Screened at the Hollywood International Film Festival

The latest production from the Oscar-winning Moriah Films division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, "Unlikely Heroes" goes beyond the well-documented Warsaw Ghetto uprising to take a fascinating look at seven lesser-known individual paths to resistance.

By incorporating interviews -- in some cases with the surviving subjects -- along with recently unearthed archival footage and photographs as well as newly filmed sequences establishing the international locations where the events took place, director Richard Trank has crafted a moving documentary that should go on to receive considerable attention following its Hollywood film festival premiere.

Included among those profiles in courage is the remarkable story of a rabbi's son who joined the underground and would frequently disguise himself as a high-ranking Nazi in the Hungarian Arrow Cross in order to save the lives of many of his brethren.

Also chronicled are the efforts of a Vienna-born artist and early art therapy advocate who encouraged children in her Theresienstadt camp to secretly draw and paint as a way to escape the everyday horrors of the camp; a pair of Polish sisters in Auschwitz who systematically snuck bits of gunpowder out of a munitions factory until there was enough to blow up a crematorium; and a young French boy who survived the camps by performing songs for fellow Jews and Nazis alike and would later change his name to Robert Clary, of "Hogan's Heroes" fame.

Connecting the self-contained portraits is the stirring narration provided by Ben Kingsley, tastefully underscored by Lee Holdridge's symphonic compositions and the use of period songs.