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Offering an unusual take on the Holocaust, “Nathan-ism” is a low-budget portrait of garrulous, elderly New York outsider artist Nathan Hilu, a proud but impoverished Jewish veteran who compulsively, maniacally documents his WWII military experience in naïve drawings with a black Sharpie and colored crayons. Unfortunately, his self-proclaimed autobiographical art does not always match up with his lived history. After a festival run in 2023, this not particularly satisfying documentary from debuting director Elan Golod is receiving a limited theatrical release through Outsider Pictures and Chapter Two Films.

Hilu, the son of Syrian-Jewish immigrants, joined the U.S. army at 18. An assignment to guard high-ranking Nazi prisoners — including Hermann Göring, Julius Streicher and Albert Speer — during the Nuremberg trials apparently made such a profound impact on him that he spends the next 70 years obsessively creating a visual narrative about that time. But as Golod starts to research Hilu’s assertions, it seems...

If a picture speaks a thousand words, then the power of film to convey an idea or feeling is simply boundless. Filmmakers for the Prosecution, a new documentary directed by Jean-Christophe Klotz and produced by Sandra Schulberg, examines the search for celluloid to convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg trials. Ahead of the film’s opening on Holocaust Day of Remembrance, January 27, in New York at the Dctv Firehouse Cinema courtesy of Kino Lorber, we’re pleased to exclusively premiere the first trailer.

Adapted from Sandra Schulberg’s monograph, the documentary retraces the thrilling hunt for film evidence used to convict the Nazis at the first Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood––brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg––serving under the command of Oss film chief John Ford. The motion pictures they presented in the courtroom became part of the official record and shape our understanding of the Holocaust to this day.