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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

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

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

Shared Legacies: The African-American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance

A documentary film. During the Civil Rights era, Jewish leaders worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King to advance racial equality. The alliance between African and Jewish Americans began in the early 20th century in response to shared experiences of bigotry and discrimination. In recent years, this once-close relationship has been almost forgotten. With archival material and eyewitness interviews--featuring the late Congressman John Lewis, Harry Belafonte, Susannah Heschel (daughter of Rabbi Abraham Heschel), and members of the King family--this documentary revisits the Black-Jewish cooperation and calls...

Director : Shari Rogers

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 97

Language : English

Strange Victory

סרט תיעודי.

Director : Leo Hurwitz

Production Year : 1948

Duration : 64

שחור על לבן

סרט עלילתי באורך מלא המבוסס על ספרו של Ron Stallworth.

Director : Spike Lee

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 128

Language : English

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כתבת טלוויזיה. שודרה במסגרת מהדורת ה"חדשות" של ערוץ 20 בתאריך 12.8.21. טל היינריך , כתבת ערוץ 20 בארצות הברית, דיווחה על ההיערכות בבירת ארצות הברית לקראת עצרת הימין הקיצוני בוושינגטון מול הבית הלבן. העצרת, בסימן שנה לאירועי שרלוטסוויל , אוגוסט 2017.

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 2

Language : Hebrew

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כתבת טלוויזיה. שודרה בתוכנית "חדשות הערב" בתאריך 12.8.21 . בתוכנית מספר נתן גוטמן , שליח תאגיד השידור הציבורי לארצות הברית, על ההכנות לעצרת הניאו נאצים בוושינגטון הבירה, מול הבית הלבן. כמו כן מדווח גוטמן על הכנות להפגנת הנגד. ההפגנות בסימן שנה לאירועי שרלוטסוויל, שהתרחשו בחודש אוגוסט 2017, במהלכם נדרסה למוות מפגינה.

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 5

Language : English, Hebrew

The Arians

A documentary in which an African-German gets to he bottom of right-wing movements worldwide - and their completely wrong interpretation of "Aryanism" - a phenomenon of the tall, blond and blue-eyed master race established by the French philosopher Gobineau, It went on with the Nazis, and still promotes hate and racial murders today. Filmmaker Mo Asumang sets out for a tour de force into the abyss of the political evil in Germany and the US. She travels to places where the real Aryans originally came from an area which is now part of Iran.This film is a personal journey into the madness of racism during which...

Director : Mo Asumang

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 90

Language : German