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The U.S. and the Holocaust(2022)

09/18/2022

(US)

2h 12m

86%
User Score
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.

Ken Burns

Director

Lynn Novick

Director

Top Billed Cast

Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote

Self - Narrator

Daniel Mendelsohn

Daniel Mendelsohn

Self - Writer

Peter Hayes

Peter Hayes

Self - Historian

Deborah Lipstadt

Deborah Lipstadt

Self - Historian

Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep

Eleanor Roosevelt

Daniel Greene

Daniel Greene

Self - Historian

Guy Stern

Guy Stern

Self - Hildesheim, U.S. Army

Rebecca Erbelding

Rebecca Erbelding

Self - Historian

Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog

Hermann Göring

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Status

Ended

Network

Type

Miniseries

Original Language

EN

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