Siege (1940)
- Directed by
- Julien Bryan
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 11 min
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 15 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This short documentary shows the German siege of Warsaw in 1939. It records the destruction of the city and the suffering of its people.
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What happens
Siege is a 1940 documentary short about the Siege of Warsaw by the Wehrmacht at the start of World War II. It was shot by Julien Bryan, a Pennsylvanian photographer and cameraman who later established the International Film Foundation. Siege was nominated for an Oscar for Best One-reel Short at the 13th Academy Awards in 1941, and, in 2006, it was named to the National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress as "a unique, horrifying record of the dreadful brutality of war". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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