This ambitious, harrowing 1982 television docudrama was inspired by John Hersey's 1950 novel about the heroic Warsaw Ghetto uprising during the Holocaust. In Millard Lampell's adaptation, the inspiring but heartbreaking story is told through the eyes of Dolek Benson, played by Tom Conti, during the Jewish Fighting Organization's brave stand that pitted 650 members against 3,000 German soldiers. Benson is a passive observer of the atrocities until he learns that all Polish Jews are about to be shipped offto Nazi camps. Filmed on location in Sosnowiec, Poland, The Wall earned a Peabody Award in 1983.
