What They Found

Duration: 36'12''

Synopsis

A documentary directed by Sam Mendes, reliving the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. By immersing audiences in their eyewitness accounts through the footage they shot, married with audio interviews (recorded by the Imperial War Museum in the 1980s) describing their experiences in detail, the film becomes an intimate and personal record of two ordinary men's defining experience of the war and, through them, of the profound trauma and tragedy of the Holocaust.

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