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The U.S. and the Holocaust

IMDb 8.3 2022 132 min Documentary

Director

Ken Burns

Country

US

Plot Summary

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.

Top 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