Series · Documentary
The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
★ 8.3 · 16 votes1 season · 3 episodesDocumentary2022
A history to be reckoned with.
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.
- Creator
- Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, Lynn Novick
- Writers
- Geoffrey C. Ward
- Network
- PBS
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- First aired
- September 18, 2022
- Status
- Ended
Cast
Peter CoyoteSelf - Narrator (voice)- Daniel MendelsohnSelf
- Peter HayesSelf
- Deborah LipstadtSelf
- Guy SternSelf
- Daniel GreeneSelf
- Rebecca ErbeldingSelf
- Eva GeiringerSelf
- Sol MessingerSelf
- Nell Irvin PainterSelf
Timothy SnyderSelf
Adam ArkinSelf (voice)
Murphy GuyerSelf (voice)
Carolyn McCormickSelf (voice)
Joe MortonSelf (voice)
Matthew RhysSelf (voice)
Adolf HitlerSelf (archive footage)
Hermann GöringSelf (archive footage)
Franklin D. RooseveltSelf (archive footage)
Eleanor RooseveltSelf (archive footage)
Episodes
0/3 watched- Episode 1: The Golden Door (Beginnings — 1938)2 h 9 min · Sep 18, 2022
- Episode 2: Yearning to Breathe Free (1938 — 1942)2 h 18 min · Sep 20, 2022
- Episode 3: The Homeless, Tempest-Tossed (1942 — )2 h 11 min · Sep 21, 2022
