Wednesday October 17th 2018
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UK/USA   2016    109 minutes
Director: Mick Jackson
Starring: Timothy Spall, Rachel Weisz, Tom Williamson.

This film is based on the acclaimed book ‘History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier’ by the writer and historian Deborah E Lipstadt. She accuses fellow historian David Irving of being a ‘Holocaust denier’, and his response is to sue her for libel. In the British legal system the burden of proof in such cases lies with the accused: it is up to Lipsadt and her legal team to prove the reality of the Holocaust and that Irving, despite his reputation, is an unreliable (and lying) historian The twists and turns of the legal proceedings hold the audience in suspense until the final judgment.