De wetenschapper J. Robert Oppenheimer leidt het zeer geheime Manhattanproject. Onder meer de Hongaarse wetenschapper Edward Teller, die de waterstofbom uitvindt, werkt eraan mee. Oppenheimer is getrouwd met Katherine, maar heeft een affaire met Jean Tatlock, een lid van de Communistische Partij. De overheid acht haar gevaarlijk voor de belangen van de Amerikaanse veiligheid. Oppenheimer is uiteindelijk verantwoordelijk voor de uitvinding van de atoombom.
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.
Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.
December 1944: de oorlog is zo goed als verloren. Toch wil de Duitse minister van propaganda, Joseph Goebbels het nog niet opgeven. Op nieuwjaarsdag moet de Führer nog eenmaal de mensenmassa moed inspreken. Maar er is één probleem: de Führer kan het niet. Ziek en depressief mijdt hij de openbaarheid. Er is maar één persoon die hem helpen kan; de voormalige toneelspeler Professor Adolf Grünbaum, een jood.
Wanneer indie -strippersonage Pepe de kikker een onwetende icoon van haat wordt, vecht zijn maker, kunstenaar Matt Furie, om Pepe terug te brengen van de duisternis en te navigeren in de culturele kloof van Amerika.
Ever Again examines the sweeping resurgence of antisemitism in 21st century Europe and its connection to global terrorism.
Filmjournalist en criticus Rüdiger Suchsland onderzoekt de Duitse cinema vanaf 1933, toen de nazi's aan de macht kwamen, tot 1945, toen het Derde Rijk instortte. (Een vervolg op Van Caligari tot Hitler, 2015.)
Italy, after the promulgation of the racial laws (1938). Luciano, a Fascist-abiding restaurateur, nonetheless believes he can still live by his own rules inside his business. However, everything changes when Anna, a girl with a dangerous secret, starts to work at his restaurant.
Vienna 1910 is a 1943 German biographical film directed by Emerich Walter Emo and starring Rudolf Forster, Heinrich George and Lil Dagover. It is based on the life of Mayor of Vienna Karl Lueger. Its antisemitic content led to it being banned by the Allied Occupation forces following the Second World War.
Hamburg, Duitsland, 1939. Een overtocht met het passagiersschip St. Louis lijkt de laatste hoop op redding voor meer dan negenhonderd Duitse joden die, wanhopig om te ontsnappen aan de gruwelijke vervolging waaraan ze door het nazi-regime worden onderworpen, van plan zijn naar Cuba te emigreren.
Nazi volgelingen hebben hun zinnen gezet op een relikwie dat volgens hun de terugkeer kan betekenen van het Derde Rijk. Buiten de Nazi volgelingen zijn ook verschillende andere groepen op jacht. Ieder voor hun eigen doeleinden.
Chaja Florentin and Mimi Frons have been best friends for 83 years. Born and raised in Berlin, they had to escape from the Nazis to Palestine with their families in 1934. They talk about their complicated relationship with Berlin in a Tel Aviv café where they meet everyday. A film about friendship, homeland and identity.
Paris, 1940. German occupation forces create a new film production company, Continental, and put Alfred Greven – producer, cinephile, and opportunistic businessman – in charge. During the occupation, under Joseph Goebbels’s orders, Greven hires the best artists and technicians of French cinema to produce successful, highly entertaining films, which are also strategically devoid of propaganda. Simultaneously, he takes advantage of the confiscation of Jewish property to purchase film theaters, studios and laboratories, in order to control the whole production line. His goal: to create a European Hollywood. Among the thirty feature films thus produced under the auspices of Continental, several are, to this day, considered classics of French cinema.
Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by the Germans, are gathered in Vilnius to be classified, either to be stored or to be destroyed. A group of Jewish scholars and writers, commissioned by the invaders to carry out the sorting operations, but reluctant to collaborate and determined to save their legacy, hide many books in the ghetto where they are confined. This is the epic story of the Paper Brigade.
An elderly Jewish woman, who was a teenager during the outset of the Holocaust and was forced to choose between her own life and her younger brother's, still lives with the guilt until she finally shares her nightmare experience with her own adult daughter.
January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish doctors. He organizes the most violent anti-Semitic campaign ever launched in the USSR, by fabricating the "Doctors' Plot," whereby doctors are charged with conspiring to murder the highest dignitaries of the Soviet Regime. Still unknown and untold, this conspiracy underlines the climax of a political scheme successfully masterminded by Stalin to turn the Jews into the new enemies of the people. It reveals his extreme paranoia and his compulsion to manipulate those around him. The children and friends of the main victims recount for the first time their experience and their distress related to these nightmarish events.
A winemaker overcomes the ignorance and illiteracy of his era to become a Torah commentator who defends the right to spiritual choice and freedom in the 11th century.
He is considered to be one of the greatest German film stars, Hans Albers, known as "Der blonde Hans", a man made for the cinema. He was an actor, singer, idol of the Germans - and darling of the Nazis. Nevertheless, he could not protect his great love, the Jewess Hansi Burg. In 1938 she had to flee to London from anti-Semitism in Germany. But Albers himself stayed in Germany and continued to film, driven by a desire for a career and the call of money. In 1946, one year after the end of the Second World War, they meet again: Hansi Burg returns to the land of the murderers of her parents in the uniform of the British Army and visits Hans Albers in his villa on Lake Starnberg. He lives there with another woman. The rival has to go, then there is a tense debate. For a day and a night, the blonde Hans has to face uncomfortable questions and even more uncomfortable truths.