The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton (2003)
• March 27th, 2003 • 1h 4min
Documentary, History
Overview
A gripping documentary about the courage and determination of a young English stockbroker who saved the lives of 669 children. Between March 13 and August 2, 1939, Nicholas Winton organized 8 transports to take children from Prague to new homes in Great Britain, and kept quiet about it until his wife discovered a scrapbook documenting his unique mission in 1988. Winton was a successful 29-year-old stockbroker in London who "had an intuition" about the fate of the Jews when he visited Prague in 1939. He quietly but decisively got down to the business of saving lives. We learn how only two countries, Sweden and Britain, answered his call to harbor the young refugees; how documents had to be forged and how once foster parents signed for the children on delivery, that was the last he saw of them.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Committed
Released on: 2014-04-04
Documentary
Howie Mandel points a camera at his friend Vic Cohen for 13 years, documenting his dogged determinat...
Susi Susanti: Love All
Released on: 2019-10-24
History, Drama
Susi Susanti rises to become Indonesia’s beloved athlete. In time of turmoil, she showed her country...
Hitler's Battle Against the Press
Released on: 2018-05-05
TV Movie, Documentary, History
As early as 1920, the journalists of the "Münchener Post" recognized the danger posed by Adolf Hitle...
Bill Nye: Science Guy
Released on: 2017-04-10
Documentary
Bill Nye is retiring his kid show act in a bid to become more like his late professor, astronomer Ca...
Becoming Bond
Released on: 2017-03-11
Documentary, Comedy
The stranger-than-fiction true story of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic who, through ...
Jurek
Released on: 2014-10-08
Documentary
This documentary follows the feats of high-altitude climber Jerzy Kukuczka and his ascent to higher ...
Hitler's Forgotten Victims
Released on: 1997-10-02
Documentary, TV Movie, History, War
The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi Germany who were sterilised, experimented upon, tor...
Font Men
Released on: 2014-03-09
Documentary
You've never heard of Jonathan Hoefler or Tobias Frere-Jones but you've seen their work. They run th...
Thomas Hart Benton
Released on: 1989-10-31
Documentary
Thomas Hart Benton's paintings were energetic and uncompromising. Today his works are in museums, bu...
White Friar
Released on: 2022-06-30
Drama, History, War
Vienna, at the close of World War II. An intriguing relationship between a priest and a wealthy Jewi...
The Creep Behind the Camera
Released on: 2014-04-13
Comedy, Drama, History
An exploration of the making of b-movie sci-fi cult classic "The Creeping Terror" and its con-man di...
The Last Emperor
Released on: 1987-10-04
Drama, History
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
Lady Gaga - Encore
Released on: 2020-05-12
Music, Documentary
Gaga has travelled through time with her ever changing sound, reinventing herself for every album, a...
Black Hawk Down
Released on: 2001-12-28
Action, War, History
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord...
Saving Private Ryan
Released on: 1998-07-24
Drama, History, War
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...
Gandhi
Released on: 1982-12-01
Drama, History
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
Don Emilio and His Little Doctors
Released on: 1982-01-01
Documentary
Don Emilio is a humble, 63-year-old man who lives in the Amazon rainforest, seven miles from the cit...