Moving Accountability. Trials, Transitional Justice, and Documentary Cinema

The chapter focuses on the role cinema played in documenting and supporting “transitional justice” at both a transnational and a national level. Allied organized trials prosecuting Nazi politicians, administrators, and soldiers, who were held responsible for perpetrating crimes in several different nations across Europe. Such were the cases of the Nuremberg and Dachau trials. However, the role filmmaking played in documenting and interacting with the trials greatly varied, according to the political value assigned to respective judgments and, therefore, the function courts deemed suitable for cinema itself.