Editor’s Note: Columnist Laurie Baron has been scouring the TV and Internet services for movies of Jewish interest that you can watch at home. Combined with the previous installments of his research, it is quite a collection. Here are links to Parts I, II, III, and IV.
Internet Archive: Free movies, books, and music to stream and download.
The Jewish Channel: Subscription cable television channel available from Comcast and Time Warner Cable.
Open Culture: Thousands of free movies for streaming, some of which are of Jewish interest.
Forever Pure (Amazon): Documentary about how the fans of Israel’s most racist soccer team responded when it signed two Arab players.
Foxtrot (Amazon): An Israeli father is erroneously notified that his son was killed while serving in the IDF. The story switches to the base where his son is serving and then to six months later.
A French Village (MHz): How the inhabitants of a French village respond to the German occupation of their town between 1940 and 1945.
Go for Zucker (Fandor/Amazon): German comedy about a Jewish family once divided by the Wall sitting shiva to fulfill their mother’s stipulation that the secular brother must reconcile with his Orthodox brother for them to inherit her estate.
Hostages (Netflix): Israeli series about a surgeon and her family being taken hostage by terrorists trying to kill the Israeli prime minister by preventing the doctor from operating on him.
Mekimi (Amazon): What becomes of a couple’s relationship when the man joins the Breslov Hasidic movement.
Mossad 101 (Netflix) A drama with many comic touches about the training academy for the Mossad.
Red Trees (Amazon): Documentary of a daughter tracing how her father escaped occupied Prague and built a new life in Brazil.
The Song of Names (On Demand): A Jewish violin prodigy left by his Polish father with a British family during the war disappears to find out what his father’s ultimate fate in Poland was.
Streit’s: Matzo and the American Dream (Amazon): Documentary about the history of Streit’s, the manufacturing of matzah, and the financial pressures that forced Streit’s to close its old factory.
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Laurie Baron, Ph.D, is professor emeritus of European History at San Diego State University; a humor columnist (in his own name and in that of his dog Elona), and is an authority on Jewish-themed movies, particularly those dealing with the Holocaust. To see an archive of his stories, please click on his byline at the top of this page. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com