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A docu drama feature film. It is about a Jewish engineer who became the tragic victim of mob justice after being accused of murdering an Atlanta child worker in 1913. When the body of thirteen year old Mary Phagan was discovered in the cellar of the National Pencil Company, suspicions quickly fell upon the manager of the factory, Leo Frank. After a speedy trial filled with inconsistencies and fueled by racial discrimination, Frank was given the death sentence. But this was far from the end of the story; concluding that the conviction was unjust after

Director : Ben Loeterman

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 85

Language : English

Will Eisner - Portrait of a Sequential Artist

The godfather of the American comic book, Will Eisner enjoyed a career spanning 1930s cartooning to contemporary graphic novels. Part of an unparalleled group of Jewish cartoonists, Eisner stretched the boundaries of storytelling, developing the comic into a mature combination of art and literature. In 1939, he created The Spirit (recently adapted as a major motion picture), a gritty crime fighter series. Much of his work incorporated the Jewish experience and struggle against anti-Semitism. This accomplished documentary features a wealth of artwork, as well as interviews with comic luminaries Art Spiegelman and...

Director : Andrew D. Cooke

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 98

Language : English

Homicide

Policeman Bob Gold has to capture a murder that not even the FBI has been able to find. But before he can even start he is re-assigned to the murder of an old lady in a black area. The evidence points at a Jewish group and he discovers connections between them and his previous case.

Director : David Mamet

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 103

Language : English

Hatred

This wide ranging documentary travels from Berlin to Harlem to the Middle East and Australia to investigate the connection between hatred on a personal level and hatred between nations. Is there a connection between the hatred that leads to mass violence and the hatred we all feel from time to time? The filmmaker's father was a refugee from Nazi Germany in 1939. The film opens with their return to his birthplace in east Germany. For the first time, the filmmaker understands what it must be like to have been the object of hatred, as she watches her father's reaction to the places of his childhood. Returning to...

Director : Mitzi Goldman

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 55

Language : English, German

The Believer

דרמה המבוססת על סיפורו האמיתי של דני באלינט, תלמיד ישיבה לשעבר שהפך להיות אנטישמי וניאו-נאצי שניהל חיים כפולים, רודף יהודים, אך גם תלמיד תורה. ככל ששמו של דני נעשה מוכר יותר בחוגי הימין הקיצוני, כך יהדותו הפכה מסוכנת עבורו. הוא נמלט מניו יורק עם חבריו מגולחי הראש, אך קטטה במעדנייה כשרה מביאה אותו למעצרו והוא נשלח לעבוד עם ניצולי שואה. בעוד הוא שומע על סיפורי הזוועה שלהם, הוא מתפרץ ומטיח בהם האשמות על חוסר האונים שלהם והפסיביות שהפגינו מול הנאצים, על רצונם לסבול ולשרוד על פני להילחם חזרה, אפילו במחיר חייהם. יחד עם זאת הניצולים משפיעים עליו בדרך שאפילו הוא אינו מודע לה. בזמן שהוא מניח פצצה בבית כנסת יחד קבוצת...

Director : Henry Bean

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 98

Language : English

Focus

דרמה שביים הצלם ניל סלוין על פי סיפור של ארתור מילר. במהלך ימי מלחמת העולם השנייה נחשד זוג ברוקלינאי על ידי שכניו האנטישמיים כיהודים, ונאלץ להתמודד עם יחסה הגזעני של הסביבה.

Director : Neal Slavin

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 102

Language : English

Paper Clips

What began as a project to understand the Holocaust turned into an event that generates an upheaval in an American community in Tennessee. In the framework of 8th Grade studies in a school in Whitwell, a group of students decided to collect as many paper clips (the anti-Nazi symbol that was adopted by the Norwegians as a sign of support) as possible from all over the world. They collected 30 million and then an authentic cattle car was brought from Germany that was then turned into a memorial site in the grounds of the school. Touching. Directors: Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab. The disc includes additional...

Director : Elliot Berlin

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 84

Language : English

Chicago Nazis

Two documentaries by American independent filmmaker Tom Palazzolo. Marquette Park I and Marquette Park II both look deeply at the Nazi group in Chicago and its leader Frank Collin.

Director : Tom Palazzolo

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 60

Language : English

Ku Klux Klan - A Secret History

This documentary explores the history of the Ku Klux Klan, the racist American organization from its inception shortly after the Civil War by Confederate Civil War veterans to its declining and fragmentation today. Also discussed are recent terror activity, leaders, ideology, symbols, education, and potential future threat. Including reconstructions, archive footage, experts' commentaries.

Director : James Taylor

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 110

Language : English

Honorable Mr. Morgenthau

A documentary. The documentary is about the United States of America's immigration policy during the Holocaust. Throughout most of the 1930s and World War II, the United States government deliberately kept the influx of European Jews to America well below America’s official immigration quota for that part of the world. This policy, rooted in a variety of political concerns, as well as frequently transparent anti-Semitism left millions with no haven from the Nazi terror, and emboldened Hitler to transition from a policy of Jewish emigration to extermination.

Director : Hilan Warshaw

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 95

Language : English

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