On 29 September 1945, the incomplete rough-cut of a disturbing yet compelling documentary revealing the horrors of the German concentration camps was screened at the Ministry of Information in London. For five months, Sidney Bernstein led a small team – which included Stewart McAllister, Richard Crossman and Alfred Hitchcock – to complete the film from hours of footage.
Unfortunately, this ambitious Allied project to create a feature-length visual report that would damn the Nazi regime had missed its moment, and was left unfinished and shelved. Even in its incomplete form, the film was immensely powerful, generating a shocked silence among audiences. But now, complete to six reels, this faithfully restored and definitive version has been produced by Imperial War Museums with a newly recorded narration by actor Jasper Britton.
Cert 18 - 3 disc dual format, contains both DVD & Blu-ray versions.
72 mins (+ extras)
Region 0
Subtitles: English hard-of-hearing, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Russian.