Güçlülerin gizli tutmak istediği hikâyeleri ortaya çıkarmaya adanmış bir kariyer... My Lai'dan Ebu Gureyb'e, gazeteci Seymour Hersh'ün çalışmalarına derinlemesine bir bakış atın.
When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened. Making use of British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information’s Sidney Bernstein (later founder of Granada Television) aimed to create a documentary that would provide lasting, undeniable evidence of the Nazis’ unspeakable crimes. He commissioned a wealth of British talent, including editor Stewart McAllister, writer and future cabinet minister Richard Crossman – and, as treatment advisor, his friend Alfred Hitchcock. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US Governments, the film was shelved, and only now, 70 years on, has it been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums under its original title "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey".
Bu belgesel film, The Dark Knight filmindeki “Joker” rolüyle, tarihin en ünlü performanslarından birine imza atan, genç yaşında evinde aşırı dozda uyuşturucu kullanımıyla ölü bulunan ve bu açıdan trajik bir ölüme sebep olan, 22 Ocak 2008'de zamansızca kaybettiğimiz Heath Ledger'ı daha önce hiç görülmemiş görüntüler eşliğinde anlatıyor. Film Heath Ledger'ı az veya çok tanıyan kişilerle röportajlara da yer veriyor. Arada oyuncunun hem kendi video kayıtları, hem de oynadığı sahnelerden de kurgulanmış dolu dolu bir belgesel.
“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe’s most murderous regime has never been told. Until now...