Jewish History Movies

An account of the reign of Herod the Great, king of Judea under the rule of the Roman Empire, remembered for having ordered, according to the Gospel...

In 1941, a Jewish woman on the run with forged papers involuntarily shares a train compartment with a German officer.

Hosted by Julianna Margulies, this special brings together the stories of four Jewish Holocaust survivors and the reflections of present-day teens...

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by the Germans, are gathered in Vilnius to be...

Narrated by Isy Suttie (Peep Show, Pearl & Dave), the footage includes rare scenes of an Edwardian Petticoat Lane; a wedding in London’s East...

In the first century, after the death of Herod the Great, Judea goes through a long period of turbulence due to the actions of the corrupt Roman...

Dr. Edith Eva Eger recounts her story of survival as a prisoner at Auschwitz concentration camp, her struggle with survivor's guilt and how her work...

Documentary compiling the testimonies of the last remaining Holocaust survivors living in Britain, all of whom were children at the time, and...

"A Home On The Range" tells the little-known story of Jews who fled the pogroms and hardships of Eastern Europe and traveled to California to become...

Can a language save your life? Yes it can, even an ancient one from the 15th century. Saved by Language tells the story of Moris Albahari, a...

This feature documentary looks at new evidence that suggests the majority of the Jewish people may not have been exiled following the fall of...

The story of Morris Saxe, one man whose actions left their mark not only on the business and agricultural life of Ontario, but on the conscience of...

“Jews of the Wild West” is a feature-length documentary completed in December 2021. The independent not-for-profit project is produced by...

A film about the artist Daniel Spoerri. It's actually a film about a thought by Daniel Spoerri: a film almost without Daniel Spoerri, it's actually...

A dramatic documentary film that deals with the Nazi rise to power in Germany in the 1930s and the development of the persecution of Jews up to the...