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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In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

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A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

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As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerri...

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A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

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The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...