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A documentary television series. As World War II begins, Americans are united in their disapproval of Nazi brutality but divided on whether to act. Some individuals and organizations work tirelessly to help refugees escape. Meanwhile, Charles Lindbergh and isolationists battle with Roosevelt to try to keep America out of the war. Germany invades the Soviet Union and secretly begins the mass murder of European Jews.

Director : Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 138

Language : English

When Long the Pictures already Fade

A documentary film.takes footage from the Nazi propaganda film "Theresienstadt - ein Dokumentarfilm aus dem jüdischen Siedlungsgebiet" and contrasts it with the testimony of Theresienstadt survivor Salle Fisherman z"l. Salle Fisherman, who was involved in the filming of the propaganda film, describes to the viewers scenes in the film, how they were made and how to recognize that they are propaganda. He points out the terrible conditions of Terezin and explains to the viewers what the images of the progaganda film intentionally do not show. The film raises awareness of how to critically analyze perpetrator-media,...

Director : Thilo Pohle

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 41

Language : German

Quo Vadis, Aida?

A feature film. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. The film was screened at the Jerusalem Jewish Festival, 2021.

Director : Jasmila Zbanic

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 103

Language : Dutch, English

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A feature film. Poland, winter of 1945. Mathilde Beaulieu is a young intern working with a branch of the French Red Cross. They are on a mission to find, treat and repatriate French survivors of the German camps. One day, a Polish nun arrives in the hospital. In very poor French, she begs Mathilde to come to her convent. Mathilde life and beliefs change when she discovers the advanced state of pregnancy that affect several of the Sisters of the convent just outside the hospital where she performs.

Director : Anne Fontaine

Production Year : 2015

Duration : 115

Language : French, Polish, Russian