For years, instead of heralding his own achievement, Winton allowed the story to be buried in his notebooks stashed in his attic. It was only in the 1980s when his wife discovered them that she realized what he had done, as he had never even told her about it. The details of his heroism gradually spread. There were the 1999 drama “All My Loved Ones” and the Emmy-winning 2002 documentary “The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton.” Now the broad impact has been further captured in “Nicky’s Family.” Winton has been referred to as the British Schindler.

In the days leading up to World War II, Winton, a young stockbroker, visited Prague and became aware of the endangered children, whose rescue he began to organize. Even after the Germans invaded Czechoslovakia he continued to send children on Kindertransports to safety in London at great personal risk.

The logistics were tremendous. Winton had to raise funds, locate families in England who would take children into their homes and provide documents to get them out of the country. Nicky’s ancestry is Jewish, although he was baptized as a Christian, an ironic situation given his role in rescuing Jewish children.

“Nicky’s Family,” edited by Pass, is a combination of documentary footage that includes interviews with Winton, many of the rescued and others, film clips of the time and dramatized footage to provide the flavor of the rescue years by reenactment. The account is engrossing, including the efforts to have a beautiful woman spy on Winton, with a result her handlers did not expect.

There are many emotional highlights, such as the one when for a television show honoring Winton the audience was filled with those whom he had rescued and who were on hand to pay their tribute, with Winton struggling to hold back tears.

Once the story was known, proper respects were paid, including the knighting of Winton by Queen Elizabeth II. The story emphasizes the widespread ramifications. Winton’s extended “family” now includes all the offspring and grandchildren of those he rescued, and his deed has inspired some of the descendants to take part in campaigns and projects to aid other children in need the world over. Thus by saving the children from the Nazis, Winton was responsible for generations of lives, a "family” that has now grown to some 6000, with many of the rescued having gone on to significant professional achievements.

The film is especially fascinating and moving when many children whom he saved, now elderly, recount their memories of youth and the experience of going on the journey to England. There are also moving recollections from the families that opened their hearts and their doors to the children. In a campaign to accord Winton further honors thousands of children in the Czech Republic have signed a petition urging that Winton receive a Nobel prize.