
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Gil is the grand-daughter of Holocaust survivors, Kat the granddaughter of a Nazi officer. Through them we meet other young men and women whose grandparents were murdered or prosecuted during WWII. Many have decided to move back to Germany...but why? This revealing film explores the challenges an...
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The Jewish Cardinal
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The Jewish Cardinal tells the amazing true story of Jean-Marie Lustiger, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who maintained his cultural identity as a Jew even after converting to Catholicism at a young age, and later joining the priesthood. Quickly rising within the ranks of the Church, Lustige...
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The Secret
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THE SECRET is the fascinating story of Polish citizens who learn, often after living a lifetime as Christians in a Communist nation, that they are indeed of Jewish origin. Trapped between the familiar Polish world and an alien Jewish world, these “new Jews” often find themselves adrift in a count...
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The Human Resources Manager
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Winner of Five Israeli Academy Awards including Best Picture! | The Human Resources Manager of Jerusalem's largest bakery is in trouble. When one of his employees, a foreign worker, is killed in a suicide bombing, the bakery is accused of indifference, and the HR Manager is sent to the victim's h...
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The Dancing Dogs of Dombrova
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On a cold winter night, estranged siblings Sarah and Aaron Cotler arrive at an empty train station in Dombrova, Poland. With their only available ride being a silent Driver, they embark on a quest to fulfill their dying grandmother’s wish – find, dig up, and bring home the bones of her favourite ...
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Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald
Movie
On April 11, 1945 Buchenwald was liberated. Nearly 1000 boys survived. On April 11, 2010, 65 years later, several of the surviving boys from block 66 returned to Weimar and to Buchenwald. This is their story.
“This amazingly impressive film gives a really different take on a Holocaust movie.” -...
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The Missing Granddaughter
Movie
During World War II, Eva lost her daughter and her baby granddaughter, Sarah, along with the rest of her family during a raid After the war, Eva worked to rebuild her life, becoming a Jewish literature teacher at a high school in Bordeaux, France. One day, Eva recognizes that her student's father...
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The Mad Adventures of "Rabbi" Jacob
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In this hilarious comedy of hair-brained disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert (Louis de Funès), a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab revolutionary. The two dress up as Hasidic Jews in order to evade the police and a band of assass...
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Chasing Portraits
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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...
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A Bag of Marbles
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Patrick Bruel (Sabrina, Paris-Manhattan) stars in this heartwarming adaptation of Joseph Joffo’s enduring memoir which tells the story of the Nazi occupation through the eyes of two young Jewish brothers in German occupied France who, with a mind-boggling mix of mischievousness, courage and inge...
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Labyrinth of Peace
1 season
Watch the Complete Series Now Exclusively on ChaiFlicks! | Inspired by real events, LABYRINTH OF PEACE reveals the tensions, corruption, and intrigue that unfolded in hitherto-neutral Switzerland in the aftermath of World War II. Through the story of one family of Swiss industrial magnates, LABY...
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H.I. Jew Positive
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Every day, Catholic Poles discover that their parents kept their true identity hidden from them - the fact they were Jewish, second and third-generation to Holocaust survivors. It happens to people of all ages from all socioeconomic backgrounds, in villages and in big cities. These are The New Je...
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El Cantor
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William Stern leads a quiet life with his wife, Elizabeth, and their son Adam. But then a telegram announcing the arrival of Clovis Fishermann, William's cousin, throws a spanner in the works. William hasn't heard from Clovis for thirty years and is overjoyed at the news, for in their younger day...
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The Duchess of Warsaw
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A stirring tale set in a fantastical Paris where a concentration camp survivor reveals her past to her grandson. Valentin, a painter struggling to discover love and beauty, is reunited with his grandmother Nina. As they wander together through the capital, Nina unravels the past to her grandson, ...