Genres
Production Companies
Final Cut for Real
Night Will Fall
Overview
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".
Key Crew
Director: André Singer
Writer: Lynette Singer
Producer: Brett Ratner, Stephen Frears, Sally Angel, Philippa Kowarski, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Evelyn Wenzel
Top Cast
Helena Bonham Carter
Narrator (voice)
Jasper Britton
Narrator (German Concentration Camps Factual Survey) (voice)
Toby Haggith
Self - Imperial War Museums
Sidney Bernstein
Self - 1984 (archive footage)
Alfred Hitchcock
Self (archive footage)
Billy Wilder
Self (archive footage)
George S. Patton
Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)
Videos
Night Will Fall (2014) Trailer | BFI release
