Night Will Fall
2014, Film, 75 min, Documentary, History, War, English, United Kingdom, MoviePedia score 71
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".
Directed by André Singer
Cast
- Helena Bonham Carter as Narrator
- Jasper Britton as Narrator for German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
- Leonard Berney as Self - Royal Artillery
- George Leonard as Self - Oxfordshire Yeomanry
- Anita Lasker-Wallfisch as Self - Bergen-Belsen Survivor
- David Dimbleby as Self - Broadcaster
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