Poland surrenders to Germany in 1939. Jews are forced into the Warsaw ghetto. Adam Czerniakow (Donald Sutherland) is the head of the Jewish counsel and Kazik Rotem (Stephen Moyer) is his driver. Tosia Altman (Leelee Sobieski) is able to pass for Aryan and sneaks out to trade for food. Mordechai Anielewicz (Hank Azaria) fails to escape to Palestine and decides to stay for the fight. Yitzhak Zuckerman (David Schwimmer) is his best friend and Zivia Lubetkin (Sadie Frost) is his girlfriend. Calel Wasser is a Jewish policeman in the ghetto. Czerniakow struggles to save lives in the impossible position and Anielewicz berates him for co-operating. As Jews are deported to Treblinka, Czerniakow commits suicide and Anielewicz organizes the resistance. Dr. Fritz Hippler (Cary Elwes) is a German propagandist who made "The Eternal Jew". Major-General Jurgen Stroop (Jon Voight) takes over the operation to clear out the ghetto.This is quite a production for network TV. It's very high quality. There are a couple of questionable scenes where accuracy is concerned. There are some top-notched actors led by the great Donald Sutherland. I could probably do without Schwimmer. Still, it's great for what it is.

I'm sorry to tell M. Adams that if he reads book written by fighters from the ghetto or see documentaries where they testify, he could learn that the Polish Resistance didn't really assist the ghetto fighters. Is that a point of history ? I don't know. I didn't made any research on that subject. But, these fighters who survived, as witnesses, said that in many works (books or videos) made on that subject. By the way, a lot of researchers pointed that the Polish were not the nicer people with Jews during that period, that could explain the low number of survivors, compared to other countries.Uprising can be seen as an epic movie on this resistance. A lot of images remind what we could see in every propaganda movie, specially Hollywood movies, making heroes of the characters. But, aren't they ?

I voted 9 out of 10 for this movie....'cause it WAS inspirational...I thought Schwimmer was brilliant enough to pull off that role...I was truly surprised by his abilities....OK so the movie was a bit off for accuracy but so what..maybe the polish resistance uniforms were wrong ....or were they ?....don't forget, those people had to get whatever clothing was available at the time, and that wasn't much, in fact anything they could put their hands on was close to a miracle...I thought Jon Voight was OK too, but not brutal enough to portray the real Jurgen Stroop, the administer of many unspeakable cruelties in the Nazi regime...should have shown him hanging after the war like he really did ( historically true ) ...good Schwimmer......good stuff...

The film is worth watching for bringing to wider attention the struggle of the Warsaw Ghetto fighters and the stories of those courageous people who resisted the Nazis in the Ghetto uprising.However the film does some disservice to the wider Polish community. They are regularly referred to in the film as "Aryans", which is historically inaccurate: the Nazis regarded the Poles as "Slavs", much inferior to the mythical Aryan race. Further great play is made of Polish anti-Semitism as a reason that the Home Army did not give greater support to the Ghetto fighters. Anti-Semitism certainly was a feature of much of the western world through the 20th century. However Polish anti-Semitism is perhaps overstated in many analysis of the Second World War. Gitta Sereny in her book "Into that Darkness" details the efforts of the Polish Home Army and the Polish Government in Exile to document and draw the world's attention to the genocide in eastern Poland – something that flies in the face of the stereotype of Polish anti-Semitism. Norman Davis in his account of the 1944 Warsaw uprising argues that the post war emphasis on Polish anti-Semitism was, at least in part, an attempt by the western allies to exculpate themselves of guilt over their betrayal of democratic Poland to Stalin and decades of Soviet occupation. It is a calumny that can be too easily taken up in the name of dramatic effect.Roman Polanski, himself a Polish Holocaust survivor, saved by non-Jewish Poles, in his film "The Pianist" paints a much more balanced picture of Warsaw society during the war. He seems to recognize that celebration of the courage and heroism of the Ghetto fighters does not require defamation of the rest of the Home Army, who at a later date also fought with enormous courage and sacrifice against the Nazis, and have also been forgotten by much of the world.