Filmmakers for the Prosecution (2023)

The thrilling story of how motion pictures were used to convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial

In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collect filmed and recorded evidence of the horrors committed by the infamous Third Reich in order to prove Nazi war crimes during the Nuremberg trials (1945-46). The story of the making of Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, a paramount historic documentary, released in 1948.

Cast (44)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain

Self - Narrator (voice)

Sandra Schulberg

Self - Stuart Schulberg's Daughter

Sylvie Lindeperg

Self - Historian

Eli Rosenbaum

Self - Former US OSI Director

A

Alexander Zöller

Self - Film Researcher

Stuart Liebmann

Self - Film Historian

V

Victor Barbat

Self - Film Historian

Yves Beigbeder

Self - Nuremberg Judge Assistant

N

Niklas Frank

Self - Hans Frank's Son

A

Axel Fischer

Self - Nuremberg Trials Memorial Curator

F

Fabien Briche

Additional Voice (voice)

F

François Cognard

Additional Voice (voice)

I

Isabelle Miller

Additional Voice (voice)

Boris de Mourzitch

Additional Voice (voice)

G

Gérard Rouzier

Additional Voice (voice)

Rudolf Hess

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Hermann Göring

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Winston Churchill

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Harry S. Truman

Self - Politician (archive footage)

John Ford

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Budd Schulberg

Self - Film Researcher (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels

Self - Politician (archive footage)

R

Robert Jackson

Self - Nuremberg Prosecutor (archive footage)

H

Hjalmar Schacht

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Hans Frank

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Heinrich Hoffmann

Self - Photographer (archive footage)

J

Joseph Zigman

Self - Film Editor (archive footage)

A

Alfred Rosenberg

Self - Politician (archive footage)

S

Stuart Schulberg

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self - US Army GA (archive footage)

W

Wilhelm Keitel

Self - German Army FM (archive footage)

Joachim von Ribbentrop

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Erich Raeder

Self - Kriegsmarine Admiral (archive footage)

Karl Dönitz

Self - Kriegsmarine Admiral (archive footage)

Roman Karmen

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

F

Franz von Papen

Self - Politician (archive footage)

G

Geoffrey Lawrence

Self - Nuremberg Judge (archive footage)

F

Francis Biddle

Self - Nuremberg Judge (archive footage)

H

Henri Donnedieu de Vabres

Self - Nuremberg Judge (archive footage)

I

Iona Nikitchenko

Self - Nuremberg Judge (archive footage)

K

Kenneth Claiborne Royall

Self - Politician (archive footage)

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