Documentary, Not Rated. Running time: 1 hour 33 min. Our star rating (1-5) 5 Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and …
Hanged on a Twisted Cross (1996)
The Life, Convictions and Martyrdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Running time: 2 hours. This two-hour documentary would be an excellent resource in accompaniment with the PBS dramatic film we reviewed in the last issue—Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace. This is a first class production with lots of archival newsreels of the Nazi era and specially filmed …
Jakob the Liar (1999)
Jakob, a mild-mannered Jew in a Polish ghetto hides a girl escaped from a train & makes up stories about Allied victories, bringing hope to fellow prisoners.
Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace (2000)
A true story of the German pastor Bonhoeffer who was killed after he joined the underground against Hitler. His ideas & writings influence believers today.
The German Doctor (2013)
When a mysterious German doctor arrives in a small Argentinean village, takes an interest in a girl with stunted growth & experiments on her, no one aware of his evil past–that he is the Nazi Dr. Mengele whose gruesome experiments on concentration camp victims earned him the title “Angel of Death.”
Into the Arms of Strangers (2000)
Unlike Americans, the British welcomed 10,000 children of Jewish parents right before WW 2, thus saving them from the fate of almost all of their parents.
ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED (1995)
The full story of Anne Frank is told through interviews, excerpts from her diary, photos, & old film, revealing a talented writer whose life ended too
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
A fictionalized account of the Nuremberg Nazi war crime trials, this emphasizes the theme of accountability.
NUREMBERG (2000)
The docudrama of the Nuremberg Trials, presided over by Justice Jackson, is the story of how the infamous Nazi top echelon were at last brought to justice.
The Music Box (1989)
A lawyer daughter defends her respected father of charges of being a war criminal, a killer of Jewish women & children back in Hungary during the Nazi era.