Writer and director James Vanderbilt learned about Army psychiatrist, Lt. Col. Douglas Kelley’s work in the pages of an article and a book proposal from author Jack El-Hai that would become the bestseller ‘"The Nazi and the Psychiatrist." The book is the psychological and political machinations of Nuremberg, and became an undeniable fascination for Vanderbilt.

He became captivated by the extraordinary intersection of history and human inquiry, a moment when the fate of the world’s most notorious war criminals depended not only on armies, or laws that had yet to be written, but on the fragile complexities of the human mind.

Deadline’s chief film critic Pete Hammond, who can also be seen on PBS SoCal's Must See Movies, moderates an in-person Q&A with writer/director James Vanderbilt.

Nuremberg Q&A

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