Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother during the end of her life in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a "new old" single mother at 50. Overnight, she's pushed to deal with her stuff: 63 boxes of her parent's heirlooms overwhelming her office-turned-future-baby's room, the weight her mother had begged her to lose, and the reality of being a half century older than her daughter.
The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its m...
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 convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and ...
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 ...
A celebration of a great Jewish-American tradition. Beginning as places for Jews from Central and Ea...
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...
For their joint Bat Mitzvahs, cousins Panda and Mimi made short films exploring what it means to the...
Four 12-year-olds—Sharon, Tom, Moishy, and Sophie—prepare for their bar or bat mitzvot.
Documentary about the final performance of the "Brooklyn Baseball Cantata" led by Cantor Suzanne Ber...
"People of the Graphic Novel" is a playful introduction to the history of an art form: from the firs...
This intimately photographed film offers a peak into the lives of a culturally diverse group of youn...
A look at the Jewish community in Rădăuți, Romania, from 1974 to 1976.
This intimately photographed film offers a peak into the lives of a culturally diverse group of youn...
On the way to creating a new future, the New Jewish Filmmaking Project is rediscovering the past. 11...
This intimately photographed film offers a peak into the lives of a culturally diverse group of youn...
On the way to creating a new future, the New Jewish Filmmaking Project is rediscovering the past. 11...