Filmmakers for the Prosecution
The thrilling story of how motion pictures were used to convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial
In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collect filmed and recorded evidence of the horrors committed by the infamous Third Reich in order to prove Nazi war crimes during the Nuremberg trials (1945-46). The story of the making of Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, a paramount historic documentary, released in 1948.
- Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie
- Studio: Zadig Productions, KG Productions, Schulberg Productions, ARTE, Histoire TV, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah
- Keyword: war crimes, cinema on cinema, world war ii, nuremberg trials, nuremberg, germany, post world war ii, documentary filmmaking, film editor, 1940s, state crimes, based on magazine, newspaper or article, nazi war criminal, nazi crimes
- Cast: Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain, Sandra Schulberg, Sylvie Lindeperg, Eli Rosenbaum, Alexander Zöller, Stuart Liebmann