Herschel Bernardi Movies

An adopted boy's parents are killed, and to keep him from returning to the state's custody, he and his grandfather run away.

An older woman gets involved with her young neighbor.

In this animated retelling of the classic tale, Abdul Aziz Magoo -- an ancestor of Mr. Magoo -- is the lamp-selling uncle of Aladdin. Tired of his...

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg died for betraying atomic secrets. Were they guilty beyond a reasonable doubt?

A cartoon explaining the American Bill of Rights and Constitution. A man imagines a "nightmare world" without these documents, where Orwellian thugs...

Heckel and Jeckle decide it is too much trouble and time-consuming, not to mention wear-and-tear on their wings, to fly south for the winter, so they...

The people of a town are condemned to die one by one by a mysterious stranger who erects a gallows in the town square.

This documentary examines the dozens of Yiddish-language talking films made in the United States and Europe between the release of The Jazz Singer in...

Resentful after an ugly divorce from her unfaithful husband, Judith McGuire moves to Los Angeles. Adrift and detached, she spends her days and nights...

The Mighty Heroes are called into action in order to prevent "The Super Cooler" from freezing the town of Goodhaven.

A raw, rare short film about the need for a progressive overhaul of the penal system.

A promotional short for Operation Crossbow (1965) giving historical background for the film's plot using archival footage of Robert Goddard's rocket...

Provides a personal narrative of the Jewish experience in America. Herschel Bernardi explains how the Jewish East Side deliberately abolished itself...

Moishe Oysher, the renowned cantor and star of Yiddish radio, stars in Edgar G. Ulmer’s musical version of David Pinski’s play Yankl der...

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Young Cassidy (1965), a film about Irish author Sean O'Casey.