On this day in movie history – Nuremberg (2025 movie & book):

Nuremberg

directed by James Vanderbilt,

written by James Vanderbilt,

based on the book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai,

released at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada on September 7, 2025.

Music by Brian Tyler.

Cast: Rami Malek, Russell Crowe, Richard E. Grant, Michael Shannon, Leo Woodall, Colin Hanks, John Slattery, Wrenn Schmidt, Lotte Verbeek, Andreas Pietschmann, Mark O'Brien, Lydia Peckham, Steven Pacey, Roderick Hill, Dan Cade, Paul Antony-Barber, Wolfgang Cerny, Donald Sage Mackay, Tamas Nadas, Alex Diehl, Jeremy Wheeler, Dieter Riesle, Tom Keune, Barney Taylor, Philippe Jacq, Gyula Mesterházy, András Korcsmáros, Billy Rayner, Ralph Berkin, Laura Bóta, Blake Kubena, Wayne Brett, Carl Achleitner, Brett Keating, Laurence Pears, Michael Sheldon, Fleur Bremmer, Sam Newman, Richard Kerékgyártó, Vazul Magyar, Szüle István, Adam Pelyhe, István Áldott.

Recommended reading:

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist

By Jack El-Hai.

Published by PublicAffairs.

First published 2013.

ISBN-10: 1610394631

ISBN-13: 9781610394635

Description:

The book is a page turner. – NPR.

In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and a red hatbox. Joining him in the detention center were fifty-one senior Nazis, of whom Göring was the dominant figure.

To ensure that the captives were fit for trial at Nuremberg, the US army sent an ambitious army psychiatrist, Captain Douglas M. Kelley, to supervise and evaluate them. To Kelley, it was the professional opportunity of a lifetime: to discover a distinguishing trait among these arch-criminals that would mark them as psychologically different from the rest of humanity. But evil has its charms....

On this day in movie history - Nuremberg (2000 TV mini-series & book):

Nuremberg

2-part TV mini-series directed by Yves Simoneau,

written by David W. Rintels,

based on the book Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial by Joseph E. Persico,

released in the United States on July 16, 2000.

Music by Richard Grégoire.

Cast: Alec Baldwin, Brian Cox, Christopher Plummer, Jill Hennessy, Christopher Heyerdahl, Roger Dunn, David McIlwraith, Christopher Shyer, Hrothgar Mathews, Herbert Knaup, Frank Moore, Frank Fontaine, Raymond Cloutier, Bill Corday, Ken Kramer, Sam Stone, Douglas O'Keeffe, Benoît Girard, James Bradford, Frank Burns, Erwin Potitt, Tom Rack, Roc Lafortune, Dennis St John, Griffith Brewer, Gabriel Gascon, Julien Poulin, Alain Fournier, René Gagnon, Len Cariou, David Francis, Len Doncheff, Paul Hébert, Colm Feore, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Robert Joy, Michael Ironside, Matt Craven, Geoffrey Pounsett, Scott Gibson, Steve Adams, Paul Hopkins, Mark Walker, Howard Bilerman, Max von Sydow, Alain Goulem, Rob Burns, Guy Sprung, Mark Houghton, Rebecca Jenkins, Susan Glover, Sally Taylor-Isherwood, Bobo Vian, Peter Colvey, Mark Ryan, Adam MacDonald, Joris Jarsky, Shawn Baichoo, Joe Cobden, David La Haye, Larry Day, Ilona Elkin, Lorne Brass, Norman Mikeal Berketa, Marc Gourdeau, Emidio Michetti, Josh Trager, François Vaqué, Eric LeBoeuf, Timothy Mooney, Pierre Gaudette, Constantine Kourtidis.

Recommended reading:

Nuremberg:

Infamy on Trial

By Joseph E. Persico.

Published by Penguin Publishing Group.

Published 1994.

ISBN-10: 014016622X

ISBN-13: 9780140166224

Description:

A vivid reconstruction of the actions of the wartime allies and the Nazi elite at Nuremberg. Persico eaily carries us into a deeper understanding of the trials. – New York Newsday.

This book deserved a wider readership than any of its predecessors. … Here were the leaders of the most evil regime in recorded history – all save their leader – called to account for their deeds. … The whole world now knows why they were there; and every generation needs a book like this to remind us of it. – The Washington Post Book World.

Perisco captures both the sweep and the detail of the war crimes trials in an account that sometimes reads like a Ludlum novel. – Los Angeles Times.

It is not often that a book works at once as historical tract, morality play, and crime thriller. This one does.

– The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The Nuremberg trials remain, after nearly a half a century, the benchmark for judging international crimes. Using new sources – ground-breaking research in the papers of the Nuremberg prison psychiatrist and commandant, the letters and journals of the prisoners, and accounts of the judges and prosecutors as they struggled through each day making compromises and steeling their convictions – Joseph Persico retells the story of Nuremberg, combining sweeping history with psychological insight. Here are brilliant, chilling portraits of the Nazi warlords and riveting descriptions of the tensions between law and vengeance, between East and West, and of the friction already present in the early stages of the Cold War.