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Night Will Fall

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United Kingdom · 2014
1h 53m
Director André Singer
Starring Helena Bonham Carter, Jasper Britton, Toby Haggith, Sidney Bernstein
Genre Documentary

In 1945, the British Government commissioned a newsreel about the horrifying scenes from the recently liberated Nazi concentration camps, but upon its completion, it languished in British archives for nearly seven decades. In this documentary, researchers chronicle the making of the 1945 newsreel and detail the labor involved in its recovery and restoration.

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80

Total Film by

The footage – discoveries made by the Allies in the liberated Nazi camps during 1945 – is graphic, terrible, unforgettable.

90

Variety by Alissa Simon

Night not only conveys the almost unbelievable atrocities captured by the Russian, American and British camera teams and photographers, but also highlights the dedication of the team determined to document and disseminate this evidence and the changing policies of those in charge of postwar reconstruction.

80

CineVue by Daniel Green

A harrowing but necessary insight into what the first Allied troops met as they stumbled upon the nightmare of the Holocaust.

80

Time Out London by Dave Calhoun

The original footage – devastatingly intimate; familiar yet alien – still stops us in our tracks more than six decades later.

75

The Playlist by Kevin Jagernauth

As Night Will Fall shows, even in the darkest hour, sometimes the greatest heroes are those willing to stare bravely into humanity's worst depths and tell the world what happened.

70

The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Dalton

Inevitably harrowing and sickening in places, but with tender and uplifting moments, Night Will Fall is a somber treatment of a serious topic which earns its place in the broad pantheon of Holocaust-themed cinema. It is just a shame that Singer's worthy memorial feels a little too small for its world-shaking theme and world-famous cast list.

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