The U.S. and the Holocaust

Sep 18, 2022 (en) Documentary [132] Min
  • First Air Date
    Sep 18, 2022
  • Production
    Florentine Films
  • Rotten tomato
    86%
  • Original title
    The U.S. and the Holocaust
  • Release
    Sep 18, 2022
  • en
    -

A history to be reckoned with.

Overview

Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, this documentary series examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States, and race laws in the American south.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Mike Welt

    Producer

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  1. Peter Coyote

    Self - Narrator

  2. Daniel Mendelsohn

    Self - Writer

  3. Peter Hayes

    Self - Historian

  4. Deborah Lipstadt

    Self - Historian

  5. Meryl Streep

    Eleanor Roosevelt

  6. Daniel Greene

    Self - Historian

  7. Guy Stern

    Self - Hildesheim, U.S. Army

  8. Rebecca Erbelding

    Self - Historian

  9. Werner Herzog

    Hermann Göring

  10. Paul Giamatti

    Madison Grant

  11. Liam Neeson

  12. Adam Arkin

    (voice)

  13. Joe Morton

    (voice)

  14. Elliott Gould

    (voice)

  15. Matthew Rhys

    (voice)

  16. Bradley Whitford

    (voice)

Full Casts & Crew

Casts : 16 / Crews : 16

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Sep 18, 2022 (en)
Documentary
[132] Min
  • First Air Date Sep 18, 2022
  • Production
    Florentine Films
  • Rotten tomato 86%
Original Title The U.S. and the Holocaust
en

A history to be reckoned with.

Overview

Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, this documentary series examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States, and race laws in the American south.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Mike Welt

    Producer