Tag: Film

Join JCC Jewish Film Festival Chicago for a screening of 999: The Forgotten Girls of the Holocaust. This documentary film shares the untold story of 999 unmarried young Jewish women, initially registered for government service in a purported shoe factory, only to be tragically sent to Auschwitz. Who were these young women? Why were they… Read More

As one of the Illinois treaty signers in 1829 and 1833, Billy Caldwell and others negotiated the sale of 5,000,000 acres of land in northwest Illinois, resulting in the removal of all Native American tribes in the state. Billy Caldwell, son of a Mohawk woman (Rising Sun) and British Army Captain (William Caldwell), was a leader… Read More

He was difficult and flamboyant, a shameless self-promoter, bender of the truth and master of reinvention. He was also one of the groundbreaking photographers of the 20th century – a brilliant artist whose body of work spans decades, continents, and the catastrophic fallout from two world wars. Though his pioneering microscopy transformed the nature of… Read More

Ellen V. & Philip L. Glass Holocaust Commemorative Series   In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, gather with us on-site at the Museum for the U.S. premiere of Resistance: They Fought Back. For decades, the world believed Jews went to their deaths like sheep to the slaughter during the Holocaust. Resistance: They Fought Back… Read More

Prejudice, discrimination, and hatred are often fueled by the erasure of groups of people from history. Without A Whisper explores the untold story of how Indigenous women influenced the suffragist movement in the United States. This transformative film follows Mohawk Bear Clan Mother Louise Herne and Professor Sally Roesch Wagner as they challenge the established… Read More

What motivates a man to leave his home, wife, and children on a cold night to help refugees marching towards the border of his country? In the seemingly peaceful and picturesque Austrian countryside resides Hans Breuer, Austria’s last wandering shepherd. Just hours outside of Breuer’s modest rural cabin, the tranquility is disrupted as thousands of… Read More

Since the creation of the modern-day State of Israel, Richard Wagner’s music has been unofficially banned in the country, on the grounds that the German composer was promoted during the Nazi era as Hitler’s favorite composer. But can Wagner’s music transcend the antisemitic views of its creator? You Will Not Play Wagner, a film adaptation… Read More

After 25 years of service in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. Marine Richard “Mac” McKinney returned home to Muncie, Indiana, with an all-consuming hatred toward the people he had been fighting overseas. McKinney decided to bomb the local mosque, but when he came face-to-face with a welcoming community, his plans – and his life – took… Read More

Join us on-site at the Museum for a film screening presented in partnership with JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival: The Pianist from Ramallah shares four years in the life of Muhammad “Misha” Alsheikh, a talented teenage pianist from Ramallah. The son of a Palestinian father and a Russian mother, it takes Muhammad 3 hours to… Read More

Join us on-site at the Museum for two short films, presented in partnership with JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival: Joe’s Violin follows a 91-year-old Polish Holocaust Survivor who donates his violin of 70 years to a local instrument drive, changing the life of a 12-year-old schoolgirl from the nation’s poorest congressional district, and, unexpectedly, his… Read More