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Halfway to Hell

"Another dictator is on the way!"

Documentary of war atrocities with newsreel footage of concentration camps.

Top Cast

  • Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler

    Self (archive footage)

  • Benito Mussolini

    Benito Mussolini

    Self (archive footage)

  • Leon Trotsky

    Leon Trotsky

    Self (archive footage)

  • Czar Nicholas II of Russia

    Czar Nicholas II of Russia

    Self (archive footage)

  • Quentin Reynolds

    Quentin Reynolds

    Narrator

Overview

Documentary of war atrocities with newsreel footage of concentration camps.

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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".

Night Will Fall

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