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Is A Small Light based on a true story? Everything we know about the truth behind the Disney+ series

Is A Small Light based on a true story? Here's what we know about Miep and her story, plus news about the actress who plays her.

GoodToKnow · May 11, 2023

The week in TV: Tom Jones; Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story; A Small Light; Black Ops

ITV’s new period romp is charming if a bit well scrubbed; a spirited Bridgerton spin-off feels weightier – and sexier; and a familiar story is sensitively retold in Disney’s fine Anne Frank drama

The Guardian - UK · May 7, 2023

Bel Powley on Botox, nepotism and difficult sex scenes: ‘The heroin chic thing is gonna die again, right?’

The star of ‘The Diary of a Teenage Girl’ and ‘Everything I Know About Love’ talks to Ellie Harrison about playing the woman who hid Anne Frank and rescued her diary in ‘A Small Light’

The Independent UK · May 6, 2023

'A Small Light' focuses on those who helped Anne Frank

The new National Geographic series “A Small Light” stars Bel Powley as Miep Gies, a real-life heroine who protected celebrated diarist Anne Frank and seven others in a secret annex in Amsterdam during World War II

The Independent UK · May 1, 2023

‘A Small Light’ Offers a Unique Take on Anne Frank’s Story

Bel Powley plays ‘everyday superhero’ Miep Gies and Liev Schrieber plays Frank’s father Otto

Multichannel News · May 1, 2023

A Small Light cast: who's who in the World War Two drama

Meet the A Small Light cast who are bringing the story of Miep and Jan Gies, the people who hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis during World War II.

WhatToWatch · May 1, 2023

A Small Light Showrunner Discusses The Goal To 'Take The Cobwebs' Off Miep Gies Beyond The Diary Of Anne Frank

A Small Light is a new limited series based on the true story of Miep Gies, and showrunner Joan Rater opened up about shedding more light on the woman known from Anne Frank's diary.

Cinemablend · May 1, 2023

Actor Bel Powley: ‘I’d shied away from second world war stories – it’s always all about men’

The Morning Show star on playing the woman who hid Anne Frank, ​revitalising period dramas and working with Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon

The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2023

A Small Light on Disney+ review: this story of bravery and perseverance is a hammer-wallop round the head

The remarkable Miep Gies deserves to be spotlighted in this moving National Geographic series about Anne Frank

Evening Standard · Apr 26, 2023

Anne Frank’s story transformed the world’s view of the Holocaust. This woman kept her family and her diary alive

The diary of Anne Frank — written as she hid with her family and others in the annex of an Amsterdam building while Hitler’s Nazis hunted for Jews in the Second World War — is one of the most widely read books in the world. A new series shines a…

The Independent UK · Apr 25, 2023