
We Were the Lucky Ones
2024 · Miniseries · TV-MA · ★ 7.5 · 86% critics
A Jewish family is torn apart as World War II begins, forced into separate paths across multiple countries. As danger closes in, each person fights to survive while holding onto the hope of finding their loved ones again.
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Streaming on Hulu.
7 hours to watch · 8 episodes.
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Details
- Years
- 2024
- Release date
- 2024-03-28
- Network
- Hulu
- Language
- English
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Max quality
- UHD
- Critic score
- 86/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.5/10 (83 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want an intense, emotionally driven true-story miniseries about resilience and family bonds under wartime terror; Not for you if you want light viewing or simple plots like Say Nothing.
Pros: powerful family survival story; gripping tension throughout; strong performances | Cons: heavy emotional watch; many threads to track; uneven character focus
Themes
- based on novel or book
- holocaust (shoah)
- world war ii
- jew persecution
- based on true story
- holocaust (shoah) survivor
- miniseries
- family
Cast & crew

Joey King
as Halina Kurc

Logan Lerman
as Addy Kurc

Robin Weigert
as Nechuma Kurc

Lior Ashkenazi
as Sol Kurc

Amit Rahav
as Jakob Kurc

Eva Feiler
as Bella Tatar

Hadas Yaron
as Mila Kurc

Henry Lloyd-Hughes
as Genek Kurc

Sam Woolf
as Adam Eichenwald

Moran Rosenblatt
as Herta Seifert
Episodes1 season · 8 episodes
Season 18 episodes
- S1E1Radom53mDisney+Hulu
- S1E2Lvov52mDisney+Hulu
- S1E3Siberia50mDisney+Hulu
- S1E4Casablanca52mDisney+Hulu
- S1E5Ilha Das Flores56mDisney+Hulu
- S1E6Warsaw55mDisney+Hulu
- S1E7Monte Cassino55mDisney+Hulu
- S1E8Rio72mDisney+Hulu