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Through the eyes of Maria José, we see how Gypsies are facing up to the challenges of 21st-century life. This documentary is the empowering personal story of one Roma woman who is taking control of her own destiny. Maria José is a pretty, charismatic 28-year-old. She graduated from one of Spain's top universities and has a prestigious career in social services. But she's also a Gypsy and has had to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles to...
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Hate is not only destructive, it is self-destructive, Elie Wiesel. In this moving personal testament, Nobel Laureate and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel talks with Bill Moyers about his own childhood experiences at Auschwitz and analyzes the source of Nazi hatred toward Jews, "We weren't human in their eyes." Wiesel reflects on his own apparent inability to hate, and discusses ethnic hatred at work in Bosnia and other Eastern European countries...
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Documents kept in Moscow's archives since the end of World War II are providing the complete story behind the planning, engineering, and building of the Auschwitz complex. These documents also describe its ultimate role as a means of advancing Hitler's final solution. This historical documentary provides insight into the role played by civilian firms and their engineers in the construction of the complex, and explains the motivation that spurred them...
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Nationalist, populist, and xenophobic movements are becoming significant political forces across Europe, with some gaining enough support to win parliamentary seats. This investigation traverses the continent and goes into the heart of extreme right-wing organizations for a frightening look into what can happen when fear, ignorance, and racism intersect. Viewers are taken to a German village dominated by nostalgia for the Third Reich, and to Hungary,...
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Racial tension has become a politically explosive and socially divisive threat to stability in the European Union. This program looks at the racism and xenophobia brought to the surface by a massive influx of foreign workers and job-seekers into Western Europe; it also describes the search for equitable solutions by moderate EU leaders and citizens. Islamophobia, religious fundamentalism, the radicalization of young Muslim men, and racism in football...
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In 1987, in a Viennese shop, hundreds of color slides from World War II were found. It turned out they had been made in the Lodz ghetto by a skilled amateur photographer named Walter Genewein, chief accountant on the ghetto council and a proud member of the Nazi party. In this documentary, filmmaker Dariusz Jablonski combines Genewein's disturbing images of ghetto life with the recollections of Dr. Arnold Mostowicz, the last surviving witness of the...
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