Widely considered one of the greatest documentaries ever made, Night and Fog [Nuit et brouillard] is a 1955 French short film about the Holocaust, combining footage from Nazi concentration camps with contemporary material shot at Auschwitz and Majdanek ten years after their liberation. It was directed by Alain Resnais, written by Jean Cayrol (himself a Holocaust survivor), and features narration by Michel Bouquet and scoring by Hanns Eisler. The film alternates between the tranquil, present-day camp grounds and a detailed, often graphic, account of the starvation, torture, medical experimentation, and mass executions that took place in the camps.