
Writing
Elie Wiesel
Born — Died
1928-09-30 — 2016-07-02
Place of birth
Sighet, Transylvania, Kingdom of Romania [now Sighetu Marmatiei, Maramures, Romania]
Known for
Writing
Credits
18 titles
Elie Wiesel (born Eliezer Wiesel, Yiddish: אליעזר װיזעל Eliezer Vizel; September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. He was a professor of the humanities at Boston University, which created the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies in his honor. He was involved with Jewish causes and human rights causes and helped establish the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. In his political activities, …
Known for
3.6No synopsis available yet.
Vivement dimanche
1998
8.5Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
Apostrophes
1975
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Matin Bonheur
1987
NRInterviews with public figures.
Overheard with Evan Smith
2010
6.9A detailed account of the two millennia of intolerance and persecution suffered by the Jews, from antiquity to the present day.
A History of Antisemitism
2022
NRNo easy answers? Decision-makers from Kissinger to Rice revisit how the US responded to conflicts from Rwanda to Iraq. Faced with human suffering - who has responsibility to act?
Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?
2024
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
NR"Sometimes I'm afraid the tale might be forgotten. Sometimes I'm afraid it is forgotten already." Told primarily through his own eloquent words, the film seeks to understand the man behind the searing and widely read memoir Night. Penetrating at the heart of the known and unknown, the film dives into the author’s legacy as one of the most influential survivors of the trauma of the Holocaust.
Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire
2024
6.0No one knows his real name; he is only known as Mr. Shoshani. He was an eternal nomad, a mad genius, who attracted disciples such as Nobel Prize winner Eli Weisel and renowned philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. Mr. Shoshani is one of the unsolved riddles of the 20th century, he is among the 10 most mysterious people of all time.
The Shoshani Riddle
2023
2000s · 4 titles
6.5A documentary about the events that led to the rise of Darfur's Arab-dominated government and the international community's "legacy of failure" to respond to the genocide carried out in the country.
Sand and Sorrow
2007
NRA film about the abduction of Tibet's second highest ranking Lama by the Chinese authorities.
Tibet's Stolen Child
2001
Oprah and Night author Elie Wiesel travel to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. See the Holocaust through the eyes of a survivor.
A Special Presentation Oprah and Elie Wiesel at Auschwitz Death Camp
2006
9.0Visual biography of Nobel Prize-winning author, Holocaust survivor, and human rights activist Elie Wiesel.
Elie Wiesel: First Person Singular
2002
1990s · 3 titles
9.0A documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eliezer was fifteen when Fascism brutally altered his life forever. Fifty years later, he returns to Sighetu Marmatiei, the town where he was born, to walk the painful road of remembrance - but is it possible to speak of the unspeakable? Or does Auschwitz lie beyond the capacity of any human language - the place where words and stories run out?
Elie Wiesel Goes Home
1997
A film about the spiritual leader, M. Mendel Schneerson of the Hassidic Lubavich Community in Brooklyn.
The King of Crown Heights
1994
9.0Hate has many faces: racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sectarianism, domestic violence. But do we really understand its roots, and are there practical ways to cope with it? What is hate doing to us? And what does hate do for us?
Bill Moyers: Beyond Hate
1991
1980s · 1 titles
Series credits
3.6No synopsis available yet.
Vivement dimanche
1998
8.5Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
Apostrophes
1975
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Matin Bonheur
1987
NRInterviews with public figures.
Overheard with Evan Smith
2010
6.9A detailed account of the two millennia of intolerance and persecution suffered by the Jews, from antiquity to the present day.
A History of Antisemitism
2022
NRNo easy answers? Decision-makers from Kissinger to Rice revisit how the US responded to conflicts from Rwanda to Iraq. Faced with human suffering - who has responsibility to act?
Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?
2024


