Series 2

Season 2 · 1962 · 6 episodes

Episodes

1Doctor Korczak and the ChildrenRevered Polish-Jewish educator, pediatrician, and writer Janusz Korczak chose to die with nearly 200 orphans from his Warsaw Ghetto orphanage, leading them calmly to the Treblinka extermination camp in August 1942 rather than abandoning them.
2The Weather in the StreetsOlivia Curtis, a woman in a failing marriage, begins a passionate, illicit affair with her childhood crush, Rollo Spencer, after they reconnect on a trai
3Summer StormWnen the nude body of a beautiful girl washes up on the beach of an exclusive Spanish resort on the Costa Brava, it is discovered one morning by a group of children from the summer colony. The unknown victim soon haunts the imagination of the community; the sheltered but undisciplined children have encountered for the first time the naked facts of life while the townspeople and fishermen seek desperately to convince themselves that this is just another shameful crime perpetrated against their Spain by the depraved foreign vacationers in the tent camp on the outskirts of the colony.
4Address UnknownA powerful story told via letters between a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco and his former business partner who returns to Germany as the Nazis rise to power.
5Stamboul TrainAs a diverse group of passengers on the Orient Express journey from Ostend to Istanbul, their lives intertwine. Among them are chorus girl Coral Musker, businessman Carleton Myatt, and revolutionary Dr. John, exploring themes of identity, politics, and human connection through a suspenseful thriller.
6Comrade JacobThe rise and fall of the Diggers, a radical religious group during the English Civil War, focusing on their leader Gerrard Winstanley and the challenges of their communal living and ideals.