"Nuremberg, November 20, 1945--The trials of Nazi war criminals begins in a city still in ruins, barely six months after the Germans' surrender. The United States, France, Great Britain and the USSR unite to deliver exemplary justice in response to crimes against peace and, for the first time in history, to "crimes against humanity". On the accused bench sit 21 of the highest Nazi dignitaries, including Hermann Göring, Rudolph Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Wilhelm Keitel. They all plead not guilty, although the "atrocities" committed are tremendous. As evidence, films of the liberation of the concentration camps would be screened, an unprecedented move, during the proceedings. Evidence is presented, confrontations arise, testimonies of executioners and victims are heard. After 10 months of hearings, the verdict is rendered: 12 defendants sentenced to death penalties, including one in absentia, seven sentenced to prison and three acquitted. Thus ends the trial that paved the way for the creation of international tribunals."--Container.

Includes both original French and English versions.

Oroginally produced in 2006.

Courtroom footage filmed by Field Photographic Branch of the Office of Strategic Services under the supervision of John Ford.

Special features include three documentary newsreels from the US and USSR, 1945-46.

Editor, Stéphane Huter; camera, François Dagenais; narrators: Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus (French version), Christopher Plummer (English version).

Interviewees: Benjamin B. Ferencz, Ernst Michel, Budd Schulberg, Richard W. Sonnenfeldt.

DVD (regions 1 to 6, NTSC format), aspect ratio 4:3; Dolby digital.

French, English, German and Russian, with French subtitles (French version) or English subtitles (English version)

Disc 1. French and English versions of the film

disc 2. That justice be done / produced by the Field Photographic Branch of the Office of Strategic Services (1945, 10 min.) ; Nazi concentration camps / [Office of Strategic Services; Army Signal Corps] (1945, 58 min.) ; Kinodokumenty o zverstvakh nemet︠s︡ko-fashistskikh zakhvatchikov : predstavli︠a︡etsi︠a︡ glavnym obvinitelem ot SSSR = The atrocities committed by the German-fascists in the USSR / T︠S︡entralʹnai︠a︡ studii︠a︡ dokumentalʹnykh filʹmov (1946, 60 min.)