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1 For the Bible Tells Me So
2 The Power of Forgiveness
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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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Concert For 13 Voices- VHS
A Film by Izza Ganini. Enjoy the magical voices of 13 cantors as they perform a very special concert in the Public Synagogue of Tournelles in Paris.



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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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Fire On the Mountain
A Film by Beth & George Gage. The story of the 10th Mountain Division, America's only winter warfare fighting unit, who fought the Nazis on skis in the high mountains.




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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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Goebbels Experiment, The
Kenneth Branagh reads from the diaries of Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. A rare and chilling glimpse into a brilliant but toxic mind.



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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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Jewish Soul, American Beat- VHS
A film by Barbara Pfeffer. With insight and humor, Jewish Soul, American Beat explores the new landscape of Jewish tradition in America, from a feminist seder to a Yiddish Cabaret.



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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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Kaddish- VHS
A Film by Steve Brand. A candid portrait of a young Jewish activist who must face his father's traumatic history.



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Last Dance
Powerhouse creative forces unite, and sparks fly, in Mirra Bank's award-winning film that follows the dazzling Pilobolus Dance Theater and Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are) as they collaborate on a dance-theater work honoring a Holocaust legacy..



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Life Apart: Hasidism in America, A
A Film by Menachem Daum & Oren Rudavsky. Seven years in the making, this extraordinarily intimate film takes us into the mysterious and joyous world of the Hasidic Jews, revealing a place few outsiders have seen and fewer yet could imagine.




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Me and My Matchmaker- VHS
A Film by Mark Wexler. A Jewish matchmaker in Chicago and a lovelorn filmmaker learn about the complexities of love, dating and friendship in this funny and insightful film that eventually turns on its maker.



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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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Spark Among the Ashes
In this emotional documentary, a 13-year-old Connecticut boy stands at the center of a complex human drama that attracts world-wide attention when he travels to Cracow to participate in the first bar mitzvah there since the War.



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Tickle in the Heart, A
An international smash hit and the world's most popular film about klezmer music, A Tickle in the Heart captures the story of the Epstein Brothers - Max, Willie and Julius - klezmer legends on a joyous (and hilarious) international tour.



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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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