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Review: The powerful 'Filmmakers for the Prosecution' shows how cinema held Nazi war criminals to account

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and chief American prosecutor Robert H. Jackson and Soviet Assistant Prosecutor General Uri Pokrovsky listen to the legal proceedings in Room 600 at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg during the trial against leading Nazi figures for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the International...

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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