jewish history movies

One Life (2023)
7.771 / 10

History, Drama, War

British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of...

The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019)
6.833 / 10

Drama, Thriller, History

Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid...

Warsaw: A City Divided (2019)
6.8 / 10

Documentary, History

The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division,...

Legend of Destruction (2021)
6.5 / 10

Animation, History, War, Drama

What had initially started out as a Jewish revolt against the Roman occupation, quickly turned into a fierce civil war. The combination of religious...

National Theatre Live: Good (2023)
8.5 / 10

Drama, War

As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable...

Rashi: A Light After The Dark Ages (1999)
0 / 10

Animation, History, Drama, Family

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 Paper Brigade (2018)
6 / 10

Documentary, History

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by the Germans, are gathered in Vilnius to be...

Ark of the Covenant: The Bible’s Origins (2021)
8.3 / 10

Documentary, History

In Israel, a joint French-Israeli scientific mission is set to unearth the secrets of the hill of Kiryath-Jearim (or Kiryat Ya’arim), converted to...

Saved by Language (2015)
0 / 10

Documentary

Can a language save your life? Yes it can, even an ancient one from the 15th century. Saved by Language tells the story of Moris Albahari, a...

Herod the Great: The Child Murderer of Bethlehem (2019)
6.5 / 10

Documentary, Animation, History, TV Movie

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...

Rambam - The Story of Maimonides (2005)
0 / 10

Animation, History, Family

Rambam was born in Cordova, Spain in the 12th century. Known as the "Nesher Gadol" the "Great Eagle" - Rambam had the unique ability to see and...

Jewish Britain on Film (2023)
0 / 10

Documentary

Narrated by Isy Suttie (Peep Show, Pearl & Dave), the footage includes rare scenes of an Edwardian Petticoat Lane; a wedding in London’s East End...

Jews of the Wild West (2022)
2 / 10

Documentary, Western

“Jews of the Wild West” is a feature-length documentary completed in December 2021. The independent not-for-profit project is produced by...

Salome of the Tenements (1925)
0 / 10

Drama, Romance

A young East Side Jewish reporter gets into a sticky situation when she finds that her new beau is indicting a banker she owes money to.

The Hate We Can’t Forget: A Holocaust Memorial Special (2022)
0 / 10

Documentary

Hosted by Julianna Margulies, this special brings together the stories of four Jewish Holocaust survivors and the reflections of present-day teens...

The Jewish-Roman Wars (2019)
7 / 10

Documentary, Animation, History, TV Movie

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...

The Last Survivors (2019)
7.3 / 10

Documentary

Documentary compiling the testimonies of the last remaining Holocaust survivors living in Britain, all of whom were children at the time, and...

This Movie Is a Gift (2019)
0 / 10

Documentary

A film about the artist Daniel Spoerri. It's actually a film about a thought by Daniel Spoerri: a film almost without Daniel Spoerri, it's actually...

Ma Nishma Manitoba (2021)
0 / 10

Documentary

From challah to immigration to the wandering Jew, Ma Nishma Manitoba is a mid-length documentary that explores Manitoban Jewish stories of identity...

Japan und die Juden Zwischen Faszination und Terror (2020)
0 / 10

Documentary