Night Will Fall
2014 · 75 MIN · IMDB 8.0 · 3,557 VOTES · DIR. André Singer
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".
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00:02:01 With World War II in Europe drawing to a close
00:05:39 of an extraordinary documentary produced
00:08:24 they said, "Be calm, be calm, be calm.
00:11:33 sort of piled up.
00:14:22 Dead bodies, some of them in decay
00:16:54 by the British cameramen reveal every level of humanity
00:19:50 Some of the Germans we brought in to be filmed
00:22:50 and I know personally what I'm fighting for.
00:29:11 Even the teeth were taken out of their mouths
00:32:17 in the crowd.
00:36:48 were coming to light.
00:39:50 Um...putrid.
00:43:54 Some of the visitors did not care for the sight
00:46:23 None of us wanted a break
00:50:18 Alfred Hitchcock was an eminent director
00:53:23 and I was thinking, "I'm in heaven."
00:56:20 for the completion of the film.
00:58:44 eats well, breathes deeply
01:01:13 And so now of course I am in heaven.
01:03:30 As the nation most heavily involved in the task
01:05:44 in their own sector.
01:09:30 "out of their apathy
01:12:06 At the IMT, I think there's no question that people
55:00:00 died because of this place.