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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

The City without Jews

In Austria the Christian Social Party comes to power, and the new Chancellor passes a law forcing all Jews to emigrate. But after a short time a sober reality sets in: cultural life becomes impoverished, the economy declines, cafes are converted into beer halls, inflation and unemployment run wild...

Director : Hans Karl Breslauer

Production Year : 1924

Duration : 80

Language : Silent Film

Professor Mamlyuk

Loosely based on a play by Friedrich Wolfe. The picture features the social insight of a German doctor and scientist far removed from politics under the impact of the German political events of the early 1930-s.

Director : Adolph Minkin, Gerbert Rappaport

Production Year : 1938

Duration : 105

Language : Russian

מבט שני - פרשת המאה, דרייפוס

Israel TV programme 'Second Look' marking 100 years since the 'Dreyfus Affair' an anti-semitic plot in France at the end of the 19th century when Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer, was convicted of spying for Germany. Includes a speech by Mayor Chirac next to the statue of Dreyfus in the Tuileries Gardens of Paris. Segment of the BBC production about the affair with the actor Derek Jakobi playing the role of Emil Zola. Emanuel Halperin reports from Paris on the ceremony where Dreyfus was stripped of his rank which took place in the courtyard of the military school in Paris. Discussion in the studio with Prof....

Production Year : 1995

Language : Hebrew

From Galicia to Aargau - Trails of a Jewish European in the 20th century

Over 60 years after World War II Jerzy Czarnecki, a retired nuclear technologist, travels to his native town Mosty Wielkie (now in the Ukraine). The ﬁlm relates his escape from the Nazi and change of name, forced labor in Germany, a new life in Poland after the War and ﬁnally, after a renewed outburst of open anti-Semitism in Poland, his emigration to Switzerland.

Director : Peter Scheiner, Susanne Scheiner

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 45

Language : German, Ukrainian

טיסה אחת בשבילנו

סרט תעודי העוסק במטס המיוחד של מטוסי חיל האוויר הישראלי שנערך ב-26/01/05, בסמוך לציון 60 שנה לשחרור מחנה אושוויץ ובהתייחסות בנות הברית בזמן המלחמה כלפי מחנות ההשמדה. הסרט טוען כי מדינות בנות הברית לדעת על המתרחש בשואה, היו מודעות לזוועות באושוויץ, ולמרות שיכלו פעמים רבות למנוע מותם של רבים ע"י הפצצה אווירית, לא עשו דבר. לצד זה, מתאר חיים הכט, יוצר הסרט, גם את סיפור מטס חיל האוויר הישראלי הסמלי מעל אושוויץ ב-2003 ובוחן את מסלול הטיסה שהיה דומה לכל אחת מ-1417 הגיחות של מטוסי קרב אמריקנים ובריטים שעברו מעל אושוויץ. "אנו טייסי חיל האוויר האוויר הישראלי, בשמי מחנה הזוועות, קמנו מאפר מיליוני הקורבנות, נושאים...

Director : Haim Hecht

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 55 60

Language : Hebrew

Pillar of Fire, Part 2 - The Dream 1914 - 1929

Produced by the Israeli Television, this documentary series deals with the history of Zionism till the establishment of the State of Israel. First episode of this 4-years complicated production aired in 1981 and created a public stir and controversy regarding the presentation of the Sephardim Jewry contribution to the Zionist movement. “Pillar of Fire” us based on archival films and photos takes from 30 archives, both in Israel and abroad, interviews and illustrations. This short 7-episodes version of the series was produced for foreign markets. Narration by British actor Ian MacCellen.

Director : Nathan Lifshitz

Production Year : 1986

Language : English

Anti-semitism

This short documentary film chronicles anti-semitism, from the dawn of Christianity through the Middle Ages, into Modernity, culminating in the unprecedented Nazi demand for the extermination of the Jews.

Director : ראובן הקר

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 9

Language : English, Hebrew

Days That Shook the world - Kristallnacht

Documentary series, dealing with crucial days and events of the 20th century. Each chapter presents archive material and dramatic reenacments. Based on eye-testimonies and archive materials, this episode presents a dramatized account of the events of November 9th, 1938, a night that changed the life of the Jews in Germany and came to known as a turning point in Hitler's persecution of the Jews. Gangs of Nazi youths roamed through Jewish neighborhoods breaking windows and burning and looting synagogues. Many Jews were attacked and 91 died.

Director : Nic Young

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 30

Language : English, German

Holocaust Witness - Emerich Roth

A documentary film. The story of Emerich Roth, born in 1924 in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia as the oldest child of five and today residing in Sweden. Testimony and archival footage and details Roth’s story from the pre-war Jewish life in his city of birth to his present engagement in countering racism and Nazism by frequently visiting schools all over Sweden in order to tell his story. Roth was deported with his family from the local ghetto to Auschwitz, where his mother and two of his little sisters were murdered. Roth survived several different concentration camps and was initially able to stay together with his...

Director : Richard Nadworny

Production Year : 1996

Duration : 40

Language : Swedish

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