Based on the book "The mother of the Holocaust children" by Anna Mieszkowska.

Originally produced in 2009.

Special features include making of, conversation, the production, cast & credits, biographies.

Director, John Kent Harrison ; screenwriters, John Kent Harrison, Larry Spagnola ; cinematographer, Jerzy Zielinski ; composer, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek ; editor, Henk Van Eeghen ; producers, Chris Grabowski, Cameron Johann, Beata Pisula.

Anna Paquin, Goran Visnjic, Marcia Gay Harden, Michelle Dockery, Danuta Stenka, Rebecca Windheim, Sergei Marchenko.

As a social worker, Irena had access to the Warsaw Ghetto, making it possible for her to rescue the daughter of a Jewish friend and safely hide the young girl with a Catholic family. Realizing that thousands of children were still in danger, Irena recruited sympathetic friends and co-workers to smuggle children out and place them in safe homes, farms and convents. At great personal risk, she devised extraordinary schemes to sneak the children by Nazi guards, bringing them out in ambulances, suitcases and even wheelbarrows.

"How did one woman save 2500 children? Based on the remarkable true story of World War II hero Irena Sendler, who rescued over 2,500 Jewish children during the German occupation of Poland. As a social worker, Irena had access to the Warsaw ghetto, making it possible for her to rescue the daughter of a Jewish friend and safely hide the young girl with a Catholic family. Realizing that thousands of children were still in danger, Irena recruited sympathetic friends and co-workers to smuggle children out. At great personal risk, she devised extraordinary schemes to sneak the children by Nazi guards. Not a single child she rescued was ever betrayed or discovered by the Nazis. Often called "The Female Schindler," Sendler not only saved thousands of lives, but also countless generations of their descendants"--Container.

DVD-R, NTSC; widescreen presentation, 5.1 Dolby surround; region 1.

Closed-captioned.