Jacob Burns Film Center Jewish Film Festival: A Thre Course Meal... Three Food Films A cinematic feast about the joys and importance of food, this program includes the film equivalent of an appetizer, a beverage, and an entree. Including Orna […]
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Jacob Burns Film Center: When Caesar Was King In the 1950s, Sid Caesar was the most influential, highly paid, and wildly talented comedian in America. He was watched every week by more than twenty million people on Your Show of Shows, […] |
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Jacob Burns Film Center Jewish Film Festival: A Letter to David David Cunio was abducted from Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, and held captive by Hamas for more than two years. Ten years earlier, David starred with his twin […] |
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Jacob Burns Film Center Jewish Film Festival: Sapiro v. Ford: The Jew Who Sued Henry Ford In 1927, the young Jewish lawyer and labor organizer Aaron Sapiro sued Ford for defamation. The courageous David vs. Goliath court case is the […] 
Jacob Burns Film Center: Fantasy Life Elegantly made and sharply observant, this distinctly New York comedy and family drama is buoyed by an ensemble of beloved actors Amanda Peet, in her first starring role in over a decade; Judd Hirsch, […] |
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Jacob Burns Film Center Jewish Film Festival: A Thre Course Meal... Three Food Films A cinematic feast about the joys and importance of food, this program includes the film equivalent of an appetizer, a beverage, and an entree. Including Orna […] 
Jacob Burns Film Center Jewish Film Festival: The Last Spy Peter Sichel, born in 1922 into a wealthy German Jewish wine family, fled with them to the United States. Joining the army as soon as America enters the war, he […] 
Jacob Burns Film Center Jewish Film Festival: My Underground Mother In this documentary, Marisa Fox uncovers the truth about her mother's time in a Nazi-run forced labor camp for women. Jacob Burns Film Center |
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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, […] |
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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 […] |
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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, […] |
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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 […] |
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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, […] |
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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 […] |
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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 […] |
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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 […] 
JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America— Aspen Aspen is a film about a town famous in the 19th century for silver mining and now known for its scenic splendor, mountains, skiing, hiking, music, intellectual activity and fashionable people. The film documents the daily […] |
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America— Aspen Aspen is a film about a town famous in the 19th century for silver mining and now known for its scenic splendor, mountains, skiing, hiking, music, intellectual activity and fashionable people. The film documents the daily […] |
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America— Public Housing Public Housing documents daily life at the Ida B. Wells public housing development in Chicago. The film illustrates some of the experiences of people living in conditions of extreme poverty. Events shown include the work […] |
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America— Domestic Violence Domestic Violence shows the police in Tampa, Florida as they respond to domestic violence calls, in addition to the work of The Spring, the principal shelter in Tampa for women and children. Sequences with the […] |
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America: Belfast Maine Belfast, Maine is a film about ordinary experience in a beautiful old New England port city. It is a portrait of daily life with particular emphasis on the work and the cultural life of the […]
JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America: Belfast Maine Belfast, Maine is a film about ordinary experience in a beautiful old New England port city. It is a portrait of daily life with particular emphasis on the work and the cultural life of the […] |
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America— Public Housing Public Housing documents daily life at the Ida B. Wells public housing development in Chicago. The film illustrates some of the experiences of people living in conditions of extreme poverty. Events shown include the work […] |
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America— Domestic Violence Domestic Violence shows the police in Tampa, Florida as they respond to domestic violence calls, in addition to the work of The Spring, the principal shelter in Tampa for women and children. Sequences with the […] |
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America— In Jackson Heights Set in the neighborhood of Jackson Heights in Queens, New York—one of the most racially and ethically diverse communities in the United States—In Jackson Heights centers on the daily lives of the people in […] |
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America— Ex Libris: The New York Public Library Ex Libris: The New York Public Library goes behind the scenes of one of the greatest knowledge institutions in the world and reveals it as a welcoming place of cultural […] |
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America— Ex Libris: The New York Public Library Ex Libris: The New York Public Library goes behind the scenes of one of the greatest knowledge institutions in the world and reveals it as a welcoming place of cultural […] 
JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America: Monrovia, Indiana Monrovia, Indiana explores a small, rural town in the American midwest and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity, and authenticity are formed, experienced, and lived, along with conflicting stereotypes. The film […] |
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America— In Jackson Heights Set in the neighborhood of Jackson Heights in Queens, New York—one of the most racially and ethically diverse communities in the United States—In Jackson Heights centers on the daily lives of the people in […] |