The U.S. and the Holocaust
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The U.S. and the Holocaust

"A history to be reckoned with."

8.3
Yr 2022
Rt 132m
Status Ended
Documentary
Your Verdict
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Overview

Americans consider themselves a 'nation of immigrants', but as the catastrophe of the Holocaust unfolds in Europe, the U.S. prove unwilling to open its doors to more than a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of desperate refuge seekers. Through riveting firsthand testimony of witnesses and survivors who as children endured persecution, violence and flight as their families tried to escape Hitler, this three-part documentary series delves deeply into the tragic human consequences of public indifference, bureaucratic red tape and restrictive quota laws in America. Did the nation fail to live up to its ideals? This is a history to be reckoned with.

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PBS
US
PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel
CA • US
PBS America Amazon Channel
UK
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KQED
US
Featured Players

Cast

Credited 64
Regulars 11
Longest run 3 eps
Peter Coyote
Peter Coyote
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Daniel Mendelsohn
as Self
Peter Hayes
as Self
Deborah Lipstadt
as Self
Guy Stern
as Self
Daniel Greene
as Self
Rebecca Erbelding
as Self
Eva Geiringer
as Self
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Sol Messinger as Self Nell Irvin Painter as Self Timothy Snyder as Self Adam Arkin as Self (voice) 3 episodes Murphy Guyer as Self (voice) 3 episodes Carolyn McCormick as Self (voice) 3 episodes Joe Morton as Self (voice) 3 episodes Matthew Rhys as Self (voice) 3 episodes Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage) 3 episodes Hermann Göring as Self (archive footage) 3 episodes Franklin D. Roosevelt as Self (archive footage) 3 episodes Eleanor Roosevelt as Self (archive footage) 3 episodes Stephen Wise as Self (archive footage) 3 episodes Julius Stern as Self (archive footage) 3 episodes Daniel Okrent as Self 1 episode Susan Hilsenrath as Self 1 episode Joseph Hilsenrath as Self 1 episode Paul Corning Jr. as Self (voice) 1 episode Olivia Gilliatt as Self (voice) 1 episode Elliott Gould as Self (voice) 1 episode Paul Giamatti as Madison Grant (voice) 1 episode Bradley Whitford as Thomas Wolfe (voice) 1 episode Thomas Bailey Aldrich as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Alexander Graham Bell as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Herman Bland as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Lotte Bland as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Louis Brodsky as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Avery Brundage as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Emanuel Celler as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Neville Chamberlain as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Calvin Coolidge as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Father Coughlin as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Édouard Daladier as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Cecil B. DeMille as Self (archive footage) 1 episode William E. Dodd as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Henry Ford as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Joseph Goebbels as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Madison Grant as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Herschel Grynszpan as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Herbert Hoover as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Cordell Hull as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Helen Keller as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Emma Lazarus as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Golda Meir as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Henry Morgenthau Jr. as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Edgar Ansel Mowrer as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Gerald Nye as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Jesse Owens as Self (archive footage) 1 episode William Dudley Pelley as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Frances Perkins as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Joseph Proskauer as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Theodore Roosevelt as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Margaret Sanger as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Alfred E. Smith as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Hedwig Stern as Self (archive footage) 1 episode Dorothy Thompson as Self (archive footage) 1 episode
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Keywords

mass murder immigration world war ii nazi antisemitism miniseries racism genocide eugenics third reich (iii reich 1933-45) nsdap (nazi party) 1940s historical reenactment 1930s political documentary adolf hitler war crime 20th century war documentary historical documentary holocaust (shoah) jewish history american history
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Details

First Aired
September 18, 2022
Status
Ended
Episode Runtime
132 minutes
Origin
US
TMDB Votes
15