Documentary

Jonny Daniels during filming for The Righteous Road Trip, which premieres in Hollywood next month. Credit: The Righteous Road Trip/Big Year Productions

May 28, 2026, 1:19 pm

Oscar-winning filmmaker’s Holocaust heroes documentary to premiere in Hollywood

Documentary made in association with Jewish News follows Jonny Daniels’ journey to meet Holocaust rescuers

By Annabel Sinclair

Freed hostage Omer Shem Tov speaks at the UK premiere of Home: Omer Shem Tov Speaks. Photo Credit:
Julian Coleman Photography

July 25, 2025, 11:58 am

‘I was ready to kill my captors – then I sang to them’: Hostage survivor’s haunting testimony

Freed Israeli hostage recalls surviving 505 days in Gaza by faith, music, and restraint

By Annabel Sinclair

May 13, 2025, 10:20 am

Susan Sarandon and Frankie Boyle among signatories urging BBC to air Gaza film

Over 600 cultural figures sign open letter accusing BBC of censorship and racism over Gaza documentary delay

By Jewish News Reporter

Louis Theroux's BBC documentary The Settlers, explores Israeli communities in the West Bank.

May 7, 2025, 4:32 pm

Rabbi: ‘Extreme voices’ in Louis Theroux settler doc ‘unrepresentative of religious Zionism’

United Synagogue’s Rabbi Michael Laitner says BBC’s The Settlers ignores core ideals of religious Zionism

By Annabel Sinclair

January 14, 2025, 7:10 pm

Twenty years on: telling the story of the 7/7 London terror attacks

A new BBC series documents the bombings that took the lives of 52 innocent civilians, including three Jews, on 7 July 2005. Jewish News speaks to its creator Neil Grant

By Michelle Rosenberg

Maayan Schwartz and Shireen Najjar at the screening in Soho, central London, this month of his documentary 'Children of Peace' about Neve Shalom

July 19, 2024, 10:15 am

‘We have to keep talking’: a warts and all documentary of Israel’s Arab-Jewish village

A Jewish and a Palestinian from Wahat al-Salam–Neve Shalom visit London to talk about crisis points for the mixed community where they live and the importance of dialogue

By Beatrice Sayers

June 22, 2023, 1:28 pm

Former neo-Nazi was left for dead when his ‘comrades’ discovered that he was a Jew

John Daly, a covert Jewish member and eventual leader of 1990s Nazi group American Front found himself in grave danger when his identity was discovered.

By Naomi Frankel

February 28, 2023, 11:23 am

Rob Rinder to feature in new BBC series on Jewish and Palestinian families

'The Holy Land and Us': Our Untold Stories will be presented by Sarah Agha and Rob Rinder, who says key to understanding where we are today is to hear the stories from both sides

By Michelle Rosenberg

July 5, 2022, 12:06 pm

Stars of the Silver Screen: a unique way to keep special memories alive

Capture your family’s memories on film in a TV-style documentary

By Jewish News Reporter

May 17, 2022, 10:29 am

Baddiel: Jews Don’t Count TV documentary will have ‘surprising’ differences to book

Channel 4 will air a show based on David Baddiel's Jews Don't Count book later this year which he says will 'have many other voices apart from my own on it.'

By Lee Harpin

June 10, 2021, 11:17 am

Ghislaine Maxwell: Epstein’s Shadow documentary will air just before her trial

Sky docuseries investigates the heiress to the Maxwell fortune, whose life is rocked by a scandals and accusations after meeting sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

By Francine Wolfisz

Truus Wijsmuller helped rescue more than 10,000 children during the Second World War from europe - but her incredible story of heroism is relatively unknown

April 29, 2021, 1:15 pm

The little-known ‘female Nicholas Winton’ who saved 10,000 Jewish children

A new documentary explores how unsung heroine Truus Wijsmuller rescued thousands of Jewish children from Europe during the Second World War at great risk to herself

By Francine Wolfisz

October 28, 2020, 6:12 pm

Jewish director at helm of BBC documentary The Trials of Oscar Pistorious

Four-part documentary tells the rise and fall of ‘Blade Runner’, the South African Paralympian convicted of killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp in 2013

By Francine Wolfisz

Barrister and television personality Robert Rinder

January 27, 2020, 9:18 am

OPINION – Rob Rinder: We must tell our children and our children’s children

Robert Rinder reflects on his grandfather’s experience and explores the impact of the Holocaust on the second and third generations in his upcoming two-part documentary

By Robert Rinder

June 6, 2019, 12:06 pm

Eating Animals author Jonathan Safran Foer: ‘Never has man eaten so much meat’

Jonathan Safran Foer's book on the devastating effects of factory farming has been turned into an award-winning documentary narrated by Natalie Portman

By Francine Wolfisz

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