Night Will Fall (2014)

Directed by

André Singer

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 15m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 88 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the story of a 1945 film about Nazi concentration camps that was never finished. It explains how combat cameramen and Alfred Hitchcock helped create the original footage. The film finally got completed in 2014.

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What happens

Night Will Fall is a 2014 documentary film directed by Andre Singer that chronicles the production of the 1945 British government documentary German Concentration Camps Factual Survey, which showed gruesome scenes from newly liberated Nazi concentration camps. The 1945 documentary, which was based on the work of combat cameramen serving with the armed forces and newsreel footage, was produced by Sidney Bernstein, then a British government official, with participation by Alfred Hitchcock. It languished in British archives for nearly seven decades before being completed in 2014. About 12 minutes of footage in the 75-minute Night Will Fall is from the earlier documentary. The title of the film was derived from a line of narration written for 1945 documentary: "Unless the world learns the lesson these pictures teach, night will fall." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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