‘How the Holocaust Began’ shortlisted for Broadcast Awards 2024
Broadcast calls the finalists ‘standout shows’ emerging from ‘the highest volume of entries ever’.
‘How the Holocaust Began’ (2023), produced by Caravan for BBC Two and iPlayer, has been selected as a finalist in the Best Specialist Factual Programme at the Broadcast Awards 2024. The nomination acknowledges years of work by an unflagging team to produce a moving, insightful and important film.
In the film, historian James Bulgin reveals the origins of the Holocaust in the German invasion of the Soviet Union, exploring the mass murder, collaboration and experimentation that led to the Final Solution. It can currently be viewed on BBC iPlayer.
The full shortlist can be viewed here: https://broadcastawards.co.uk/shortlist-2024
The awards take place on 8 February at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House on Park Lane.
Caravan nominated for Broadcast Digital Awards
Caravan and ZANDLAND have been shortlisted in the Best Current Affairs Programme category at the Broadcast Digital Awards 2023 for ‘Untold: The Secret World of Incels’ (All 4).
Released in November 2022, filmmaker Ben Zand investigates the dark world of incels in this documentary. After a year-long investigation, Zand gains unprecedented access to the men behind the keyboards. Research finds the community is rapidly growing, and one of the most extreme incel forums has 18,000 members with around 2,500 from the UK.
The documentary also meets a British incel who has never had a proper conversation with a woman in real life. The investigation uncovers shocking extremism, which includes sharing extremely violent and bloody content.
View the full shortlist for the Broadcast Digital Awards 2023 here: https://www.broadcastdigitalawards.co.uk/shortlist-2023
The winners will be revealed at Broadcast’s live awards ceremony on 5 July at The Brewery, London.
5-star review for Caravan’s new Holocaust documentary
Caravan’s latest film, How the Holocaust Began, has been called ‘haunting, vital television’ in a 5-star review from The Times.
In the documentary, historian James Bulgin reveals the origins of the Holocaust in the German invasion of the Soviet Union, exploring the mass murder, collaboration and experimentation that led to the Final Solution. It premiered on BBC Two & iPlayer on Monday 23rd January.
Extracts of critic reviews:
★★★★★ – Carol Midgley, The Times
“If you watched How the Holocaust Began last night, a devastating but brilliant account of the chaotic, improvised origins of Hitler’s genocide in eastern Europe, it’s likely you didn’t sleep very well. Every single detail was horrific, obviously, but the account of the experimental killing site in a Polish forest, set up to establish more efficient ways to murder en masse without ‘traumatising’ Nazi soldiers too much, showed that, even now, the Nazis can still surprise you with their evil.”
★★★★ – Anita Singh, The Telegraph
“Hitler’s Einsatzgruppen death squads carried out many of these murders. But the chilling truth presented here was that they did not – in fact, could not – act alone. They needed not just the tacit support of the civilian population, but their active participation. It is crucial that we understand how the Holocaust was able to develop; blaming it all on the Nazis is to turn a blind eye to the darker side of human nature.”