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Night Will Fall (2014)

NR ★ 7.6/10 75 min Documentary Denmark, United Kingdom English
Director: André Singer
Streaming: Not available

Description

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened. Making use of British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information’s Sidney Bernstein (later founder of Granada Television) aimed to create a documentary that would provide lasting, undeniable evidence of the Nazis’ unspeakable crimes. He commissioned a wealth of British talent, including editor Stewart McAllister, writer and future cabinet minister Richard Crossman – and, as treatment advisor, his friend Alfred Hitchcock. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US Governments, the film was shelved, and only now, 70 years on, has it been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums under its original title "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey".

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Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter Narrator (voice)
Jasper Britton
Jasper Britton Narrator (German Concentration Camps Factual Survey) (voice)
Toby Haggith Self - Imperial War Museums
Richard Dimbleby Self (archive photos/voice)
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill Self (archive photo)
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock Self (archive photos)
Sidney Bernstein Self (archive footage/photo)

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