Eastern Europe
PARADISE CAMP
Tells the story of the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, which was
used by the Nazis during WWII in an elaborate hoax to deceive world opinion about the
Third Reich's extermination campaign against the Jews.
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SERVUS, ADIEU, SHALOM: JEWISH LIFE IN VIENNA
Through interviews with contemporary Viennese Jews and rare archival film, this video traces Jewish life in the Austrian capital, chronicling a history of alternating toleration and expulsion dating back to the tenth century.
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THE SIXTH BATTALION
This historical documentary examines the persecution of Jews in Slovakia during WWII.
Surviving members of The Sixth Battalion, a military unit comprised of young Jewish men
compelled to do forced labor, recount their own experiences and the persecution of the
entire Jewish community during the war in the Slovak State. Records drawn from the
archives reveal the extent of the collaboration between the Slovak government and the
Nazis.
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STORY ABOUT A BAD DREAM, AEastern Europe Jewish Studies World History Children & Young Adult
This compelling docu-drama about the Holocaust, based on the memoirs of Eva Erbenova,
recounts from a child's-eye view her experiences as a thirteen-year-old girl in
Czechoslovakia during World War II, the only one from her family to survive the war.
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TESLA: THE ZENITH FACTOR
Examines the remarkable career of Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), one of the world's greatest
inventors, with over 1,000 patents registered in his name.
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ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI: a special giftBiology Eastern Europe Health Science Physical Science Pacific Street Films
Examines the life and work of one of the century's most important and original bio-
medical scientists, and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Medicine.
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RAT ART: CROATIAN INDEPENDENTSPerforming Arts Eastern Europe Cinema Studies Art History
Offers a fascinating overview of artistic activity in Croatia during the recent war in the
former Yugoslavia, revealing the diversity and vitality of its artists as well as how their
work was profoundly influenced by the conflict.
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THE STATE RUSSIAN MUSEUMRussia Eastern Europe Art History
This video offers a fascinating tour through the world's largest repository of Russian art,
comprising some 400,000 exhibits covering the thousand-year period of Russian history.
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VELVET HANGOVERPolitical Science Eastern Europe Cinema Studies
This video features candid interviews with the filmmakers- including Vera Chytilova, Jiri Menzel, Jan Nemec, Ivan Passer, and Jan Sverak, among many others-who created the Czech New Wave.
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SERGEI EISENSTEIN IN ALMA-ATA 1941-1944Cinema Studies Russia Eastern Europe
This video chronicles a crucial period in the life of the great Soviet filmmaker, Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), when he left Moscow during WWII for the Kazakhstan capital to film Ivan the Terrible (1943).
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