THE Discover Tuesdays programme at City Screen, York, presents siblings Jacqui and David Morris's documentary Attacking The Devil: Harry Evans And The Last Nazi War Crime (12A) tomorrow at 6pm.
"Few documentaries amaze, enrage and sadden simultaneously, but Attacking The Devil does just that," says City Screen marketing manager Dave Taylor, introducing the 99-minute British film.
Initially, the documentary charts the career of legendary newspaper editor Sir Harold Evans, which included outing Kim Philby as a Russian spy (as well as editing our sister paper, the Northern Echo in his formative days in journalism).
Soon it becomes a gripping account of how, under Evans’s tenacious leadership, The Sunday Times fought to secure proper compensation for hundreds of children disabled by their mothers’ use of Thalidomide during pregnancy.
This involved extended battles with the drug’s manufacturers, uncaring politicians and the judiciary, in the course of which shocking revelations emerged about Thalidomide’s origins.
As Jacqui Morris explains: “We're living in a transitional time and the press are really under fire, but I think this story showed the importance of investigative journalism.”
Tickets can be booked on 0871 902 5726 or at picturehouses.com
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