Europe’s Most Dangerous Man: in Spain. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and George Casen. This documentary is reviewed as a sequel to the Jaguar TV series, which we reviewed in a previous episode. The TV series presented a Spanish resistance team, who hunted down and captured a Nazi Doctor, Dr. Death Aribert […]
Otto Skorzeny Documentary (Movies We Can Learn From)
Europe’s Most Dangerous Man: in Spain. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and George Casen. This documentary is reviewed as a sequel to the Jaguar TV series, which we reviewed in a previous episode. The TV series presented a Spanish resistance team, who hunted down and captured a Nazi Doctor, Dr. Death Aribert […]
Comparing the Art Dealer and Woman in Gold (Guttman’s Garage)
French and American Treatment of the Same Subject. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Steven Guttman. We discuss the Art Dealer, a French movie dealing with the theft of great art from Jewish families during the War, and Woman in Gold, an American movie dealing with pretty much the same […]
Reviewing the U.S. and the Holocaust (Movies We Can Learn From)
Shocking After all These Years. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and George Casen. Our panel discusses the new PBS Ken Burns documentary on the U.S. and the Holocaust, and the revelations that film provides about American anti-semitism and how the U.S. dealt with Hitler and Hitler’s genocide during the 1930s and 1940s. […]
The Pope at War by David Kertzer (Global Connections)
An Important New Book About Pius XII. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guests are Carl Ackerman and Brad Kerwin. Dr. Carl Ackerman helps us understand the importance of the The Pope at War, the new book by David Kertzer that was reviewed by Tim Parks in the New York Review of […]
Revelations from Ken Burns’ New Series on PBS (American Issues Take Two)
American Bigotry Right Through the War. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guest is Cynthia Lee Sinclair. Ken Burns new series ‘Yearning to Breathe Free’ on PBS is a stunning examination of bigotry right here at home in the years before, during and after World War II. It’s a […]