Elliott Gould narrates this affectionate look at life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries. "It's unreal that all this could have just disappeared," says Polish native Mariem Adler Stok, one of the seniors whose memories of this "Yiddish world" give this documentary its life. The hour traces Jewish history in Europe and explores Jews' focus on education, their religious customs, clothing, food, music and theater.
Chez Schwartz takes us inside a year in the life of Schwartz's Deli - the unique 75-year-old landmar...
Commentator-comic Bill Maher plays devil's advocate with religion as he talks to believers about the...
Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Jewish dissidents plot to hijack an empty plane and escape the USS...
A documentary exploring how Albanians, including many Muslims, helped and sheltered Jewish refugees ...
The first film in Miklós Jancsó's documentary series Message of Stones.
Director Miguel Kohan tries to connect the memories of his Gaucho-Jewish family with the fleeing of ...
Shalom Italia tells the story of three brothers, who set off on a journey to find a cave in the wood...
Josef Ganz, editor of trade journal Motor-Kritik, amazed Germany by appearing in a revolutionary tin...
This story follows one man's quest to uncover the origins and reveal the mysteries of a possible Hol...
An upbeat, witty, and timely exploration of a global community of artists creating innovative work i...
What connects a photograph, the Second World War and a young couple? Set in the town of Kozienice, w...
An inspiring documentary film that details the life mission of Col. Ilan Ramon, the first and only A...
Documentarians Justine Shapiro and B.Z. Goldberg traveled to Israel to interview Palestinian and Isr...
Naomi seems like a typical nine-year-old girl, until her passion for powerlifting transforms her lif...
The biggest trial of Nazi war crimes ever: 360 witnesses in 183 days of trial - a stunning and gripp...
Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...
SHANGHAI GHETTO recalls the strange-but-true story of thousands of European Jews who were shut out o...
Documentary tracing the history of the Jewish people from the destruction of the temple in AD 70 to ...