Filmmakers for the Prosecution

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.

Documentary History TV Movie

Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain

(Self - Narrator (voice))

Sandra Schulberg

(Self - Stuart Schulberg's Daughter)

Sylvie Lindeperg

(Self - Historian)

Eli Rosenbaum

(Self - Former US OSI Director)

Alexander Zöller

(Self - Film Researcher)

Stuart Liebmann

(Self - Film Historian)

Victor Barbat

(Self - Film Historian)

Yves Beigbeder

(Self - Nuremberg Judge Assistant)

Niklas Frank

(Self - Hans Frank's Son)

Axel Fischer

(Self - Nuremberg Trials Memorial Curator)

Fabien Briche

(Additional Voice (voice))

François Cognard

(Additional Voice (voice))

Isabelle Miller

(Additional Voice (voice))

Boris de Mourzich

(Additional Voice (voice))

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))

Robert Jackson

(Self - Nuremberg Prosecutor (archive footage))

Hjalmar Schacht

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Hans Frank

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Heinrich Hoffmann

(Self - Photographer (archive footage))

Joseph Zigman

(Self - Film Editor (archive footage))

Alfred Rosenberg

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Stuart Schulberg

(Self - Filmmaker (archive footage))

Dwight D. Eisenhower

(Self - US Army GA (archive footage))

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))

Franz von Papen

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Geoffrey Lawrence

(Self - Nuremberg Judge (archive footage))

Francis Biddle

(Self - Nuremberg Judge (archive footage))

Henri Donnedieu de Vabres

(Self - Nuremberg Judge (archive footage))

Iona Nikitchenko

(Self - Nuremberg Judge (archive footage))

Kenneth Claiborne Royall

(Self - Politician (archive footage))