Nuremberg and its teaching (original title: Nuremberg: its Lesson for Today) is a documentary film commissioned by the Office of Military Government for Germany (U.S.) and produced by the Information Services Division (ISD), Documentary Film Department (D1 US) and the period in the film from May 1947 to July 1947 by Stuart Schulberg on the Nuremberg trial against the main war criminals. In this documentary, the course of the main war criminal trial before the International Military Court from the opening of the trial on 14 November 1945 to the announcement of the verdict on 1 October 1946 is presented in excerpts. The dramaturgy of the film leads chronologically from the transfer of power to the National Socialists, from the triggering of the Second World War by the National Socialist German Reich to the Nazi crimes against humanity and follows the lines of argumentation of the main prosecutor Robert H. Jackson.In addition to the film material from the courtroom, the documentary also contains other contemporary recordings, including excerpts from the films Der Nazi-Plan und Nazi-Konzentrationslager (The Nazi Plan and Nazi Concentration Camps), which were evidence in the trial.German film material was also used for the film.The recordings shot during the main war criminal process were not only used for Nuremberg and its teaching, but also for the Soviet documentary Das Gericht der Völker und Wochenschauen (The Court of Peoples and Week Shows).The film Nuremberg and its teaching was accompanied by music and commented in German. The film was first shown in Washington on September 1, 1947, but was not shown in American cinemas, taking into account the Marshall Plan. A version in English was never completed.In Germany, the film was premiered in Stuttgart (Camera) on November 21, 1948 as part of the Reeducation and on May 31, 1949 in West Berlin (Berliner Sportpalast).Since parts of the original film material as well as the sound recordings were lost or severely damaged over time, the daughter of Stuart Schulberg, the American film producer Sandra Schulberg, together with Josh Waletzky restored the film, which was completed in 2009 This restored version was shown at the Berlinale 2010.The film historian Ronny Loewy, who headed the Holocaust Cinematography database project, described Nuremberg and its teaching as one of the most important contemporary historical materials on the process and history of National Socialism.