Between November 20, 1945, and October 1, 1946, an international tribunal in Nuremberg puts the surviving leadership of Nazi Germany on trial for crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. This 1950 US Army production assembles courtroom footage from the proceedings themselves: the defendants seated in the dock, prosecutors laying out documentary evidence of the Holocaust and the war Germany started, and judges from the four Allied powers presiding over a legal process with no real precedent. The film sticks close to the record, showing how charges were argued and how the accused responded, rather than dramatizing or reenacting events. It is a plain, official account made by the occupying army rather than an outside filmmaker, which gives it the flavor of a government record more than a piece of storytelling. The camera lingers on the mechanics of the trial, translation headsets, evidence exhibits, the reading of verdicts, letting the proceedings themselves carry the weight. It stands as one of the earliest attempts to put a filmed record of the tribunal into wide circulation.