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American Experience: The Nuremberg Trials (2006)

ALL 01/30/2006 (en) Documentary, History, War 54 Min
  • Release
    01/30/2006
  • Production
    Spiegel TV, National Geographic, BR, GBH
  • Rotten tomato
    80%
  • Original title
    The Nuremberg Trials
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

One journalist described it as a chance "to see justice catch up with evil." On November 20, 1945, the twenty-two surviving representatives of the Nazi elite stood before an international military tribunal at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany; they were charged with the systematic murder of millions of people. The ensuing trial pitted U.S. chief prosecutor and Supreme Court judge Robert Jackson against Hermann Göring, the former head of the Nazi air force, whom Adolf Hitler had once named to be his successor. Jackson hoped that the trial would make a statement that crimes against humanity would never again go unpunished. Proving the guilt of the defendants, however, was more difficult than Jackson anticipated. This American Experience production draws upon rare archival material and eyewitness accounts to recreate the dramatic tribunal that defines trial procedure for state criminals to this day.

  1. Michael Kloft

    Director

  2. Story

  4. Michael Kloft

    Producer



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  1. Joe Morton

    Narrator (voice)

  2. Walter Cronkite

    Self

  3. Hermann Göring

    Self (archival footage)

  4. William Jackson

    Self

  5. Chris Dodd

    Self

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 5 , Crews : 13

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American Experience: The Nuremberg Trials (2006) 54 Min

ALL 01/30/2006 (en)
Documentary, History, War
  • Release 01/30/2006
  • Production
    Spiegel TV, National Geographic, BR, GBH
  • Original title The Nuremberg Trials
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

One journalist described it as a chance "to see justice catch up with evil." On November 20, 1945, the twenty-two surviving representatives of the Nazi elite stood before an international military tribunal at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany; they were charged with the systematic murder of millions of people. The ensuing trial pitted U.S. chief prosecutor and Supreme Court judge Robert Jackson against Hermann Göring, the former head of the Nazi air force, whom Adolf Hitler had once named to be his successor. Jackson hoped that the trial would make a statement that crimes against humanity would never again go unpunished. Proving the guilt of the defendants, however, was more difficult than Jackson anticipated. This American Experience production draws upon rare archival material and eyewitness accounts to recreate the dramatic tribunal that defines trial procedure for state criminals to this day.

  1. Michael Kloft

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Monika Finneisen, David Espar

    Editor

  4. Michael Kloft

    Producer



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