Hallmark Hall of Fame

I am looking forward to seeing Anna Paquin on Hallmark Hall of Fame tonight at 9pm on CBS। “The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler” is based upon the true story a Polish Catholic social worker in the early 1940s who is credited with saving the lives of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II। Check the local listings for your area। This is on the CBS network, not the Hallmark Channel.

Anna Paquin stars in “The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler,” airing at 8 CT tonight on KCTV-5 as the 236th presentation of the “Hallmark Hall of Fame।” It’s a straightforward and earnest account, adapted from the book by Anna Mieszkowska, of an unfailingly moral and caring person who spirited hundreds, then thousands of children across Nazi checkpoints into the waiting arms of Catholic families.

It is easy to take the Hallmark Hall of Fame franchise for granted. After all, this is the 236th presentation. But few TV franchises have presented such consistently fine and socially-conscious movies over the the years. The Courageous Heart is no exception in its harrowing and sensitive look at a young Polish social worker (Paquin) who defied the Nazi authorities to smuggle Jewish children out of thr Warsaw ghetto during World War II.