Editing Marcel Ophuls (section)

===1970s works===
The [[BBC]] commissioned him to make ''[[A Sense of Loss (film)|A Sense of Loss]]'' (1972). It looked at "[[The Troubles]]" in [[Northern Ireland]] and was filmed between December 1971 and January 1972.<ref name ="Village Voice 1972">
{{Cite journal
| last1        = Corliss
| first1       = Richard
| title        = Film: From Irish Eyes
| work         = [[The Village Voice]]
| publisher    = The Village Voice Inc.
| location     = New York
| date         = 26 October 1972
| volume       = XVII
| number       = 43
| page         = 75
| url          = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KdpHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CIwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6273%2C1884388
| access-date  = 27 May 2025
| via          = [[Google News Archive]]
}}</ref>The film consisted of interviews with Protestants, Catholics, politicians, and some soldiers, combined with TV news clips of bombings and violence. The deaths of four individuals formed the central focus of the film.Yet again, another commissioned work for television did not get aired when it was ready, and it then premiered at the [[New York Film Festival]] in 1972.<ref name ="Village Voice 1972"/>

''[[The Memory of Justice]]'' (1976) was an ambitious comparison of [[Vietnam War|US policy in Vietnam]], and French foreign policy in the [[Algerian War]] to the [[German war crimes|atrocities of the Nazis]] and the lessons learned in aftermath of the [[Nuremberg Trials]].<ref name = "Legal Battle">{{cite news|first=David|last=Denby|author-link=David Denby|title=Two Suppressed Documentaries: A Happy Ending|newspaper=The New York Times|date=12 October 1975|page=177 | url = https://nyti.ms/3Z1mrJw | access-date = 26 May 2025}}</ref> Disagreements with one of his British backers, Visual Programme Systems (VPS), and a German backer, over the content and length of the film led to him being dismissed from the film in January 1975.<ref name = "Legal Battle"/> Legal wrangling that eventually gave control back to Ophuls delayed the film’s release until 1976.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date= 12 November 1975|page=31|title=Ophuls 'Justice' Docu At Issue|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1975-11-12_281_1/page/31/mode/1up?view=theater|access-date= 26 May 2025 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> The film was screened at the [[1976 Cannes Film Festival]], but wasn't entered into the main competition.<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url= https://www.festival-cannes.com/f/the-memory-of-justice/ |title=Festival de Cannes: The Memory of Justice |access-date=26 May 2025 |work=Festival de Cannes | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120927202052/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2152/year/1976.html | archive-date = 27 September 2012 | url-status = live }}</ref> Reflecting back during the film's 2017 re-release, Orphuls considered this film to be his most personal and sincere work that he ever did.<ref name = "Orphuls Reflects 2017">
{{Cite news
 | last1        = Hale
 | first1       = Mike
 | title        = Marcel Ophuls’s ‘Memory of Justice,’ No Longer Just a Memory
 | work         = The New York Times
 | date         = 23 April 2017
 | page         = AR19
 | url          = https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/movies/marcel-ophuls-memory-of-justice.html
 | access-date  = 27 May 2025
 | archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20170423234621/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/movies/marcel-ophuls-memory-of-justice.html
 | archive-date = 23 April 2017
 | url-status   = live
}}</ref> In the mid-1970s, he began producing documentaries for [[CBS]] and [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]].<ref name="AP Obit" />