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

The U.S. and the Holocaust — S01E01 — The Golden Door (Beginnings — 1938) poster

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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