A celebration of a great Jewish-American tradition. Beginning as places for Jews from Central and Eastern Europe to eat and meet, they expanded across America and eventually attracted as many non-Jews as Jews. Today, the number of Jewish Delis has shrunk dramatically and many of the survivors have adapted to changing times, sometimes in ways their forebears might not recognize.
An offbeat, irreverent musical documentary that tells the story of a group of Jewish songwriters, in...
Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...
The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its m...
A food-loving and scientific tribute to the Mediterranean diet and, not least, the liquid gold: oliv...
A journey through friendship and its fruit.
The 100-year story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, the inspiration for Starbucks, whe...
The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and ...
Through revealing interviews with experts and victims' families, this gripping documentary examines ...
A three year self-described labour of love, 2040 takes the form of a visual letter from the filmmake...
Disturbed that his hometown is typically overlooked on lists of the top pizza cities in the world, G...
To many African Americans, soul food is sacrament, ritual, and a key expression of cultural identity...
The history of Camp Kinderland, founded in the 1920s to provide Jewish children an escape from the h...
OUTREMONT AND THE HASIDIM reveals the challenges of accommodating the “Hasidim” – or ultra-Orthodox ...
The birth of modern stand-up comedy began in the Catskill Mountains - a boot camp for the greatest g...
Documentarian Judith Helfand adopts z daughter at the age of 50.
After years as a struggling actor, Daniel was cast to play a part in Conan O'Brien's "human-centiped...
Philoxenia is a short documentary highlighting the synergy between the Greek notion of philoxenia ("...
Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother during the end of her life in home-hospice, fil...
For their joint Bat Mitzvahs, cousins Panda and Mimi made short films exploring what it means to the...