Islamic Culture Videotapes



Holocaust Videotapes

VHS 887 AMERICA AND THE HOLOCAUST: DECEIT AND INDIFFERENCE

color, 1994, 87 min., cc

Recounts the difficult and painful American response to the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators, beginning with the tragic events of Kristallnacht in 1938 and extending through the liberation of the death camps in 1945.

VHS 1371 ANNE FRANK: THE LIFE OF A YOUNG GIRL color, 1998, 50 min.

The story of a young Jewish girl forced into hiding with her family in Amsterdam when Hitler came to power. She left behind her diary, which has become a critical document of these times.

VHS 577 AU REVOIR, LES ENFANTS color, 1987, 103 min.

Inspired by the most tragic memory of his childhood, director Louis Malle tells the story of two boys – one Catholic, the other Jewish – and the path of their friendship as they discover the real world. In French with English subtitles.

VHS 979 THE COURAGE TO CARE color, 1986, 30 min.

The story of those few non-Jews who risked their lives to rescue and protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe.

VHS 615 THE DEMOCRAT AND THE DICTATOR color, 1988, 55 min., cc

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler personified conflicting ideologies at the root of World War II. Bill Moyers examines the parallels between these two leaders through their words and gestures.

VHS 659 IMAGE BEFORE MY EYES color, 1991, 90 min.

Traces the Jewish community in Poland from the 19th century through Hitler's rise to power.

VHS 631 KRISTALLNACHT: THE JOURNEY FROM 1938 TO 1988

color, 1988, 60 min.

Living witnesses of Crystal Night, "the night of breaking glass," recall the violence and destruction which destroyed hundreds of German and Austrian synagogues, and vandalized thousands of Jewish businesses.

VHS 827 LIBERATORS: FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS IN WORLD WAR II

color, 1992, 90 min.

The story of African-American battalions, focusing on the actions of the 761st, which spearheaded General Patton'sThird Army and helped liberate the concentration camps at Buchenwald, Dachau, and Lambach.

VHS 788 THE LONGEST HATRED: THE HISTORY OF ANTI-SEMITISM

color, 1993, 150 min., cc

Interviews with Semites and anti-Semites, prominent scholars in Europe, America, and the Middle East trace anti-Semitism from its earliest manifestations in antiquity to recent ominous outbreaks in Germany, Russia, and elsewhere.

VHS 130 THE NAZIS STRIKE b/w, 1942, 42 min.

Documentary of the German military machine as it rolled across Eastern Europe during World War II. Composed in large part of newsreel footage, an excellent example of the U.S. Department of War’s skillful use of propaganda.

VHS 132 NIGHT AND FOG color, 1955, 32 min.

Award-winning short film using actual black and white footage shot inside Hitler's concentration camps, contrasting sharply with beautiful contemporary color scenes of the death camps ten years after the carnage ended. A surreal journey of horror, written by a novelist who survived his own incarceration. In French with English subtitles.

DVD 120 PARAGRAPH 175 color, 2000, 81 min.

Using archival film and family photographs, this documentary examines the Nazis’ barbarous treatment of homosexuals from 1933 until the end of World War II.

DVD 174 THE PIANIST color, 2003, 149 min.

In this acclaimed effort, Holocaust survivor Roman Polanski tells the true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a popular classical musician who encounters the horrors of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw during World War II.

VHS 866 RAOUL WALLENBERG: BETWEEN THE LINES color, 1984, 85 min.

The Swedish Christian diplomat whose volunteer mission to Hungary saved some 100,000 Jews from certain Nazi extermination.

VHS 1225 SCHINDLER’S LIST, Parts 1 and 2 color, 1994, 197 min., cc

The true story of Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, who saved the lives of more than 1100 Jews during the Holocaust.

DVD 195 SHOAH, Parts 1-4 color, 570 min.

The Nazi extermination of Jews is examined through interviews with survivors, witnesses and perpetrators, and through footage of the sites of the death camps as they appear today.

DVD 112 TRIUMPH OF THE WILL b/w, 2001, 120 min.

Commissioned by Goebbels, Leni Riefenstahl’s stunning mix of cinematography and creative editing portrays a fascinating – and ultimately horrific – look at Hitler’s rise to power. Includes her short film, Day of Freedom.

VHS 842 "THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE US FREE" color, 1993, 51 min.

Exposes the resurgence of Nazism in Germany and the growing threat of its international movement.

Kenneth Schlesinger

Library Media Resources Center

LaGuardia Community College

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