A documentary built around a single, uncomfortable statistic — that the overwhelming majority of people who carried out Holocaust atrocities were never brought before a court — Getting Away with Murder(s) spends nearly three hours asking why.

What is Getting Away with Murder(s) about?

Directed by David Wilkinson, the film is structured as an investigation into failure rather than a survey of the crimes themselves: it traces how legal systems across multiple countries handled, or more often did not handle, the pursuit of perpetrators in the decades after the Second World War. The film draws on interviews with figures directly involved in the historical record of prosecution and remembrance, including people who worked on war crimes cases and survivors who lived through the events being discussed. At a hundred and seventy-five minutes, it is built for depth rather than a quick overview, moving through legal, political, and historical threads that explain how accountability was delayed, diluted, or abandoned in case after case. The tone throughout stays documentary and evidentiary rather than dramatized.

About the cast

The film features on-camera participants including Stephen Ankier, Benjamin Ferencz, Donald M. Ferencz, Axel Fischer, Mary Fulbrook, Winfried R. Garscha, Kitty Hart-Moxon, and Arek Hersh, drawn from legal, academic, and survivor communities connected to the subject.

Context & significance

A United Kingdom production released in 2021 and catalogued as a single-genre Documentary, Getting Away with Murder(s) sits at the long end of the runtime scale for the form, a choice that reflects the scope of a question spanning many countries' legal histories rather than one nation's record. It has been strongly received among documentaries dealing with Holocaust-era accountability, a subject that continues to generate historical and legal scholarship decades on.

Watching Getting Away with Murder(s) on Ktime

Getting Away with Murder(s) is available on K-Time with a free account login — this page is free to read, and starting the film requires only signing in, nothing more. The title does not currently carry Persian dubbing or Persian subtitles, so it plays in its original language, accessible through K-Time's Farsi-first interface built for Persian-speaking viewers everywhere.