Siege (1940 film)
| Siege | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Julien Bryan |
| Narrated by | Julien Bryan |
| Cinematography | Julien Bryan |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 10 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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.[1]
Siege was nominated for an Oscar for Best One-reel Short at the 13th Academy Awards in 1941,[2] 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".[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Librarian of Congress Adds Home Movie, Silent Films and Hollywood Classics to Film Preservation List". Library of Congress. December 27, 2006.
- ^ "The 13th Academy Awards (1941) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
External links
[edit]- Siege at IMDb
- complete film
- Siege on YouTube, posted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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- 1940 films
- Warsaw in World War II
- United States National Film Registry films
- 1940 documentary films
- Black-and-white documentary films
- Invasion of Poland
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- Documentary films about Poland in World War II
- American short documentary films
- American black-and-white films
- 1940s short documentary films
- 1940s American films
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