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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: Leil HaSeder
Producer, Director: Zarhin, Shemi
Audience: adult
Length: 100 min.
Subject: Hebrew Fiction
Summary: This is the Jewish version of Home for the Holidays. This movie is a funny, genuinely affecting look at family dysfunction.
An extended, middle-class family is gathering for Passover celebrations. Every single character is developed and the animosity between the family members is counter-balanced by love, no matter what else happens. Anyone who's ever had a family to deal with will find a shred of something recognizable here. A wonderful movie.
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Title: Lemon Popsicle (Eskimo Limon)
Producer, Director: Davidson, Boaz
Audience: adult
Length: 95 min.
Subject: Fiction
Summary: The story of three teenage boys, growing up in 1950's Israel, as they search for "love". Funny and touching.
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Title: Leon the Pig Farmer
Producer, Director: Jean, Vadim and Gary Sinyor
Audience: adult
Length: 98 min.
Subject: Fiction
Summary: This very odd and silly movie is about a man who discovers that he has been adopted by a Jewish family, and he seeks his real family, only to discover that they are pig farmers. A very witty British production.
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Title: Les Miserables
Producer, Director: Lelouch, Claude
Audience: adult
Length: 175 min.
Subject: Holocaust
Summary: Paralleling the Victor Hugo novel, this movie depicts a hero in Nazi occupied France. Using a cascade of events, traits and emotions, the director follows the life of Henri Fortin, a true and simple man whose life parallels Jean Valjean. Very moving. In French, with English subtitles.
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Title: Liberation
Producer, Director: Simon Wiesenthal Center
Audience: adult
Length: 100 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Liberation
Summary: This video addresses two themes: the dramatic story of the battle waged on two fronts during World War II -- the Allied campaign to liberate Europe, and Adolf Hitler's genocidal war against the Jews. The film begins in 1942, when the Allies were just planning their invastion of Europe. Combining film footage, period music and radio broadcasts, the film spans the next 3 years, to the liberation of Paris and the death camps.
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Title: Liberation of Auschwitz, 1945
Producer, Director: Chronos U.K.
Audience: adult
Length: 55 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Auschwitz
Summary: Only 18 minutes of this footage has ever been shown before in the west. This was released by the Russians as prosecution evidence at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials. Captain Alexander Vorontsov is the only surviving camerman from the Soviet film crew who filmed the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. He describes the feelings and those of his comrades. Explicit scenes, violent and disturbing.
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Title: Liberty Heights
Producer, Director: Levinson, Barry
Audience: all
Length: 128 min.
Subject: Fiction
Summary: This film is a warmly funny, semi-autobiographical tale told by the director, Barry Levinson. The year is 1954, a season of dramatic social flux that Levinson explores through the eyes of a Jewish family. Friendship, romance, courage, racism, anti- semitism are all part of a glorious picture. Stars Adrien Brody, Ben Foster, Joe Mantagna, and Bebe Neuwirth. Made in 1999.
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Title: Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
Producer, Director: Kempner, Aviva
Audience: all
Length: 95 min.
Subject: Biography -- Greenberg, Hank
Summary: This much-acclaimed film is about baseball's first Jewish star, Hammerin' Hank Greenberg. An extraordinary ball player, notorious for his hours of daily practice, Greenberg's career was an inspiration to all and captured the headlines and the admiration of sportswriters and fans alike. This is the story of how he became an American hero.
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Title: Life Apart, A
Producer, Director: Daum, Menachem and Rudavsky, Oren
Audience: adult
Length: 95 min.
Subject: Jews in the United States -- Hasidim
Summary: In this extraordinarily intimate film, seven years in the making, we are taken into the depths of the Hasidim's joyous, sometimes harsh, and often beautiful world. From mystical tales to mesmerizing music, Rebbes to Holocaust survivors, this video reveals a strange, insular world few outsiders have seen, and few could imagine. Excellent and gripping. 1997.
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Title: Life is Beautiful
Producer, Director: Benigni, Roberto
Audience: adult
Length: 116 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Italy
Summary: This Academy Award-winning motion picture features a charming, bumbling waiter, Guido, who falls in love with a wonderful woman and creates a fantasy life. But then, that life is threatened by World War II, and Guido must rely on his unique strengths to save his beloved wife and son from an unthinkable fate in a Nazi work camp. Critically acclaimed, utterly unique and moving. In Italian, with English subtitles.
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Title: Life of Anne Frank
Producer, Director: Films for the Humanities
Audience: all
Length: 25 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Anne Frank
Summary: This is the story of the life of Anne Frank told through quotations from her diary pictures of her hiding place, photos from the Frank family album, and historical documentary footage. This documentary also provides the historical background about the Nazis, anti-Semitism, the persecution of the Jews in Holland, and the ultimate capture of the Frank family by the Nazis.
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Title: Life of Emile Zola
Producer, Director: Muni, Paul
Audience: adult
Length: 116 min.
Subject: Biography -- Zola, Emile
Summary: Winner of the first Best Picture Academy Award for Warner Brothers, this film is about the activist French author who championed the oppressed, and whose relentless campaign to free the wrongly convicted Captain Dreyfus stood up as one of the moral achievements of history.
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Title: Life of Hillel, The
Producer, Director: Jewish Heritage Series
Audience: juvenile
Length: 35 min.
Subject: Biography -- Hillel
Summary: An ideal entertaining and educational video of the story of Hillel. The children follow Hillel on his journey from Babylonia to Israel, and watch as he is turned away because of the lack of an entrance fee to the yeshiva. He climbs to the roof, in desperation to learn. Shown with puppets.
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Title: Lifeline for the Old in Israel
Producer, Director: American Friends of Lifelinea
Audience: adult
Length: 12 min.
Subject: Elderly -- Israel
Summary: The Lifeline for the Old in Israel is an organization which provides jobs for the elderly in Israel. This excellent video shows the founder, Miriam Mendelow, and the work that she does in Israel. Excellent trigger film about the elderly, as well as for this particular organization.
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Title: Light Ahead, The (Fishke the Lame)
Producer, Director: Ulmer, Edgar G.
Audience: adult
Length: 94 min.
Subject: Yiddish Fiction
Summary: This video is a powerful adaptation from the work of the 19th century author Mendele Mokher Seforim. It is the story of Fishke, a lame man who is a ward of the Jewish community and his love for the blind women, Hodl. They are kept from marrying until a traveling bookseller turns the community's fear of the supernatural to the couple's advantage. B & W, 1939. Subtitled.
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Title: Lights: A Hanukah Video About Then and Now
Producer, Director: Gesher/Jerusalem Prod.
Audience: children
Length: 20 min.
Subject: Hanukkah
Summary: A very sophisticated animated video about the story of Hanukkah. The children need to know the story of Hanukkah before watching this, and might need help understanding the metaphor of "lights" and the Hebrew alphabet which depict Jewish law and mitzvot. An excellent portrayal of conflict between Greeks and Jews, and assimilation.
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Title: Lisa and Aron's Story: A Journey of Remembrance
Producer, Director: Holocaust Memorial Foundation of IL.
Audience: adult
Length: 60 min.
Subject: Holocaust
Summary: In this video, Lisa and Aron Derman take a group of Chicago teen-agers to Poland, to visit sites of the Holocaust, and to reflect on their personal meaning.
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Title: Little Heroes
Producer, Director: Lev, Itai
Audience: all
Length: 76 min.
Subject: Hebrew Fiction
Summary: A group of four children learn to face their differences and work together during an adventurous journey throughout the Israeli wilderness. During the course of numerous trials and tribulations, the four social outsiders try to bond together, bridget he gaps between them and learn to face their fears. This is one of the first films for children made in Israel.
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Title: Lodz Ghetto
Producer, Director: Jewish Heritage Project
Audience: adult
Length: 90 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Ghettos
Summary: In 1940, the Nazi forced the 20,000 Jews of Lodz, Poland, into a sealed, internally self-governed ghetto, creating a huge work camp for the German war effort. This video documents the lives of the inhabitants of that ghetto, using their own words from diaries, notebooks, poems, and sketches. Based on the book by Adelson and Lapides. 1990.
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Title: Long Journey
Producer, Director: Israel Sport Center for the Disabled
Audience: adult
Length: 10 min.
Subject: Sports
Summary: This poignant video shows the rehabilitation services performed at the Ilan Sports Center for the Disabled in Ramat Gan. Children are taught swimming, tennis, even such basics as standing and throwing, and each reaches a sense of accomplishment and pride.
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