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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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