Night Will Fall (DVD)

Product Description

NIGHT WILL FALL (DVD)
A film by André Singer

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army cameramen, revealing for the first time the horror of what had happened

Using British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information's Sidney Bernstein collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock to make a film that would provide evidence of the Nazi's unspeakable crimes. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US governments, the film was shelved. In this compelling documentary by André Singer (executive producer, The Act of Killing), the full story of the filming of the camps and the e of Bernstein's project, which has now been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums, can finally be told.

Special features

• Original trailer
• Death Mills (Hanus Burger and Billy Wilder, 1946, 22 mins): US propaganda film about the Nazi concentration camps
• Oswiecim (Auschwitz) (1945, 22 mins): Russian propaganda film
• Belsen Death Camp Leaders Meet Justice (1945, 2 mins): short newsreel about the Nuremberg trials
• Night Will Fall-Panel Discussion (2014, 13 mins)
• An Interview with Dr Jeremy Hicks at Auschwitz Concentration Camp (2014, 24 mins)
• An Interview with Professor Rainer Schulze at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp (2014, 28 mins)
• An Interview with Professor David Cesarani at Buchewald Concentration Camp (2014, 25 mins)
• An Interview with Caroline Moorehead (2014, 13 mins)
• Stills gallery
• Illustrated booklet with full credits and essays

UK, Germany, France, Israel, USA, Denmark | 2014 | colour, and black & white | Hebrew and Russian, with optional English subtitles, English hard-of-hearing subtitles | optional audio description track | original aspect ratio 1.78:1 | 75 minutes | DVD9 | Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo audio and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround audio | Cert 15 (footage of real Holocaust victims | Region 2 DVD

Review

The hell of the Holocaust rises again in this remarkable account of how Britain's army film unit commissioned producer Sidney Bernstein to make a documentary record of the Nazi death camps.***** --Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

It is tough but compelling viewing. Singer's take is unflinching. ***** --Kate Muir, The Times

This is a shocking and moving account of how the Bernstein documentary was , edited and shelved.***** --Geoffrey Macnab, Independent