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Holocaust Remembrance Day

Films from the Docuseek collection that touch on different aspects of the Holocaust (Shoah) during World War II and the years leading up to it. (25 films)

Poetry of Resilience

Poetry of Resilience

POETRY OF RESILIENCE highlights six different poets, who individually survived Hiroshima, the Holocaust, China’s Cultural Revolution, the Kurdish Genocide in Iraq, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Iranian Revolution.

The Toxic Reigns of Resentment

The Toxic Reigns of Resentment

An interview film on the emotion of resentment and how it defines culture and politics today.

Terrorists in Retirement

Terrorists in Retirement

Too controversial to be shown on French TV when first released, this is the story of Eastern Europeans, mostly Jews, who fought the German occupation of Paris during World War II.

Monument

Monument

Filmmaker Michael Turner (The Way We Talk) documents his first visit to a Holocaust memorial created by his grandmother Lici, a Hungarian Jew whose parents and sister were killed in Auschwitz.

Hitler & The Reichstag Fire: The Burning of Democracy, Part 2

Hitler & The Reichstag Fire: The Burning of Democracy, Part 2

On the night of February 27, 1933, the German Parliament building burned down, and democracy went along with it. In just a few hours, then a few days, the fates of an entire country and of all of Europe were upended. The Reichstag Fire was used as a pretext to establish Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship.

Hitler & The Reichstag Fire: The Burning of Democracy, Part 1

Hitler & The Reichstag Fire: The Burning of Democracy, Part 1

On the night of February 27, 1933, the German Parliament building burned down, and democracy went along with it. In just a few hours, then a few days, the fates of an entire country and of all of Europe were upended. The Reichstag Fire was used as a pretext to establish Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship.

The Hell of Auschwitz: Maus by Art Spiegelman

The Hell of Auschwitz: Maus by Art Spiegelman

Explores the revolution of Art Spiegelman's graphic novel masterpiece, Maus, with humor and finesse.

The Hangman

The Hangman

Shalom Nagar, a religious Jewish ritual slaughterer, discusses his role in the execution of Nazi death camp administrator Adolf Eichmann.

Dark Side

Dark Side

A Holocaust survivor takes revenge.

As If It Were Yesterday

As If It Were Yesterday

Belgians recount how they saved Jewish children during WWII.