A Night at the Garden (2018)

Directed by

Marshall Curry

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

7 min

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 62 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short documentary uses archival footage to show a 1939 Nazi rally held inside Madison Square Garden in New York City. It focuses on the speech given by the rally's leader and the crowd's reaction.

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What happens

A Night at the Garden is a 2017 short documentary film about the 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The film was directed by Marshall Curry from footage found by archival producer Rich Remsberg, and was produced by Laura Poitras and Charlotte Cook with Field of Vision. The seven-minute film is composed entirely of archival footage and features a speech from Fritz Julius Kuhn, the leader of the German American Bund, in which antisemitic and pro white-Christian sentiments are espoused. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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