Number Our Days is a 1976 American short documentary film about a community of elderly Jews in Venice, California. It was directed by Lynne Littman and aired on KCET's news show 28 Tonight. The Academy Film Archive preserved Number Our Days in 2007.
Reception and legacy Lee Margulies of the Los Angeles Times called Number Our Days "beautiful" and "a very human film, full of expressive faces and heartfelt emotion. It is full of compassion but never pity." John J. O'Connor of The New York Times wrote that Number Our Days was "a moving portrait of loneliness, pride, humor, bitterness and dignity".
Number Our Days won an Oscar at the 49th Academy Awards, held in 1977, for Documentary Short Subject. Number Our Days was cited when 28 Tonight won an Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award in 1978.1970s Archive – duPont-Columbia Awards
It was made available on the Blu-ray edition of Littman's sole 1983 feature Testament by The Criterion CollectionThe Criterion Collection March 17, 2026.
Cast Harry Asimow as Himself (archive footage) Barbara Myerhoff as Herself Lynne Littman as Herself (voice) (uncredited) Eddie Gurnick as band leader
References
External links
Number Our Days at the American Archive of Public Broadcasting