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• Salaam Shalom (Indian Jewry)

• Sabbath in Paradise

• Safe Men

• Saidi at the American University (Heneidi)

• Saint Clara Click here to buy: Saint Clara/Personal Goals

• Sallah Shabati

• Sallah Shabati, 2nd listing

• SAMUEL BAK: PAINTER OF QUESTIONS

• The Sandak - The grandfather

• SANHEDRIN

• Sane - Insane

• SARAH SILVERMAN: JESUS IS MAGIC

• Say Amen

• Saturday Night Live (selected skits)

• Saving Silverman

• Saved

• Saved by Deportation

• SAZ

• Set me free / Emporte-Moi

• Say I'm A Jew

• Saturdays and Holidays

• Saturdays and Holidays (2)

• Say Amen! // Tagid Amen

• Scottsboro: An American Tragedy

• Schindler's List Click here to buy: Schindler's List from Amazon.com

• The School of the Empire (A Birodalom iskolája)

• School Ties Click here to: rent or buy from Amazon.com

• The School

• Schmelvis. SEARCHING FOR THE KING'S JEWISH ROOTS

• The School Photo

• Sea Horses / Susei Yam (Israel)

• Searching for Baghdad: A Daughter's Journey

• The Second Coming (SciFi)

• Second Watch

• The Secret / Hasod

• The Secret / Hasod

• Security Groove

• Seder Trek

• Send Me Angel (Shlah Li Mal'ah)

• Sendler's List

• Sentimental Grotesque

• Seth's Aunts

• The Settlers (doc)

• THE SETTLERS

• The Self-Made Man

• Sentenced to Marriage

• The Seventh Day El Septimo Dia (Argentina)

• The Seventh Million

• 17 - 23 (40 Things Your Have To Go Through)

• 17 Rue Saint Fiacre

• Shabazi

• Shabbos Goy

• Shalom Abu Bassem

• The Shadow of Your Smile / Hatzel Shel Hachiuch Shelchah

• Shalom, My Dream

• Shalom Bombay

• Shalom Y'All

• Click this to buy Shalom Sesame Street, Volume 1 - The Land of Israel

• Click this to rent or buy Shalom Sesame Street, Volume 2 - Tel Aviv

• Click this to rent or buy Shalom Sesame Street, Volume 3 - Kibbutz

• Click this to buy Shalom Sesame Street, Volume 4 - People of Israel

• Click this to rent or buy Shalom Sesame Street, Volume 5 - Jerusalem

• Click this to rent or buy Shalom Sesame Street, Volume 6 - Chanukkah from Reel.com

• Click this to rent or buy Shalom Sesame Street, Volume 7 - Sing Around the Seasons from Reel.com

• Click this to rent or buy Shalom Sesame Street, Volume 8 - Journey to Secret Places from Reel.com

• Click this to rent or buy Shalom Sesame Street, Volume 9 - Aleph Bet Telethon from Reel.com

• Click this to rent or buy Shalom Sesame Street, Volume 10 - Passover from Reel.com

• Click this to rent or buy Shalom Sesame Street, Volume 11 - Kids Sing Israel from Reel.com

• Shama / Yonder

• Shanghai Ghetto

• Shattered Dreams

• Shattered Dreams of Peace

• The Shealtiels

• The Shiva Call (Wm Shatner)

• Shoah Click here to: to buy

• Sh'chur

• Shine

• SHEM

• Shine - An Exemplary Israeli Citizen

• Shiva for My Mother: Seven Days of Mourning

• SHOES FROM AMERICA / BOTINKI IZ AMERIKA

• Shofar (Israel TV)

• Voices of the Heartland - Shofar

• Voices of the Heartland - the series including MOTHER V, POKER FACE, SLAVES OF THE LORD, Shofar (Zakuta), Three Fingers, It Was great, Buchachi, Caravan 841,

• Sholom Moscow

• Shooting Lily

• Shooting Under Fire

• The Shop on Main Street (1965) Click here to buy: The Shop on Main Street

• Short

• Shortbus

• SHOWBIZ RABBI

• Shtick Schmaltz and Stereotypes

• Shticks and Comics

• Shuli's Guy / Shuli's Fiance

• Shusterman Levine. A Boxing Fable

• The Shvitz (documentary)

• SIDE WALK

• Sidewalks of New York (Ed Burns)

• Siege

• A Sign from Heaven

• Silent Witness

• The Silent Exodus

• SILENT SONG

• Simon Magus (UK)

• The Simpsons (selected episode)

• The Singing Blacksmith

• Singing in the Dark

• Sipur Kaits - Summer Story (Israel)

• Sisai

• Sisters - Hermanas

• Sister Wife

• Sisters (Hermanas)

• Sisters in Resistance (documentary)

• Six Ways To Sunday

• Sixty Six

• 67 Ben Tsvi Road

• Sketches of Frank Gehry

• The skies are closer in Homesh

• The Skies are Closer in Homesh

• Skitopolis

• The Sky Falls

• The Sky is Falling

• TV DRAMA: VOICES FROM THE HEARTLAND: SLAVES OF THE LORD / SHI'UR MOLEDET: AVDEI HASHEM

• SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY: AN ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN JOURNEY TO JAPAN

• The Slingshot

• Slums of Beverly Hills Click here to: buy from Amazon.com

• Small Country Great Man (Israel)

• Small Town Melodies

• The Snail Position Day

• Snow Day

• So Far So Near

• Someone To Love

• Solomon and Gaenor (Welsh)

• Some Student Films from Israel 1998

• Some MORE Student Films Israel 1999

• Even MORE Student Films Israel 2000

• Additional Student Films from Israel 2001 (Israel)

• Son

• Song of a Jewish Cowboy

• Song of the Galilee

• Song of the Siren

• Song of Radauti

• Song of songs

• Sonia

• Sophie Scholl - the Final Days / Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage

• The Sorrow and The Pity (1971)

• Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 P.M. (documentary)

• Song of Hannah

• The South: Alice Never Lived Here

• South Park - Bigger Longer and Uncut

• Souvenirs

• Spaghetti and Matzo Balls

• SPOKEN WITH LOVE

• Spark Among the Ashes

• The Specialist (Eichmann)

• Speedway Junkie

• Spellbound (documentary)

• The Squid and the Whale

• Sreda / Wednesday

• Stagedoor

• Stalag 17

• Stars

• Startup.com

• State and Main

• STATELESS, ARROGANT AND LUNATIC

• Stealing The Fire

• Steady Hands: A Brooklyn Mohel

• Steel Toes

• GOLE SANGAM - THE STONE FLOWER

• Strangers

• Stille

• Stolen Summer (Project Greenlight)

• Stories of Honour and Shame (Gaza)

• A Storm in Summer

• Straitman

• Strange Fruit

• The Street

• Street Under Fire

• Stress

• Struma (Romanian version doc)

• THE STRUMA (documentary)

• The Substance of Fire

• SUCH GREAT JOY

• The Suicide

• Summer in Ivye (doc)

• SUNDAY SUNDAE

• Sunset Story

• Sunshine

• Super Amigos

• Super Boy

• Survival in Sarajevo

• Surviving Memory

• Survivors of the Holocaust Click here to buy: Survivors of the Holocaust

• Sun - Soleil

• South Park - Bigger Longer and Uncut

• Suzi Gold

• Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem

• Sweet Mud / Adama Meshugaat

• SWEET WAS THE MUD / AFILU HABOTZ HAYA MATOK

• The Sweetest Sound (Berliner)

• Swoon

• Sword in the Desert

• Szulamit

• Take Now Your Son

• Take Omri For Example

• Taken Captive

• Taking Sides

• A Tale of Two Worlds (Israel)

• The Tale of The Goat

• TAMMUZ

• Tangled Roots

• Tapuz

• Taqasim (Israel)

• TARNATION

• Tattoo Jew The Movie

• Taxman

• Tears of Stone

• Thank God For India (Israel doc)

• TED ALLAN MINSTREL BOY OF THE 20TH CENTURY (Canada)

• TEHORA / PURITY

• Click here to buy The Ten Commandments, 1956 version

• The 10th Man

• Terrorists in Retirement (French)

• thirtysomething (selected TV episodes)

• Theo and His Friends

• There Was No War in '72

• There Once Was A Town

• There's No Such Thing As A Chanukah Bush, Sandy Goldstein

• They Came For Good, Parts 1 and 2

• They Came To Pick Me Up (Turkish/Ladino)

• They Were Not Silent

• 39 Pounds of Love

• Things Behind The Sun

• Think Popcorn

• LA TERZA LUNA (THE THIRD MOON)

• Those Days in Terezin

• Three Days in April - Drei Tage Im April

• Three Fingers (Israel)

• Three Kisses (animated)

• The Three little Wolfs

• Three Mothers

• THREE TIMES DIVORCED

• THIS YEAR IN CZERNOWITZ

• Three Lives - Friderike, Lotte and Stefan Zweig

• Three Sisters / Shalosh Achayot

• Three Stories

• Three Sisters

• Thunder in Guyana - The President Janet Rosenberg Jagan story

• Tijuana Jews

• Till Death Do Us Part (Israel)

• Timbrels and Torahs

• Time of Favor / HaHesder

• Time Off

• Time With My Father (documentary)

• Tiny Bubbles

• To Be Or Not To Be (1942 version)

• To Brave a Dream

• To Live With Terror

• TO THE BLACK SEA

• Today I Vote for My Joey

• TODAY YOU ARE A FOUNTAIN PEN

• TOKYO NIGHTS

• Tollbooth

• TOLYA

• Tomboychik

• Tomorrow We Move

• Total Love

• Too Close To Home

• Too Early to Be Quiet, Too Late To Sing

• Tooth Ache ( Toothache )

• Toots

• Torch Song Trilogy

• Torte Bluma

• To Speak the Unspeakable: The Message from Elie Wiesel

• Total Love

• Touching

• Tovarisch I Am Not Dead

• Toward Jerusalem

• Trailers Schmailers

• Train of Life / Train le Vie

• The Transparent Kipa

• Transnistria: The Hell

• The Travellers (Canada)

• Trees Cry For Rain: A Sephardic Journey

• Trembling Before G-d

• Treyf

• A Trial in Prague

• The Trials of Henry Kissinger, 2002

• The Troupe

• The Truce - La Tregua

• A Trumpet in the Wadi

• Trust Me Shalom, Salaam, Peace

• Tsahal (IDF)

• Tsipa and Volf

• TUNANOODA

• Turn Left At The End Of The World (Sof Ha´Olam Smola)

• 2 or 3 Things I know About Him

• The Turkey

• Two Minutes of Silence Please

• The Two Lives of Eva

• 20 Dates

• Twilight of the Golds

• Two Yosi

• The Two of Us - Le Vieil Homme et L'Enfant

• Two Sisters - Tsvey Shvester

• Two Weddings

• Two weeks ago I Got A Tattoo

• Tzazit

• UMAN

• Uncle Chatzkel

• Uncle Saddam (doc)

• Under Western Eyes

• Unforgettable Faces

• Unlikely Heroes

• Urban Feel / Kesher Ir

• Urban Feel (Israel), more info

• URI AVNERI: A WARRIOR FOR PEACE / HANIDON: URI AVNERI

• The Unicorn

• The Unpromised Land - (Yeminite Olim)

• Under the Domim Tree Click here to buy Under the Domim Tree

• Unfair competition (Italian)

• Unheard Voices

• Underdogs: A War Movie

• THE UNCHOSEN ONES: LOST IN THE HOLY LAND

• Unloved Niekochana

• Unsettled

• The Unshod Man

• Unstrung Heroes

• Untying The Bonds - Jewish Divorce

• Unzipped

• Up Side Down (Palestinian)

• Urban Doodles

• Usa Vs Al-Arian

• Used People

• USHPIZIN

• Va, vis et deviens Live And Become

• VAULT KEYS

• Ve'Ahavta L'Re'Akha Kamocha (Love Thy Neighbor)

• Viehjud Levi

• A VIEW WITH MEIR PICHHADZE

• The Vow

• Voyages (French)

• Visas and Virtue

• The Voice of Hope

• The Vow / Tkies Khaf

• The Vow / Tkies Khaf additional listing

• Vulcan Junction (Israel)

• Wadi Grand Canyon / HAIFA IREINU / Haifa Our City (Israel doc)

• En attendant Ben Gourion (Waiting for Ben Gurion)

• Waiting for the Messiah

• Waiting for the Messiah

• Waiting for Woody

• WAITING FOR WOODY ALLEN

• Waiting for Quds

• Wake Up To The Native Land

• A Walk on the Moon

• Walk on Water (Lalecet Al Hamaim)

• WALK ON WATER

• Walk on Water

• Wall / MUR

• THE WALL

• The Walnut Tree

• Walter Rosenblum: In Search of Pitt Street

• The Wandering Jew

• Wanderings: A Journey to Connect

• The Wannsee Conference

• Wanted To Be A Hero

• War and Peace in Vesoul

• War Photographer

• The War in Paris (France)

• Warp and Weft (Israel)

• Warsaw-Paris / Varsovie-Paris

• Warszawa

• Wasted

• Watching you

• Watermarks

• The Wax and The Wicks

• The Way Back Home Al tarek ela albayt

• We Are Going To America

• We Love Israel

• We Were So Beloved

• Weapons of the Spirit

• The Weather Underground

• Wedding Bell Blues

• The Wedding of The Year

• Wedding in Galilee Click here to buy: Wedding in Galilee

• A Wedding in Ramallah (documentary)

• We Love You Patricia

• Welcome to Hadassah Hospital

• WELCOME HOME MANI

• Wellstone

• Weintraub's syncopators (Germany)

• West Bank Story

• West of Hester Street

• Westerbork Camp 1939-1945

• Wet Hot American Summer

• What a Wonderful Place / Eize Makom Nifla

• What a Wonderful Place

• What Now? ... / Ve'achshav Ma?...

• What Fire Cannot Burn / Sheva Prachim Mi' Terezin

• What a Wonderful Place (Eize makom nifla)

• WHEN DO WE EAT

• When I Was 14 - One Survivor Remembers

• When Shirley Met Florence

• What I Saw In Hebron

• Whats Cooking?

• White Lies (Shkarim Levanim)

• White Lies (Israel), more

• White Terror

• Whiteboys

• Who created Me A Woman

• Who Killed Walter Benjamin

• Who Was Kafka?

• Who's The Caboose

• Whose land Is It?

• Wil

• Wild Man Blues

• Winning One For Eli

• Witness At Auschwitz

• Wolves' Moon / Yareach Shel Zeevim

• Women / Nasheem

• Women of the Wall

• The Wonder Years (a selected TV episode)

• Wonderboys

• Wondrous Oblivion

• Work, Place / Makom, Avoda

• Worlds Apart (Israel 1976)

• The Worst Jewish Football Team in the World

• Would I Lie To You? / La Verite Si Je Mens

• WONDROUS OBLIVION

• Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

• YAELI'S WEDDING

• Yana's Friends

• Yasmine

• Ydessa, The Bears and etc.

• Year Zero ( Shnat Efes )

• The Yearning Heifer

• Yedidiah's Collection / Haosef Shel Yedidiah
  • Yellow Asphalt
  • The Yellow Butterfly
  • Yellow Peppers
  • The Yellow Ticket (1918)
  • Yentl got Yentl? Click here to buy: Yentl
  • Yes To The Bird
  • Yidishe Gauchos
  • Yidl in the Middle - Growing Up Jewish in Iowa
  • Yidl With His Fiddle
  • Yippee: A Journey To Jewish Joy
  • Yolande Remembered (Yolande Harmon)
  • YOSSI AND JAGGER (Israel, 2002)
  • You Can Thank Me Later
  • You, Me and Jerusalem
  • YOUNG ARTIE FELDMAN
  • Young At Hearts
  • Young Doctor Freud
  • Young Jewish and Left
  • The Young Lions
  • You're So Pretty
  • Yudie
  
  
  • Zahor
  • Zapping-Remix
  • Zebra
  • Zegota - A Time to Remember
  • Zehava Ben The Solitary Star
  • Zero Degrees of Separation
  • Zinzana
  • Zinzana (Israel)
  • Zmani - It's About Time (doc)
  • Zohar
  • The Zone
  • The Zone
  • Zug o Pered - Odds or Evens
  • Zur Hadasim
  • Zur Hadasim, more info
  • Zyklon Portrait
  • ZYGIELBOJM'S DEATH

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Some films I will be adding, when I get a chance:
Deference, (1999), Timothy Hutton as a Jewish President and Sheryl Lee Ralph as Sec of Defense
Bloom (2002), coming of age story.
Chinese Jews on
Godfather 2
Going in Style, 1979
Hello Dolly
I Love You Rosa
Judgement @ Nuremberg 61
Judith (1965)
Julia 1977
Love and Death 1975
Marathon Man 1976
Norma Rae 1979
Play it Again Sam 1972
Reds, 1981
Sleeper 1973
Sweet Lorraine 1987
The Front (1976), Directed by Martin Ritt, 95 min, written by blacklisted writer Walter Bernstein, stars Woody Allen and Zero Mostel. from National Ctr for Jewish Film.
The Jazz Singer (1981 remake)
The Man in the Glass Booth 1975
The Pawnbroker 65
Cabaret
The Producers 68
The Sunshine Boys 75
This is Not Erotica (1994)
The Odessa File 74
Pogrzeb Kartofla 91
Posegnanie z Maria 93
Quiz Show
Salto 65
Tobruk 67
Le vie homme et l enfant
Yahudi 58
Zezowate Szczescie
Zelone La Ta 80
Ziemia Obiecana 74
Biloxi Blues
Shadowlands
Ivanhoe
Akcija Stadion 77
Me and the Colonel 58
La Grande Illusion
The Hiding Place
Jeszczetylko ten las
Les Lunettes d or
Niedzielne Igraszki
Akcija Stadion, 1977
Uncle Moses (1932) Sidney Goldin and Aubrey Scotto
Hungry Hearts (1922) Samuel Goldwyn, 1992, 80 minutes E Mason Hopper, Silent with English intertitles starring Rosie Rosanova
Romance of a Jewess (1908) 10 minutes, directed by D W Griffith, based on the stories of Anzia Yezierska, it is a bittersweet saga of immigrant life filmed on the LES
Lucky Boy. (1929) 100 minutes. Directed by Norman Taurog and Charles C. Wilson. With George Jessel and Rosie Rosanova. Tiffany Stahl Studios. Jessel plays an ambitious Bronx boy who becomes a famous actor. Restored by the UCLA Film and TV Archive.
The Heart of New York. (1932) 65 minutes. Directed by Mervyn Le Roy for Warner Bros. Vaudeville star George Sidney plays a plumber who becomes a millionaire after inventing a washing machine
His Wife's Lover. (1931) 80 minutes. Dir: Sidney M. Goldin. Ludwig Satz plays a manic Second Avenue comedian. This is the "first 100 percent Yiddish singing and talking picture" High Art Pictures.
Taxi!. 1932. Warner Bros. Dir: Roy Del Ruth. In an excerpt of this film James Cagney plays a Yiddish speaking NY cabbie.
The Front. Columbia Pictures. 1976. 94 minutes. Dir: Martin Ritt. Starring Woody Allen and Zero Mostel. Walter Bernstein was a blacklisted writer. This sis a tragi-comedy about a schlemiel who fronts for banned writers in the 1950's.
New York Ghetto Fish Market 1903. 1993-97. Directed by Ken Jacobs. 90 minutes. Experimental film pioneer Ken Jacobs will use his remarkable invention, to Nervous System, to transform a 1903 Edison short into a live, two projector performance that offers a haunting look at the birth of cinema and a vivid slice of immigrant life. Performed at the American Museum of the Moving Image, Queens NY.
Shoe Palace Pinkus (Schuhpalast Pinkus) from Jons Fleischmann, FW Murnau Stiftung. Tel 011-49-611-977-08-0.
Shylock from Lucie Charbonneau at Nat Film Board of Canada Tel: 514-283-9806
A Visitor from the Living, from Linda Duchin at New Yorker Films, 212-247-6110.
Village of Idiots from Lucie Charbonneau at Nat Film Board of Canada Tel: 514-283-9806
A Letter to Mama/A Brivele Der Mamen (1938) Poland, 106 minutes Joseph Green. Yiddish. Nat Ctr for Jewish Film., This film was released 2 weeks after the Nazi's invaded Poland. It is one of the last Yiddish talkies made in Poland. Lucy German stars as Dobrish Berdichevsky, a family matriarch. She tries to manage the fractured family after her husband and youngest son have gone to America prior to WWI. $50 from www.jewishvideo.com
Different From The Others, Germany 1919 (contact Stefan Droessler at Munich Museum of Film at Tel: 011-49-89-233-225-75 (anders Als Die Andern)
Life and Times of Harvey Milk
The Golem (of Los Angeles). 25 min. video $30 from www.jewishvideo.com
Purple Grass (Israel) Dina Zvi Riklis (1997)
The Postman w/ Kevin Costner is based on a 1985 softcore sci-fi novel of the same name by David Brin about a Jewish postman named Gordon Krantz who pines for a tolerant old American civilization (not like that of Nazi Europe), based on A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960) by Walter Miller
Comments: You can mail me at jewfilm@aol.com jewfilm@aol.com
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