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Set on Coney Island’s iconic boardwalk, this 1980 documentary captures Brighton Beach’s ever-changing immigrant communities. Through vérité scenes, it portrays newcomers and long-time residents mingling, observing each other, and coexisting, united by a shared sense of displacement and the neighborhood’s ongoing transformation.
Charlie Chaplin’s first talking film tells the story of a Jewish barber whose resemblance to the dictator Hynkel leads him to swap places with him. A bold satire and timeless masterpiece of classic comedy.
Four interviews conducted in the 1970s with women who survived the Holocaust who deserve to be remembered forever. What unites them, beyond the particular horrors each one endured, is their intelligence and their clear-sighted idealism. From the director of the monumental Shoah. (Eps. 1+2 Sun., 14.12 / Mon. 15.12 | Eps. 3+4 Sun. 14.12 / Tues. 16.12)
