TMDb7.6 / 10

Night Will Fall (2014)

Name: Night Will Fall
Director: André Singer
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2014-06-07
Duration: 75 min
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Jasper Britton, Toby Haggith, Richard Dimbleby, Winston Churchill

75 min · Denmark, United Kingdom · Dir. André Singer

Documentary

2014 movies

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".