Documentary

Melania Trump hosts former hostages Aviva, Keith Siegel for White House visit

Melania notably released a biographical documentary last week, in which Aviva features. She stressed the visit with the Siegels was not a promotion for the film.

|ByFRAIDY MOSER
U.S. first lady Melania Trump meets with freed American-Israeli couple Keith and Aviva Siegel, who were abducted by Hamas on October 7, 2023, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 4, 2026.
MEL BROOKS and Judd Apatow attend the Los Angeles premiere of HBO Documentary Films' Mel Brooks: 99 Year Old Man! at Ted Mann Theater at the Academy Museum on January 20, 2026 in Los Angeles, California.

Judd Apatow grew up idolizing Mel Brooks. Now he’s telling Brooks’ story in an HBO documentary

Mel Brooks: The 99-Year-Old Man!, a two-part HBO documentary debuting this week, is a career-spanning portrait of one of American comedy’s most influential figures.

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Noa Aharoni’s documentary ‘Eyes Wide Open’ tells the devastating story of the female border observers from the Nahal Oz IDF base, whose warnings about Hamas activity were ignored.

'Public broadcasting is not a luxury': Filmmakers defend KAN documentaries

Speaking out for public funding of quality documentaries

|ByHANNAH BROWN
Soon, memory of the Holocaust will rely not on firsthand accounts but on documentation, interpretation, and increasing technological forms of representation.

AI and fading survivors reshape how we remember the Holocaust - analysis

In a world of hate and AI, what does the future of Holocaust remembrance hold?

|ByGILA OREN

Hostage film, ‘Letter to David,’ premieres in Berlin

“There’s a great nobility of spirit and strength about the whole Cunio family. They gave me their trust and cooperation to tell their story," said Shoval.

FEBRUARY 17, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN
DAVID AND Eitan Cunio at their audition for Tom Shoval’s film ‘Youth,’ from the documentary, ‘Letter to David.’

Tom Shoval’s hostage documentary, Letter to David, premieres in Berlin

The documentary tells the story of David Cunio, a hostage abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7.

FEBRUARY 15, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN
David and Eitan Cunio at their audition for Youth, from the documentary, Letter to David.

'The Gaza Syndrome' series looks at past failures, 80 for Brady is a fun light-hearted watch

Check out the series, movies and shows hitting Israel's screens this week.

FEBRUARY 12, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN
KAN’S THREE-PART series, ‘The Gaza Syndrome.’

Louis Theroux to record new BBC documentary on ‘extreme’ West Bank settlers

The documentary will look at the "fundamentalists" fueling "settler expansionism up close, and the human cost it entails."

FEBRUARY 10, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Documentarian Louis Theroux attends the 25th MOBO Awards in London, Britain November 30, 2022.

Hostage documentary to tell the Nir Oz story of ‘The Cunios’

The documentary tells the harrowing story of an Argentine-Israeli family taken hostage in the October 7 attack on Kibbutz Nir Oz, with ties to Pope Francis and global efforts for their release.

FEBRUARY 1, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN
Hamas captivity survivor Danielle Aloni holds posters of her brother-in-law David Cunio and his brother Ariel Cunio, who remain hostages in Gaza.

Listening to October 7 survivors is a crucial part of their healing process - opinion

Holocaust survivor interviewer Dori Laub inspires October 7 survivor testimony project.

JANUARY 27, 2025ByBARRY DAVIS
OHAD UFAZ (left), one of the founders of Edut710, listens to testimony from one of the survivors of October 7.

Egyptian human rights activist Majed el-Shafie highlights Israeli struggles in new documentary

The documentary recounts the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel and calls for action against extremist ideologies.

JANUARY 24, 2025ByGIORGIA VALENTE/THE MEDIA LINE
THE SITE of the Nova music festival massacre.

The Wedding Plan is a light-hearted comedy, Protection series offers suspenseful drama

TV week in Israeli culture

JANUARY 22, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN
MODERN ISRAELI comedy, ‘The Wedding Plan.’

Docaviv Galilee showing the best of documentary cinema

This year’s edition will feature about 20 movies by leading filmmakers from Israel, including premieres as well as a rich selection of the best documentary cinema from the past year.

JANUARY 13, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN
‘BETTER DAYS’

'We Will Dance Again': Documentary on Nova music festival massacre nominated for PGA award

The documentary retells the murder, abduction and violence inflicted by Hamas as they invaded southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

JANUARY 7, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israelis visit the site of the Supernova music festival massacre in southern Israel, during the the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, October 24, 2024.