Chariots of Fire – Sept. 14
A four-time Oscar winner, this film tells the true story of two British track athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics. One is a devout Scottish missionary who runs for his faith, the other is a Jewish student at Cambridge who runs for fame and to escape prejudice. (1981) 123 minutes.

Triumph of the Will — Sept. 21
This piece of Nazi propaganda covers the events of the 6th Nuremberg Party Congress. The original intention was to document the early days of the regime, so future generations could look back and see how the Third Reich began. In reality, Triumph of the Will shows historians how the Nazi state drew in the masses through propaganda. (1934) 110 minutes.

Olympiad – Sept. 28
After being commissioned by the 1936 Olympic Committee to create a feature film of the Berlin Olympics, Leni Riefenstahl shot a documentary that celebrates the human body by combining the poetry of bodies in motion with close-ups of athletes in the heat of competition. (1940) 111 minutes.

Seven Years in Tibet – Oct. 5
Heinrich Harrer is an Austrian mountaineer who is forced to be a hero for the Nazi propaganda. He leaves Austria in 1939 to climb a mountain in the Himalayas. Through a series of circumstances, he and fellow climber Peter Aufschnaiter become the only two foreigners in the Tibetan Holy City of Lhasa. There, Heinrich’s life changes forever as he becomes a close confidant to the Dalai Lama. (1997) 139 minutes.

Conspiracy – Oct. 26
This film recreates the infamous meeting on Jan. 20, 1942, at which top Nazis planned the implementation of the Holocaust. Chaired by the SS Gen. Reinhard Heydrich and attended by Adolf Eichmann and 14 other Third Reich members, this two-hour meeting decided how the Jews of Europe would be murdered. The documentary is based on the Wannsee Protocol, the sole surviving transcript of this meeting. (2001) 115 minutes.

The Pianist – Nov. 2
This film tells the story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew and concert pianist who witnessed the Nazi invasion of Warsaw, miraculously eluded the Nazi death camps and survived throughout WWII by hiding among the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto. (2002) 150 minutes.

Triumph of the Spirit – Nov. 9
Based on a true story, this film follows the nightmare of a Greek boxer who literally fights for his life to entertain SS officers in Auschwitz, knowing that each victory condemns his opponents to the gas chambers. This is the only commercial film about the Holocaust ever filmed on location in Auschwitz. (1989) 120 min.

Munich – Nov. 16
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, 11 Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack. (2005) 164 minutes.

Everything is Illuminated – Nov. 23
A young Jewish American flies to Ukraine in search of his grandfather’s past. Armed with only a photograph of his grandfather’s village, he hires the Odessa Heritage Tours, made up of an old man and his English-speaking grandson, to journey into the heart of Ukraine to come to terms with his past. (2005) 106 minutes.

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