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  Hangmen Also Die!

  Hangmen Also Die!

  Directed by Fritz Lang • 1943 • United States
  Starring Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee

  The combination of Bertolt Brecht’s eloquent script (the legendary playwright’s only Hollywood credit), director Fritz Lang’s potent moral themes, and noirish cinematography by the great James Wong How...

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  None Shall Escape

  None Shall Escape

  Directed by André De Toth • 1944 • United States
  Starring Alexander Knox, Marsha Hunt, Henry Travers

  The first Hollywood film to confront the atrocities of the Holocaust, this chilling exploration of the psychology of fascism was made during World War II, but actually anticipates the Nuremberg t...

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  Brute Force

  Brute Force

  Directed by Jules Dassin • 1947 • United States
  Starring Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford

  As hard-hitting as its title, BRUTE FORCE was the first of Jules Dassin’s forays into the crime genre, a prison melodrama that takes a critical look at American society as well. Burt Lancaster ...