Stephen Applebaum
Stephen Applebaum is a widely published UK-based writer with more than 25 years' of experience contributing to newspapers and glossies at home and abroad
Voices of the ghetto heard around the world
A new documentary about an archive made by the people of the Warsaw Ghetto will be shown around the world on Holocaust Memorial Day
Celebrating the 'notorious' Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Liberal Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a new feminist icon for younger women, say the makers of a new documentary about her five decades fighting inequality
The triplets who met as teenagers
The incredible story of triplets separated at birth, who were adopted by three different homes and never told they had siblings, is told in a new documentary.
The spy who wanted to heal the world
Howard Kaplan drew on his own memories of working for Mossad when he wrote the novel behind new spy thriller movie Damascus Cover, out this week
The comfort of horror (films): we talk to Ari Aster
Ari Aster’s debut feature, Hereditary, has been hailed as a future horror classic. Stephen Applebaum meets a self-proclaimed neurotic hypochondriac
Searching for her great-grandfather's lost pictures
Elizabeth Rynecki's new film tells the story of her quest to find her great-grandfather's works of art which captured the world of pre-war Polish Jewry
‘I’m gay, raised as a Mormon and now I’m proudly Jewish.’
A new documentary tells the story of H. Alan Scott's journey from Mormon to Jew.
Steven Spielberg: the isolated Jewish boy who just wanted to be liked
Next year he'll celebrate 50 years as a Hollywood hotshot, this year he has two films out. Steven Spielberg tells Stephen Applebaum how it all started as a way of defusing antisemitism.
Interview: Oren Moverman, director of The Dinner
Stephen Applebaum met the Israeli director of The Dinner, which stars Steve Coogan and Richard Gere
Samuel Maoz: Foxtrot's director interviewed
The film Foxtrot has caused controversy in Israel. Stephen Applebaum met its director
'I’ve always been seen by other people as Jewish'
Michael Showalter, actor, comedian and writer, reveals how his own family story prompted him to direct the hit film The Big Sick
Jake Gyllenhaal: Going big — with a giant pig
He's known for his subtle style - but Jake Gyllenhaal's gone wild in his latest film, he tells Stephen Applebaum
Talking to survivors
Llion Roberts' new documentary Destination Unknown captures the stories of Holocaust survivors. He tells Stephen Applebaum how and why he made the film.
Testimony of the survivors
Ed Mosberg has made it his life's work to testify about the horrors of the holocaust.Now he is featured in an extraordinary new film.
Review: Snatched
The new Amy Schumer movie is too lazy for laughs says Stephen Applebaum
A documentary helped me reconcile with my family
His family rejected him because he was gay. But when a film was made about Saar Maoz, it helped him confront the past.
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