Cameramen from Britain's Army Film Unit capture footage of concentration camps in German in 1945.Cameramen from Britain's Army Film Unit capture footage of concentration camps in German in 1945.Cameramen from Britain's Army Film Unit capture footage of concentration camps in German in 1945.
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Adolf Hitler
- Self
- (archive footage)
Sidney Bernstein
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Richard Crossman(1945 original production team)
- Colin Wills(1945 original production team)
- Alfred Hitchcock
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- TriviaOriginally shot in 1945, the project took longer than expected to complete, and eventually five of the film's six reels were left, abandoned, in the Imperial War Museum and forgotten. The footage was discovered decades later, and shown in an incomplete version at the Berlin Film Festival in 1984, and then broadcast on American PBS in 1985 under the title Memory of the Camps (1984).
- ConnectionsEdited from Frontline: Memory of the Camps (1984)
Featured review
Horror of the camps exposed
This is a truly outstanding film. What it achieves is a true glimpse of the horror of man's inhumanity to man. We cannot truly understand the full extent of the evils perpetrated by the Nazi war machine, totally devoid of a speck of human compassion, and what went on day by day over years of the most vile persecution. This documentary tells us what the filmmakers found when they went to Belsen, Dachau etc. This glimpse in itself is mind numbing. What must it have been like to live through it? We can only imagine.
The tortured souls in this film look like they were in "hell on earth". In fact, I would never have imagined hell being this brutalizing. The emaciated bodies, sunken eyes, glazed looks of men, women and children staggering around speaks for itself. This must never happen again. Yet, we know that unimaginable brutality still goes on around the world today. Maybe not as organized and efficient as the war machine in this film but the twisted and hateful minds of human beings is still at work in this world.
This film needs to be shown. Some would object to the graphic pictures on the screen but this is what the Allied forces found when the arrived. Modern film makers could never reproduce evil on this scale.
This is not a spoiler because most of us know what happened. What we need is a reminder of how false prophets can lead a people to such atrocities. The opening scenes show huge crowds cheering on Hitler and his party. This led 12 years later to the abominations that were suffered by Jews, clergy, dissidents, homosexuals and others not deemed to fit the plan a master race. Excellent film. We should all watch it.
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- barryrd
- Jul 12, 2020
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- Memorias de los campos
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- Gross US & Canada
- $4,468
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,000
- Jan 8, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $4,468
- Runtime1 hour 10 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 1.37 : 1
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