Titles tagged "Holocaust"
After Auschwitz
Hoping to find a sense of normalcy, six female Holocaust survivors immigrate to America, get married and raise children. Coming Soon to VOD/DVD Forced March
A former TV star (Chris Sarandon) makes a Holocaust movie about a Hungarian poet in a Nazi death march. Now Available on DVD Inside Hana's Suitcase
"Inside Hana's Suitcase" is the poignant story of two young children who grew up in pre-WWII Czechoslovakia and the terrible events that they endured just because they happened to be born Jewish. Now Available on DVD Lodz Ghetto
Widely praised as the most authentic film ever made about Jewish life within the Holocaust, this classic documentary uses the secret diaries of a single community to reveal the heroic struggle of 250,000 people trapped in the longest surviving Jewish community in Nazi Europe. Now Available on DVD Rape of Europa
The Rape of Europa tells the epic story of the systematic theft, deliberate destruction and miraculous survival of Europe’s art treasures during the Third Reich and the Second World War. Now Available on DVD |
The Last Laugh
Comedians, writers and entertainment icons discuss whether it's ever permissible to joke about horrible tragedies like the Holocaust, AIDS and 9/11. Now Available on DVD and VOD La Rafle
On July 16th, 1942, French authorities carried out an extensive raid of Jews in greater Paris, resulting in the arrest of more than 13,000 people — including 4,000 children. Now Available on DVD Nicky's Family
Ordinary British stockbroker Nicholas Winton organized the rescue of 669 children from Prague just before the outbreak of World War II. As a result of his heroic efforts, today there are over 6,000 descendants of “Winton's Children” all over the world. Now Available on DVD Samuel Goldwasser
The personal voice and individual story of Samuel Goldwasser turns the increasingly distant history of the Jewish ghettoes and Nazi concentration camps into an immediate, physically and emotionally experienced reality. Now Available on DVD |
Big Sonia
Sonia Warshawski, a Holocaust survivor, is served an eviction notice for her tailor shop, which has thrived for 35 years. She must choose between setting up a new shop or retiring. Now Available on DVD/VOD Human Failure
The expropriation of assets from German Jews during the Third Reich benefited virtually every German citizen. It was not only the Gestapo who invaded Jewish residences to confiscate all property, from bank accounts to the last item of clothing, it was the German Tax officials. Now Available on DVD The Labyrinth
The Labyrinth is a story of survival and man’s resilience in the face of unspeakable horrors. The documentary takes the viewer on a journey through Marian’s labyrinth; close-ups and slow panning of the drawings are used as a way to bring people into the drawings and ultimately into Marian’s world as he recalls his experience at Auschwitz. Now Available on DVD Numbered
Auschwitz prisoners, both Jewish or non-Jewish, were tattooed with serial numbers, first on their chests and then their left arms. An estimated 400,000 numbers were tattooed in Auschwitz and its sub-camps; only some several thousand survivors are still alive today. Now Available on DVD |