"Ben-Gurion Epilogue" is a documentary featuring a 1968 interview with Israel’s first prime minister, at age 82, from his desert home in Sde Boker. His crucial role in the development of the young country and his military and political legacy have resonance today as Israel grapples with the October 7 attacks and their aftermath. Stay...
In 1942, 999 Jewish Slovak girls were lured into government service with the promise they’d be helping their families by working in a shoe factory. They became the first official Jewish transport to Auschwitz. Survivors of that transport share their stories in this gripping documentary.
You’ll be swept up in this tense historical drama set in the German occupation of France, based on a play by Jean-Philippe Daguerre. Jewish jeweler Joseph Haffman leaves his shop in the care of his assistant Mercier as he tries to flee to Switzerland. He ends up hiding in his own basement when his exit...
View the 1961 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann from the perspectives of his Jewish Moroccan prison guard, an Israeli police investigator who’s also a Holocaust survivor and a 13-year-old Libyan immigrant. Hebrew, with subtitles.
This documentary illuminates the biography of Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, teacher and author of the haunting memoir “Night.” The film draws on personal archives and interviews to understand Wiesel (1928-2016), 80 years after his liberation from Buchenwald. After the film, Engage in a conversation with Charlotte Decoster, Ph.D., Ackerman Family Director of Education for...
In this Israeli war drama about the 1973 Yom Kippur War, a company of Israeli soldiers is attacked by Egyptian forces, and the odds of survival are slim. A young lieutenant and an army doctor weigh their grim options between a near hopeless battle and surrender. Based on a true story. Hebrew with English subtitles...
All is not what it seems for Jonathan, a famous movie producer who has recently won an award at the Cannes Film Festival. The pandemic, anxious investors, distribution problems, and a difficult divorce have left Jonathan with the difficult decision to sell his company. His new wife, unaware of his troubles, plans a surprise party...
A rivalry between Israeli fighter pilots intensifies before the Six-Day War of 1967. Can they unite to lead their squadron into victory? Hebrew, with English subtitles
