The Life Ahead

A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.

Runtime

1h 56m

Director

Sidney Lumet

Cast

Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters

Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and ev...

Runtime

1h 36m

Director

John Kent Harrison

Cast

Anna Paquin, Goran Višnjić, Michelle Dockery

The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.

Runtime

1h 49m

Director

Lior Geller

Cast

Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Jeremy Neumark Jones, Charlie MacGechan

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

Runtime

2h 3m

Director

Richard LaGravenese

Cast

Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn

After again attempting to commit murder, a Jewish man with a mysterious past and extraordinary intelligence, charisma, and body control returns to an insane asylum, where he makes a startling discovery.

Runtime

1h 47m

Director

Paul Schrader

Cast

Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi