Jacob Burns Film Center: Shoah Claude Lanzmann’s nine-and-a-half hour Holocaust documentary Shoah stands four decades after its release as one of the greatest of all films. Yet because of its imposing length, it is rarely screened. Bringing together the testimony of survivors, […]
Jacob Burns Film Center Jewish Film Festival: Neshoma Sandra Beerends’ beautiful and bittersweet film Neshoma captures the spirit and soul of Amsterdam’s Jewish community between the first and second World Wars, using a unique mix of authentic archival footage that is woven […]
Jacob Burns Film Cener: Wiseman's America— High School Frederick Wiseman’s second film takes place in a large urban high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The film documents how the school system exists not only to pass on “facts” but also to […]
Jacob Burns Film Center: Frederick Wiseman's America: Law and Order In the shadow of the 1968 race riots, Law and Order surveys the day-to-day work of a Kansas City police department. From drive-alongs to arrests to general social service work, what accrues […]
Jacob Burns Film Center: Frederick Wiseman's America— Welfare Welfare shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, […]
Jacob Burns Film Center: Wiseman's America— High School Frederick Wiseman’s second film takes place in a large urban high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The film documents how the school system exists not only to pass on “facts” but also to […]
Jacob Burns Film Center: Frederick Wiseman's America: Law and Order In the shadow of the 1968 race riots, Law and Order surveys the day-to-day work of a Kansas City police department. From drive-alongs to arrests to general social service work, what accrues […]
Jacob Burns Film Center: Frederick Wiseman's America— Welfare Welfare shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, […]
Jacob Burns Film Center: Wiseman's America— Canal Zone Canal Zone is about the people who live and work in the Panama Canal Zone and shows both the operation of the Canal and the various governmental agencies—business, military, and civilian—related to the […]
Jacob Burns Film Center: Wiseman's America— Canal Zone Canal Zone is about the people who live and work in the Panama Canal Zone and shows both the operation of the Canal and the various governmental agencies—business, military, and civilian—related to the […]
Jacob Burns Film Center: Wiseman's America— The Store The Store is a film about the main Neiman-Marcus store and corporate headquarters in Dallas. The sequences in the film include the selection, presentation, marketing, pricing, advertising and selling of a vast array […]
Jacob Burns Film Center: Wiseman's America— The Store The Store is a film about the main Neiman-Marcus store and corporate headquarters in Dallas. The sequences in the film include the selection, presentation, marketing, pricing, advertising and selling of a vast array […]
