Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

Perhaps as a result, Hollywood would spend the next several decades reminding everyone exactly how horrific the massacres had been. So it seems contradictory that Imaginary Witness should use its second half to chide contemporary filmmakers for not treating the Holocaust with enough heed. ... Full Review

Consistently surprising - and with only a hint of American-style maudlinness tainting its be-all-you-can-be motif - the movie is best appreciated as an intimate family portrait, chock-full of truthful details that are alternately poignant and hilarious. ... Full Review

Director David Anker's " Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust " is an outstanding documentary chronicling the changing view taken by Hollywood when dealing with the Nazis and the Holocaust. ... Full Article

This ambitious documentary provides not only a survey of Hollywood films about the Holocaust, but also a history of the Holocaust itself, and of the main cultural currents that characterized pre- and postwar America. ... Full Article

Filmgoers have had their pick of movies about the Third Reich this season. There's "The Reader," with Kate Winslet as a former camp guard; Tom Cruise's "Valkyrie"; and "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas," about an SS officer. ... Full Article

When Tom Cruise dons his eye patch and steps into the world's multiplexes on Boxing Day as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg in the much-anticipated biopic Valkyrie, he will be leading an attack. ... Full Article

In an era when many no longer feel comfortable passing judgment on good and evil - what's considered traditional in one culture is an abomination to another - the Holocaust remains "the standard by which we judge what we call... ... Full Article

"The place from which you remember an event shapes the nature of what you remember," says historian Michael Berenbaum, one of the wiser talking heads in the documentary clip-show "Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust." ... Full Article