Nick Davis’ ‘This Ordinary Thing’ Chronicles Unsung Non-Jewish Heroes of the Holocaust | Trailer

From Emmy-winning filmmaker Nick Davis comes This Ordinary Thing, a documentary featuring Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons, Lily Tomlin and more recounting the stories of non-Jewish individuals across Europe who risked everything to shelter Jewish strangers during the Holocaust.

Also featured in the documentary are F. Murray Abraham, Jeannie Berlin, Eric Bogosian, Ellen Burstyn, Bill Camp, Carrie Coon, Hope Davis, Stephen Fry, Joanna Gleason, Marcia Gay Harden, Mamie Gummer, Harry Hadden-Paton, Bill Irwin, Louisa Jacobson, Kasia Koleczek, Anna Krippa, Stephen Lang, John Leguizamo, Donal Logue, Kelly Macdonald, Bebe Neuwirth, Kelli O’Hara, David Hyde Pierce, Martha Plimpton, Lily Rabe, Rufus Sewell, J. Smith-Cameron, and David Strathairn.

The film is set for release in the U.S., beginning on December 5, 2025 at New York’s Cinema Village before a wider rollout and VOD release.

This Ordinary Thing brings to life some of the non-Jewish people across Europe who helped Jewish families during The Holocaust. The film consists of a combination of never before seen archival and originally filmed footage with voice performance from transcripts from interviews with over forty different people who, working independently and at great risk to themselves and their families, saved thousands of Jewish strangers from almost certain death. The film is a timely reminder of the pockets of goodness that can rise in a sea of evil: everyday people helping others who were “different” from them. Notably, none of the people featured in the film thought of themselves as heroes. And yet the film, with immense contemporary resonance, causes each of us to ask ourselves: “What would I have done?”

“No film has ever changed me nearly the way this one has,” said director Nick Davis. “To be honest, I never wanted to make it. I never wanted to make a Holocaust film. I never even wanted people to know I was Jewish. But now all that has changed.”

Watch the official trailer for This Ordinary Thing above.