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Sir Nicholas Winton and Twin Peaks deserve a place in TV history

Letters: Esther Rantzen says the humanitarian’s example and achievements should never be forgotten. Plus letters from Duncan Wain and Graham Mytton

The Guardian - UK

Holocaust hero’s viral BBC moment: Decades-old Nicholas Winton clip resurfaces

British humanitarian Nicholas Winton's decades-old television clip continues to resurface online, drawing widespread emotional responses across generations. The footage, originally broadcast on the BBC programme That’s Life! in 1988, captures the moment Winton realises that several members of the studio audience were among the 669 Jewish children he helped rescue…

The Times of India

Skylark, Polari, Paralympic - Full list of TfL's rejected Overground line names revealed

Names were rejected because they may have been hard to hear clearly on announcements or could have been abbreviated and used as slurs

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How Holocaust films are changing as we lose the survivor generation

The Holocaust is fast receding from living memory. Some 300 Auschwitz survivors were present at the 70th anniversary commemorations of the camp’s liberation in 2015. This year, just 50 attended, all of whom were children in 1945.

The Conversation

Will & Harper to One Life: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Will Ferrell and his friend Harper Steele, who recently came out as trans, go on a witty and candid road trip. Plus Anthony Hopkins stars as a Kindertransport hero in a true tearjerker

The Guardian - UK

Czech street named after British man who saved Jewish children from Nazis

Nicholas Winton’s ‘Kinder’ return to Prague to honour man who organised rescue of 669 children

The Guardian - UK

New on Paramount Plus in August 2024 — all the movies and shows to watch

Here are all the new movies and shows coming to Paramount Plus in August 2024.

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Helena Bonham Carter Praises Anthony Hopkins For Extraordinary Acting Skills.

Helena Bonham Carter praises Anthony Hopkins in 'One Life,' a film depicting Sir Nicholas Winton's heroic actions during World War II.

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What One Life gets wrong about Nicholas Winton and the Kindertransport story

Barbara Winton self-published a biography of her father, Nicholas Winton, in 2014, which has now become a new major biopic, One Life. Already dubbed “the British Schindler” for his role in the rescue of 669, mainly Jewish, children from Czechoslovakia in 1939, with this new film Nicholas Winton’s fame is…

The Conversation

In defence of One Life, the story of Nicholas Winton

Letters: Nicola Gissing, the daughter of one of ‘Nicky’s children’, says the film has got it just right; plus a letter from Prof Pete Wall

The Guardian - UK

One Life review – stirring tale of the ‘British Schindler’ predictably told

James Hawes’s workmanlike biopic of Nicholas Winton, who saved 669 children from the Nazis, is lifted by a stellar cast

The Guardian - UK

One Life: The true story of Jewish heroism behind the Anthony Hopkins tearjerker

In his new film, Anthony Hopkins plays the real-life hero Sir Nicholas Winton, who was made famous in a landmark episode of Esther Rantzen’s BBC One show ‘That’s Life!’. Decades earlier, he facilitated the rescue of 669 Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Adam White digs into his remarkable story

The Independent UK

One Life marketing materials altered following Jewish backlash

The promotional terms for the biopic of ‘British Schindler’ Nicholas Winton have been amended following criticism of the term ‘central European’ to describe the children he saved

The Guardian - UK

One Life review: Anthony Hopkins’ performance as the That’s Life! hero is better than the film that surrounds him

The actor recreates Sir Nicholas Winton’s famous chat show appearance – but this flashback-heavy tale of the British humanitarian who facilitated the rescue of 669 Jewish children otherwise struggles

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Nicholas Winton saved my father from the Nazis – here’s how One Life betrays him

The new film about the British humanitarian who rescued 669 Czech Jewish children sticks to a feelgood script, and misses the more compelling reality

Evening Standard

One Life: a refugee from the Nazis on her story and Anthony Hopkins' film about Nicholas Winton

Renate Collins was one of the 669 children rescued from the Nazis by Sir Nicholas Winton, whose actions have been dramatised in an extraordinary new film

The Guardian - UK

‘The worst meeting I have ever had’: why a Kindertransport hero rejected a film about his life

As One Life is released, producer says that Nicholas Winton – the ‘British Schindler’ who saved 669 children – was reluctant for his story to be told

Evening Standard

The Cine Files: everything you need to see at the cinema in January

From Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott in a truly devastating tear-jerker to Emma Stone’s wildest performance yet, we round-up the best 14 movies to watch this month

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The Guardian - UK

One Life review – Anthony Hopkins in extraordinary true story of ‘British Schindler’

Hopkins stars as Nicholas Winton, who rescued 669 Jewish children from the Nazis – alongside Helena Bonham Carter on mighty form

The Guardian - UK

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Acoba | Sir Nicholas Winton | Riding the cobbles

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‘It will always be less hellish than the reality’: why cinema keeps returning to the Holocaust

Three new films attempt to address the Holocaust. But can cinema ever hope to adequately confront humanity’s darkest chapter?

Evening Standard

Sir Nicholas Winton: the true story of the British WW2 hero who saved 669 children from the Nazis

Winton became a key player in the Kindertransport rescue task force. Now his astonishing story is being told in a new film starring Anthony Hopkins

The Guardian - UK

Nicholas Winton and a legacy of caring from the Kindertransport

Letters: Tim Mulroy on his father and aunt who were saved from the Holocaust, and Dr Malcolm Fletcher on another Kindertransport survivor

The Guardian - UK

Kindertransport success of ‘Britain’s Schindler’ celebrated in new film and exhibition

Film starring Johnny Flynn and Anthony Hopkins and photographs of Holocaust survivors pay tribute to courage of UK Kindertransport hero

The Guardian - UK

How Nicholas Winton saved 669 children (and counting) from the Holocaust: ‘He became everybody’s grandfather’

Four generations owe their lives to the man who brought trainloads of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia to Britain in 1939. The original refugees remember the Kindertransport – and the shy stockbroker who got them on it

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