Attendees saw the highly acclaimed restoration of Nuremberg, the U.S. government’s long-suppressed 1948 documentary about the trial of top Nazi leaders.

One of the greatest courtroom dramas in history, Nuremberg shows how international prosecutors built their case using the Nazis’ own films and records. The trial established the “Nuremberg principles” — the foundation for all subsequent trials for crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. 

The film was introduced by Ambassador David Scheffer, the Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law and director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law. Ambassador Scheffer served as the first U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues (from 1997 to 2001) and led American initiatives on war crimes tribunals during the 1990s. He was selected by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the Top Global Thinkers of 2011 and is the author of All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals.

A post-screening discussion featured restoration producer Sandra Schulberg, daughter of Stuart Schulberg, the film’s original writer/director. Ms. Schulberg is a distinguished movie producer whose credits include the Oscar-nominated Quills, Undisputed, and Waiting for the Moon. A professor at Columbia University’s graduate film school and a longtime advocate of independent films, she founded IFP (now the largest organization of independent filmmakers in the U.S) and co-founded First Run Features.

The discussion focused on why U.S. officials banned the initial American release for political reasons, as revealed in documents unearthed by Sandra Schulberg and fellow scholars who are now unraveling the mysteries surrounding this historic film.

The Film is in English & German with English Subtitles.