We watched "Night and Fog" by Alain Resnais. The film documents the abandoned grounds of the Auschwitz concentration camp used by the Nazis in WWII to kill 1.1 million Jews. The film was made in 1955, the name was taken from Heinrich Himmler's (head of the SS) decree that those who resisted the Nazis would be deported to camps in such a way that they would vanish without a trace, "into the night and fog".
There is graphic footage in the film. Students were made aware ahead of time and were allowed to leave at any point if the footage was too overwhelming to watch.
