Night and Fog

Night and Fog is a French documentary directed by Alain Resnais which depicts the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps in Europe. Filmed ten years after the end of the war, it fluctuates between scenes of abandoned death camps and depictions of the atrocities committed during the reign of Adolf Hitler.

The documentary does not censor the inhumane treatment of prisoners in the concentration camps, including images of gas chambers and mounds of corpses, as well as scenes of unethical medical and scientific experiments, rape, and executions carried out on those imprisoned.

Praised for its harsh honesty, Night and Fog remains a critically acclaimed documentary that acknowledges the horrors of war and the lengths to which the Nazis went to achieve what they believed to be the Final Solution of purifying the human race. The film concludes with the discovery of the camps and the liberation of those still left alive.