I have known of this
movie’s existence for the past 2 months and have been waiting for a chance to
see it and have finally got that chance to see sections of it today. I have
just watched and sat through a documentary composed by Channel 4 which lasted
for 1 hour, 14 minutes and 52 seconds named ‘Holocaust – Night Will Fall’. The
footage used with in this documentary was gathered from a collection which was
used by Sidney Bernstein and Alfred Hitchcock which were going to be used for
the production of a movie named ‘German concentration camps factual survey’. As
I sit here writing this, I have streams of tears cascading down my face and a
sense of overwhelming hatred for those who caused the suffering and torture to
their fellow men, women and children. I have witnessed only a few strongly
upsetting moments in my life, possibly one of the worst when I was 10, but this
may be possibly some of the most haunting and harrowing footage I will ever see
in my life and has brought back memories of what I have witnessed. The only way
I will ever see any worse than this is to either watch the whole of the
original movie detailed with in the documentary or to have witnessed all of the
atrocities which have been shown with in this educational film by channel 4 in
real life. I would strongly suggest and recommend that only those with a strong
mental and physiological state of mind watch this and that strong parental
guidance is used for watching this documentary. Also all those who are suffering
emotional difficulties at this moment in time, strong or weak, should strongly
question whether they will able to watch this documentary without causing even
more trauma. The whole way throughout this educational film, there are
extremely upsetting scenes which show images of death, suffering and torture with some of the worst towards the end of the documentary. Despite
all I have said above, if you do have a desire to watch it, even the slightest
and feel as if you are able to watch this without it causing any strong
emotional distress, I strongly recommend doing so as it shows the horrors of
war and how cruel and barbaric the human race can be. That being said, this is
just one extreme example of how barbaric the human race can be and should only
be used a lesson not to follow in the same footsteps.
Thank you for reading
this through until the end. If you do decide to watch this movie and do feel
any emotional distress while watching this.
Below I have attached a link to Channel 4's 'Holocaust – Night Will Fall' on 4od:
Also here is a link to the Metro newspaper webpage detailing what others thought of the whole documentary after watching it for the first time:
If you are at all trouble by this film documentary after watching, please contact the good samatrians via there website or phone. details to do so are on their website:
