Judgement in Jerusalem - BBC Timewatch, 1987

This BBC Timewatch documentary was written and directed by Tristram Powell and explores the trial of Adolf EIchmann through a controversial book, Eichmann in Jerusalem, by Hannah Arendt. Arendt, a political theorist, had written with insight on the historical position of Jews in modern western society and on the rise of Nazism. It was therefore with a sense of deep hurt and outrage that many Jews read her reports from Jerusalem. Using archive film of the trial and interviews with friends, historians and survivors of the camps, in New York and Jerusalem, this documentary pieces together the different reactions to Arendt's arguments, and to the painful process of turning the Holocaust into history. More about the director, Tristram Powell, and his work can be found at http://www.tristrampowell.com.