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. This eloquent lucid documentary by André Singer (executive producer of the award-winning The Act of Killing) tells the extraordinary story of the filming of the camps and the fate of Bernstein’s project using original archive footage and eyewitness testimonies. Features: Q&A with André Singer Sally Angel Toby Haggith and David Cesarani (2014 13 minutes): filmed at the BFI Southbank Interviews with historians (2014): Jeremy Hicks at Auschwitz David Cesarani at Buchenwald and Rainer Schulze at Belsen Survivor interviews (2014) On Reflection (2014): featurette revisiting German Concentration Camps Factual Survey Caroline Moorehead interview on the rediscovery of German Concentration Camps Factual Survey footage in 1985 Interview with Dr Toby Haggith IWM’s Senior Curator Archive films: Death Mills (Billy Wilder 1945 22 mins); Oswiecem aka Auschwitz (1945 21 mins); Belsen Death Camp Leaders Meet Justice (1945 1 min) Stills gallery Booklet with new essays and complete film credits NB. All extras TBC and subject to potential change [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army cameramen, revealing for the first time the horror of what had happened Using British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information's Sidney Bernstein collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock to make a film that would provide evidence of the Nazi's unspeakable crimes. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US governments, the film was shelved. In this compelling documentary by André Singer (executive producer, The Act of Killing), the full story of the filming of the camps and the fate of Bernstein's project, which has now been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums, can finally be told. Special features Original trailer Death Mills (Hanus Burger and Billy Wilder, 1946, 22 mins): US propaganda film about the Nazi concentration camps Oswiecim (Auschwitz) (1945, 22 mins): Russian propaganda film Belsen Death Camp Leaders Meet Justice (1945, 2 mins): short newsreel about the Nuremberg trials Night Will Fall-Panel Discussion (2014, 13 mins) An Interview with Dr Jeremy Hicks at Auschwitz Concentration Camp (2014, 24 mins) An Interview with Professor Rainer Schulze at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp (2014, 28 mins) An Interview with Professor David Cesarani at Buchewald Concentration Camp (2014, 25 mins) An Interview with Caroline Moorehead (2014, 13 mins) Stills gallery Illustrated booklet with full credits and essays
Documentary about the making of a 1945 film by director Alfred Hitchcock about the liberation of Europe by Allied forces. Commissioned by Sidney Bernstein, chief of the Psychological Warfare section of the Supreme Headquarters of Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), the film looks deep into what went on in the infamous German concentration camps. As it was deemed unsuitable to show at the time, it was stored away in the vaults of the Imperial War Museum (IWM) and found 40 years later by an American researcher. Now, fully restored by the IWM's Dr Toby Haggith, the footage is ready to be shown to audiences and this documentary tells the story of the lost film.
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