'A Small Light' tells a lesser known side of the Anne Frank WWII story
“A Small Light” is available to stream on Disney+ and Hulu.
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“A Small Light” is available to stream on Disney+ and Hulu.
Liev Schreiber was visiting conflict-ravaged Ukraine when he got a script about real-life events some 80 years ago that felt strangely timely. Celebrated diarist Anne Frank is in it, but she's almost peripheral. Instead, National Geographic's “A Small Light” focuses on a young, newly married woman who helped hide Frank and who provided food and other necessities at great risk.
Most of us are familiar with "The Diary of Anne Frank" which chronicled the life of a young Jewish woman and her family who hid from the Nazis.
You should watch the National Geographic Channel’s “A Small Light,” the eight-part retelling of the Anne Frank story — this time primarily from the perspective of Miep Gies, the young woman who helped hide the Frank family from the Nazis for more than two years.
There’s more to the Anne Frank story than what she put in her diary.