The real-life Nuremberg trials in the aftermath of World War II have long provided fodder for film. Judgment at Nuremberg is the most famous cinematic attempt. That 1961 movie starred Spencer Tracy, ...

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Holocaust movies have become such a genre of their own that it is hard for them to find anything new to say. Yet directors keep trying — perhaps out of a sense of duty, or the assumed prestige of the ...