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- Andre's Lives - The story of Andre Steiner, dubbed "the Jewish Schindler," who saved thousands of Slovak Jews during the Holocaust.
- The Architecture of Doom - Considers the Nazis' atrocities as a wholly rational extension of a fundamental tenet seeking to beautify the world.
- Arguing the World - The lives of Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer, and Irving Kristol.
- Ariel Sharon - Rare archival footage and interviews with family, colleagues, critics and historians form an essential biographical portrait of the former general and Israel's controversial Prime Minister.
- Art and Remembrance: The Legacy of Felix Nussbaum - The story of artist Felix Nussbaum, who created the major body of work about the Jews during the Holocaust.
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- Be Fruitful and Multiply - How does it feel to have been pregnant or nursing for 25 out of 26 years of your married life? This film puts this and other questions directly to ultra-orthodox Jewish women for the first time. (new September, 2006)
- The Bible Unearthed - A four-part series based on the best-selling book The Bible Revealed by Israël Finkelstein (Prof. of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University) and Neil Silberman (Director of the Ename Center for Public Archaeology & Heritage Presentation). (new September, 2006)
- Black to the Promised Land - Inner-city teens travel to Israel and work on a kibbutz.
- The Bombing - The September 4, 1997 suicide bombing of the Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall in Jerusalem.
- Bonhoeffer - The dramatic story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the young German theologian who was one of the first clear voices of resistance against Adolf Hitler, and who openly challenged his church to stand with the Jews in their time of need.
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- Charlotte - Based on the autobiographical series "Life or Theater?" by Charlotte Salomon, a young Jewish painter from Berlin, who sought refuge in Nice during World War II.
- Clara Lemlich - The story of the young, Jewish, Ukrainian-born woman who in 1909 sparked the 'Uprising of the 20,000' -- the first massive strike of New York City garment workers.
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- Derrida's Elsewhere - An exploration of the life and ideas of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), arguably the most important philosopher of the 20th Century.
- The Diaries of Yossef Nachmani - A portrait of the complex and contradictory personality of the man largely responsible for the Zionist enterprise in the Galilee during the 1930s and 40s. (new September, 2006)
- Dita and the Family Business - Explores the colorful history of the unique and glamorous 20th Century American family that founded Bergdorf-Goodman's Department store.
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- East of War - Former Wehrmacht soldiers talk about their experiences beyond the bounds of "normal" warfare on the Eastern Front of World War II.
- Eisenstein - A vivid portrait of the places and events which fostered Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein's genius.
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- Faith and Fortune - The rise and fall of one of the most secretive, wealthy Jewish families. Examines the tensions between their ultra-Orthodox religious beliefs and huge ambitions in the business world.
- Fighter - Two old friends, Holocaust survivors, journey into their past, to retrace one's daring escape through Nazi-occupied Europe.
- Forging Identity - The remarkable' life of Adolfo Kaminsky, master forger. He helped thousands of Jews escape Nazi persecution, and after the war many 'underground' movements.
- Forgiving Dr. Mengele - The remarkable story of Auschwitz survivor and former 'Mengele twin' Eva Mozes Kor and the transformation that led her to forgive the Nazi perpetrators as an act of self-healing. (new January, 2006)
- From Language to Language - Israeli writers, musicians, actors and a Rabbi/philosopher - from varying countries and ethnic backgrounds - discuss the relationship between their mother tongues and Hebrew, for centuries a sacred language but today the language of everyda
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- Hats of Jerusalem - Jerusalem can rightfully be called the hat capital of the world, and this colorful and personal trip takes us along the diverse headdresses of the three religions populating the city. (new March, 2006)
- Hiding and Seeking - Through this complex, personal story of the effects of the Holocaust on four generations, this film becomes a plea for tolerance for non-Jews.
- The Holocaust Experience - An exploration into how the memory of the Holocaust is kept alive via preserved concentration camp ruins in Poland and hyper-realistic holocaust museums in America.
- Homo Sapiens 1900 - Examines eugenics, racial hygiene and the ideas of "the new man" in the 20th century.
- House of the World - Examines the Holocaust through the eyes of survivors and their descendants.
- The Hundred Years' War: Personal Notes
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- If the Walls Could Speak - An original portrait of the building complex 'La Muette', on the outskirts of Paris. During WW II it was a transit camp for Jews on their way to the extermination camps - now it's a housing project for immigrants.
- Isaak Babel - Interweaving fragments of Isaak Babel's stories and interviews with surviving family members, an intimate portrait of the writer emerges.
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- Kaddish - A riveting profile of the children of Boro Park, New York, the largest Orthodox Jewish survivor community in the U.S.
- Kaplan Family and the Black Demon, The - The impact an interracial, interclass relationship has on an Israeli family, and what the parents try and do about it.
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- Last Dance - Goes behind the scenes with the audacious, innovative Pilobolus Dance Theatre and legendary author-illustrator Maurice Sendak to reveal a stormy collaboration.
- The Lobby - How powerful is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)? This new documentary is an examination of the controversial 'Jewish Lobby'.
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- Moshe Dayan - An detailed personal and political portrait of the controversial Israeli general turned statesman, a one-time national hero and eventual political exile.
- Mother - The story of a Hungarian woman who fled with her six-year old son after the uprising in 1956 while her husband, accused of being a leading "counter-revolutionary," is executed by the new Communist government.
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- On the Edge of Peace - Chronicles the first year of the implementation of the Israeli-Palestinian accords as experienced by both Palestinians and Israelis from all walks of life.
- On The Objection Front - When a group of Israeli officers and soldiers announced that, while willing to serve in Israel's defense, they would no longer participate in the "War of the Settlements." they provoked fierce reactions in Israeli society.
- 119 Bullets + Three - Penetrates the religious extremist movements of Israel to address incendiary issues which may determine that nation's - and the whole region's - future.
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- A Painful Reminder - A visual record of the actual liberation of concentration camps, put together with Alfred Hitchcock's help.
- Palestine: Story of a Land - The story of Palestine from the nineteenth century through current times.
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- Ringl and Pit - The lives and times of emigré photographers Grete Stern (b. 1904) and Ellen Auerbach (1906-2004) - from their early days together as the "ringl + pit" studio in Weimar Germany to their current activities spanning three continents.
- Round Eyes in the Middle Kingdom - Filmmaker Ronald Levaco, born in China of Russian Jewish parents returns to the country of his birth after 45 years to discover what happened to Israel Epstein, his father's best friend who decided to stay.
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- The Saved - The story of 700 Dutch Jews who, seemingly on a whim of fate, managed to escape deportation to concentration camps during World War II.
- Scared Again: Jews in Berlin, 1993 - A new sense of Jewish identity, solidarity, and strength is emerging after the fall of the Berlin Wall. By Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker.
- The Settlers - The daily lives of the Orthodox women of Tel Rumeida, who possess an unwavering belief that they belong in the Palestinian territories, and try to ignore the chaos that surrounds them while refusing to acknowledge their Arab neighbors.
- Shadows Over the Future - An Israeli, a Palestinian and a German discuss the Israeli/Palestinian question.
- Shrine Under Siege - Describes the coalition formed by Fundamentalist U.S. Christians and militant Israeli Jews to destroy the Dome of the Rock, Islam's third holiest shrine, and to build a new Jewish temple in its place.
- Slaves of the Sword Series - This 3-part series investigates the lives, strengths, and limitations of 3 Israeli general/politicians, and asks: why does Israel, a democracy, continue to choose military men to lead?
- Spark Among the Ashes - A 13-year-old American's trip to the holocaust-devastated Jewish community of Cracow for his bar mitzvah.
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- Tango of Slaves - A Holocaust survivor's journey to Warsaw becomes the springboard for a meditative essay about history, memory, and their preservation in imagery.
- Terezin Diary - Exposes the lies that lay behind the Nazi propaganda film entitled HITLER GIVES THE JEWS A CITY.
- Ticket to Jerusalem - Jabber, a Palestinian, escapes the troubles on the West Bank by showing films to his community. But trouble is all he gets when he tries to organize a screening in Jerusalem.
- The Two Lives of Eva - The complicated, traumatic story of a young woman, the filmmaker's mother, a well-off, Polish Lutheran before WWII, who afterwards married a Jewish Warsaw ghetto survivor. (new September, 2006)
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- Uncle Chatzkel - Chatzkel Lemchen survived the Russian revolution, two World Wars, the Holocaust and a communist regime, using his skills as a linguist and lexicographer.
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- Yitzhak Rabin - Examines late Israeli general, statesman, and pioneer for peace in the Middle East, who was assassinated in 1995 while implementing the doomed Oslo peace accords.
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- Zorro's Bar Mitzvah - Four 12-year-olds are preparing for their bar or bat mitzvot. A critical and ironic look at Jewish tradition and its interpretations, while exploring the diffuse terrain of adolescence. (new September, 2006)
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