
Standard Operating Procedure(2008)
Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.


A portrait of the life and career of the infamous American execution device designer Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Mr. Leuchter was an engineer who became an expert on execution devices and was later hired by holocaust revisionist historian Ernst Zundel to "prove" that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. Leuchter published a controversial report confirming Zundel's position, which ultimately ruined his own career. Most of the footage is of Leuchter, working in and around execution facilities or chipping away at the walls of Auschwitz, but Morris also interviews various historians, associates, and neighbors.

Fred A. Leuchter Jr.
Self

Robert Jan van Pelt
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David Irving
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Caroline Leuchter
Self (voice)
James Roth
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Shelly Shapiro
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Suzanne Tabasky
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Ernst Zündel
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David Collins
Re-enactment cast
Daniel Polsby
Re-enactment cast
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. is a documentary film released in 1999 exploring themes of prison, neo-nazism, auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp, gas chamber, gallows, coffee. Directed by Errol Morris, it stars Fred A. Leuchter Jr., Robert Jan van Pelt, David Irving. A portrait of the life and career of the infamous American execution device designer Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Mr. Leuchter was an engineer who became an expert on execution devices and was later hired by holocaust revisionist historian Ernst Zundel to "prove" that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. Leuchter published a controversial report confirming Zundel's position, which ultimately ruined his own career. Most of the footage is of Leuchter, working in and around execution facilities or chipping away at the walls of Auschwitz, but Morris also interviews various historians, associates, and neighbors.
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