Film Screenings
The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme has screened a dozen documentary and feature films on the Holocaust and the prevention of genocide. Many of the films have been shown both at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and in several United Nations Information Centres around the world.
The British film The Relief of Belsen was screened on 2 May 2011 in partnership with the United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations. The film tells the true story of the massive humanitarian effort by the British army in liberating Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945.
During the 2011 Holocaust Remembrance week, the Programme screened the documentary film Daring to Resist, which features the stories of three young Jewish women who fought back against the Nazis during the Holocaust.
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Famous quotes containing the word film:
“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
—Ingmar Bergman (b. 1918)