Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
New York Film Festival Essentials
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1h 19m
Directed by Stuart Schulberg • Documentary • 1948 • US • English, German with English subtitles
Featuring Liev Schreiber
One of the greatest courtroom dramas in history, “Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today” shows how international prosecutors built their case against top Nazi war criminals using the Nazis’ own films and records. The trial established the “Nuremberg principles” for all subsequent cases of war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Restored in 2009, with newly recorded narration by Liev Schreiber.
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