THEY FIGHT WITH CAMERAS
THEY FIGHT WITH CAMERAS, a 55 min. documentary by Nina Rosenblum and Daniel Allentuck narrated by Liev Schreiber, is a long-overdue tribute to the little-known contribution made by the combat cameramen of the U.S. Army Signal Corps to World War II in Europe and to our collective memory of the conflict. What distinguishes this film from previous documentaries about the war is that rather than furnishing an overview it presents an eyewitness account of the war as seen through the lens of a highly decorated frontline soldier/cameraman who recorded the war in Europe from D-Day to the liberation of Dachau with skill, empathy, and unflinching courage.
By combining portions of Walter Rosenblum’s 1997 interview with the USC Shoah Foundation with his recently discovered photographs, newly found motion picture footage, After-Action Reports and excerpts from a cache of 187 letters which recently surfaced that he wrote to written to his first wife, THEY FIGHT WITH CAMERAS provides a unique and compelling account of one man’s wartime exploits, which captured dramatic images of close-quarter combat, as well as moments of tenderness and camaraderie between American soldiers and newly-liberated French civilians. Of particular interest is the film’s use of never-before-seen footage of the D-Day landings on Omaha Beach shot by the motion-picture cameramen in Rosenblum's 5-man unit (Detachment ‘P’ 162nd Signal Photographic Company.)
July 12, 2026
2:30-6:30 PM
Court Square Theater
44-02 23rd St, Long Island City
Nina Rosenblum, Daniel Allentuck
NINA ROSENBLUM is an Academy Award-nominated, award-winning producer, director and writer of documentary films and television. President of DAEDALUS PRODUCTIONS, INC., established in 1980, Rosenblum has produced and directed acclaimed films for TBS, HBO, PBS, NY TIMES Television, SHOWTIME, ABC, and NBC. Her co-production partners include Channel Four/UK; WDR/Germany; La Sept, France and SBS/Australia. Rosenblum is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Directors Guild of America (Director), Women in Film and Television and the International Documentary Association.
Nina Rosenblum is the daughter of renowned photographic historian Naomi Rosenblum and photographer Walter Rosenblum, highly decorated WWII combat cameraman, and professor of photography and film history. She attended the Art Students’ League and the High School of Music and Art, then studied at the Philadelphia College of Art and Cooper Union, NYC, where she received her BFA in 1970. She attended Yale Summer School of Art and received an MFA from Queens College, CUNY in 1972. In 1977, she studied documentary at NYU, Tisch School of the Arts.
Daniel Allentuck is an award-winning writer and producer and co-founder of Daedalus Productions, Inc. In collaboration with his wife, Nina Rosenblum, he has devoted his 40-year career to creating documentary films about art, social photography, and American social history. Several of his films, including AMERICA AND LEWIS HINE, and LIBERATORS: FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS IN WORLD WAR II (Academy Award nomination for Best Feature Documentary) have been broadcast nationally on PBS and exhibited theatrically in New York and Los Angeles, as well as at top-tier film festivals in the U.S. and Europe. ORDINARY MIRACLES: THE PHOTO LEAGUE’S NEW YORK (2012) which he wrote and co-directed, was awarded the Van Gogh Prize for Best Documentary at the Amsterdam Film Festival. His essays and articles have been published in the IDA Journal, LIES OF OUR TIMES, One Last Lunch (Abrams Press-2020) and They Fight with Cameras: Walter Rosenblum in World War II From D-Day to Dachau. He is a member of the Independent Documentary Association and has a B.A. degree in English and Comparative Literature from New York University. He is the son of actress Maureen Stapleton.
