It is 1939 and Europe is on the brink of war. Hitler has invaded Czechoslovakia, threatening the lives of the Jewish population. Nicholas Winton, a young British stockbroker, decides he will do everything possible to save the lives of as many Jewish children as he can. This film, transmitting on Holocaust Memorial Day, tells the extraordinary story of how Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from the clutches of the Nazis, bringing them by train to Britain.

In order to provide a degree of credibility with both the British and Nazi governments of the day, Nicholas single-handedly established the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia - Children's Section, using it to obtain passports and visas for the children. He then organised for each child to be adopted by families throughout the country and their safe passage across Europe and into Britain.

For nearly fifty years, Nicholas told no-one of his heroic deeds. His incredible story might never have come to light were it not for his wife who, fifty years later, found a suitcase in the attic containing a remarkable scrapbook full of documents and transport plans.

The story then emerged in 1988 when the BBC's That's Life programme reunited over two dozen of his 'children' with their rescuer for the first time in a highly emotional broadcast. (fonte: BBC)

Riadattamento della docu-Fiction "Nicky's Family": questo docudrama racconta la storia di Nicholas Winton, un inglese che organizzò il salvataggio di 669 bambini cechi e slovacchi poco prima dello scoppio della seconda guerra mondiale. Winton, che ora ha 102 anni, non ha parlato di questi eventi con nessuno per più di mezzo secolo. Le sue imprese sarebbero state probabilmente dimenticate se sua moglie, cinquant'anni dopo, non avesse trovato una valigia in soffitta, piena di documenti e piani di trasporto. Oggi la storia di questo salvataggio è conosciuta in tutto il mondo. Sono stati trovati dozzine di "bambini" di Winton e fino ad oggi la sua famiglia è cresciuta fino a quasi 6.000 persone, molte delle quali hanno continuato a realizzare grandi cose da sole.