Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
2000
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Mark Jonathan Harris (born 1941) is an American documentary filmmaker probably best known for his films Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000) and The Long Way Home (1997). He has directed three documentaries which have gone on to win Oscars, across three different decades.
Mark Jonathan Harris was born on 28 October 1941 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for The Long Way Home (1997), Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000) and Breaking Point: The War for Democracy in Ukraine (2017).
- Producer, Writer, Additional Crew
- October 28, 1941
- Mark Jonathan Harris
Work Phone: 213.740.3319. Office: SCA 434. Professor Mark Jonathan Harris is an Academy-Award winning documentary filmmaker, journalist and novelist. Among the many documentaries he has written, produced and/or directed are The Redwoods, a documentary made for the Sierra Club to help establish a redwood National Park, which won an Oscar for ...
Nov 24, 2000 · Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport: Directed by Mark Jonathan Harris. With Judi Dench, Lory Cahn, Kurt Fuchel, Eva Hayman. The secret smuggling of 9,300 Jewish children out of Nazi Germany in the late 1930s.
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- Documentary, History, War
- Mark Jonathan Harris
- 2000-11-24
author of Misfits. read all about it. About Mark. After graduating from Harvard College, Mark Jonathan Harris started his professional career covering crime from five in the afternoon to two in the morning for the famed City News Bureau of Chicago, where novelist Kurt Vonnegut and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sy Hersh also got their start.
Writer: The Long Way Home. Mark Jonathan Harris was born on 28 October 1941 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for The Long Way Home (1997), Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000) and Breaking Point: The War for Democracy in Ukraine (2017).
Written and directed by Mark Jonathan Harris, produced by Deborah Oppenheimer, narrated by Judi Dench, and made with the cooperation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, it utilized rare and extensive footage, photographs, and artifacts, and is told in the words of the child survivors, rescuers, parents, and foster parents.
