Michael Shannon arrives at the AFI Fest premiere of the film "Nuremberg" on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025, at TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

The Robert H. Jackson Center and the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts will present a special community screening of Nuremberg on Friday, Jan. 30, followed by a live talk-back with author Jack El-Hai, whose book, The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, inspired the film.

Doors open at 5 p.m. and the film begins at 6 p.m. at the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts, 116 E. Third St., Jamestown. The screening will be followed by a conversation with El-Hai, who will discuss the true historical events behind the film and the continuing significance of the Nuremberg Trials.

“Nuremberg,” starring Russell Crowe as Goering, centers on the Nazi military commander’s conversations with Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, played by Rami Malek. Kelley’s mission was to determine whether Goering and more than 20 other Nazi officials captured at the end of World War II were fit to stand trial in Nuremberg. Through many hours at facilities in Luxembourg and Nuremberg, Kelley will find himself alternately taken and frightened by a man notorious for his role in the Nazis’ attempted conquest of Europe and beyond. Goering turns out to be unexpectedly good and clever company, if not convincing in his assertion that he knew nothing of Hitler’s worst atrocities and cared only to restore Germany to greatness after its humiliating defeat in World War I. Kelley, an ambitious and demonstrative man who took his own life in 1958, might never have inspired a major Hollywood production had his name not turned up while El-Hai was working on a previous book. While writing about Dr. Walter Freeman, who helped make lobotomy a common treatment, El-Hai came upon an encounter between Freeman and Kelley at an American Psychiatric Association gathering in the late 1930s.

“What struck Freeman about Kelley was that Kelley was not there to present a paper or do anything like that. He was there to give a magic show on the stage to entertain all his fellow psychiatrists,” El-Hai told The Associated Press. “So a few years after I finished ‘The Lobotomy,’ I decided to find out what I could about Dr. Kelley’s story.”

Robert H. Jackson, as played by Michael Shannon, is a key figure in the story and provides the legal framework, rationale, and prosecution for the International Military Tribunal, which opened 80 years ago on November 20, 1945.

Tickets for the screening and discussion will be available through the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts box office and online. For more information visit reglenna.com/events/movies-the-reg-nuremberg. The box office is open from noon to 5 p.m. Friday and one hour before movies and events.

The Associated Press contributed to this report