Night Will Fall
- Documentary
Overview
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".
Keywords
- world war ii
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 7, 2014
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Denmark, United Kingdom
- Production
- Final Cut for Real,Spring Films
- Cast
- Toby Haggith,Winston Churchill,Alfred Hitchcock,Richard Dimbleby,Jasper Britton,Sidney Bernstein,Helena Bonham Carter
- Director
- André Singer
- Writer
- Lynette Singer
- Producer
- Stephen Frears,James Packer,Evelyn Wenzel,Brett Ratner,Philippa Kowarski,Signe Byrge Sørensen,Sally Angel,Richard Melman
- Music
- Nicholas Singer
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt3455822