Sentences with phrase «holocaust documentaries»

There are marquee screenings not long after dawn and teatime premieres; four - hour Holocaust documentaries for supper and Asian gumshoe flicks at midnight.

Primo Levi's Journey (Unrated) Holocaust documentary, narrated by Chris Cooper, retraces Primo Levi's harrowing tale of survival from Auschwitz across the former Soviet Union and finally back to his hometown of Turin.

It wasn't just that she ruffled people's feathers, although she certainly did that — her excoriating of Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985), the Holocaust documentary, drew piles of hate mail — but that she was so passionate about film.

Although best known for his big budget blockbusters, Spielberg said his favourite project was his Holocaust documentary for the Shoah Foundation, which collected the testimonies of survivors of the World War Two atrocity.

As Seen through These Eyes (Unrated) Holocaust documentary, narrated by Maya Angelou, examines works of art created by Holocaust survivors imprisoned at Auschwitz, including the personal portraitist of Nazi madman Josef Mengele.

Claude Lanzmann, Spectres of the Shoah: A little long — imagine THAT for a movie about the making of the 10 - hour Holocaust documentary — but illuminating, as much about the mercurial director of Shoah as it is about the treacherous terrain he crossed to make it.

After Auschwitz (Unrated) Holocaust documentary belatedly recounting the trauma experienced by a half - dozen survivors who had been evacuated to the U.S. and pressured to suffer in silence without ever discussing the horrors they'd witnessed in Hitler's death camps.

Not exact matches

When we watched films or documentaries about the Holocaust on TV, I never saw her get weepy - eyed.

Norman Gershman and Stu Huck discuss a portrait in a documentary about Albanians who rescued Jews during the Holocaust.

In his recent documentary film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Ben Stein linked Darwinism to Communism, Fascism and the Holocaust.

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Steven Spielberg crafted his landmark Holocaust story Schindler's List to look like a documentary, using black - and - white film to give it a newsreel authenticity and employing Steven Zaillian's straight - forward screenplay as a template that consistently rejects melodrama and lets the barbarity speak for itself.

Perhaps the common factor in most of the documentaries, films and stories of this time is of the Holocaust itself, and the misery and suffering that befell millions at the hands of the «master race».

With a liberal nod to Claude Lanzmann's landmark documentary Shoah (1985), the foundation gathers and records the accounts of as many Holocaust survivors as possible.

Nominated for the Best Documentary Academy Award, The Restless Conscience documents a little - known story of the Holocaust - the resistance to Hitler within Nazi Germany - illuminating crucial issues of conscience and will.

Much in this wholly absorbing and poignant documentary is familiar from numerous previous Holocaust accounts, but Mago and her quiet sense of moral obligation provides a fresh perspective.

Filmmakers Danny and Jack Fisher created this straightforward documentary on their parents» experience of the Holocaust (they miraculously survived), and how that experience — as well as the holocaust itself — may have created a barrier in communication with the next geHolocaust (they miraculously survived), and how that experience — as well as the holocaust itself — may have created a barrier in communication with the next geholocaust itself — may have created a barrier in communication with the next generation.

Still, a standard exists in many people's minds, set by the Nazis» murder of the European Jews, with the result that documentaries about the Holocaust have come to seem normative.

A group of school students learn about the holocaust in the documentary Paperclips.

You can't encapsulate the horrors of the Holocaust in 80 minutes, but what the 12 interviewed survivors accomplish in the documentary «Destination Unknown» is nevertheless a vivid portrait of genocide put into practice, and its everlasting effects on...

The Rescuers (Unrated) Cross-cultural documentary follows Rwandan activist Stephanie Nyombayire's travels with British historian Sir Martin Gilbert to 15 countries to interview Holocaust survivors as well as the descendants of diplomats who had saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis.

Filming began in September 1945 and this was the first Hollywood movie to present documentary footage of the Holocaust.

There Was Once... (Unrated) Tolerance - themed documentary about a Hungarian high school teacher who recently decided to create a memorial for members of the local Jewish community totally wiped out during the Holocaust.

Keep Quiet (Unrated) Skeletons - in - the - closet documentary about an anti-Semitic, Holocaust - denying, Hungarian politician's stunning transformation after finding out not only that he's Jewish but that his maternal grandmother was an Auschwitz survivor.

It was over 10 years after the Holocaust before a film really touched on that in a meaningful way, but that film (Alain Resnais's Night and Fog) was a short documentary.

Other highlights from 2016 (and also must see films) have included the very informative and poignant documentary, «Maya Angelou and Still I Rise,» by Rita Coburn Whack and Bob Hercules; Mick Jackson's «Denial,» the gripping Holocaust denial tale with compelling performances from Rachel Weisz and Timothy Spall; Paul Verhoeven's «Elle,» with its great Isabelle Huppert performance; the remarkably thoughtful sci - fi film, «Arrival,» by Denis Villeneuve; Tom Ford's «Nocturnal Animals,» with its outstanding performances from Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon; David Mackenzie's «Hell or High Water,» this summer's sleeper hit; Cristian Mungiu's «Graduation,» winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes; and Cristi Puiu's «Sieranevada,» winner of the top prize at this year's Chicago International Film Festival.

Extras on the Criterion Blu - ray edition include a 1994 audio excerpt with Resnais and a 2009 French documentary about the Holocaust.

Blu - ray Highlight: The Blu - ray doesn't actually feature any bonus material, but the accompanying DVD version does, although the only extra of note is a documentary from 2004 that combines archival footage with survivor interviews about the Holocaust.

• Documentary: Bright Leaves; Chisholm» 72: Unbought & Unbossed; Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust; Metallica: Some Kind of Monster; Tarnation.

A promising young rookie becomes cruel and callous, using interrogation techniques he learned from documentaries about the Holocaust to humiliate and browbeat a suspected serial killer.

A pretty daunting task to get through them to say the least but I made it through Shoah, a 9 hour documentary about the Holocaust so there is hope.

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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (Unrated) Thought - provoking documentary revisiting the checkered career of Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975), the self - hating Jewish philosopher who escaped Europe during the Holocaust only to later express sympathy for Nazi war criminals like Adolph Eichmann.

In our unit about the Holocaust and human rights, we used materials from the Teaching Tolerance kit built around the Oscar - winning documentary «One Survivor Remembers.»

This documentary explores Samuel Bak's work and life through the lens of his childhood experiences in Vilna, where he was interned with his parents during the Holocaust.

Before they begin this project, they will view a documentary about a Children's Holocaust Memorial built by middle school students in Whitwell, Tennessee.

Following Facing History's unique methodology, Holocaust and Human Behavior uses readings, primary source material, and short documentary films to examine the challenging history of the Holocaust and prompt reflection on our world today.

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