A series of three television films released in 1997 and 1998 featuring real-life survivors of The Holocaust and the people who risked their lives helping them, with most of there tales previously being recorded in a nonfiction book by Gay Block and Malka Drucker. Each film is divided into two segments, one played after the other, grouped together by the nature of the rescuers ("Two Women", "Two Couples", and "Two Families"). Barbra Streisand produced the films, while stars playing the rescuers include Sela Ward (a secretary at a Catholic archdiocese), Elizabeth Perkins (the housekeeper for a Jewish family), Robin Tunney and Caterina Scorsone (Polish sisters who help a Jewish partisan played by Michael Rapaport), Martin Donovan (who supplies Jewish refugees with forged documents), Alfred Molina and Linda Hamilton (as married teachers who hide Jewish students), and Tim Matheson and Daryl Hannah (as a circus manager and his wife).
Tropes:
- Breaking the Fellowship: At the end of "We Are Circus", many of the Jewish refugees and circus performers leave to make new lives for themselves in the changing world, to the slight disappointment of the people they have spent so long with.
- Cool Teacher: The character played by Alfred Molina and his wife are teachers who hide Jewish students from the Nazis.
- Right Under Their Noses: One of the heroes from Two Women lives just a hundred meters from a Gestapo headquarters while helping people the Nazis are chasing.
- Villains Out Shopping: In the "We are Circus'' segment, one persistent Nazi investigator is convinced to watch the show with his children.
