7.6
Night Will Fall
2014
Siege (1940)
February 12, 194010mEN
5.9
14 votes
Overview
Siege is a 1940 documentary short about the Siege of Warsaw by the Wehrmacht at the start of World War II. It was shot by Julien Bryan, a Pennsylvanian photographer and cameraman who later established the International Film Foundation. Siege was nominated for an Oscar for Best One-reel Short at the 13th Academy Awards in 1941, and in 2006, it was named to the National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress as "a unique, horrifying record of the dreadful brutality of war."
Director
Julien BryanWriter
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
N/A
Revenue
N/A
Production Companies
RKO Radio Pictures
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7.0Photo-journalist Julien Bryan narrates his own short feature as he spends a few days in a Warsaw that is under siege from the approaching Nazi war machine. It is almost three weeks since the city started being indiscriminately bombed leaving it’s buildings, hospitals and churches in ruins whilst it’s population risk random strafing from enemy aircraft as they try to gather potatoes from fields on the outskirts of what is left of their homes. Some of the images are frankly quite harrowing, especially towards the conclusion of this film and the sight of a young lad, with all he possesses in a ma…
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