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Asia Society
DEFA German Film Studio
Global Lens Collection
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1 For the Bible Tells Me So
2 The Power of Forgiveness
3 Wetlands Preserved
4 The New Medicine
5 Senator Obama Goes to Africa
6 One Nation Under God
7 Sacco and Vanzetti
8 The Camden 28
9 With God on Our Side
10 Motherland Afghanistan

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Architecture of Doom, The
A Film by Peter Cohen. Featuring never-before-seen film footage of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi regime, this spectacular film shows the inner workings of the Third Reich and illuminates the Nazi aesthetic in art, architecture and popular culture.




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Council of the Gods: DEFA Collection
Based on testimony from the Nuremberg Trial of chemical giant I.G. Farben, this is the story of the collaboration between international corporations and Nazi scientists, whose research contributed to the death of millions.



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Eye of Vichy, The
A Film by Claude Chabrol (Madame Bovary). Using rarely seen Nazi and Vichy propaganda newsreels and footage, Chabrol creates a masterful look at the Nazi occupation of France during World War II.




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Fighter
A Film by Amir Bar-Lev. A unique adventure unfolds as two friends take a risky road trip into their past in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia.




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Forgiving Dr. Mengele
Eva Kor and her sister were victims of the infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele at Auschwitz. Haunted ever since, something shocking occurs: Eva finds the power to forgive him. But not everyone is ready to forgive the unforgivable.



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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
A Film by Kjell Grede. The story of Swedish businessman Raoul Wallenberg who helped Jews in Budapest, Hungary in 1944 obtain Swedish passports to get them out of Adolph Eichmann's deadly path.



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Hamsun
In this epic story of love and treason, Max von Sydow gives a career-crowning performance as Knut Hamsun, Norway’s controversial Nobel Laureate who embraced Hitler .



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Hiding and Seeking
This award-winning documentary tells the dramatic and emotional story of a Jewish father who journeys with his two utlra-orthodox sons back to Poland to try to find the Christian farmers who hid their family from the Nazis.



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Hitler and the Nazis Box Set
Four films on three DVDs: The Architecture of Doom, Nazi Medicine, The Cross and The Star and The Eye of Vichy.



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Hitler: A Career
This meticulously assembled film dissects the Third Reich with a keen analytical blade, charting Hitler's improbable rise, his mastery of imagery and crowd psychology, and his consummate skill in exploiting the weaknesses in others.



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Howling with the Angels
When Hitler’s army marched into Prague in 1938, Jan Bodon, a young captain with a secret in the Czech Army was “asked” to join the Nazis. He promptly fled and joined the Czech Resistance Movement instead.



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Jacob the Liar: DEFA Collection
Nominated for an Oscar � BEST FOREIGN FILM, Jacob the Liar is a heartbreaking yet funny film that enlivens with the sheer power of its insight.



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Jew, The- VHS
A Film by Jom Tob Azulay. In 18th Century Portugal, a talented and popular Jewish writer battles the repressive and dangerous forces of the Inquisition.



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Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden, A- VHS
A Film by Michel Goldman. Klezmer is rediscovered in this celebration of the lively and eclectic music of Eastern European Jews.



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Nazi Medicine: In the Shadow of the Reich & The Cross and the Star
Two films by John Michalczyk. NAZI MEDICINE & THE CROSS AND THE STAR are two riveting documentaries which confront the horrors of Hitler's Third Reich.




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Rotation: DEFA Collection
Ranked as one of Germany’s most important films ever, Rotation is the story of a German family that becomes divided over supporting the Nazis. Rotation was censored by the Soviets because of its pacifist message.



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Unknown Soldier, The
The Unknown Soldier documents Germany’s controversial Wehrmacht Exhibition, which for the first time ever revealed the personal letters, photographs and film footage implicating the common foot soldier in horrific acts.



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Verdict on Auschwitz
Using excerpts from the Frankfurt Aushwitz Trial, the filmmakers bring to life the investigation, the courtroom drama and the verdict in this historic trial involving perpetrators of the “Final Solution."



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We Were So Beloved
Between 1933 and 1941 thousands of Jews fled Nazi Germany and Austria for America. Leaving behind brothers, sisters and parents, more than 20,000 of them came together in Washington Heights in New York City.










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