Review of Unlikely Heroes

Unlikely Heroes is one of those documentaries you start to watch knowing you will see atrocious things, where you will question the inhumanity some "people" are capable of, a documentary that you watch in silent, speechless and sad. But it's also a documentary about hope in humanity, when you see that there are still people that will risk everything just to help others, to save lives of people they don't even know. The footage is amazing, the stories incredible and full of courage and generosity. This documentary should be a mandatory watch. People that deny the Holocaust (which is rightfully punishable in some countries) should watch this, maybe they'll turn their hatred and ignorance into something positive for once. That somebody has the crazy idea to exterminate a whole race is one thing, but that thousands of others follow those orders without questioning themselves is something else. I will never understand how somebody can follow orders they don't approve, it will always remain a mystery to me. Each story of those almost unknown heroes is remarkable and worth telling. You could make a movie about every single hero in this well made documentary, they should do this as they all deserved to be remembered for their courage and generosity. Some of the footage is hard to watch, it's hard but necessary, just so we could understand what atrocities took place, so we could learn that something like that should never happen again. Those heroes all deserve a statue somewhere, they are the real heroes of that time. The black and white images of that era are hard to watch, almost unbearable, but it's good we can witness what happened in all those countries, never forget, never forgive.