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Based on the book by world-renowned author Michael Morpurgo, Waiting For Anya tells the powerful and true story of a young shepherd and a reclusive widow who work together to smuggle Jewish children across the southern border of France into Spain during the horrors of World War Two. Directed by Ben Cookson and stars Noah Schnapp, Jean Reno and Anjelica Huston.
Nov-21 7:30pm SBS World Movies: The Last Vermeer
While Joseph Piller, a Dutch Jew, was fighting in the Resistance during the Second World War, the debonair art connoisseur Han van Meegeren was selling Dutch art to Hermann Goring and other Nazis. Read more
Dec-29 11:20pm SBS-TV: Uri Geller’s Secret Treasures
Uri Geller, the man who bends spoons, reads minds, and can stop your watch. Read more
Apr-25 11:45pm SBS-TV: Auschwitz – One Day
This documentary tells the story of a typical day in 1944 in the ‘death factory’ at Auschwitz from the viewpoint of victims – but it also allows insights into the mindset of the perpetrators. Read more
