Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.
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The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II...
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A sensitive and realistic portrayal of the families' grief after the devastating crash of Swissair f...
A failed engineering student in the late 1940s gets the unexpected education of a lifetime by workin...
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The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. Aft...
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Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm wit...
The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her inte...
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