Night Will Fall

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944–45, their harrowing discoveries were captured by army and newsreel cameramen, offering the first public glimpse of the full horror of the atrocities committed. Using British, Soviet, and American footage, the Ministry of Information’s Sidney Bernstein (later founder of Granada Television) sought to produce a documentary that would serve as enduring, irrefutable evidence of the Nazis’ crimes. He enlisted a range of British talent, including editor Stewart McAllister, writer and future cabinet minister Richard Crossman, and, as treatment advisor, his friend Alfred Hitchcock. Despite initial backing from the British and U.S. governments, the film was ultimately shelved. Now, 70 years later, it has been restored and completed by the Imperial War Museums under its original title, *German Concentration Camps Factual Survey*.