Watch a preview of CINEMA'S EXILES: FROM HITLER TO HOLLYWOOD. The film premieres on PBS stations in January 2009.

CINEMA’S EXILES: FROM HITLER TO HOLLYWOOD traces the experiences of the Jews who fled Nazi Germany and took refuge in Hollywood, and examines their impact on both the German and the American cinemas.

View a slideshow of the famed actors, directors and producers behind some of Hollywood's greatest films.

If you ask Franz Waxman’s son, John Waxman, to discuss his own life’s work–a library of music for motion pictures, one of the largest in the world– he immediately starts reminiscing about his father and the “Hollywood Sound”. There are very few people who remember this musical heritage–there are very few left who care.

How much do you know about the influence of Europe's exiled Jewish filmmakers on old Hollywood? Take our quiz.

View a timeline of the movement of some of Hollywood's biggest legends from Europe to the United States.