The Children Who Cheated the Nazis
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The Children Who Cheated the Nazis is a documentary about the Kindertransport
, by the director Sue Read and producer Jim Goulding. This documentary film was broadcast by Channel 4 on September 28th, 2000, and has since been broadcast in America, Israel, France, Australia, Spain and worldwide.
The film is narrated by Lord Richard Attenborough
, Academy Award winning film actor and director, who features in the film, talking about the two Kindertransport children his family gave a home to. Warren Mitchell
Also featured is Warren Mitchell
, whose family also took in a Kindertransport child.
Kindertransport
Kindertransport is the name given to the rescue mission that took place nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and the Free City of Danzig...
, by the director Sue Read and producer Jim Goulding. This documentary film was broadcast by Channel 4 on September 28th, 2000, and has since been broadcast in America, Israel, France, Australia, Spain and worldwide.
The film is narrated by Lord Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough , CBE is a British actor, director, producer and entrepreneur. As director and producer he won two Academy Awards for the 1982 film Gandhi...
, Academy Award winning film actor and director, who features in the film, talking about the two Kindertransport children his family gave a home to. Warren Mitchell
Also featured is Warren Mitchell
Warren Mitchell
Warren Mitchell is an English actor who rose to initial prominence in the role of bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in the BBC television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part , and its sequels Till Death... and In Sickness and in Health , all of which were written by Johnny Speight...
, whose family also took in a Kindertransport child.
External links
- Production companies homepage for the documentary
- http://www.abc.net.au/tv/documentaries/stories/s298469.htmPage from the Australian Broadcasting CorporationAustralian Broadcasting CorporationThe Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
web site] - http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/677840British Film InstituteBritish Film InstituteThe British Film Institute is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to:-Cinemas:The BFI runs the BFI Southbank and IMAX theatre, both located on the south bank of the River Thames in London...
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