You may also understand why most of the blockhead suits who run the networks are unable, unwilling and too frightened to ever do something like this. There is no happy ending, and the good guys don't get there in time to make it all better.
Children die and suffer and people are treated worse than is humanly possible to imagine.
Anne is played by Hannah Taylor Gordon, a young British actress who is so good that she is able to convey a change of mood with the flicker of an eye, a tilt of her head. This kid is Meryl Streep-good. Her father is played equally well by Ben Kingsley, her mother heart-breakingly by Tatjana Blacher, her sister quietly by Jessica Manley. It is the story of the Frank family who realized too late that Amsterdam was going the way of much of the rest of Europe. They took refuge in a building behind the company Otto Frank owned.