DVDs
This page lists all the DVDs the library has. You can also find them in our catalog, but this page provides a quick overview of them, with some extra information and links. Clicking on the title of each move leads you to the particular movie’s page at the Internet Move Database (IMDB). If we blogged about the movie a link included to the entry, where you can also watch the film’s trailer. Artists listed on this page are subjectively selected. For more check the IMDB page.
| Title/
Description |
Year/ Length/ Rating |
Artists | Trailer/ Blog entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broken Wings
As a family seems to fall apart after the abrupt death of husband/father, a sudden incident gives them a chance to heal their ‘broken wings’. |
2002 87 min R |
Nir Bergman | Song |
| Edges of the Lord
A 12-year-old Jewish boy hides with a family of Catholic peasant farmers to escape the Nazis. |
2001 95 min R |
Haley Joel Osment, Willem Dafoe | Blog |
| Esther Kahn
A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress. |
2000 142 min (not rated) |
Summer Phoenix | Blog |
| For your consideration
Three actors learn that their respective performances in the film “Home for Purim,” a drama set in the mid-1940s American South, are generating award-season buzz. |
2006 86 min PG-13 |
Ed Begley Jr., Christopher Guest | Trailer |
| Free Zone
Three women embark on a road trip in Israel and Jordan after they are brought together by chance. |
2005 90 min (not rated) |
Natalie Portman | Blog |
| Heritage: Civilization and the Jews
Over the course of nine hours, this sumptuous PBS documentary from 1984 chronicles the history of the Jewish people from biblical times through the 20th century. |
1984/ 2001 540 min none |
Abba Eban | Trailer |
| Into the arms of strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
The story of the child refugees who were transported to Britain to escape the Nazi Holocaust. |
2000 122 min PG |
Mark Jonathan Harris | |
| Keeping Up With the Steins
The story of a 13-year-old boy who uses his upcoming bar mitzvah to reconcile the strained relationship between his father and grandfather. |
2006 99 min PG-13 |
Daryl Hannah, Garry Marshall, Doris Roberts, Larry Miller, Cheryl Hines | Blog |
| Monsieur Ibrahim
In Paris, a Turkish shop owner befriends a Jewish boy in his mid-teens. |
2003 95 min R |
Omar Sharif, Pierre Boulanger | Blog |
| Munich
The world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next. |
2005 164 min R |
Steven Spielberg, Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Geoffrey Rush | Blog |
| Relentless: The struggle for peace in Israel | 2003 60 min none |
honestreporting.com | Trailer |
| The Tribe
An unorthodox, unauthorized discussion program about the Jeiwsh people and the Barbie doll. |
2005 18 min none |
Tiffany Shlain and Peter Coyote | Blog |
| Walk on Water
Following the suicide of his wife, an Israeli intelligence agent is assigned to befriend the grandchildren of a Nazi war criminal. |
2004 103 min R |
Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters | Blog |
| Yellow Asphalt
Three stories set among the Bedouin of Jahalin in the hills of the Judean desert. |
2001 87 min (not rated) |
Raida Adon, Tatjana Blacher, Moshe Ivgy | Blog |



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