Review: The powerful 'Filmmakers for the Prosecution' shows how cinema held Nazi war criminals to account
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Feb 06, 2023
3 minutes
In 1945, as Europe smoldered and the world waited for justice, the American brothers and military veterans Budd and Stuart Schulberg embarked on the most difficult and important assignment of their lives. Their mission, handed to them by the Office of Strategic Services, was to track down filmed evidence of German war atrocities, which would be used in the prosecution of Nazi defendants at the Nuremberg trials. Both brothers would go on to careers in film and television — Budd as the
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