Belsen: What They Found
Directed by Sam Mendes, this is the story of two soldier-cameramen, Sgt Mike Lewis and Sgt Bill Lawrie, who witnessed the liberation of Belsen during the closing days of World War II.
Directed by Sam Mendes, this is the story of two soldier-cameramen, Sgt Mike Lewis and Sgt Bill Lawrie, who witnessed the liberation of Belsen during the closing days of World War II.
By immersing audiences in their eyewitness accounts through the footage they shot, married with audio interviews (recorded by the Imperial War Museum in the 1980s) describing their experiences in detail, the film becomes an intimate and personal record of two ordinary men’s defining experience of the war and, through them, of the profound trauma and tragedy of the Holocaust.
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"Belsen was something different"
Duration: 01:13
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Director | Sam Mendes |
Executive Producer | Simon Chinn |
Executive Producer | Jonathan Chinn |
Executive Producer | Pippa Harris |
Executive Producer | Caro Howell |
Executive Producer | Vicky Stanbury |
Executive Producer | David Baddiel |
Producer | Gaby Aung |
Composer | Hybrid |
Editor | Andy Worboys |
Production Company | Lightbox Media Limited |
Broadcasts
- Mon 7 Apr 2025 22:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two except Northern Ireland & Northern Ireland HD
- Mon 7 Apr 2025 23:10ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two Northern Ireland & Northern Ireland HD only
- Fri 11 Apr 2025 01:20
- Mon 5 May 2025 23:05
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