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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: Judgment at Nuremberg
Producer, Director: Kramer, Stanley
Audience: adult
Length: 3 hours 7 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- War Crimes
Summary: An international cast, including Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Maximilian Schell, Montgomery Clift, and William Shatner, make this film about the Nazi War Crimes trial in Nuremberg a real classic. It receceived 12 Academy Award nominations for its stirring courtroom drama. Black and white.
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Title: Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden
Producer, Director: Goldman, Michal
Audience: all
Length: 75 min.
Subject: Music -- Klezmer
Summary: This video traces the efforts of two contemporary groups, Kapelye and Klezmer Conservatory Band, to recover the lost history of klezmer music, the music that was part of the celebration of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. The film observes rehearsals, Yiddish lessons, weddings, and a live radio concert. Delightful!
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Title: Just a Diary
Producer, Director: Anne Frank Center
Audience: teen - adult
Length: 25 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Anne Frank
Summary: The life story of Anne Frank is told from the perspective of a 17 year old Dutch girl, who plays the part of Anne in a stage performance. She tells her feelings about Anne, and we see main scenes out of the play. In addition, historical film footage and photographs are shown about the rise of Hitler, and the Jews in Holland.
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Title: Kaddish
Producer, Director: Brand, Steve
Audience: adult
Length: 94 min.
Subject: Holocaust Survivors
Summary: The true story of Zoltan Klein, a Holocaust survivor, and his son, Yossi, and how they come to terms with their definitions of how to live as Jews. The son wrestles with the stories his father has told him of how he survived the Nazis, and then decides to become a Jewish activist. Very interesting and poignant. 1984.
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Title: Kadosh
Producer, Director: Gitai, Amos
Audience: adult
Length: 117 min.
Subject: Hebrew -- Fiction
Summary: This handsomely photographed morality tale depicts the power struggle between the lives of secular and religious Jews in Israel. A powerful drama and feminist polemic. Rivka, who devotes herself to her husband, is barren and rejected by the community. Her sister is in love with a man who has left the religious community. Powerful emotions and conflict are depicted. In Hebrew, with English subtitles. 1999.
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Title: Kapo
Producer, Director: Strasberg, Susan
Audience: adult
Length: 92 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Fiction
Summary: Gillo Pontecorvo directed this moving study of hope and humiliation in Nazi concentration camps. A Jewish family living in Paris during World War II is arrested by the Nazis and shipped to a labor camp where their ordeal begins. "Stark and terrifying". A French/Italian production, dubbed into English, with some foreign language pieces having subtitles. Black and white, 1959.
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Title: Karussell
Producer, Director: Ziok, Ilona
Audience: adult
Length: 65 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Theresienstadt
Summary: Until 1933, Kurt Gerron, a Jew, enjoyed national stardom. Forced into exile by the Nazis, he first fled to Paris, and later to Amsterdam, where he became an important director of Dutch cinema. In 1943 he was rounded up in Amsterdam and deported to Theresienstadt. Here he directed his own cabaret, "The Karussell." The Nazis even offered him the chance to make a film about the Jews in Theresienstadt. This video creates a striking picture of this man, and the songs he made famous.
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Title: Katz
Producer, Director: Caplan, Roberta
Audience: all
Length: 60 min.
Subject: N.S.S. Beth El
Summary: The musical production starring the congregants of N.S.S. Beth El, performed in June, 1984.
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Title: Kazablan
Producer, Director: Gaon, Yehoram
Audience: all
Length: 90 min.
Subject: Hebrew -- Fiction
Summary: One of Golan / Globus' first successful films. This is a musical Romeo and Juliet, or West Side Story in Hebrew. Starring singer Yeroham Gaon as Kazablan the war hero. He and and his musical gang live in Jaffa. He is Sephardic and courts the Ashkenazi Rachel. Lots of singing and dancing.
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Title: Kedma
Producer, Director: Gitai, Amos
Audience: adult
Length: 100 min.
Subject: Hebrew Fiction
Summary: This award winning film is a drama about a group of European Jewish refugees who arrive in Palestine in 1948 on the freighter Kedma. They find a war torn country, as they are rescued by Palmach Jewish activists. The film documents their evolution into soldiers who must defend their new nation. With no common language, they forge a bond that also binds them to their new land. 2002.
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Title: Keeping Quilt, The
Producer, Director: Polacco, Patricia, narrator
Audience: all
Length: 13 min.
Subject: Juvenile Fiction
Summary: The story of a keeping quilt is told, about how the quilt is created and passed down through the generations. Based on the book by Patricia Polacco.
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Title: Keeping the Faith
Producer, Director: Norton, Edward
Audience: adult
Length: 129 min.
Subject: Fiction
Summary: Jake Schram, Brian Finn and Ann are best friends, and when they grow up, a love triangle ensues, complicated by the fact that Jake is a rabbi and Brian is a priest. A light comedy, starring Ben Stiller, Edward Norton, and Jenna Elfman. Rated PG13
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Title: Keeping up with the Steins
Producer, Director: Marshall, Scott
Audience: teen - adult
Length: 99 min.
Subject: Fiction
Summary: This is a heartwarming coming-of-age comedy which tells the story of three generations who come together to celebrate their son and grandson's Bar Mitzvah.
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Title: Kibbutz
Producer, Director: Doko
Audience: all
Subject: Kibbutz
Summary: The kibbutz movement was born at the turn of the century, a beacon in the struggle to redeem Israel, and build the Jewish state. In this film, we view the footage of the early pioneers who joined together to create communal settings, as well as the present kibbutzim, and hope for the future.
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Title: Kibbutz: 2000
Producer, Director: Israeli, Yigal
Audience: all
Length: 30 min.
Subject: Kibbutz
Summary: This video explores the kibbutz movement, and looks at how the kibbutz will evolve into the year 2000. Will women's roles remain constant? Will industry take on greater importance, or will agriculture remain primary? The future of the kibbutz, as innovative and unique lifestyle, is contemplated.
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Title: King David
Producer, Director: Beresford, Bruce
Audience: all
Length: 114 min.
Subject: Bible -- Personalities -- King David
Summary: Richard Gere stars in this story of the lowly shepherd boy whose shrewdness and bravery helped him ascend to the throne of ancient Israel. The story is told from the time of David's battle with Goliath, to his self-destructive yearning for Bathsheba. Rated PG 13, 1985.
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Title: Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites
Producer, Director: Byker, Carl
Audience: adult
Length: 220 min.
Subject: History -- Ancient
Summary: This DVD tells the epic story of the Israelites and the creation of the world's first monotheistic religion. The stories of Abraham, Moses and David all come to life in this dramatic tale. Produced by PBS.
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Title: Kinnor Choir in Concert
Producer, Director: Kinnor Choir
Audience: all
Length: 90 min.
Subject: Music
Summary: This is the video tape of the November 17, 1990 concert of the Kinnor Choir of Riga, Latvia, a chorus of 25 teens, who sang Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, and Ladino songs in our synagogue.
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Title: Kippur
Producer, Director: Gitai, Amos
Audience: adult
Length: 123 Min.
Subject: Israel -- Yom Kippur War
Summary: An official selection at the Cannes, New York and Toronto Film Festivals, this film focuses on the presence of the human spirit in war. We are treated to a first hand experience of war, as we see only the rescue crew trying to pick up downed soldiers. Brilliant and disturbing.
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Title: Kitty, Return to Auschwitz
Producer, Director: Morley, Peter
Audience: adult
Length: 82 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Auschwitz
Summary: The story of Kitty Hart, a survivor of Auschwitz who takes her son back to the death camp to show him what it was like to live there. Her words are graphic, as she bears witness to the most evil acts of inhumanity. 1979.
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