Judgment at Nuremberg: 1961 Hollywood Version – Film History Livestream

Judgment at Nuremberg: 1961 Hollywood Version – Film History Livestream
We invite you to join us for a film history analysis, discussion and screening of “Judgement at Nuremberg.”
Our program coincides with International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday, January 27, 2022.
The first portion of our two-part film history livestream program will be a brief overview of the Nuremberg trails. We’ll also analyze and discuss “Judgment at Nuremberg” and provide an overview of the film including historical context, plot summary, accuracy, things to look for, etc.
The second portion of our program will be a full screening of the film “Judgment at Nuremberg.”
Please note that there are two separate but related programs:
1959 Teleplay Version
The original but lesser-known television version, originally broadcast on Playhouse 90.
Sunday, January 9 – 4:00 PM EST (Washington, DC time)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/judgment-at-nuremberg-1959-teleplay-version-film-history-livestream-tickets-232970670547
1961 Film Version
The later, better-known, Hollywood version.
Saturday, January 15 – 4:00 PM EST (Washington, DC time)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/judgment-at-nuremberg-1961-hollywood-version-film-history-livestream-tickets-232974953357
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Judgment at Nuremberg (1959) was an American television play broadcast live on April 16, 1959, as part of the CBS television series, Playhouse 90. It was a courtroom drama written by Abby Mann and directed by George Roy Hill that depicts the trial of four German judicial officials as part of the Nuremberg trials. Claude Rains starred as the presiding judge with Maximilian Schell as the defense attorney, Melvyn Douglas as the prosecutor, and Paul Lukas as the former German Minister of Justice.
Set in Nuremberg, Germany in 1948, the teleplay depicts a fictionalized version of the Judges’ Trial of 1947, one of the 12 U.S. military tribunals during the Subsequent Nuremberg trials. Many consider the Judges’ Trial to be one of the most significant and noteworthy of the Nuremberg trials.
The film centers on a military tribunal led by Chief Trial Judge Dan Haywood, before which four German judges and prosecutors (as compared to 16 defendants in the actual Judges’ Trial) stand accused of crimes against humanity for their involvement in atrocities committed under the Nazi regime. The story deals with non-combatant war crimes against a civilian population, the Holocaust, and examines the post-World War II geopolitical complexity of the actual Nuremberg Trials.
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) is an American courtroom drama film directed by Stanley Kramer, written by Abby Mann and starring Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, William Shatner, and Montgomery Clift.
The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals held following World War II by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war. The trials were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany, who planned, carried out, or otherwise participated in the Holocaust and other war crimes. The trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany, and their decisions marked a turning point between classical and contemporary international law.
The first and best known of the trials was that of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal (IMT). It was described as “the greatest trial in history” by Sir Norman Birkett, one of the British judges present throughout. Held between 20 November 1945 and 1 October 1946, the Tribunal was given the task of trying 24 of the most important political and military leaders of the Third Reich. Primarily treated here is the first trial, conducted by the International Military Tribunal. Further trials of lesser war criminals were conducted under Control Council Law No. 10 at the U.S. Nuremberg Military Tribunal (NMT), which included the Doctors’ trial and the Judges’ Trial.
The categorization of the crimes and the constitution of the court represented a juridical advance that would be followed afterward by the United Nations for the development of an international jurisprudence in matters of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and wars of aggression, and led to the creation of the International Criminal Court. For the first time in international law, the Nuremberg indictments also mention genocide (count three, war crimes: “the extermination of racial and national groups, against the civilian populations of certain occupied territories to destroy particular races and classes of people and national, racial, or religious groups, particularly Jews, Poles, and Gypsies and others.”)
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