Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire

Elie Wiesel survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald as a teenager. Then he spent the next sixty years making sure the world would never forget.

This American Masters documentary goes beyond the public figure to reveal the private man who transformed unspeakable trauma into literature of the highest order. His 1958 memoir "Night" forever changed how the Holocaust would be written about. Made with full family cooperation and unique access to personal archives, the film tells Wiesel's story through his own eloquent words, interviews with wife Marion and son Elisha, and haunting hand-painted animations.

A crucial portrait of the Nobel Prize winner who fought "the sin of indifference." As Holocaust survivors pass, this becomes essential testimony.