jewish films

Claude Lanzmann, filmmaker behind famed Holocaust documentary ‘Shoah,’ dies at 92

The French Jew's exhaustive focus on survivor testimony changed the way the genocide was depicted on screen and in collective memory.

Drug abuse, shame and the Holocaust figure in film about family of notorious Dutch lawyers

A new film offers a revealing look inside a successful but dysfunctional family that has fallen from grace in a country and community traumatized by the Holocaust.

In ‘Dough,’ London Jewish director serves bittersweet comedy on racism

Sign of the (high) times: John Goldschmidt's feature film tackles pot-laced challah, xenophobia and racism with a hearty serving of laughs.

Lifestyle

Douglas Slocombe, British cinematographer who filmed Nazi invasion of Poland, dies at 103

Global

Bucharest Jewish film festival expands to four Romanian cities

Culture

With Oscar win, time to revisit Hans Landa and ‘Inglourious Basterds’

Culture

Oscars night could be glorious for Israeli, Jewish-themed films

Culture

Israeli film, Jewish-themed films up for Oscars

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