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This Ordinary Thing: Celebs Tell the Stories of Those Who Did the Righteous Thing

This Ordinary Thing: Celebs Tell the Stories of Those Who Did the Righteous Thing

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekJune 10, 2026This Ordinary Thing, Nick Davies, documentaries, Holocaust, F. Murray Abraham, Eric Bogosian, Ellen Burstyn, Stephen Fry, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeremy Irons, John Leguizamo, Lily Tomlin, David Strathairn, Bebe Neuwirth, Helen MirrenComment

June Zero: The Eichmann Trial and Execution in Three Takes

June Zero: The Eichmann Trial and Execution in Three Takes

By Liam Lacey

Jim SlotekJuly 2, 2024June Zero, Jake Paltrow, Tom Shoval, Noam Ovadia, Tzahi Grad, Yoav Levi, Tom Hagi, Joy Rieger, Nazi War Criminals, Holocaust, Israel, DramaComment

The Accountant of Auschwitz: When being there is a war crime

By Jim Slotek

Jim SlotekJune 6, 2018documentaries, Hot Docs 18, Nazi War Criminals, John Demjanjuk, Oskar Groning, Auschwitz, Holocaust

Aida's Secrets: A 'displaced persons' camp baby-boom sparks a parent-search 60 years on

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJanuary 10, 2018Documentary, Holocaust, Jewish cinema, Lost relatves, World War II, Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp, Alon Schwarz