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Night Will Fall

Film2014

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Director
André Singer
Language
English
Released
2014-06-07
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7.689 votes on TMDB

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6.7

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The story

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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Cast

  • Helena Bonham Carter
    Helena Bonham CarterNarrator (voice)
  • Jasper Britton
    Jasper BrittonNarrator (German Concentration Camps Factual Survey) (voice)
  • Toby Haggith — artwork unavailable
    Toby HaggithSelf - Imperial War Museums
  • Richard Dimbleby — artwork unavailable
    Richard DimblebySelf (archive photos/voice)
  • Winston Churchill
    Winston ChurchillSelf (archive photo)
  • Alfred Hitchcock
    Alfred HitchcockSelf (archive photos)
  • Sidney Bernstein — artwork unavailable
    Sidney BernsteinSelf (archive footage/photo)