Denial

Denial follows Deborah E. Lipstadt, an American historian who writes about Holocaust denial and names the British author David Irving among those who distort the historical record. Irving sues her for libel in a British court, and under the rules of that court the burden falls on Lipstadt and her legal team to demonstrate that the Holocaust took place and that Irving's account of it is false. Much of the film concerns the strategies her barristers choose for the trial, including their decision about which witnesses to call.

Mick Jackson directs from a screenplay by David Hare. It is the ninth film in the directing career the facts list for Jackson, arriving after Temple Grandin. Rachel Weisz plays Lipstadt, with Tom Wilkinson as her barrister Richard Rampton, Timothy Spall as Irving, and Andrew Scott as Anthony Julius. The production was a British and American co-production from BBC Film, Participant, Shoebox Films and Krasnoff / Foster Entertainment, with a reported budget of about 10 million dollars and worldwide takings of roughly 8 million.

Reception was moderately positive and closely matched across audiences and the press. On TMDB the film holds a rating of 6.8 out of 10 from 716 votes, while the critics' rating stands at 6.8 out of 10 from 171 reviews, so viewers and reviewers landed in essentially the same place. The film runs 109 minutes.