Picture: Greenwich Entertainment
Netflix in the United States and Canada will soon stream UnBroken, a newly released WWII documentary from writer, executive producer, and director Beth Lane. The film is scheduled to arrive on Netflix on April 23rd, 2025, following its rollout earlier this year, marking its SVOD debut.
The film, Beth Lane’s feature directorial debut, follows her journey as she looks back at her family history during a dark period in history. She retraces the steps of the plight of her mother and six siblings, who escaped Nazi Germany by relying on the kindness of strangers. The doc involves interviewing her family members and following her family’s footsteps across Germany over 70 years ago.
Although the movie is listed as having a 2023 release date in most locations, that’s not quite the case. It premiered at the Heartland International Film Festival in October 2023 before showcasing at DOC NYC a month later. It then proceeded to be showcased at various other festivals throughout 2024 but wasn’t available to most audiences until last month, in February 2025. That’s when it hit select theaters and got a physical and VOD release on platforms like Apple TV, Prime Video, YouTube, and Fandango at Home.
The documentary also features some animated segments from the studio Misfit Animation (Starship Impossible, Death is Smoking My Cigars) to illustrate the stories told. One of them, seen in the picture below, shows 3-year-old Bela’s animated blue eyes looking over the city of Berlin as her mother, Lina, is arrested by the S.S. before deportation to Auschwitz. Bela was the youngest of the seven Weber siblings.
The movie has picked up glowing reviews from its time on the festival circuit, including Film Threat, which called it “Profound and remarkable.” At the same time, The Forward said it’s “an incredibly moving film about people’s resilience in dark times.”
Greenwich Entertainment is behind the film’s distribution, and as noted, we’ve only been able to confirm that the movie will land on Netflix in the United States and Canada so far.
Here are a few more first looks at the new documentary:
Farmers Paula & Arthur Schmidt – Righteous Among the Nations. – Credit: UnBroken personal archives circa 1956
Worin Town Historian Marlis Schuler & Director Beth Lane at the Schmidt Farm on Strasse de Freidens – Freedom Highway, the Weber siblings’ place of hiding, in Worin Germany, 2019.
Animated sequence for UnBroken created by Misfit.
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