There are plenty of well-known Oscar-winning World War 2 films from Saving Private Ryan to Oppenheimer.

But a lesser-known 1959 classic is the biopic The Diary of Anne Frank, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name.

The latter was based on the posthumously published diary of a German-born Jewish girl who hid with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam in a secret annexe.

George Stevens, who directed Millie Perkins as Anne Frank, had previously been involved in filming evidence of concentration camps during the war.

Anne’s father, Otto Frank, went on to publish her diaries after his entire family was murdered in the Holocaust.

The film would go on to win three Oscars, including Best Supporting Actress for Winters. She would later donate her Academy Award to the Anne Frank Museum.

The Diary of Anne Frank is on BBC Two today at 11:45am and will be streaming on BBC iPlayer for a limited time afterwards.