Nicholas Winton, heroTwo Cinemax Docs Explore Good and Evil
Good: The Power of Good tells the story of Sir Nicholas Winton, an Englishman who saved the lives of almost 700 mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children in the months before World War II. Czechoslovakia was Nazi-occupied. He brought the children to his native Britain. The inspiring film paints a portrait of the heroic man, who for nearly 50 years never told anyone about his extraordinary rescue mission. The story materialized in 1988 when the BBC broadcast a show about the first meeting of approximately 100 of the rescued children with their “secret” rescuer. This documentary reunites him with the surviving "Winton children" and their descendants, the latter of which there are more than 5,000. This Cinemax Reel Life award-winning documentary debuts immediately following Gray Matter (details below), Saturday, April 12, 2005 at 7 p.m. Winton’s involvement was the focus of the little-seen 1999 Rupert Graves movie, “All My Loved Ones.”
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Evil: Gray Matter investigates the shocking circumstances by which an esteemed Austrian physician allegedly killed hundreds (reports say as many as 800) of children during World War II in order to experiment on their brains. In an attempt to track down Dr. Heinrich Gross, and find out what really happened at the Spiegelgrund hospital, award-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger travels to
