[ad_1] The cinematic image of children boarding trains in World War II is, typically, a traumatic one. But in “One Life,” directed by James Hawes, it is wildly, blindly hopeful, as children board trains in Prague, bound for England, escaping dire conditions in refugee camps and the encroaching Nazi occupation, seemingly steps away. “One Life”… Continue reading ‘One Life’ review: Holocaust hero’s story is told modestly
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Hopkins on Holocaust drama ‘One Life’: ‘It’s easy to forget’
[ad_1] In 1988, the BBC television series “That’s Life!” aired a program on Nicholas Winton, a former stockbroker who helped to save 669 children from the Nazis in the months leading up to World War II and the Holocaust. As seen in the episode, the producers of the show surprised Winton by seating him in… Continue reading Hopkins on Holocaust drama ‘One Life’: ‘It’s easy to forget’
Ken Burns and colleagues turn their lens on the Holocaust
[ad_1] Documentarian Ken Burns says he could be given a thousand years to live and he’d never run out of topics to examine in American history. But of the Emmy-nominated “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” directed with Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein — an unflinching three-part exploration of how America responded during that horrific time… Continue reading Ken Burns and colleagues turn their lens on the Holocaust