Movie Mondays

Select Mondays at 7:00 pm CT

Join us for a discussion on Holocaust and human rights films moderated by Museum historians, film professionals, and other experts. Participants will

watch the film on their own before engaging in the discussion.

1/11 - The Pianist

In this adaptation of the autobiography The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945, Władysław Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Polish Jewish radio station pianist, sees Warsaw change gradually as World War II begins. Szpilman is forced into the Warsaw Ghetto, but is later separated from his family. From this time until liberation, Szpilman hides in various locations among the ruins of Warsaw, witnessing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Warsaw Uprising.

Participants will watch the film on their own before engaging in the discussion.

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3/8 - Bitter Harvest and Mr. Jones

In this session, we will discuss two films about The Holodomor, a genocide of mass starvation in Ukraine created by the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. In Bitter Harvest, a young man’s life is changed forever when the burgeoning Soviet Union’s ambition leads to Stalin’s army spilling into rural Ukraine. In Mr. Jones, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones risks his life to expose the truth about the devastating famine.

Participants will watch the films on their own before engaging in the discussion.

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5/10 - Anthropoid

Anthropoid is based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the World War II mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich. Head of the Reich Security Main Office, Heydrich was the main architect of the Final Solution and the leader of occupying Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia. His reign of terror prompted self-exiled Czech and Slovak soldiers to hatch a top-secret mission that would change the face of Europe forever.

Participants will watch the film on their own before engaging in the discussion.