3. Passenger
Andrzej Munk's ambitious verite take on the horrors that took place at the Auschwitz concentration camp sought to realistically and without sentiment or exaggeration depict the indignities of the Holocaust, and for the 62 minutes of it that we can see, it certainly does. Unfortunately, Munk died in a car accident half-way through production, and given the unconventional nature of its construction - low-key, guerilla-style filmmaking, often improvised with non-professional actors - nobody on set knew how Munk would have wanted the film to end. Munk's assistant, Witold Lesiewicz, helped compile the footage into an hour-long, incomplete film, giving us something of an insight into the power Munk had sought to capture. There's also a quaint respectability here that you typically don't get in Hollywood, that those involved would rather not give the film an ending than dare to supplement, even alter the filmmaker's vision.