In 2001 Lee Lee Sobieski starred in the made for television movie Uprising. This was one of her most acclaimed performances earning Lee Lee a Golden Globe nomination for the Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film. Uprising was made in 2001 and is a war/drama movie about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. This film was directed by Jon Avnet, and written by Jon Avent and Paul Brickman. Filming took place in Bratislava, Slovakia and Austria.

Uprising is the story of Polish people of the Jewish faith who were imprisoned by the German army. This is the remarkable story of how these people rose up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Germans in 1943.

Lee Lee plays the role of Tova Altman. Tova or Toshia Altman lived from 1918 to 1943. Tova worked with Mordechai Anielewicz as a member of the ZOB during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The ZOB was an organized resistance movement. The ZOB was instrumental in the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Tova was initially a courier for the ZOB, making contact with other Jewish resistance groups that were outside the Ghetto. She passed on messages providing them with updates on clashes and educational material that had been banned by the Germans. Tova was a critical link in helping to smuggle weapons and explosives into the Ghetto. After escaping capture in January of 1943, she moved into the ZOB bunker at 18 Mila Street. She is one of the few who survive a battle on the 8th of May that year. The bunker is abandoned and Nordechai Anielewicz is killed.

Tova is wounded in the leg and in the head. She is able to join a group of resistance fighters who were able to make a daring escape from the Ghetto through the sewers on May 10th 1943. There are around seventy five in this group of fighters. Tova Altman is captured by the Nazis on May 24th. She had been taking refuge in a celluloid factory when it caught on fire. Tova suffers severe burns and is taken into custody by the Gestapo. Not long after her capture Tova dies, she received no medical treatment from her German captures.