Events › Wednesday Night at the Movies: One Life (2024)

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This week's movie: One Life

The true story of Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker, who, along with Trevor Chadwick, and Doreen Warriner of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia, rescued 669 children from the Nazis in the months leading up to World War II. Fifty years later, it's 1988 and Nicky lives haunted by the fate of the children he wasn't able to bring to safety in England, always blaming himself for not doing more. It's not until a live BBC television show, 'That's Life!', surprises him by introducing him to some surviving children, now adults, that he finally begins to come to terms with the guilt and grief he had carried for five decades.

Watch the trailer: here

Rating: PG
Runtime: 109 min.
Shown with closed captioning

Accessibility Information:

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• Takes place indoors in a quiet space
• Sudden or loud noises may occur
• This screening has subtitles
• The expected noise level is moderate/loud
• Participants may leave the room at any time
• The lighting in the room is dim
  

For more information on physical access, view the Accessibility information on the nə́c̓aʔmat ct Strathcona Branch.