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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: Anti-Semitism on the College Campus
Producer, Director: Anti-Defamation League
Audience: adult
Length: 30 min.
Subject: Anti-Semitism
Summary: This video depicts a colloquium with college students represented from around the country, explaining their confrontations with anti-semitism on the college campus. A good video for a trigger film.
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Title: Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Producer, Director: Kotcheff, Ted
Audience: adult
Length: 121 min.
Subject: Fiction
Summary: Richard Dreyfuss stars as the irresistible Duddy Kravitz, a youth with a desire to be a "somebody". He schemes, lies and uses people, yet we are torn in our feelings toward him. Also starring Jack Warden. Rated PG. 1974.
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Title: Arab and Jew--Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
Producer, Director: Shipler, David K.
Audience: adult
Length: 120 min.
Subject: Israeli-Palestinian Relations
Summary: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Shipler, this two hour video examines the tensions between Arabs and Jews living within the lands under jurisdiction of the Israeli state. The origins of the conflict are examined, as well as the divisions between the people, the intolerance, and alienation between Arabs and Jews. Produced by WETZ, 1989.
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Title: Arab and Jew: Return to the Promised Land
Producer, Director: Shipler, David K.
Audience: adult
Length: 60 min.
Subject: Israeli-Palestinian Relations
Summary: The struggle between Israeli Jews and Palestinians is pictured in searing human terms in this video. Combining new material with interviews of some of the same Israelis and Palestinians that appeared in the original award-winning 1988 program, this video illustrates both unchanging views and an evolution of attitudes by Israelis and Palestinians from before and after Oslo.
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Title: Arafat: In His Own Words
Producer, Director: Peace for Generations/Shalom L'Dorot
Audience: adult
Length: 10 min.
Subject: Israeli-Palestinian Relations
Summary: A collection of speeches given by Yasser Arafat, showing his duplicity as he says one thing in Arabic and another in English.
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Title: Argentina's Jews: Days of Awe
Producer, Director: Cohen, Eli
Audience: adult
Length: 55 min.
Subject: Jews in Argentina
Summary: Jews came to Argentina and founded the agricultural community of Moiseville. Between the two world wars, most opted for city life leaving Moiseville for Buenos Aires where they established a large urban Jewish community. This video provides a history of Argentine Jewry, counterbalanced with their current battles with anti-semitism and assimilation.
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Title: Ashkenaz: the music of the Jews from Eastern Europe
Producer, Director: Tlalim, Asher
Audience: adult
Length: 28 min.
Subject: Music -- Ashkenazim
Summary: This video is a nostalgic look at the music of Eastern European Jewry. We are treated to Yiddish folksongs, the liturgical music of the synagogue, Klezmer melodies, as well as Yiddish theater tunes -- all of which are the essential components of Ashkenazic music. This video features rare vintage archival footage of Jewish life in Eastern Europe as it existed prior to World War II.
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Title: At Evening I Seek You
Producer, Director: Jewish Theology Seminary of America
Audience: all
Length: 60 min.
Subject: Cantorial Music
Summary: Renowned cantors and choirs from across the country gather together in Jewish prayer for the weekday evening Ma'ariv service. This extraordinary and moving program is set in Manhattan's Park Avenue Synagogue, and is in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Cantor's Assembly.
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Title: At the Crossroads
Producer, Director: Global View Productions
Audience: adult
Length: 50 min.
Subject: Jews in Eastern Europe
Summary: A sensitive rediscovery of the rich culture, music and traditions of East European Jews. Lively Klezmer music, Jewish folk songs and dance serve as the backdrop to film producer Yale Strom's journey back to Eastern Europe in 1989. Strom discovers his cultural heritage rooted in Eastern Europe, and shows the new generation there struggling to reawaken.
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Title: Atalia
Producer, Director: Tevet, Akiva
Audience: adult
Length: 90 min.
Subject: Hebrew -- Fiction
Summary: This is the powerful story, set on a kibbutz, of the love between an older woman, a war widow, and a younger man. Atalia's defiant life style contradicts the conventions of kibbutz life, and she has become an outsider," yet she remains tied to the kibbutz. Mature audiences. Stars Michal Bat-Adam, Yiftach Katzur and Dan Toren.
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Title: Attic, The
Producer, Director: Erman, John
Audience: adult
Length: 95 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Anne Frank
Summary: This is the incredible true story of Miep Gies, the woman who risked everything to hide almost a dozen Jews, including Anne Frank and her family, in Nazi occupied Amsterdam. Behind a bookcase, upstairs in her attic, Miep protected the Jews from arrest, as welll as providing them with food and shelter. This movie stars Mary Steenburgen, Paul Scofield, and Lisa Jacobs.
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Title: Au Revoir, Les Enfants
Producer, Director: Malle, Louis
Audience: teen - adult
Length: 103 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Fiction
Summary: The Academy Award- winning story of two boys, one Jewish, one Gentile, who become friends while in a boarding school in France during World War II. The Jewish child is being "hidden" by the authorities of the boarding school. In French, with English subtitles. Rated PG, 1987.
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Title: Auschwitz: History, Present, Future
Producer, Director: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Audience: adult
Length: 63 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Auschwitz
Summary: This is a three part documentary filmed on the gorunds of the concentration camp, Auschwitz. It contains a historical overview, a "tour" of the grounds, buildings, and collections of the museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau, and deals with questions about why it was ever allowed to exist.
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Title: Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
Producer, Director: BBC Video
Audience: adult
Length: 300 min.: 2 disc set
Subject: Holocaust -- Auschwitz
Summary: As Shown on PBS and BBC, this six-part documentary, narrated by actress Linda Hunt, presents an in-depth examination of the camp's evolution and the decisions that enabled such a place to come into being. The film uses archival footage, dramatic recreations and a unique look at the perpetrators. Written and produced by Laurence Rees.
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Title: Auschwitz: Recollections by Prisoner No. 1327
Producer, Director: Smolen, Kazimierz
Audience: adult
Length: 45 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Auschwitz
Summary: This is the dramatic account by a man, Kazimierz Smolen, who has been associated with the Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau camp for over 50 years. Mr. Smolen was a prisoner at Auschwitz for four and a half years. After the war, he became the director of the "KL Auschwitz" Museum. He is an authority on German Concentration camps and was the crown witness in Nazi war crimes trials.
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Title: Austeria
Producer, Director: Kawalerowicz, Jerzy
Audience: adult
Length: 110 min.
Subject: Fiction
Summary: On the first day of World War I, a group of Jews flee from the Cossack army in Polish Galicia and finds itself trapped overnight in a border inn. Relationships develop, love affairs are snatched, the religious pray. In Polish with English subtitles; winner of the Grand Prix at the Gdansk Film Festival, 1984.
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Title: Avalon
Producer, Director: Levinson, Barry
Audience: all
Length: 126 min.
Subject: Fiction
Summary: In this semi-autobiographical masterpiece, director Barry Levinson follows the story of immigrant Sam Krichinsky and his extended family as they seek a dream in America. We see the family from poverty through prosperity, as they face a changing world. A superb cast recaptures the love and laughter of this family; a tapestry of American life. Rated PG.
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Title: Avi Hoffman's Too Jewish?
Producer, Director: Hoffman, Avi
Audience: all
Length: 100 min.
Subject: Musical Theater
Summary: Avi Hoffman, Live at the Westside Theater. The award-winning one-man musical comedy revue, a delightful exploration of Jewish music, humor, culture and language.
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Title: B'Li Sodot Vol. 8 - 15
Producer, Director: Israeli Department of Education
Audience: children
Length: 60 min. ea.
Subject: Hebrew reading
Summary: Each of these videos, all in Hebrew, teaches children how to read basic Hebrew words by using clever skits, songs, and dances. In a "Sesame Street"-like format, Hebrew letters and vowels are shown on the screen, accompanying the action. A fun series, but requires a working conversational vocabulary of Hebrew to understand.
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Title: Bach in Auschwitz
Producer, Director: Daeron, Michel
Audience: adult
Length: 105 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Auschwitz
Summary: Forty female musicians from all over Europe performed in the Auschwitz Orchestra. They were directed by the brilliant violinist Alma Rose, who owes her own survival to her close blood ties to Gustav Mahler. Eleven of the "Orchestra" were still living when this documentary was made, and they met to recall their story and confront their unique position in the history of the Holocaust.
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