Unlikely Heroes

Robert Trank's workmanlike documentary, produced by an arm of The Simon Wiesenthal Center, cowritten by Rabbi Marvin Hier and narrated by Ben Kingsley, explores the stories of seven ordinary individuals who roused themselves to acts of extraordinary courage during WWII. They include Polish teenager Anna Heilman, who plotted successfully to blow up one of Birenau's crematoria and was the only conspirator to survive (her sister was hanged for her participation); Austrian Willy Perl, who persuaded authorities to let him him deport Jews, instead allowing thousands to escape; Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, who taught children in Czechoslovakia's "model" Theresiens...