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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: Hevenu Shalom Aleichem
Audience: all
Length: 3 videos
Subject: Hebrew
Summary: This excellent teaching tool is a series of lessons in Hebrew for the new immigrant, or anyone who wants to learn Hebrew. Taught by using short scenarios, printed Hebrew language, Hebrew repetition, and grammar drills, this is an excellent video for learning modern Hebrew. Shown with English subtitles.
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Title: Hidden in Silence
Producer, Director: Proppe, Hans
Audience: teen - adult
Length: 90 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Righteous Gentiles
Summary: In wartime Poland, 1942, a woman takes on the role of savior when a Jewish family is captured. She undertakes the act of smuggling the family's sons out of confinement and hiding them in her apartment attic. When word spreads of this safe haven, she is faced with turning away desperate people or increasing the risk of being discovered.
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Title: Hide and Seek
Producer, Director: Wolman, Dan
Audience: adult
Length: 90 min.
Subject: Hebrew -- Fiction
Summary: This film is a study of adolescents in the crisis of self-discovery, set in the late 1940's, before the birth of the state of Israel. The film deals with the youth who are to be the backbone of the new Israel. Questions about the role of the individual in a new society are raised. In Hebrew, with English subtitles. Color. 1980.
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Title: Hiding and Seeking
Producer, Director: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky
Audience: teen - adult
Length: 85 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Righteous Gentiles
Summary: This award-winning documentary tells the story of a Jewish father who travels to Poland with his sons to find the Christian farmers who hid their family from the Nazis. The father hopes that if his sons can find examples of decency among the Poles, his sons will recognize the potential for goodness in all people. In English, and Yiddish and Polish with English subtitles.
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Title: Hiding Place, The
Producer, Director: Collier, James F.
Audience: adult
Length: 147 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Righteous Gentiles
Summary: Julie Harris stars in this inspiring true-life account of a family's imprisonment in a concentration camp. The Christian Ten Boom family shelters escaping Jews in their Dutch home, but their underground efforts are discovered and they are taken to Ravensbruck death camp. One by one the family is killed, until only one daughter remains. Rated PG.
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Title: Highest Commandment
Producer, Director: Jewish Theological Seminary
Audience: adult
Length: 60 min.
Subject: Jewish Education
Summary: This video focuses on the biblical injunction to "teach your children well." It features dynamic individuals who have overcome obstacles to fully explore Judaism's rich heritage, rituals and sacred texts. It shows a variety of settings where Jewish learning is flourishing today.
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Title: Hill 24 Doesn't Answer
Producer, Director: Dickinson, Thorold
Audience: adult
Length: 101 min.
Subject: Hebrew -- Fiction
Summary: Four soldiers in Israel's army in 1948 are assigned to defend the strategic Hill 24 outside Jerusalem, in order to maintain access to the beseiged city. Through their personal stories, we gain a perspective on the birth of the state of Israel, and the people who built it. Starring Edward Mulhare. Black and white. 1955.
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Title: His Wife's Lover
Producer, Director: Goldin, Sidney M.
Audience: adult
Length: 77 min.
Subject: Yiddish Fiction
Summary: This charming musical comedy stars the multi-talented Ludwig Satz, and is about an actor who disguises himself as an old man. After winning the hand of a beautiful young woman, he tries to seduce her and test her fidelity. Filmed in 1931, it was a wonderful escape for the audiences of the Depression. In Yiddish, with English subtitles.
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Title: Hitler: Portrait of a Tyrant
Producer, Director: HBO
Audience: adult
Length: 30 min.
Subject: Biography -- Hitler, Adolf
Summary: This video, narrated by Hal Holbrook, reviews the life and times of Adolf Hitler. The sadistic side of his nature and lust for greatness are depicted, as well as those influences on his life which shaped him into one of the world's most notorious monsters. Uses black and white documentary footage.
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Title: Hitler: The Whole Story
Producer, Director: Cine-Art, Munich/ The Discovery Channel
Audience: adult
Length: 3 videos -- 50 min.
Subject: Biography -- Hitler, Adolf
Summary: This critically acclaimed documentary is based on Joachim C. Fest's international best-selling book, Hitler. Witness Hitler's perverse charisma throughout his carefully calculated campaign for global conquest. It includes rare original footage of both public appearances and private moments. Gives insight into Hitler's fanaticism, his inflammatory oratory, and his energy. Powerful and informative.
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Title: Hollywood: An Empire of Their Own
Producer, Director: Associated Producers
Audience: adult
Length: 100 min.
Subject: Jews in the United States -- Hollywood
Summary: From Columbia Pictures to Warner Brothers, the studios that gave rise to Hollywood were founded and run by eastern European Jewish immigrants. In reinventing themselves as Americans, they redefined the American Dream. Based on Neal Gabler's bestselling book, An Empire of Their Own. Home movies, interviews, and clips. 1998.
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Title: Holocaust
Producer, Director: Green, Gerald
Audience: adult
Length: 7 1/2 hours
Subject: Holocaust
Summary: This made-for-television movie stars Meryl Streep and James Woods in an epic story of two families' experiences during World War II. The movie spans the years 1935 to 1945, and depicts a Christian German household and a Jewish German household during the war years. Families are torn apart, choices are made, and lives are devastated. This movie won 8 Emmy Awards. Compelling. In Color.
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Title: Holocaust and "Yad Vashem
Producer, Director: Israel Film Service
Audience: adult
Length: 30 min.
Subject: Holocaust
Summary: This special co-production of Yad VaShem, Israel Film Service, and Doko Video is a memoriam about the Holocaust, showing the rich cultural, religious and social world of the Jews in Eastern Europe, which was then destroyed by the Nazis. It captures the horrors of Kristallnacht, Babi Yar, the concentration camps, and the Warsaw Ghetto, as well as the heroism of the Jewish partisans.
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Title: Holocaust and Yad VaShem
Producer, Director: Israel Film Service
Audience: adult
Length: 30 min.
Subject: Holocaust
Summary: This film is a special co-production of Yad Vashem, Israel Film Service and Doko video, and is a painful memorial which traces the history of Nazism from its earliest roots in Germany. Through a collection of precise and enlightening photos and footage, we see the European world before the Holocaust, the monstrosities, and the Partisans.
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Title: Holocaust, Creation and Israel
Producer, Director: Miriam, Rivka
Audience: teen - adult
Length: 20 min.
Subject: Holocaust
Summary: Miriam Rivka discusses the Holocaust with a group of teens.
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Title: Holocaust: A Teenager's Experience
Producer, Director: Bergmann, David
Audience: teen - adult
Length: 30 min.
Subject: Holocaust
Summary: This video is an account of a teenager's experiences in the Holocaust, narrated by the subject of the video, and illustrated with graphic films and photographs of the horrors of that time in history. Mr. Bergmann's experience was unique, as was every survivor's, and he tells of cheating death over and over again, almost miraculously. Some very graphic photos.
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Title: Holocaust: In Memory of Millions
Producer, Director: The Discovery Channel
Audience: adult
Length: 90 min.
Subject: Holocaust
Summary: Hosted by Walter Cronkite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, this video chronicles the entire story of the Holocaust -- form the rise of the Nazi party and their plan to exterminate the Jewish people, to tales of incredible bravery among Holocaust survivors, and those who liberated the concentration camps. It combines original footage and oral histories.
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Title: Homicide
Producer, Director: Mamet, David
Audience: adult
Length: 100 min.
Subject: Fiction
Summary: Joe Mantegna stars as Detective Bobby Gold who, with his partner, are on the verge of the biggest bust of their careers when Gold is reassigned to what appears to be a routine homicide case. When a series of puzzling clues reconnect him to his long-forgotten Jewish heritage, his investigation becomes a consuming passion. Complex and intriguing. Rated R. 1991.
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Title: Hot Bagels: The Hole Story
Producer, Director: Joffe, Jerry and Christiansen, Steve
Audience: all
Length: 12 min.
Subject: Cooking
Summary: This video takes the viewer on a guided tour through the bagel- making process, from its origins to contemporary methods. Featuring a teenage bagel baker, it has an original score, utilizes historic film footage, and won a red ribbon at the American Film Festival. Color.
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Title: Hotel Terminus/ The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
Producer, Director: Ophuls, Marcel
Audience: adult
Length: 267 min.
Subject: Holocaust
Summary: The award-winning documentary about the S.S. interrogator, Klaus Barbie, known as the "Butcher of Lyon." He was implicated in 4,000 deaths and the deportation of 7,000 Jews, and then disappeared. This movie traces the 40 year hunt for Barbie, as he eluded his pursuers all over the world, until he was finally caught and brought to trial in 1987. 2 tapes.
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