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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: Now I Know My Aleph Bet
Producer, Director: HaChai
Audience: juvenile
Length: 6o min. ea.
Subject: Hebrew Alphabet
Summary: Through Torah tales, popular and favorite Hebrew songs, simple crafts and a wealth of exciting information, the teachers take their students on a wonderful journey through the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Appropriate for ages 3 - 7. In two volumes.
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Title: Nowhere in Africa
Producer, Director: Link, Caroline
Audience: adult
Length: 142 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Fiction
Summary: This critically acclaimed Academy Award winner is a story about love, about family, about leaving one home to create another. Spanning two continents, it's the true tale of a Jewish attorney and his family who flee the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. As the war rages on the other side of the world, his relationships with his wife and daughter become increasingly complicated; they struggle between resisting and embracing their new life, while reaching out to each other.
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Title: Number Our Days
Producer, Director: Myerhoff, Barbara
Audience: adult
Length: 29 min.
Subject: Elderly
Summary: This video won the Academy Award in 1976 for best Short Subject Documentary. It is a sensitive portrait of elderly European Jews living in California who are sustaining their vivid culture in the face of poverty, loneliness, and extreme old age. The film was widely acclaimed by critics.
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Title: Nuremberg
Producer, Director: Simoneau, Yves
Audience: adult
Length: 179 min.
Subject: Nuremberg Trials
Summary: Twenty-one members of the Nazi high command stood charged for war crimes inside Nuremberg's Palace of Justice. All of them pleaded not-guilty. Based on Joseph E. Persico's acclaimed book, Nuremberg, Infamy on trial, and featuring dialogue taken from case transcripts, this film is a compelling courtroom drama about the post-World War II trial of the century.
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Title: Nuremberg Trials
Producer, Director: Court TV
Audience: adult
Length: 9 hours
Subject: Holocaust -- War Crimes
Summary: This presentation by Court TV is the actual footage of the Nuremberg Trials, followed by commentary. Part of our collection by permission from Steven Brill, President and founder of Court TV.
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Title: Oasis in Time
Producer, Director: Jewish Theological Seminary of Am.
Audience: adult
Length: 60 min.
Subject: Shabbat
Summary: This is a wonderful discussion of the practice and meaning of Shabbat, throughout the ages as well as during modern times. Various people are interviewed, from scholars to lay people, from executives to homemakers, who explain the beauty and value of Shabat for them. Historical reflections are included.
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Title: Odyssey of the Torah Scrolls
Producer, Director: Eternal Light/JTS
Audience: all
Length: 30 min.
Subject: Holocaust Torahs
Summary: Rabbi Stanley Schachter visits the Westminster Synagogue in England, and interviews Ruth Shaffer, Joint Chairman of the Memorial Scrolls Trust, about her involvement in recovering thousands of "tatooed torahs," scrolls which were confiscated by the Nazis from throughout Czechoslovakia. These scrolls are now being resstored. Sager Solomon Schechter School is featured.
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Title: Of Cabbages and Kings
Producer, Director: Lebeau, Rabbi W.
Audience: adult
Length: 30 min.
Subject: Judaism
Summary: A tape recording of the WLS television program, featuring Rabbi William Lebeau. The topic of the program is :"A Return to Tradition: Where do we turn?" The program also features Rabbi Irwin Pollack, and Dr. Robert and Carol Minkus. It focuses on how to increase one's observance of Jewish rituals.
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Title: Ofra Haza -- From Dusk to Dawn
Producer, Director: Israel Broadcasting Authority
Audience: all
Length: 42 min.
Subject: Israel -- Music
Summary: Popular Israeli singer Ofra Haza sings a variety of songs in several different settings. She speaks to her audience in Hebrew.
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Title: Old Testament Collection
Producer, Director: Arts and Entertainment Network
Audience: adult
Length: 350 min. (6 videos)
Subject: Bible -- Personalities
Summary: BIOGRAPHY, produced by the Arts and Entertainment Network, brings the first in-depth look at the men and women of the Bible. Using rare artifacts and painting, as well as interviews with experts and historians, this collection offers portraits of Adam and Eve, Noah, Moses, Samson and Delilah, King David, and King Solomon. Filmed in Israel.
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Title: On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying
Producer, Director: Moyers, Bill
Audience: adult
Length: 4 videos; 90 min. ea
Subject: Death and Dying
Summary: Dying well means a measure of control over how and where we die. In this four-part series, Bill Moyers looks at how we die in America, providing a look at the daily experience of patients, their families, and their caregivers, including decisions they face and the changes they undergo. Medical, legal and public policy is also explored with experts.
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Title: One Day in September
Producer, Director: Cohn, Arthur
Audience: adult
Length: 94 min.
Subject: Munich Olympics
Summary: This film is the incredible, shocking Academy Award winning feature (1999) about the brutal massacre of Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists. The video features the facts of how the terrorists snuck into the village, how the Germans bungled the entire affair, and how the terrorists were ultimately freed.
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Title: One Minute Bible Stories
Producer, Director: Lewis, Shari
Audience: children
Length: 30 min.
Subject: Bible -- Animated
Summary: Through the use of puppetry and colorful animation, Shari Lewis and her lovable puppet, Lamb Chop, bring a refreshing look at some of the greatest stories of the Bible. Each tale is told in less than a minute, and is enjoyable for the entire family. Included are such stories as Joseph and his Wonderful Coat, Noah and the Ark, and Jonah and the Whale.
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Title: One Night with the King
Producer, Director: Sajbel, Michael O.
Audience: adult
Length: 124 min.
Subject: Biography -- Esther
Summary: This epic theatrical release depicts the Purim story, as Hadassah, the young Jewish orphan, becomes Esther, the Queen of Persia and saves her people. Starring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif and John Rhys-Davies.
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Title: One Survivor Remembers
Producer, Director: Klein, Gerda Weissmann
Audience: adult
Length: 39 min.
Subject: Holocaust
Summary: The United States Holocaust Museum and HBO produced this Academy Award wining documentary about the life of Gerda Weissmann Klein, a Holocaust survivor. Through a series of interviews, photographs and footage shot in the actual locations of her memories, and with a narration of extraordinary eloquence and dignity, we are taken on a sad journey throug history's most horrific times.
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Title: Only Human
Producer, Director: DePelegri, Teresa and Harari, Dominic
Audience: adult
Length: 86 min.
Subject: Fiction
Summary: This family comedy combines beautiful acting and brilliant humor in a Jewish "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" story. When Leni introduces her fiance Rafi, to her Jewish family, it goes well until it is revealed that Rafi is a Palestinian. An upbeat and comical reflection on family dynamics. In Spanish, with English subtitles.
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Title: Only Way, The
Producer, Director: Christensen, Bent
Audience: adult
Length: 86 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Denmark
Summary: This film, produced on location in Denmark, is a faithful recounting of the events in September-October, 1943, when the Nazis attempted to arrest the nation's entire Jewish population. The Danish government promised peaceful cooperation on the condition that Denmark's Jews remain free, and the Nazis agreed. However, the agreement was broken, and the people of Denmark stepped forth and saved the Danish Jewish population.
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Title: Opening the Gates of Hell
Producer, Director: Holocaust Memorial Foundation
Audience: teen - adult
Length: 45 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Liberators
Summary: Decades have passed since the liberation of the concentration camps, yet the sights that met the eyes of the liberators is still fresh in their memories. Many of the Americans interviewed in this video, all now retired from the Armed Forces, have chosen to remember and to share their memories. Includes graphic archival footage. Color and black and white.
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Title: Operation Jonathan (Mivtza Yonatan)
Producer, Director: Golan, Menacham
Audience: all
Length: 124 min.
Subject: Israel -- Entebbe
Summary: Produced in Israel with the full cooperation of the Israeli government, this video recreates the events of the spectacular raid on Entebbe, to rescue the hostages. Filmed with realism and accuracy, and selected as Israel's entry for the Academy Awards.
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Title: Operation Moses
Producer, Director: Shagrir, Micha
Audience: all
Length: 27 min.
Subject: Jews in Ethiopia
Summary: The epic story of the rescue, immigration and absorption of Ethiopian Jewry, told through testimonials and rare footage. Color, filmed in 1985 for the United Jewish Appeal, it does not include the most recent evacuation of 16,000 Jews from Adis Abbaba.
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