What They Found on SBS and SBS on Demand – Directed by Oscar-winner Sam Mendes, this powerful documentary tells the story of two British soldier-camera operators who filmed the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the end of World War II.
In April 1945, Sgt. Mike Lewis and Sgt. Bill Lawrie, from the British Army’s Film and Photographic Unit stumbled upon what they were told is a typhus hospital, about 25km from a small town called Celle in Northern Germany, by the name of Bergen-Belsen. Alongside the British Army’s liberating forces, the full horrors of what was going on inside the camp were revealed to them – and through their footage to the world – for the first time.
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.
What They Found on SBS and SBS on Demand – Premiere / Sunday 13 April at 10:30pm (1 Part)
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What They Found on SBS and SBS on Demand
