DVD promotional release
April 11th is Holocaust Remembrance Day.
First Run Features has a number of films that examine and reflect on the events of the Holocaust, a selection of which is included here all are specially priced through April 30, 2010.
LINKS: http://firstrunfeatures.com/jewishexperience_holocaust.html
http://echo.bluehornet.com/ct/3358193:1737263185:m:3:66232253:253FFD2AC8413762EE606D9141CD9AB4
VERDICT ON AUSCHWITZ
Using excerpts from the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, the filmmakers bring to life the investigation, the courtroom drama and the verdict in this historic trial involving perpetrators of the "Final Solution."
HOUSE OF LIFE
House of Life tells the story of The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague and chronicles its history which is rich in lore, mysticism, tradition and philosophy.
THE NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS
After seizing power, the Nazis began their crusade against Jews with discriminatory laws and looting; they turned to violence openly in what has come to be known as Kristallnacht.
THE TOP SECRET TRIAL OF THE THIRD REICH
Through authentic footage of the 1944 trial of the men who conspired to assassinate Hitler, this astonishing film sheds light on the anti-Nazi resistance.
HOWLING WITH THE ANGELS
When Hitler's army marched into Prague in 1938, Jan Bodon, a young Czech captain with a secret was "asked" to join the Nazis. He promptly fled and joined the Czech Resistance Movement instead.
LAST DANCE
Mirra Bank's award-winning film follows the dazzling Pilobolus Dance Theater and Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are) as they collaborate on a dance-theater work honoring a Holocaust legacy.
WE WERE SO BELOVED
Between 1933 and 1941 thousands of Jews fled Nazi Germany and Austria for America. Leaving behind family, more than 20,000 of them came together in Washington Heights in New York City.
CONSTANTINE'S SWORD
This astonishing film follows former priest James Carroll on a journey of remembrance and reckoning as he discovers a terrible legacy that reverberates across the centuries.
GOOD EVENING, MR. WALLENBERG
The story of Swedish businessman Raoul Wallenberg who helped Jews in Budapest, Hungary in 1944 obtain Swedish passports to get them out of Eichmann's deadly path.
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
The Unknown Soldier documents Germany's controversial Wehrmacht Exhibition, which for the first time ever revealed the personal letters, photographs and footage implicating the common foot soldier in horrific acts.
HIDING AND SEEKING
This award-winning documentary tells the dramatic and emotional story of a Jewish father who journeys with his two utlra-orthodox sons back to Poland to try to find the Christian farmers who hid their family from the Nazis.
THE GOEBBELS EXPERIMENT
Kenneth Branagh reads from the diaries of Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. A rare and chilling glimpse into a brilliant but toxic mind.
FORGIVING DR. MENGELE
Eva Kor and her sister were victims of the infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele at Auschwitz. Haunted ever since, something shocking occurs: Eva finds the power to forgive him. But not everyone is ready to forgive the unforgivable.
April 11th is Holocaust Remembrance Day.
First Run Features has a number of films that examine and reflect on the events of the Holocaust, a selection of which is included here all are specially priced through April 30, 2010.
LINKS: http://firstrunfeatures.com/jewishexperience_holocaust.html
http://echo.bluehornet.com/ct/3358193:1737263185:m:3:66232253:253FFD2AC8413762EE606D9141CD9AB4
VERDICT ON AUSCHWITZ
Using excerpts from the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, the filmmakers bring to life the investigation, the courtroom drama and the verdict in this historic trial involving perpetrators of the "Final Solution."
HOUSE OF LIFE
House of Life tells the story of The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague and chronicles its history which is rich in lore, mysticism, tradition and philosophy.
THE NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS
After seizing power, the Nazis began their crusade against Jews with discriminatory laws and looting; they turned to violence openly in what has come to be known as Kristallnacht.
THE TOP SECRET TRIAL OF THE THIRD REICH
Through authentic footage of the 1944 trial of the men who conspired to assassinate Hitler, this astonishing film sheds light on the anti-Nazi resistance.
HOWLING WITH THE ANGELS
When Hitler's army marched into Prague in 1938, Jan Bodon, a young Czech captain with a secret was "asked" to join the Nazis. He promptly fled and joined the Czech Resistance Movement instead.
LAST DANCE
Mirra Bank's award-winning film follows the dazzling Pilobolus Dance Theater and Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are) as they collaborate on a dance-theater work honoring a Holocaust legacy.
WE WERE SO BELOVED
Between 1933 and 1941 thousands of Jews fled Nazi Germany and Austria for America. Leaving behind family, more than 20,000 of them came together in Washington Heights in New York City.
CONSTANTINE'S SWORD
This astonishing film follows former priest James Carroll on a journey of remembrance and reckoning as he discovers a terrible legacy that reverberates across the centuries.
GOOD EVENING, MR. WALLENBERG
The story of Swedish businessman Raoul Wallenberg who helped Jews in Budapest, Hungary in 1944 obtain Swedish passports to get them out of Eichmann's deadly path.
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
The Unknown Soldier documents Germany's controversial Wehrmacht Exhibition, which for the first time ever revealed the personal letters, photographs and footage implicating the common foot soldier in horrific acts.
HIDING AND SEEKING
This award-winning documentary tells the dramatic and emotional story of a Jewish father who journeys with his two utlra-orthodox sons back to Poland to try to find the Christian farmers who hid their family from the Nazis.
THE GOEBBELS EXPERIMENT
Kenneth Branagh reads from the diaries of Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. A rare and chilling glimpse into a brilliant but toxic mind.
FORGIVING DR. MENGELE
Eva Kor and her sister were victims of the infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele at Auschwitz. Haunted ever since, something shocking occurs: Eva finds the power to forgive him. But not everyone is ready to forgive the unforgivable.