The U.S. and the Holocaust — S01E01 — The Golden Door (Beginnings — 1938)
2022 · 129 MIN · IMDB 9.6 · DIR. Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein
Overview
Reversing a history of open borders, a xenophobic backlash prompts Congress to restrict immigration. Hitler and the Nazis persecute German Jews, forcing many to seek refuge. FDR is concerned by the growing crisis but unable to coordinate a response.
Dialogue Timeline — 2,168 lines
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00:00:00 Announcer: Funding for "The U.S. And the Holocaust"
00:05:13 Man as Aldrich: Wide open and unguarded stand our gates,
00:11:03 And I think while there is
00:16:33 could be stopped from reproducing.
00:21:47 entered the Great War in 1917.
00:27:19 that had first brought them here.
00:33:00 to promote them.
00:38:17 Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
00:43:52 and desirous of doing away with democracy.
00:50:24 Edmond Taylor.
00:55:35 that things would "revert to normal"
01:01:42 So, after that, I stopped going to play in the courtyard.
01:06:48 and will stay home and take care of the children,
01:11:43 and therefore required extensive data
01:17:21 had sent them to avenge a sailor who had been jailed in Hamburg
01:22:45 And my mother took one look at him
01:28:11 But when Jesse Owens set 3 Olympic records
01:33:51 My mother had taken me on very long walks
01:40:16 and find no one there."
01:45:54 Geiringer: People started to queue at consulates.
01:51:00 to alter America's quota system,
01:56:13 And they took my father away.
02:01:52 Narrator: The Germans destroyed 1,400 synagogues
02:07:55 and on Amazon Prime Video.
Cast & Characters
Peter Coyote
Self - Narrator (voice)
Daniel Mendelsohn
Self
Peter Hayes
Self
Deborah Lipstadt
Self
Guy Stern
Self
Daniel Greene
Self
Rebecca Erbelding
Self
Eva Geiringer
Self
Sol Messinger
Self
Nell Irvin Painter
Self
Timothy Snyder
Self
Adam Arkin
Self (voice)
Murphy Guyer
Self (voice)
Carolyn McCormick
Self (voice)
Joe Morton
Self (voice)
Matthew Rhys
Self (voice)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Hermann Göring
Self (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
Stephen Wise
Self (archive footage)
Julius Stern
Self (archive footage)
Daniel Okrent
Self
Susan Hilsenrath
Self
Joseph Hilsenrath
Self
Paul Corning Jr.
Self (voice)
Olivia Gilliatt
Self (voice)
Elliott Gould
Self (voice)
Paul Giamatti
Madison Grant (voice)
Bradley Whitford
Thomas Wolfe (voice)
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Self (archive footage)
Alexander Graham Bell
Self (archive footage)
Herman Bland
Self (archive footage)
Lotte Bland
Self (archive footage)
Louis Brodsky
Self (archive footage)
Avery Brundage
Self (archive footage)
Emanuel Celler
Self (archive footage)
Neville Chamberlain
Self (archive footage)
Calvin Coolidge
Self (archive footage)
Father Coughlin
Self (archive footage)
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed2,168
Dialogue density16.8 lines / min
First line00:00:00
Final line02:07:55
Production Record
DirectorKen Burns, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein
LanguageEnglish
Factoids
Episode
The U.S. and the Holocaust, season 1, episode 1: The Golden Door (Beginnings — 1938).
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/204165/season/1/episode/1
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