The courtroom where fascism met its verdict — and international law was born.
The Nuremberg trials started in 1945 and marked a milestone in the establishment of international law. The images of high-ranking Nazis in the dock are seared into our collective memory. The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals staged by the Allies after World War Two. The first and best-known trial ended in October 1946 with the sentencing to death of 12 high-ranking Nazis.
Direction
Kloft's restraint lets the footage speak.
Editing
Seamless weave of then and now.
Director
Michael Kloft
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The trials were filmed in 1945-46 using early synchronous sound — revolutionary for documentary evidence, and directly enabling this film's archival clarity.
Director Michael Kloft specializes in 'Führer documentaries' — this forms a trilogy with his films on Hitler's private life and Nazi propaganda, suggesting an obsession with how evil bureaucratizes itself into the everyday.
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