The Grey Zone
Directed by Tim Blake Nelson. Performances by David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, Natasha Lyonne. Lions Gate Films, 2001. Rated R. 109 minutes. Drama / History / War.
Based on actual events, "The Grey Zone" is the staggeringly powerful story of the Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando -- one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of helping to exterminate fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life. From inside the working organs of the infamous Auschwitz death camp, this film asks to what terrible lengths we are willing to go to save our own lives.