NUREMBERG

The Nazi trials after WWII are dramatised like never before

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This is very much a film with the world today on its mind as well as the post-Second World War Nazi trials. The quote at the end of the movie from philosopher RG Collingwood puts it succinctly: "The only clue as to what man can do is what man has done." A timely reminder of our species' seeming inability to learn lessons from the past.

There have been several titles made about the Nuremberg trials, which saw surviving Nazi top brass put before an international court for crimes against humanity. Notable entries include Stanley Kramer's starry Hollywood production Judgement at Nuremberg, a fictionalisation of events, and Mick Jackson's TV miniseries Nuremberg, starring Alec Baldwin as chief prosecutor Robert Jackson and Brian Cox as Herman Göring. Filmmakers are drawn to the topic because it provokes deep questions regarding humankind's capacity - and sometimes what feels like lust - for horror.