Based on the book If It's Not Impossible...The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton, One Life tells the incredible, emotional true story of Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton (Flynn), a young London broker who visits Prague in December 1938. In a race against time, Winton convinces Trevor Chadwick (Sharp) and Doreen Warriner (Garai) of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia to rescue hundreds of predominately Jewish children before Nazi occupation closes the borders. Fifty years later, Nicky (Hopkins) is haunted by the fate of the children he wasn't able to bring to safety in England. It's not until the BBC show "That's Life!" re-introduces him to some of those he helped rescue that he finally begins to come to terms with the guilt and grief he carried - all the while skyrocketing from anonymity to a national hero.
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00:00 [VIDEO PLAYBACK]
00:01 - 30 seconds to on air.
00:04 - OK, and you are just here.
00:07 - Good night, Sid.
00:08 Father back.
00:09 [END PLAYBACK]
00:09 [APPLAUSE]
00:12 [VIDEO PLAYBACK]
00:13 - Now, an extraordinary story about a young man
00:17 who many years ago visited Prague.
00:20 What he found there were thousands of refugees
00:24 at the mercy of Hitler's imminent invasion.
00:26 [VIDEO PLAYBACK]
00:29 - Do you ever think about the children
00:31 and what happened to them?
00:32 [CHILDREN PLAYING]
00:33 - Oh, thank you.
00:36 - I bet you got some stories.
00:39 - Most are really not about me.
00:42 - We are working to evacuate these children by train
00:46 to safety in Britain.
00:49 - Why are you doing this, Mr. Winton?
00:51 - Because I may be able to do something about it.
00:55 I must.
00:57 - Go.
00:58 Now.
00:58 [SCREAMING]
01:01 [SCREAMING]
01:04 - Nicky, you must know we cannot save them all.
01:09 You have to forgive yourself that.
01:11 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:14 - I started to.
01:15 I have to finish it.
01:18 - We cannot let these people down.
01:20 - It is incredible what you achieved.
01:25 - We're doing as much as we can.
01:26 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:28 - You have a lot of faith in ordinary people.
01:32 - Because I'm an ordinary person.
01:35 - Save one life, save the world.
01:37 - Forgive me, but how many children are we speaking about?
01:42 - Can I ask, is there anyone in the audience
01:45 tonight who owes their life to Nicholas Winton?
01:48 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:52 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:55 (dramatic music)
01:58 you