Night Will Fall

Synopsis

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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When & where

Streaming TBA

Top of the call sheet

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  Helena Bonham Carter
  as Narrator (voice)
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  Jasper Britton
  as Narrator (German Concentration Camps Factual Survey) (voice)
• T
  Toby Haggith
  as Self - Imperial War Museums
• R
  Richard Dimbleby
  as Self (archive photos/voice)
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  Winston Churchill
  as Self (archive photo)
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  Alfred Hitchcock
  as Self (archive photos)

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