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Night Will Fall (2014) When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries

Night Will Fall (2014)

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".

Cast:
Narrator: Helena Bonham Carter
Narrator for German Concentration Camps Factual Survey: Jasper Britton
Self - Royal Artillery: Leonard Berney
Self - Oxfordshire Yeomanry: George Leonard
Self - Commandant, Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp: Josef Kramer
Self - Bergen-Belsen Survivor: Malina Salinger
Self - Army Cameraman, 1981: Mike Lewis
Self - British Army Photographer: Bill Lawrie
Self: George S. Patton
Self - Broadcaster: David Dimbleby
Self - United States Holocaust Museum, 1995-2013: Raye Farr
Self - Imperial War Museums: Kay Gladstone
Self - British Army Gunner: James William Illingworth
Self - Soviet Cameraman, 1986: Alexander Voronstov
Self - Soviet 8th Guards Army: Matvey Gershman
Self - Auschwitz Survivor: Tomy Shacham
Self - U.S. Cameraman: Arthur Mainzer
Self - Film Editor: Peter Tanner
Self - US Army General: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self - 1984: Sidney Bernstein
Self - U.S. Third Army: Benjamin Ferencz

Written by: Lynette Singer

Director: André Singer

Production: Spring Films, Final Cut for Real

Release date: 05 Dec 2014
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