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poster The Beilis Case

The Beilis Case

0mn - Drama, Crime

Ukrainian silent courtroom drama about the trial on charges of Menachem Mendel Beilis in the ritual murder of 12-year-old Andrey Yushchinsky. Menahem Mendel Beilis was a Ukrainian Jew accused of ritual mu…

poster The Ancient Law

The Ancient Law

Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor.

poster Jewish Prudence

Jewish Prudence

Papa Gimplewart, father to three children is unimpressed by the young lawyer who wants to marry his daughter.

poster Defamation

Defamation

91mn - Documentary

Intent on shaking up the ultimate 'sacred cow' for Jews, Israeli director Yoav Shamir embarks on a provocative - and at times irreverent - quest to answer the question, "What is anti-Semitism today?"

poster Romance of a Jewess

Romance of a Jewess

This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic plot involves the conflict between generations in an i…

poster The Life of the Jews of Palestine

The Life of the Jews of Palestine

78mn - Documentary

The Life of the Jews in Palestine is a silent documentary film depicting Jews and Jewish communities in Ottoman Palestine.

poster Pinkus's Shoe Palace

Pinkus's Shoe Palace

Sally Pinkus is an German-Jewish boy who takes a job as a shoe store clerk after being expelled from school for goofing around. Soon fired for trying to court the owner's daughter, Pinkus lands another jo…

poster Jacob: The Man Who Fought with God

Jacob: The Man Who Fought with God

80mn - Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Biblical figure Jacob is forced to flee for his life when an enraged Esau vows to kill him.

poster Nathan der Weise

Nathan der Weise

128mn - Drama, History

Silent movie adaptation of Lessing's play. Set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade, it describes how the wise Jewish merchant Nathan, the enlightened sultan Saladin and the (initially anonymous) Templar…

Move On

2mn - Documentary

In certain sections of New York City large numbers of Jewish and Italian push-cart vendors congregate so closely along the sidewalks that they interfere with traffic. Policemen keep them moving. The pictu…

Judex

300mn - Adventure, Drama, Mystery

When an unscrupulous banker ruins his family, a young man swears to bring him to justice, so he adopts a new identity, the mysterious Judex, and ominously disguised and sunk into the muddy path of vengean…

poster The Jew of Mestri

The Jew of Mestri

The film "Der Kaufmann von Venedig" ( The Jew Of Mestri ) was written, produced and directed by Peter Paul Felner in the silent year of 1923 and is a free adaptation of "Merchant of Venice" written by Her…

Shadows

Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin elects to stay, despite his status as a despised 'heathe…

poster Judith of Bethulia

Judith of Bethulia

61mn - Drama, History

Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia by the Assyrian tyrant Holofernes, a widow named Judith forms a plan to stop the w…

poster Benítez quiere ser torero

Benítez quiere ser torero

Benitez pretends to be a toreador and his friends decide to pull a prank on him.

poster The Execution

The Execution

90mn - Drama, Short

The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the cam…

poster La Moglie di Claudio

La Moglie di Claudio

70mn - Drama, History

Claudio is married to Cesarina, a frivolous and unfaithful woman. After the death of their only son their marriage is cold. While his wife lives her free life, Claudio is dedicated to the development of s…

poster The Yaqui Cur

The Yaqui Cur

The prospector had taught the Indian boy the doctrine of peace. When his tribe resisted the attack of another tribe the boy did not take part. The din of the battle, as the horsemen circled them again and…

poster Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah

95mn - Short, Action, Adventure

A tale of passion and betrayal in which Samson, a judge of Israel who fled with his tribe during the Great Exodus from Egypt, uses his herculean strength in the fight against the Philistine oppressors. He…

Ben Hur

15mn - Adventure, Drama, History

The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

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