Freebie of the week: As a producer and director, Jon Avnet has been behind some thoughtful movies ("Fried Green Tomatoes") as well as films that have tackled intense topics ("The War," "Black Swan").

The Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation (JPEF) and Taube Philanthropies present the film screening of Uprising (NBC, 2001), directed by Jon Avnet from a screenplay by Paul Brinkman and Jon Avnet ...

On 1 September 1939, Germany invades Poland, after which a regulation was promulgated that all Polish Jews should move to the new Warsaw Ghetto. As in all the ghettos, a Judenrat was appointed and was ...