Synopsis
Director Danny Anker investigates the American film industry's complex and contradictory responses to the horrors of Nazi Germany in a powerful Storyville presentation.
- Programme: Storyville
- Episode: Hollywood and the Holocaust
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2006
- Media & Photography
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