Movies: Judaism

  • 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
  • 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
  • 2014
    Words with Gods

    Words with Gods (2014)

    Words with Gods

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    The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the world's most exciting directors, Words with Gods follows the theme of religion - specifically as it rel...

    Words with Gods
  • 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
  • 2013
    Regina

    Regina (2013)

    Regina

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    The first woman rabbi in the world, Regina Jonas, comes to light, courtesy of Rachel Weisz – who plays her – and her father George Weisz, who was the executive producer for this poetic and beautiful documentary. The daughter of an Orthodox Jewish ped...

    Regina
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2024
    The Eichmann Trial

    The Eichmann Trial (2024)

    The Eichmann Trial

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    In 1961, history was on trial... in a trial that made history. Just 15 years after the end of WWII, the Holocaust had been largely forgotten. That changed with the capture of Adolf Eichmann, a former Nazi officer hiding in Argentina. Through rarely-s...

    The Eichmann Trial
  • 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
  • 2020
    Eight Nights

    Eight Nights (2020)

    Eight Nights

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    After years as a struggling actor, Daniel was cast to play a part in Conan O'Brien's "human-centipede-menorah." His bizarre experience evolved from one of shame into a deepening connection with his personal heritage, a reckoning with the choices he'd...

    Eight Nights
  • 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
  • 2013
    Philip Roth: Unmasked

    Philip Roth: Unmasked (2013)

    Philip Roth: Unmasked

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    Philip Roth, arguably America’s greatest living novelist, turns 80 on March 19. In 1959, his collection of short stories, Goodbye, Columbus, put him on the map, and 10 years later his hilarious, ribald best-seller, Portnoy’s Complaint, gave rise to t...

    Philip Roth: Unmasked
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2024
    Finding Mashiach

    Finding Mashiach (2024)

    Finding Mashiach

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    Jewish people have waited for the arrival of the Messiah for thousands of years. Join Berel Solomon on an action-packed new movie called Finding Mashiach. An adventure to the land of Israel and beyond to find the Moshiach. Amid the war in Israel and...

    Finding Mashiach
  • 2005
    The Tribe

    The Tribe (2005)

    The Tribe

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    An unorthodox, unauthorized history of the Jewish people and the Barbie doll....

    The Tribe
  • 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
  • 2019
    The Jewish-Roman Wars

    The Jewish-Roman Wars (2019)

    The Jewish-Roman Wars

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    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 governors and the internal struggles, both religious and political, between Jewish factions, events that ...

    The Jewish-Roman Wars
  • 2005
    Rambam - The Story of Maimonides

    Rambam - The Story of Maimonides (2005)

    Rambam - The Story of Maimonides

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    Rambam was born in Cordova, Spain in the 12th century. Known as the "Nesher Gadol" the "Great Eagle" - Rambam had the unique ability to see and perceive, with insight and clarity, the "big picture" - and man's relationship to the Divine. He was the f...

    Rambam - The Story of Maimonides