Movies: Judaism

  • 1988
    The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick

    The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick (1988)

    The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick

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    The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy, Max Glick (Noam Zylberman) from a small Manitoba community with an overbearing family tries to navigate his coming-of-age with his family's condescension and bigotry using his sarcast...

    The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
  • 1982
    P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang

    P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang (1982)

    P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang

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    Summer, 1948. 14-year-old Alan has just three wishes: that there will be lasting peace, that England will win the Ashes, and that he will finally kiss classmate Ann. So when he's cast opposite her in a play that requires a kiss and England seem to be...

    P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
  • 2007
    Talmud

    Talmud (2007)

    Talmud

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    In this authoritative documentary, director Pierre-Henry Salfati traces the history of the Talmud the repository of millennia of Jewish wisdom. In doing so, he posits the question: What comprises this cardinal text of Judaism? Originally passed down...

    Talmud
  • 2004
    Wellstone!

    Wellstone! (2004)

    Wellstone!

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    Paul Wellstone was the charismatic Minnesota progressive who used grassroots organizing to get elected and give ordinary people a stake in government. His 3rd election campaign was cut short when his small plane crashed into the north woods of Minnes...

    Wellstone!
  • 2010
    Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story

    Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story (2010)

    Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story

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    Actor Dustin Hoffman narrates this decade-spanning documentary that highlights the contributions of Jewish Americans to the most American sport of them all: baseball. Highlights include a rare interview with legendary pitcher Sandy Koufax....

    Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story
  • 2015
    Dawn

    Dawn (2015)

    Dawn

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    The story is set in Palestine in 1947, during the British mandate period. The Zionists are fighting for the establishment of a Jewish state, and four comrades in arms pressure the young Elisha to overcome his moral qualms and fully commit to the arme...

    Dawn
  • 1933
    The Wandering Jew

    The Wandering Jew (1933)

    The Wandering Jew

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    Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the...

    The Wandering Jew
  • 2018
    Seder-Masochism

    Seder-Masochism (2018)

    Seder-Masochism

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    Loosely following a traditional Passover Seder, events from the Book of Exodus are retold by Moses, Aharon, the Angel of Death, Jesus, and the director's own father. But there's another side to this story: that of the Goddess, humankind's original de...

    Seder-Masochism
  • 2019
    The Ornament of the World

    The Ornament of the World (2019)

    The Ornament of the World

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    Filmed in Cordoba, Granada, Seville, and Toledo, this documentary retraces the 800-year period in medieval Spain when Muslims, Christians, and Jews forged a common cultural identity that frequently transcended their religious differences, revealing w...

    The Ornament of the World
  • 1990
    The Last Marranos

    The Last Marranos (1990)

    The Last Marranos

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    Despite being forcibly converted to Christianity in 1497 many of the Jews of Portugal continued to practice Judaism in secret. Today, residents of the village of Belmonte practice an amalgam of Christian and Jewish rituals....

    The Last Marranos
  • 2020
    'Til Kingdom Come

    'Til Kingdom Come (2020)

    'Til Kingdom Come

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    Millions of American Evangelicals are praying for the State of Israel. This film traces this unusual relationship, from rural Kentucky to the halls of government in Washington, through the moving of the American Embassy in Jerusalem and to the annexa...

    'Til Kingdom Come
  • 2003
    Mendy

    Mendy (2003)

    Mendy

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    Mendy is a young Brookyln Hasid who leaves the strict rules of his insular and repressive community to join his childhood friend, Yankel, who is living securlary in Manhattan. Mendy's struggle to integrate his faith and traditions with the modern wor...

    Mendy
  • 1998
    A Life Apart: Hasidism in America

    A Life Apart: Hasidism in America (1998)

    A Life Apart: Hasidism in America

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    A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, is the first in-depth documentary about a distinctive, traditional Eastern European religious community. In an historic migration after World War II, Hasidism found it's most vital center in America. Both challengin...

    A Life Apart: Hasidism in America
  • 2022
    Ari Shaffir: JEW

    Ari Shaffir: JEW (2022)

    Ari Shaffir: JEW

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    In ‘Jew,’ comic Ari Shaffir delivers a raunchy love letter to the religion he says he left behind....

    Ari Shaffir: JEW
  • 1986
    The Disputation

    The Disputation (1986)

    The Disputation

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    In 1263, King James I of Aragon organizes a debate between representatives of Judaism and Christianity regarding whether or not Jesus was the Messiah....

    The Disputation
  • 2022
    Simchas and Sorrows

    Simchas and Sorrows (2022)

    Simchas and Sorrows

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    An atheist actress attempts to convert to Judaism to marry the man she loves....

    Simchas and Sorrows
  • 2016
    Rabbi Wolff

    Rabbi Wolff (2016)

    Rabbi Wolff

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    William Wolff is nearly 90 and perhaps the most unconventional rabbi in the world. As the State Rabbi of North-East Germany, he looks after the Jewish Communities in Schwerin and Rostock, but still lives in a bungalow near Henley-on-Thames. Midweek ...

    Rabbi Wolff
  • 2015
    Marching to Zion

    Marching to Zion (2015)

    Marching to Zion

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    Documentary tracing the history of the Jewish people from the destruction of the temple in AD 70 to the modern-day nation of Israel. Through scriptural and historical evidence, DNA, mathematics, and testimony from rabbis and pastors, it attempts to a...

    Marching to Zion
  • 2019
    Herod the Great: The Child Murderer of Bethlehem

    Herod the Great: The Child Murderer of Bethlehem (2019)

    Herod the Great: The Child Murderer of Bethlehem

    6.52019HD

    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 of Matthew, the murder of all male infants born in Bethlehem at the time of the birth of Jesus, an un...

    Herod the Great: The Child Murderer of Bethlehem
  • 2024
    Ady Steg, un parcours juif, une histoire française

    Ady Steg, un parcours juif, une histoire française (2024)

    Ady Steg, un parcours juif, une histoire française

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    Ady Steg, un parcours juif, une histoire française