Trailer for Nuremberg spotlights Nazi leaders' postwar trial

Sony Pictures Classics released a new trailer Wednesday for Nuremberg, James Vanderbilt's long-gestating courtroom drama about the post-World War II trials of senior Nazi officials, ahead of the film's wide theatrical opening on November 7, 2025. The film centers on a U.S. Army psychiatrist, Dr. Douglas Kelley, who is tasked with assessing the mental fitness of captured Nazi leaders while the Allied prosecution prepares to put them on trial in Nuremberg.

Nuremberg stars Russell Crowe as Hermann Göring, Rami Malek as Dr. Kelley and Michael Shannon as Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson. The exchanges between Kelley and Göring form the psychological core of the film, while the prosecution wrestles with the legal and moral questions of holding leaders accountable for mass atrocities. The official synopsis shown in the trailer highlights the Allies' effort to elicit confessions and to determine whether the defendants can stand trial, and the trailer includes lines delivered by characters as the interrogation and courtroom confrontations unfold.

Vanderbilt wrote and directed the film, adapting Jack ElHai's nonfiction book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist. The production assembles a broad...