Movies: Judaism

  • 1982
    P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang

    P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang (1982)

    P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang

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    Summer, 1948. 14-year-old Alan has just three wishes: that there will be lasting peace, that England will win the Ashes, and that he will finally kiss classmate Ann. So when he's cast opposite her in a play that requires a kiss and England seem to be...

    P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
  • 2020
    'Til Kingdom Come

    'Til Kingdom Come (2020)

    'Til Kingdom Come

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    Millions of American Evangelicals are praying for the State of Israel. This film traces this unusual relationship, from rural Kentucky to the halls of government in Washington, through the moving of the American Embassy in Jerusalem and to the annexa...

    'Til Kingdom Come
  • 2022
    Simchas and Sorrows

    Simchas and Sorrows (2022)

    Simchas and Sorrows

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    An atheist actress attempts to convert to Judaism to marry the man she loves....

    Simchas and Sorrows
  • 2024
    The Eichmann Trial

    The Eichmann Trial (2024)

    The Eichmann Trial

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    In 1961, history was on trial... in a trial that made history. Just 15 years after the end of WWII, the Holocaust had been largely forgotten. That changed with the capture of Adolf Eichmann, a former Nazi officer hiding in Argentina. Through rarely-s...

    The Eichmann Trial
  • 2007
    Talmud

    Talmud (2007)

    Talmud

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    In this authoritative documentary, director Pierre-Henry Salfati traces the history of the Talmud the repository of millennia of Jewish wisdom. In doing so, he posits the question: What comprises this cardinal text of Judaism? Originally passed down...

    Talmud
  • 2019
    The Ornament of the World

    The Ornament of the World (2019)

    The Ornament of the World

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    Filmed in Cordoba, Granada, Seville, and Toledo, this documentary retraces the 800-year period in medieval Spain when Muslims, Christians, and Jews forged a common cultural identity that frequently transcended their religious differences, revealing w...

    The Ornament of the World
  • 2004
    Wellstone!

    Wellstone! (2004)

    Wellstone!

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    Paul Wellstone was the charismatic Minnesota progressive who used grassroots organizing to get elected and give ordinary people a stake in government. His 3rd election campaign was cut short when his small plane crashed into the north woods of Minnes...

    Wellstone!
  • 1988
    The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick

    The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick (1988)

    The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick

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    The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy, Max Glick (Noam Zylberman) from a small Manitoba community with an overbearing family tries to navigate his coming-of-age with his family's condescension and bigotry using his sarcast...

    The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
  • 2015
    Dawn

    Dawn (2015)

    Dawn

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    The story is set in Palestine in 1947, during the British mandate period. The Zionists are fighting for the establishment of a Jewish state, and four comrades in arms pressure the young Elisha to overcome his moral qualms and fully commit to the arme...

    Dawn
  • 2022
    The Chosen One

    The Chosen One (2022)

    The Chosen One

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    After impulsively shaving off his beard and sidelocks, a young Hasidic man experiences a nightmarish transformation that leads him right back to where he started. Over the course of one painful night, Eli Eisenstein will come to realize that it’s muc...

    The Chosen One
  • 1986
    The Disputation

    The Disputation (1986)

    The Disputation

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    In 1263, King James I of Aragon organizes a debate between representatives of Judaism and Christianity regarding whether or not Jesus was the Messiah....

    The Disputation
  • 1933
    The Wandering Jew

    The Wandering Jew (1933)

    The Wandering Jew

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    Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the...

    The Wandering Jew
  • 2019
    Herod the Great: The Child Murderer of Bethlehem

    Herod the Great: The Child Murderer of Bethlehem (2019)

    Herod the Great: The Child Murderer of Bethlehem

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    An account of the reign of Herod the Great, king of Judea under the rule of the Roman Empire, remembered for having ordered, according to the Gospel of Matthew, the murder of all male infants born in Bethlehem at the time of the birth of Jesus, an un...

    Herod the Great: The Child Murderer of Bethlehem
  • 1969
    Subjection

    Subjection (1969)

    Subjection

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    Subjection
  • 2013
    Regina

    Regina (2013)

    Regina

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    The first woman rabbi in the world, Regina Jonas, comes to light, courtesy of Rachel Weisz – who plays her – and her father George Weisz, who was the executive producer for this poetic and beautiful documentary. The daughter of an Orthodox Jewish ped...

    Regina
  • 2019
    The Jewish-Roman Wars

    The Jewish-Roman Wars (2019)

    The Jewish-Roman Wars

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    In the first century, after the death of Herod the Great, Judea goes through a long period of turbulence due to the actions of the corrupt Roman governors and the internal struggles, both religious and political, between Jewish factions, events that ...

    The Jewish-Roman Wars
  • 2015
    Marching to Zion

    Marching to Zion (2015)

    Marching to Zion

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    Documentary tracing the history of the Jewish people from the destruction of the temple in AD 70 to the modern-day nation of Israel. Through scriptural and historical evidence, DNA, mathematics, and testimony from rabbis and pastors, it attempts to a...

    Marching to Zion
  • 2017
    Exit

    Exit (2017)

    Exit

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    The film accompanies two women who have left the Jewish ultra-orthdox community. While Sara is still struggling with the consequences of her pullout, Heidi is already fighting for the rights of women who have the courage to take this step....

    Exit
  • 2022
    Ari Shaffir: JEW

    Ari Shaffir: JEW (2022)

    Ari Shaffir: JEW

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    In ‘Jew,’ comic Ari Shaffir delivers a raunchy love letter to the religion he says he left behind....

    Ari Shaffir: JEW
  • 2013
    Philip Roth: Unmasked

    Philip Roth: Unmasked (2013)

    Philip Roth: Unmasked

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    Philip Roth, arguably America’s greatest living novelist, turns 80 on March 19. In 1959, his collection of short stories, Goodbye, Columbus, put him on the map, and 10 years later his hilarious, ribald best-seller, Portnoy’s Complaint, gave rise to t...

    Philip Roth: Unmasked