UnBroken: Seven siblings survive the Holocaust
There are millions of untold stories from the Holocaust. There are also millions of stories of...
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June Zero: The edge of history
Directed by Jake Paltrow, June Zero begins with the news that Adolf Eichmann has been sentenced to...
Irena’s Vow: The Promise of Life
Directed by Louise Archambault, Irena’s Vow tells the amazing true story of Irena Gut Opdyke...
Sundance: A Real Pain – Struggling for relationship
“This will be a tour about pain…, also a tour that celebrates the people.” It’s hard to categorize...
Love Gets a Room – Life and Death Coexist
The title card that opens Rodrigo Cortés’s Love Gets a Room, gives us the setting of the story (Warsaw in January 1942) and the context of the Warsaw ghetto filled with 400,000 Jews with suffering and inevitable death...
Plan A: The Weight of Revenge
Sometimes, the most difficult part of the war is when it’s over. Set at the conclusion of WWII in...
Syndrome K – Life Saving Disease
Doctors take an oath to save lives. Sometimes that means making some hard decisions. For a group...
My Name Is Sara – A Unique Too Common Story
?You have to survive. It will be our revenge.? Steven Oritt?s premiere feature film, My Name Is...
I’ll Find You – Music, Love, and War
It is hard enough for star-crossed lovers to find a path to happiness, but when you stick the...
Betrayed – The guilt of doing nothing
In some ways Betrayed, from director Erik Svensson is like many other films about the Holocaust....
The Meaning of Hitler – Does History Mean Anything?
Hitler. A name that for much of the world connotes absolute evil. But that name is burnt into...
Operation Finale – Capturing a War Criminal
?We?re all animals fighting for scraps on the Serengeti.? One of the most celebrated trials of the...
Bringing Evil to Justice – 1on1 with Lior Raz (Operation Finale)
I recently had the opportunity to talk by phone with Lior Raz, who plays Isser Harel in Operation...