Night Will Fall (2014)

Plot Summary

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened. Making use of British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information’s Sidney Bernstein (later founder of Granada Television) aimed to create a documentary that would provide lasting, undeniable evidence of the Nazis’ unspeakable crimes. He commissioned a wealth of British talent, including editor Stewart McAllister, writer and future cabinet minister Richard Crossman – and, as treatment advisor, his friend Alfred Hitchcock. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US Governments, the film was shelved, and only now, 70 years on, has it been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums under its original title "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey".

Full Cast & Characters

Helena Bonham Carter

Narrator (voice)

Jasper Britton

Narrator (German Concentration Camps Factual Survey) (voice)

Toby Haggith

Self - Imperial War Museums

Richard Dimbleby

Self (archive photos/voice)

Winston Churchill

Self (archive photo)

Alfred Hitchcock

Self (archive photos)

Sidney Bernstein

Self (archive footage/photo)

Director & Crew

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