Preeminent female Victorian Age intellectual collaborates with Transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau, educates Boston Brahmins and incarcerated women in classic literature. A brilliant and brash social critic, she arrives in Rome and embeds in the Italian Republican Revolution for democratic uto...

For 70 years, Nathan Hilu has been unable to stop drawing. His 90-year-old mind is flooded with memories from the days when the US military assigned him to guard top Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials, keeping them from committing suicide before their verdict was announced. Born to a Syri...

New York Times best-selling author of The Choice: Embrace the Possible, Dr. Edith Eva Eger, tells her story of survival in this Emmy Award winning 2021 production from The Holocaust Education Film Foundation.

The Neiger family shouldn't have survived. The odds were stacked against them at every turn, and yet, through a series of events that feel almost impossible, they made it through the Holocaust together. They Survived Together is a 2022 Emmy Award winner for Best Historical Documentary, and it ear...

Christopher Lee appeared in more films than almost any actor in history, became the definitive face of horror cinema, and was consistently, bafflingly underrated throughout his career. The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee fixes that, using archival footage, wild animations, a marionette, and an...

The Holocaust Education Film Foundation proudly presents Surviving Birkenau, the story of Dr. Susan Spatz, née Eckstein, as told in her vivid and emotionally compelling own words at the age of 96. With the assistance of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, filmmaker Ron Small (To Auschwit...

At 14, Joe Engel was taken by the Nazis. He would never see his parents again. But Joe refused to become a statistic. He escaped a Death Train at 17, survived Auschwitz and Birkenau, and went on to build a full life as a teacher, community leader, and philanthropist in Charleston, South Carolina....

Robert Clary was twelve years old and singing on French radio when the world he knew ended. In 1942, the youngest of fourteen children was taken by the Nazis — along with most of his family. He survived Ottmuth, forced labor, and Buchenwald. Twelve members of his family did not. Liberated on Apri...

General John J. 'Black Jack' Pershing earned his nickname serving alongside the Buffalo Soldiers — and wore it with pride. From the frontier to San Juan Hill to the trenches of World War I, Pershing's career spanned decades of American conflict and transformation. In this documentary, a diverse g...

Largely unknown to most Americans, over the last 20 years, the United States has lost almost five times as many active service members and veterans to suicide than were lost in the entirety of the Global War on Terrorism combat operations. Final Fight: When the Trauma of War Comes Home, goes deep...