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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: Golden Voices of Israel
Producer, Director: Israel Music
Audience: adult
Length: 60 min.
Subject: Cantorial Music
Summary: This dvd contains rare footage of Jewish liturgical masterpiees from the early 20th century. Includes Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt, Cantor Moishe Oysher's films, Cantor Samuel Malavsky and his family choir as well as Cantors Shlisky, Rotmian and others.
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Title: Golem, Le
Producer, Director: Duvivier, Julien
Audience: all
Length: 96 min.
Subject: Golem
Summary: This film classic was shot on location in pre-war Czechoslovakia, and depicts the legend about the golem, a popular medieval figure from Talmudic lore, a powerful body without a soul, who could protect and defend the Jews. The film was shot in 1935, and is in black and white, in French, with English subtitles.
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Title: Golem, The
Producer, Director: Wegener, Paul and Boese, Carl
Audience: all
Length: 90 min.
Subject: Golem
Summary: Rabbi Loew, in Prague, creates a man of clay, a Golem, to protect the Jewish inhabitants from persecution. Starring Paul Wegener, Lyda Salmonova, Hans Sturm, and Lothar Muthel, this silent movie was filmed in black and white and originally released in 1920.
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Title: Good-bye Columbus
Producer, Director: Roth, Philip
Audience: adult
Length: 105 min.
Subject: Fiction
Summary: This unorthodox and bittersweet comedy received an Oscar nomination for best screenplay based on another medium. Roth's social satire is brought to life as Richard Benjamin and Ali McGraw play Neil and Brenda, who try to cross class lines amidst kisses and her parents stiff opposition. A poignant and funny comedy. Rated PG. 1969.
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Title: Goodbye Russia, Hello Freedom
Producer, Director: Bureau of Jewish Education of Boston
Audience: children
Length: 10 min.
Subject: Soviet Jewry
Summary: An excellent video showing what it is like for children to immigrate to the United States from Russia. Five children are interviewed, and describe what it was like to live, go to school, and shop in Russia. They then describe their feelings and reactions to coming to the United States. An excellent trigger film.
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Title: Grandma Didn't Wave Back
Producer, Director: Films for the Humanities
Audience: elem. - adult
Length: 24 min.
Subject: Elderly
Summary: Based on the novel by Rose Blue, this is the story of ten year old Debbie, whose grandmother begins to lose her memory and finally must be taken to a nursing hom. Debbie must come to grips, first, with her grandmother's frailties, and finally with her being moved from her home. A poignant depiction by Molly icon as the grandmother.
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Title: Grandpa's Tree
Producer, Director: Jewish National Fund
Audience: children
Length: 24 min.
Subject: Israel -- Trees
Summary: The story of Jonathan, who goes to Israel for Tu B'shvat to look for the tree which his grandfather planted over 60 years before. His search brings him to many parts of Israel, in which he witnesses many ways to celebrate Tu B'shvat. Beautiful scenes of Israel.
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Title: Grateful I am to You
Producer, Director: Jewish Theological Seminary
Audience: all
Length: 60 min.
Subject: Prayer -- Shaharit
Summary: This is a documentary of a Conservative Shabbat morning service, where congregants pray with beautiful cantorial melodies and share their moving personal stories of how their heartfelt supplications have drawn them closer to God, transforming their daily routines and relationships at home, at work and in their communities.
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Title: Great Cantors in Cinema
Producer, Director: Pontius, Rich
Audience: adult
Length: 52 min.
Subject: Cantorial Music
Summary: A compilation of great performances of the best cantors from the Golden Age of Chazzanut, including Josef "Yossele" Rosenblatt, Moshe Koussevitsky, Louis "Leibele" Waldman, Mordechai Hershman, and Moishe Oysher. Features Josef "Yossele" Rosenblatt, Moshe Koussevitsky, Louis "Leibele" Waldman, Mordechai Hershman, and Moishe Oysher, some of the rarest and finest examples of cantors from the Golden Age of Chazzanut on film.
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Title: Great Cantors of the Golden Age
Producer, Director: Simon, Murray E., Cantor
Audience: adult
Length: 55 min.
Subject: Cantorial music
Summary: In 1931, during the Golden Age of cantorial art, the New York film director produced "The Voice of Israel", the only known visual and sound record of some of the most famous cantors from 1910 to 1040. Dr. Max Wohlberg introduces this 1990 video, which uses footage from the 1931 film. It is a tribute to those legendary cantors, a rare treasure.
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Title: Great Dictator
Producer, Director: Chaplin, Charlie
Audience: all
Length: 120 min.
Subject: Fiction
Summary: This celebrated Charlie Chaplin classic was honored in 2000 as one of the American Film Institute's Top 100 American Comedies. Chaplin plays dual roles of Hitler-like Adenoid Hynkel, and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for the dictator. Puns, sight gags and slapstick abound as Chaplin skewers fascism, balancing his attack with scenes of a ghetto in the clutches of storm-trooping terror. Immortal bits include Hynkel's dance with a globe, the upside-down flight and Hynkel and a Mussolini-like Jack Oakie madly cranking their barber chairs higher and higher. Great comedy meets great filmmaking passion in this classic. In black and white.
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Title: Great Figures of the Bible
Producer, Director: Wiesel, Elie
Audience: adult
Subject: Bible -- Personalities
Summary: Elie Wiesel explores the human condition as revealed by the extraordinary tales of key biblical figures: Moses, David, Cain & Abel, Job, Abraham & Isaac, and Adam & Eve. With the presence of a master storyteller and keen insights, Wiesel brings fresh relevance to the stories. His narration is accompanied by portraits by Rembrandt, and illuminated manuscripts.
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Title: Grey Zone
Producer, Director: Nelson, Tim Blake
Audience: adult
Length: 108 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Auschwitz
Summary: Based on the real-life events and featuring a first-rate ensemble cast, this compelling and harrowing film chronicles a unit of Auschwitz's Sonderkommando, a special squad of Jewish prisoners, who staged the only armed revolt that would ever take place at Auschwitz.
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Title: Grine Felder (Green Fields)
Producer, Director: Ulmer, Edgar G. and Ben-Ami, Jacob
Audience: adult
Length: 120 min.
Subject: Yiddish Fiction
Summary: A pastoral romance, based on Peretz Hirschbein's tale of a young Hasidic scholar who leaves his studies to search the countryside for common people and a meaningful existence close to the land. He comes upon a family of Jewish peasants, who teach him the "meaning of life." Starring Michael Goldstein, Herschel Bernardi. Yiddish, with English subtitles.
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Title: Ha Aficoman
Producer, Director: Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York
Audience: children
Length: 11 min.
Subject: Passover
Summary: Cartoon pictures depict the story of a family celebrating a seder. The blessings and songs are included. It is all in Hebrew, and is a good Hebrew review for second and third year Hebrew students. Includes teacher's guide and audiotape.
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Title: Ha Raashon
Producer, Director: Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York
Audience: children
Length: 10 min.
Subject: Purim
Summary: All in Hebrew, this cartoon is about a boy who finds a "ra'ashon" (gragger), which only works when he says the word "Haman." The video is accompanied by a teacher's guide, and an audiotape of the dialogue. It is excellent for second or third year Hebrew students.
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Title: Ha-Sevivon Mehapes Haver
Producer, Director: Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York
Audience: children
Length: 10 min.
Subject: Hanukkah
Summary: A dreidel is in need of a friend to play with, and he goes from house to house searching for his friend. Using animation, this story is all is basic Hebrew, and provides a good review for second year Hebrew students. It includes a teacher's guide and an audiotape for oral review.
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Title: Half the Kingdom
Producer, Director: Kol Ishah Productions
Audience: adult
Length: 59 min.
Subject: Feminism
Summary: This 1990 video, co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada, is a fascinating exploration with a group of women who search for their own female views of Judaism. Their points of view differ -- one is quite observant, one is an atheist, one a social activist, one a rabbi. The video also observes the "Women of the Wall" movement in Israel.
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Title: Hamsin
Producer, Director: Wachsmann, Daniel
Audience: adult
Length: 90 min.
Subject: Hebrew -- Fiction
Summary: This is the powerful study of a Jewish landowner and his Arab worker. These two men work side by side to build a dream ranch in the Galilee. Tensions flair between the Jews and Arabs in the area, and tempers explode. Recommended for mature audiences. A winner at the Locarno International Film Festival. In Hebrew, with English subtitles.
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Title: Hands and Heart
Producer, Director: Dream Catchers Films, Inc.
Audience: all
Length: 29 min.
Subject: Hearing Impaired
Summary: This is a lovely introduction to a Hebrew Prayer Sign Language Program, performed by Sharon Jo Serbin.
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