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, IV, and V.
Facets Edge: Subscription streaming service that carries many art, indie, and foreign films.
Reel Good: Has a filmography of Israeli movies available for streaming on various channels.
Brooklyn Bridge (YouTube): Iconic television comedy about a Jewish boy growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s.
Fateless (Amazon; Tubi): A graphic portrayal of a Hungarian teen surviving in a concentration camp based on the novel by Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertész.
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amselem (iTunes; Google Play): A mesmerizing trial of a woman arguing that a rabbinical court should force her husband to agree to a divorce.
Live and Become (Vimeo): An Ethiopian Christian mother insists that her son assume the place of recently deceased Ethiopian Jewish boy on an airlift to Israel. The rest of the movie traces the boys adoption by an Israeli family and his maturation from boy to man.
Out in the Dark (iTunes; Vudu): An Israeli and Palestinian man fall in love but face family and political pressures to break up.
The Secrets (Fandango Now, Google Play, YouTube): Follows a group of female students attending an Israeli Yeshiva.
Sefarad (Amazon): A dramatized history of the conversos of Oporto, Porgual and how army captain Artur Barros Basto tried to teach the community there in 1923 about the Jewish beliefs and rituals they had forgotten.
Standing Up, Falling Down (Amazon): Billy Crystal shines as an elderly alcoholic who befriends a young comedian who has moved back with his family for financial reasons.
They Are Everywhere (Netflix): A French actor in therapy relates his fears about anti-Semitic stereotypes illustrating each canard with a humorous story.
Unorthodox (Netflix): A Hasidic woman from Brooklyn flees to Berlin to start a new life.
World War Z (Amazon, Google Play, Vudu) An entertaining Zombie movie set in part in Israel and featuring a strong Israeli female soldier helping Brad Pitt to defeat the Zombies.
Zero Motivation (Amazon): Funny movie about Israeli women in an IDF clerical unit.
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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
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