Summaries

The history of the Final Solution phase of the Nazi Holocaust, particularly with the most infamous of the death camps.

An in-depth visual and verbal account of one of the most notorious episodes of World War 2. Using location shots and combining CGI, for a 3-D realism, this is a documentary, through a timeline, showing its conception, ideals, horrors and liberation of the Death Camp that is Auschwitz and its role in "The Final Solution". Using reconstructions of key events by actors playing major Nazi hierarchical roles and real interviews from parties of all sides; ex-prisoners, old Schutzstaffel (SS) members and witnesses. Using archive footage conjoined with reflective, contemporary imagery it is a vivid and thorough historical telling of the atrocities of a political ideology that gave nothing but fear and death.—Cinema_Fan

Details

Keywords
  • nazi
  • holocaust
  • war crime
  • anti semitism
  • crime against humanity
Genres
  • History
  • War
  • Documentary
Release date Jan 10, 2005
Countries of origin United States United Kingdom
Official sites PBS official site
Language English
Filming locations Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland
Production companies British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) KCET

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Tech specs

Runtime 48m
Color Color Black and White
Sound mix Stereo
Aspect ratio 1.78 : 1

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