Directed by:
Daniel AnkerCinematography:
Dyanna TaylorCast:
Gene Hackman (narrator), Jack Benny, Humphrey Bogart, LeVar Burton, James Cagney, Charlie Chaplin, Montgomery Clift, Bud Cort, Dan Curtis, Michael Dunn (more)Plots(1)
Featuring interviews with Steven Spielberg, Sidney Lumet and other prominent filmmakers and historians, Imaginary Witness examines Hollywood's attitude towards one of the most horrific events in world history. Using rare newsreel footage as well as gripping clips from over forty films, this award-winning documentary explores how filmmakers and popular culture have portrayed the Holocaust over the past 60 years. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Peter MacNicol
USA
Best movies:
Sophie's Choice (1982)
Game Change (2012) (TV movie)
Addams Family Values (1993)
Liam Neeson
UK
Best movies:
Schindler's List (1993)
Batman Begins (2005)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Jack Oakie
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
Lover Come Back (1961)
Gregory Peck
USA
Best movies:
Roman Holiday (1953)
The Big Country (1958)
The Scarlet and the Black (1983) (TV movie)
Millie Perkins
USA
Best movies:
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Wall Street (1987)
Wild in the Country (1961)
Heinz Rühmann
German Empire
Best movies:
It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)
The Punch Bowl (1944)
The Captain from Köpenick (1956)
Maximilian Schell
Austria
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Reluctant Saint (1962)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Vincent Sherman
USA
Best movies:
Counsellor at Law (1933)
Steven Spielberg
USA
Best movies:
Michael Jackson: HIStory on Film - Volume II (1997) (video compilation)
Barbra: The Concert (1994) (concert)
Jaws (1975)
Rod Steiger
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Der Zauberberg (1982)
The Longest Day (1962)
James Stewart
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Rear Window (1954)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Meryl Streep
USA
Best movies:
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Out of Africa (1985)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Margaret Sullavan
USA
Best movies:
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
The Mortal Storm (1940)
Three Comrades (1938)
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
UK
Best movies:
Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001) (TV movie)
The House of the Spirits (1993)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
Spencer Tracy
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Fury (1936)
Richard Widmark
USA
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Night and the City (1950)
James Woods
USA
Best movies:
Casino (1995)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
The Gift of Love (1978) (TV movie)
Robert Clary
France
Best movies:
The Hindenburg (1975)
A New Kind of Love (1963)
Martin Luther King
USA
Best movies:
Dangerous: The Short Films (1993) (video compilation)
JFK (1991)
The Doors (1991) - a.f.
Adolf Hitler (a.f.)
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Dangerous: The Short Films (1993) (video compilation) - a.f.
The King's Speech (2010) - a.f.
Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001) (TV movie) - a.f.