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- 95-year-old Polish heroine Irena Sendler tells the unknown story of a conspiracy of women who outwitted the Nazis and rescued thousands of Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto during WWII.
- This documentary recounts the activities of Jan Karski (1914-2000), a Catholic member of Poland's underground Home Army in World War II. He voluntarily entered the Warsaw Ghetto and a Nazi camp to witness the murder of Europe's Jews.
- Lisa Herdahl, a Mississippi mother of six, is forced to sue her public school district in order to have The Bible removed from her childrens' classrooms.
- One who doesn't have roots won't be able to grow wings-a documentary project about a man tracking his origins to the Middle East and establishing a connection with his father, whom he have never met before.
- a Holocaust survivor who returns to places from his childhood as well as different hiding places in his struggle to survive.
- Tells the dramatic story of Stanislav Petrov, the Russian officer who, in 1983, saved the world from atomic war.
- African-American residents in Norco, Louisiana, who believe that increasing pollution is negatively impacting their health, demand to be relocated from under the shadow of a Shell oil refinery.
- A documentary that tells the story of Eunice Baker, a borderline mentally retarded woman who was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for murdering a young child, despite evidence that the death was accidental. After nearly 5 years in prison, The New York State Appellate Court recently reduced Eunice's sentence to criminally negligent homicide, and she was released on time served.
- Before WWII, Lapy was a town of about 4000 residents, among them some 630 Jews. In the summer of 1943 the Nazis began the last transportations of Jews from the Bialystok region to the Treblinka death camp.
- Regular people, many of whom witnessed the World Trade Center attacks in New York City, describe where they were, what they felt and the actions they took on that day.
- The film's title Don't cry when I'm gone comes from the popular song, performed by the Italian singer Marino Marini who visited Poland in the 60s. The lyrics were written by Wanda Sieradzka, the author of many Polish pop hits. This film is about her - a woman who survived the historical turmoil, Warsaw Ghetto and miraculously avoided annihilation by the Nazis to build a great artistic career in a postwar Poland. The story of Wanda's extraordinary life is being told by her friends and her only son, who got back home after years of living abroad to look for the traces of his mother's past. Don't cry when I'm gone is a documentary directed by Slawomir Grünberg, EMMY Award winner, the creator of critically acclaimed Karski and The Lords of Humanity.
- Dr. Halina Rotstein, a dedicated doctor, left medicine for a few years to bring up 4 children after marrying a wealthy Polish-Jewish industrialist, before being drawn back into medicine by the urgency of the Second World War.
- He escaped from the Treblinka concentration camp, along with 400 other Jews who successfully fought back against their Nazi captors. (Only 67 of them survived the war.) Now Samuel Willenberg has gone back to Poland to try to understand his life and fathom the motives, feelings and prejudices of the Poles who both helped and hindered him. A subtle evocation of Polish-Jewish relations, and of one man's determination to make something meaningful out of his survival.
- Blind Love follows six blind Israelis who travel to Poland as part of the annual March of the Living, with their guide dogs. The see visit sites where Jewish life and culture once thrived as well as the sites of the tragic murder of millions of Jews. On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the blind participant's march with their guide dogs from Auschwitz-Birkenau. Symbolically, they march with dogs her are their friends and guides when during the Holocaust dogs were used by the Nazis to intimidate and attack Jewish prisoners.
- Mayer Kirshenblatt left Poland for Canada in 1934. Fifty-six years later, at age 73 Mayer began to paint his childhood memories of prewar life in Opatow. Before Second World War Opatow (or Apt in Yiddish) had 10 thousand inhabitants, more than half of them Jewish. Nowadays, little is remembered of the shtetl character of the town and of its Jewish population wiped out entirely by the Holocaust. When in the summer of 2007 91 year old Mayer came to Opatow and organized a public showing of the images he paints, he was welcomed with incredible enthusiasm. The town officials were astounded by the reaction of the crowd, as no event had ever attracted so many people, who simply could not get enough of Mayer's stories about a lost Jewish world. Today, there are no Jews living in Opatow and there are hardly any signs of its Jewish heritage. Mayer was born in 1916. His nickname as a boy was 'Tamez', in Yiddish 'July', which more bluntly meant 'crazy' for people get a little crazy when it is hot - Mayer recounts - and it was always hot in July. So Mayer was an excitable hyperactive kid. He completed seven grades of Polish school and immigrated to Canada at age 17. He ended up opening his own wallpaper and paint store in Toronto. After he retired over 20 years ago, his daughter Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, as well as other members of the family, began urging him to tell and paint whatever he could remember of his childhood. The images yielded by his memory exceeded everyone's expectations, probably including his own. Mayer's photographic memory allowed him to meticulously recreate Jewish life in Opatow, as it was before the war. He remembers every house, every store, and every street. He remembers all his friends and teachers. But, more importantly, this self-taught artist has found a medium to capture and to share his personal narrative of a world, which is no more. Mayer painted over 300 large-format paintings on canvas. Each one of them is a story in itself. Through these stories the rich history of his shtetl comes to life many decades later. In his spare time Mayer joggs and works out. He speaks fluent Polish, English and Yiddish, and his energy and sense of humor are beyond remarkable. In this film the audience is taken on a journey through a world, which existed 80 and 70 years ago, and back to the world, in which Mayer Kirshenblatt lives today. We witness how the local population in Opatow interacts with perhaps the first Jew they ever meet - a person who represents a heritage so central in the history of the place, and yet so obscure to the people who live there today. Just as the people of contemporary Opatow, the viewer are introduced to a rich and vibrant world of Jewish rituals, celebrations and sorrows, holidays and funerals, trade and poverty - all this told and painted by an eye-witness, one of the very few remaining descendants of a lost civilization. The film takes us to Toronto, where Mayer lives today, to New York, where together with his daughter they launch a book/album of his paintings and stories, but also to Opatow (Apt), where he turns out to be a true sensation and is enthusiastically received by the crowd. The camera follows Mayer during his daily routine, at his home with his family, his daughters, and his beloved wife who does not always recognize him, due to poor health. We accompany Mayer in his studio as he starts a new painting and as he shows us his numerous works. In New York we see a lively discussion between Mayer and his daughter Barbara, as she tries to retrieve every possible detail about prewar Opatow. Former inhabitants from Opatow show up at the book launch in New York. Once again, Mayer's work is welcomed as a true phenomenon. In Opatow, Mayer takes us around the town, remembering every square, alley, and backyard. As we walk along the streets of his hometown, we see what once was a synagogue and is now a piece of wall sticking from the ground on someone's yard, and what once was a Jewish cemetery and is now a children's playground. Incidentally, we end up finding a matzevah (Jewish tombstone), which is used today by a farmer as a tool sharpener. Nevertheless, Mayer's vigor and sense of humor seem unshakable. As he runs into people his age he immediately provokes everyone to recall every last prewar memory they may have - about the school, about teachers, tailors, or thieves.
- Winds scattered the heaviest radioactive deposits across the tiny country in Belarus, where, even after a decade, 25% of the land is judged uninhabitable. Thousands of villages and towns were abandoned or evacuated.
- This is the story about a great friendship, six living in a two-bedroom apartment, and selling peanuts in Manhattan.
- A 75 year old painting in one apartment becomes an investigation into the power of memory, art, time and resilience. An ode to the lost generations of Jewish Lodz, in three completely different eras. One Painting. A Century of Jewish Life.