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Flipping Out
Movie
This documentary looks at some former Israeli soldiers, most under age 25, who fly to India after being discharged from the military. About 90 per-cent will use drugs during their stay, and each year some 2,000 of them will need professional help after a psychotic episode referred to as “flipping...
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Wall
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Preeminent UK playwright and screenwriter David Hare—whom The Washington Post referred to as “the premiere political dramatist writing in English”—writes and stars in this innovative animated feature that explores the reality of the wall separating Israel and Palestine as no film has before. Rich...
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Munich 72
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The 1972 Olympics in West Germany should have been a global sporting highlight. But the unthinkable happened early in the morning of September 5th, when Palestinian terrorists stormed the Olympic village and invaded the residential quarters of the Israeli delegation. This gripping feature-length ...
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Scaling Chutzpah
1 season
In this lively, informative, and engaging series, dozens of inspiring and wildly successful entrepreneurs reveal what it took - personally and practically - to create successful businesses and non-profit organizations. From operating a line of passenger cruise ships, to inventing industry-changin...
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The Body Collector
1 season
Watch the complete series now! | An investigative journalist fights to unmask a prominent art collector as a murderous Nazi war criminal in the gripping true-life drama THE BODY COLLECTOR.
When multimillionaire Pieter Menten (Aus Greidanus) decides to auction off a portion of his prized art hol...
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Still Alive (Noch Am Leben)
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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...
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One Step to Freedom
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In 1938, Austria had been annexed by Nazi Germany and Switzerland closed its borders for Jewish refugees, essentially forming as a death sentence for thousands. However, not all Swiss officials subscribed to this inhuman order. 'One Step to Freedom' centres on the story of Paul Grüninger, the St....
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Highway to Heaven
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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...
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The Ritchie Boys
Movie + 1 extra
As Seen on 60 Minutes! | The Ritchie Boys is the riveting, untold story of a group of young men who fled Nazi Germany and returned as soldiers in U.S. uniforms. They knew the psychology and the language of the enemy better than anyone. In Camp Ritchie, Maryland, they were trained in intelligence ...
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Driver
Movie
From the creator of "Shtisel"! | Nahman Ruzumni (Moshe Folkenflik, "Redemption") lives on the fringes of the ultra-orthodox community in Bnei Brak, Israel. As a "Driver," he takes beggars to wealthy homes and coaches them telling their stories in order to inspire philanthropy. For his service, he...
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Grassroots In Dry Lands
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'Grassroots in Dry Lands' tells the story of three unconventional social workers united by a common vision that transcends the antagonisms between their countries. Nuha, from Nablus (Occupied Palestinian Territories), Talal, from East Amman (Jordan), and Amit, from Sderot (Israel) are empowering ...
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State of Alert: Israel Style
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Why is the Belgian Minister for Security, Jan Jambon, looking at ‘city tanks’ in Tel Aviv? Recent suicide attacks in Paris, Brussels, Nice and Berlin have greatly increased focus on civilian safety in Europe. More and more, politicians, security experts and the media refer to Israel as a model of...
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The Rat's Dilemma
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In the Holocaust, a gifted Jewish physicist named Rudolph is forced to build a teleporter for the Nazis. Rudolph keeps telling his Nazi supervisor Heinz that the machine doesn’t work yet, but Heinz suspects he is hiding something. As Heinz is determined to squeeze the truth out by any means neces...
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From Language to Language
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Ten people - all poets, writers, or singers - speak of the relationship between Hebrew and the language of their childhood, a language whose music still echoes in them even if they no longer remember it. In this hour-long documentary, a series of portrait-like monologues reveals the far-reaching ...
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Zero Degrees of Separation
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This feature documentary breaks with the sensationalistic media coverage of the Middle East by documenting the everyday lives of same-sex Palestinian-Israeli couples. Faced with the modern injustices of work visas, checkpoints, harassment and prejudices, these brave individuals resist oppression ...
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Broken Promise
Movie
When the Fascists take over his country, Martin witnesses how members of the Jewish community, and his own family, are sent to work camps. Naive enough to think his future will improve, he volunteers to go to one of these camps. After luck saves him from almost certain death, he joins up the resi...
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How About Adolf?
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It should have been a wonderful evening. Stephan and Elisabeth have invited their family and friends over for dinner, but as soon as Thomas announces that he and his pregnant girlfriend Anna are planning to name their unborn son Adolf, things get out of hand. As the evening escalates, secrets are...
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Choco Banana in North Carolina
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A film about a group of young Israelis that came to America to make some easy money and found themselves working as ice cream truck drivers in North Carolina. Without even knowing the language ,they become the kings of the southern neighborhoods. See America through the ice cream truck window.
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Thank God for India
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A documentary that deals with the generation gap between the young Israeli travelers in India and the conformities of society in Israel today. The film also takes a look at the new Israeli sub-culture that has developed in India as a result of this gap. We see that for the young Israelis, India i...
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Happy Jews
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The son of a Polish emigrant provides perverse commentary over vintage footage from a nostalgic 1968 ball of emigrants, organized in the Israeli city of Ashkelon. Directed by Tel Aviv University graduate Jonathan Rozenbaum, this joking, autobiographical short film captures a bygone era with a str...
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I Am a Mountain Jew
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From director Nisan Katz, 'I Am a Mountain Jew' tells the untold story of the descendants of Jews who lived in the mountains of the Caucasus. The film follows a group of these young mountain Jews who immigrated to Israel many years ago and are now embarking on a journey to the caucuses to explore...
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YidLife Crisis
3 seasons
YidLife Crisis is a Yiddish comedy series created by two friends, Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman, wanting to pay homage to the yiddishkayt in their upbringing and the Jewish comedic lens on life with which they were raised.
What started as a passion project turned into a hit with over 3,000,000 vi...
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YidLife Crisis Presents: Global Shtetl
6 seasons
Leizer and Chaimie’s alter egos (Eli and Jamie) tour the world in search of Yiddish, the proverbial “crisis” in modern Jewish identity, and as much food (kosher or otherwise) as possible.
Created by Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman
2014 - present
Documentary, Comedy, Travel, Yiddish Culture
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Narishkayt: YidLife Crisis in Krakow
Movie
When Jamie Elman and Eli Batalion, Jewish Canadian comedians and creators of the award-winning Yiddish series “YidLife Crisis”, travel to Poland in search of their Yiddish roots and Ashkenazi culture, they end up finding a unique Jewish community built by Poles looking to face their own complex r...