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Below you will find an alphabetical listing of the video and dvd holdings of the Gray Cultural and Learning Center. The collection is constantly being updated, so be sure to check back often.
Videos and dvd's must be checked out IN PERSON, but you can call the Learning Center to check on availability, at 847 432-8900, ext. 242.
To search for a particular video, just fill in the name of the video below, and find out whether it is in our collection. You can also use the "keyword" feature, to search for ANY word that may be found in any part of the description, including title, producer/director, subject, or summary.
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Title: Ervinka
Producer, Director: Kishon, Ephraim
Audience: adult
Length: 95 min.
Subject: Hebrew Fiction
Summary: This film is actually a compilation of many stories about Ervinka, a con artist who lives in Tel-Aviv. He falls in love with Ruti, a policewoman, but continues to get in trouble with the law. Hebrew with English subtitles.
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Title: Escape from Sobibor
Producer, Director: Live Home Video
Audience: adult
Length: 120 min.
Subject: Holocaust
Summary: In this true story, a Russian army officer is captured by the Nazis and sent to Sobibor. There he confronts the horrors of the holocaust. Most of his fellow prisoners are killed immediately, and the "lucky" ones are exploited as slave laborers. Yet, their will to fight gack remains, and with the know-how of the Russian officer, they revolt and escape. Color. 1991.
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Title: Esther and the King
Producer, Director: Walsh, Raoul
Audience: adult
Length: 110 min.
Subject: Bible -- Personalities -- Esther
Summary: Persia's King Ahasuerus ws the mightiest of his time. But Esther, a Jewish maiden is chosen from among the beauties of the kingdom as his bride. Esther plans to use her new position to help fellow Jews sufering under the rule of the King's First Minister, Haman. This movie is filled with pomp and pageantry of an ancient time. Starring Joan Collins, Richard Egan and Denis O'Dea. 1960.
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Title: Eternal Jew
Producer, Director: Hippler, Fritz
Audience: adult
Length: 62 min.
Subject: Anti-Semitism
Summary: A powerful propaganda film produced by the Nazis in 1941, to convince the German public of the "terrible nature" of the Jews. Contains many stereotypes, and vivid portraits, and is very overwhelming in its persuasive powers.
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Title: Eugene
Producer, Director: Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Audience: all
Length: 60 min.
Subject: Disabilities
Summary: The heartwarming story of Eugene Chernyakhovsky, a boy with cerebral palsy who overcomes many challenges as he prepares for his bar mitzvah. Assisted by a team of experts and volunteers in Philadelphia, Eugene transfers his entire Torah portion to a computer that serves as his voice using only one foot. Culminating in the bar mitzvah service and celebration, at which he addresses the congregation in both English and Russian, his journey is unforgettable.
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Title: Europa Europa
Producer, Director: Holland, Agnieszka
Audience: adult
Length: 115 min.
Subject: Holocaust
Summary: This film is the fascinating true story of Solomon Perel, a courageous Jewish teenager who survived World War II by concealing his true identity and living as a Nazi for seven years through three countries. Through quick wittedness, twists of fate, and sheer luck, the boy escapes from one place to the next. Exquisite and gripping. English subtitles, rated R.
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Title: Everyday a Holiday
Producer, Director: Bureau of Jewish Education of Boston
Audience: children
Length: 24 min.
Subject: Passover
Summary: Through the use of puppets, mime, and children acting out little vignettes, this video gives an overview of the story of Passover. The letter "mem" is introduced, we see the search for hametz, matza, maror, the haggadah, the ma nishtanah, and the story of the Exodus from Egypt.
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Title: Everything is Illuminated
Producer, Director: Schreiber, Liev
Audience: adult
Length: 105 min.
Subject: Jews in Ukraine
Summary: Based on the book by Jonathan Safran Foer, this movie stars Elijah Wood as Jonathan and Eugene Hutz as his Ukrainian guide, who search for the woman who saved Jonathan's grandfather from the Nazis in 1942. Some Russian with English subtitles.
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Title: Exodus
Producer, Director: Preminger
Audience: teen - adult
Length: 207 min.
Subject: Israel -- Fiction
Summary: Paul Newman stars as Ari Ben Canaan, in Otto Preminger's adaptation of Leon Uris' bestseller. The story is that of the early years of Israel, and the immigration and settlement of the land. A classic. Also stars Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb, Peter Lawford, Ralph Richards, Sal Mineo, John Derek, and Jill Haworth., 1960.
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Title: Exodus 1947
Producer, Director: Safer, Morley, Narrator
Audience: adult
Length: 60 min.
Subject: Israel -- Exodus
Summary: This video is the true story of how American Jews secretly financed and crewed the Exodus 1947, the most infamous of the Aliyah Bet ships that tried to run the British blockade of Palestine, and captured world-wide attention in the process. 4500 Holocaust survivors left France for Palestine, and ultimately, were sent back to a DP camp in Germany. The movie documents the media coverage of the event.
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Title: Facing Hate
Producer, Director: Moyers, Bill
Audience: adult
Length: 58 min.
Subject: Prejudice
Summary: In this video, Bill Moyers discusses the life and experiences of Elie Wiesel, and his approach to hate. This discussion illuminates many aspects of hatred, aspects which must be seen if we are to move beyond it. The discussion is also an examination of the logic of hatred as expressed in books, religion and history.
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Title: Families of the World: Israel
Producer, Director: National Geographic
Audience: elem. - adult
Length: 14 min.
Subject: Israel -- People
Summary: Twelve year old Naama Greenfield is a sabra whose father is from the United States and whose mother is from Yemen. This video follows Naama through Jerusalem, through her life at school, and at home for Shabbat. Through this young girl we learn about life in Israel today.
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Title: Family LIfe: a Kibbutz
Producer, Director: Tarmu, Yehuda
Audience: teen
Length: 15 min.
Subject: Kibbutz
Summary: In an Israeli Kibbutz, all property is owned collectively, all responsibilities are shared. Food, clothing, shelter, education and even recreation are provided without cost. Children in the kibbutz learn responsibilities and contribute to maintain the kibbutz. This video describes a kibbutz in simple language.
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Title: Fateless
Producer, Director: Kertesz, Imre
Audience: adult
Length: 140 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Fiction
Summary: This is the semi-autobiographical tale of a 14 year old Jewish boy from Budapest, who gets caught up in historical events as the city's Jews are deported. He finds a bizarre sense of community in a concentration camp, and a feeling of alienation once he returns to the city. In Hungarian, with English subtitles.
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Title: Festival of Purim in Israel
Producer, Director: BJE/N.Y.
Audience: children
Length: 18 min
Subject: Purim
Summary: Children in Israel put on a Purim play about the story of Purim. A narrator also describes the customs and meanings of the holiday. The making of hamentashen is demonstrated, children put on costumes, and give a holiday parade. The reading of the Megillah is shown. Puppets also depict the Purim story in a series of vignettes.
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Title: Fictitious Marriage
Producer, Director: Bouzaglo, Haim
Audience: adult
Length: 90 min.
Subject: Hebrew -- Fiction
Summary: Eldad Ilan is a high school teacher in Jerusalem who leaves his family for a trip to New York, but never boards the plane. In the midst of a mid-life crisis, he takes a room in a hotel, but later is mistaken for an Arab laborer and asked to join a construction job in Tel Aviv. Piercing, yet humorous. In Hebrew with English subtitles, 1988.
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Title: Fiddler on the Roof
Producer, Director: Jewison, Norman
Audience: all
Length: 3 hrs.
Subject: Fiction
Summary: A Norman Jewison film of the Sholom Aleichem story of Tevye the milkman and his five unmarried daughters. A wonderful musical, nominated for 8 Academy Awards, and winner of 3 Oscars, the movie includes such classics as "If I Were a Rich Man," and "Sunrise, Sunset." Stars Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, and Molly Picon. 1971.
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Title: Field Diary/ Arena of Murder
Producer, Director: Gitai, Amos
Audience: adult
Length: 163 min.
Subject: Hebrew -- Israeli documentaries
Summary: Shot in the West Bank before and during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, "Field Diary" is 50 sequence shots from a moving car. The film's view of the "occupation" was controversial in Israel, leading to Gitai's decade-long exile from Israel. Filmed in 1982. In "Arena of Murder, Gitai investigates the assassination fo Yitzhak Rabin three weeks after the event. He travels through the country forseveral months, filming random encounters. Filmed in 1996. In Hebrew with English subtitles.
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Title: Fievel Goes West
Producer, Director: Spielberg, Steven
Audience: children
Length: 75 min.
Subject: Fiction -- Juvenile
Summary: This delightful animated feature continues the adventures of Fievel, the brave young mouse who starred in An American Tail. The Mousekewitz family lives in a tenement, and dreams of improving their lives. Fievel is lured out west by a crafty entrepreneur, who plans to turn the settlers into mouse-burgers, but Fievel saves the day. Rated G. 1991.
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Title: Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs
Producer, Director: WGBH
Audience: adult
Length: 2 tapes: 150 min. ea
Subject: Israel -- Wars
Summary: Leading statesmen, generals, terrorists and others who made the headlines in one of history's most bitter and enduring struggles tell the story of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The program begins with the U.N. decision to partition Palestine in 1947, and includes the struggle for statehood, the Suez conflict, and other wars, through the Oslo agreement. Documentary footage and interviews.
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