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Adventures of a Mathematician

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A brilliant Polish-Jewish scientist struggles with wartime loss and prophetic moral dilemmas at the dawn of the nuclear age, in this tantalizing account of the top-secret Manhattan Project.
Genre 
Narrative
Running Time 
102 minutes

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Antisemitism

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Tracing centuries of insidious hatred, this substantive inquest reveals the evolution of anti-Semitism in France.
Genre 
Documentary
Running Time 
120 minutes

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Atlanta: The City Too Busy to Wait

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Capturing the can-do spirit of a community tested by adversity, this moving look at the COVID-19 pandemic tells how Jewish Atlanta responded with unprecedented charity and creativity.
Genre 
Documentary
Running Time 
61 minutes

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A Crime on the Bayou

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A young, white Jewish attorney defends an unjustly accused Black teen in this landmark Civil Rights-era case.
Genre 
Documentary
Running Time 
91 minutes

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I Am Here

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On her 98th birthday, a spirited South African Holocaust survivor reveals to her family her astonishing life journey.
Genre 
Documentary
Running Time 
73 minutes

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The Invisible Line: America's Nazi Experiment

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In this timely reassessment of a Nazi indoctrination experiment gone awry, participants swept up in the so-called Third Wave discuss insights from the infamous 1967 California case.
Genre 
Documentary
Running Time 
53 minutes

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Soros

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Demystifying the controversial financier who dares to tackle global problems, this biography illuminates one of the world’s richest philanthropists.
Genre 
Documentary
Running Time 
85 minutes

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A Starry Sky Above the Roman Ghetto

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The discovery of a puzzling photograph sparks a student to probe the history of Rome’s Jewish ghetto and the fate of a little girl, in this Italian teen drama interlacing past and present.
Genre 
Narrative
Running Time 
100 minutes

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They Ain't Ready For Me

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A force to be reckoned with, an energetic African-American rabbinical student hits the streets in a grassroots effort to save the ignored people of Chicago’s South Side.
Genre 
Documentary
Running Time 
88 minutes

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'Til Kingdom Come

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Emmy-winning Israeli filmmaker Maya Zinshtein examines the dubious alliance between Trump-supporting evangelicals and Israel’s right-wing factions.
Genre 
Documentary
Running Time 
76 minutes

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