
Schindler's List(1993)
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.


“How did one woman save 2500 children?”
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.

Anna Paquin
Irena Sendler

Goran Višnjić
Stefan Zgrzembski

Michelle Dockery
Ewa Rozenfeld

Danuta Stenka
Hannah Rozenfeld

Maja Ostaszewska
Jadwiga

Krzysztof Pieczyński
Dr. Janusz Korczak

Jerzy Nowak
Old Rabbi
Rebecca Windheim
Karolina Rozenfeld
Sergei Novik-Marchenko
Jasio

Paul Freeman
Monsignor Godlewski
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler is a drama, war film released in 2009 exploring themes of nazi, holocaust (shoah), world war ii, biography, based on true story, historical drama. Directed by John Kent Harrison, it stars Anna Paquin, Goran Višnjić, Michelle Dockery. 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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