Spike Lee's movie offers a needed challenge to the simplistic historical understanding of the civil rights era, writes the author of "Black Power, Jewish Politics."
The new documentary Red Trees is unlike any Holocaust film we’ve seen. Visually stunning, it is filmmaker Marina Willer’s loving, poetic tribute to her father, Alfred, whose Jewish family was among the last dozen to survive Nazi-occupied Prague during World War II. While Willer intimately recounts a disrupted childhood, colorful, light-filled images of rippling waves, […]