Heritage: Civilization and the Jews

Winner of the coveted Peabody Award, this series sprawls across nine hours and five millennia. Five years in the making and filmed on four continents, Heritage: Civilization and the Jews became a landmark television portrait of the Jewish experience.

Hosted by former Israeli ambassador Abba Eban, the film shines a light on an ethic that pervades the cultures of Jews and non-Jews, and provides a deeper more resonant comprehension of the philosophy so foundational to Western civilization.

From the stony heights of Sinai to the shores of the Dead Sea, from a Greek amphitheater in Delphi to the Forum of ancient Rome, out of the ashes of concentration camps to the rebuilt cities and villages of Israel, this series is dazzling in its scope, both in its audio/visual content as well as its educational weight.