Yale Strom

Shared Legacies: The African-American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance

The historical ties between Black and Jewish Americans began long before the Civil Rights era. Shared Legacies explores this significant alliance, sharing eyewitness accounts, interviews with civil rights leaders, including the late U.S. Representative John Lewis, and a treasure trove of archival footage. The film is a tribute to the pursuit of what Dr. King called a "coalition of conscience" and a celebration of partnership, as well as an urgent call to action for today.

American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs

The historic story of Eugene Victor Debs, an American Socialist leader and union organizer during the Progressive era, 1900 to 192, who ran for US President on the Socialist Party ticket (SPA) five times, even once while he was in prison for speaking out against the US involvement in World War 1.

Klezmer on Fish Street

An examination of the Jewish culture that thrives in 21st-century Poland despite the absence of a large Jewish population.

L'Chayim, Comrade Stalin

Documentary on Joseph Stalin's 1928 creation of the world's first Jewish homeland in the Soviet Union, in a barren stretch of land on Siberia's Far Eastern border.

On the Q.T.

A struggling violin player has his morals tested after he meets a wise musician while playing in the subway who introduces him to the music world in N.Y.C.

Carpati: 50 Miles, 50 Years

The combination of the Holocaust and the subsequent emigration decimated the once-thriving Jewish community in the Ukraine's Carpathian Mountains. One of the few holdouts is Zev Godinger, the colorful subject of writer-director Yale Strom's affectionate documentary.