Teicholz Film Series: The Long Way Home

The Long Way Home is a 1997 American documentary film directed by Mark Jonathan Harris. It depicts the plight of Jewish refugees after World War II that contributed to the creation of the State of Israel.

The film's emphasis is on the pitiful conditions for Jewish refugees in Europe after the war, as antisemitism was still rife and poverty was common. It also shows how emigration to the British Mandate of Palestine became a goal for many, but that British immigration rules often resulted in them being detained in camps in Cyprus. The eventual formation of the State of Israel is then shown, with emphasis on the debates in the White House between Palestinian Jews, President Harry S. Truman, and the United Nations.

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Following the screening is a live conversation and Q&A, moderated by journalist Tom Teicholz and Director Mark Jonathan Harris. Other panelists TBA.

Mark Jonathan Harris is a multiple Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and Emeritus Distinguished Professor in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. Among the many documentaries he has written, produced and/or directed are The Redwoods, which won an Oscar for Best Short Documentary (1968); The Long Way Home, Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary  (1997); and Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, which won the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary in 2000 and was selected by the U.S. Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Film Registry. Foster, which he wrote and directed, aired on HBO in 2019 and was nominated for Best Documentary Screenplay by the Writers Guild of America.  In 2021, Asian Americans, a 5-part series for PBS for which he was Consulting Producer, received a Peabody Award. He also produced Aging in America: Survive or Thrive, which aired on PBS in May 2025.Harris has also written five novels for children and published articles, short stories, and reviews in a number of national newspapers and magazines. This year, his collection of short stories, Misfits, was named a Distinguished Favorite by the Independent Book Awards.

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