TV Series · 2022
The U.S. and the Holocaust
132 min · Documentary · Ended
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7.5
IMDb
8.7 / 10
2,052 votes
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8.3 / 10
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Synopsis
Americans consider themselves a 'nation of immigrants', but as the catastrophe of the Holocaust unfolds in Europe, the U.S. prove unwilling to open its doors to more than a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of desperate refuge seekers. Through riveting firsthand testimony of witnesses and survivors who as children endured persecution, violence and flight as their families tried to escape Hitler, this three-part documentary series delves deeply into the tragic human consequences of public indifference, bureaucratic red tape and restrictive quota laws in America. Did the nation fail to live up to its ideals? This is a history to be reckoned with.
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Cast
Peter Coyote
Self - Narrator (voice)
Daniel Mendelsohn
Self
Peter Hayes
Self
Deborah Lipstadt
Self
Guy Stern
Self
Daniel Greene
Self
Rebecca Erbelding
Self
Eva Geiringer
Self
Sol Messinger
Self
Nell Irvin Painter
Self
Timothy Snyder
Self
Adam Arkin
Self (voice)
Murphy Guyer
Self (voice)
Carolyn McCormick
Self (voice)
Joe Morton
Self (voice)
Matthew Rhys
Self (voice)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Hermann Göring
Self (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
Crew
Camera
- Wojciech Staroń Director of Photography
- Buddy Squires Director of Photography
Crew
- Daniel J. White Post Production Supervisor
Editing
- Tricia Reidy Editor
- Charles E. Horton Editor
- Chase Horton Editor
Production
- Lynn Novick Producer
- Mike Welt Producer
- Ken Burns Producer
- Sarah Botstein Producer
- Vanessa Gonzalez-Block Associate Producer
- Madeline Little Associate Producer
- Lucas Frank Co-Producer
Sound
- Mariusz Glabinski Sound Designer
- Matt Rigby Dialogue Editor
- Marlena Grzaslewicz Dialogue Editor
- Johnny Gandelsman Music
Seasons & episodes
Miniseries (1 ep)
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3. The Homeless, Tempest-Tossed (1942 — )
Sep 21, 2022 · 131 min
A group of dedicated government officials fights red tape to support rescue operations. As the Allies liberate German camps, the public sees for the first time the sheer scale of the Holocaust and begins to reckon with its reverberations.
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