Hi this is Steve. We take it as axiomatic that those who fail to study history are

doomed to repeat it, but sometimes that study means seeing things in the world and

even in ourselves that we might prefer stay hidden.

As a lieutenant in World War II, Stanley Kramer

was among the first Americans to see film

from the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps.

Those images haunted him and deeply influenced the filmmaker

he would become. You see, Kramer had a profound belief in the power of film to explore difficult

issues like race, evolution, class, and war.

Fifteen years after World War II, Kramer had become an incredibly successful producer

and director, but those images he had seen of naked corpses, piles of suitcases, and showers designed to kill, not clean, still haunted him.

He knew the easiest thing to do would be to simply dismiss the Holocaust as a monstrous act of pure evil.

But he couldn't do that.

Because the most frightening thing for Stanley Kramer was the possibility that at their core,

the German people were just like us.

And so in 1961, Kramer assembled an all-star cast

asked two simple questions.

How did ordinary, even moral people allow this to happen? And what responsibility

did those people have for some of the greatest criminal acts in history? With a cast that includes Spencer Tracy, Bert Lancaster, Richard Whitmark, Maximilian Shell,

Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, Marlina Dietrich, and even a young William Shatner,

judgment at Nuremberg is a powerful, thought-provoking,

and in my opinion very important film for everyone to watch and to think about.

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