HITLER IN COLOUR (DVD)

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The producers of the internationally acclaimed and award-winning In Colour DVD series now bring Hitler in Colour, a telling story of the rise and fall of a man who devastated the lives of countless numbers of people around the world. For 12 years, Hitler's overpowering personality dominated the German nation. He led his people from economic ruin in European conquest and to the brink of creating a New World Order. In his wake, he brought a reign of terror that caused death to millions. Drawing from recently discovered German film collections that comprise hours of previously unseen color footage, and woven with eyewitness testimony, Hitler in Colour tells the astonishing and disturbing story as never before. Narrated by Emmy Award winning British actor Brian Cox.

• Actors: Brian Cox
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language (Original Language): English
• Region Code: 1
• Release Date: 2005-09-13
• Running Time: 80 minutes
• Theatrical Release Date: 2005

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Reviewed on 2008-06-28 Haunting I enjoyed this very much, the fact that it was in color was great, the music sets the mood and for the cost of this dvd, I recommend it.

Reviewed on 2008-04-10 Raw History This is a good from start to finish view of Hitler's reign. It covers things from diaries to personal letters and documents. It covers the ordinary German persective and the ordinary Jewish perspective. It has held history in a time capsule of DVD form. Great film for students of history. It is nice to see some color too. Some graphic war images are in this DVD.

Reviewed on 2008-01-30 Wonder Documnetary around color film This DVD is a wonderful documentary that is done around color footage that really brings the past alive. Watching this in color really brings the history closer to our time.

Reviewed on 2007-08-24 Leaves much to be desired. . . . "Hitler in Colour" is best described as a decade-long (roughly from 1936-1945) timeline or bulletin of Hitler's insatiable quest for power and world dominance. We get an overview of when key events leading up to and during the second world war occurred but scarcely a sense of why? The biggest and most unanswerable question is how on earth did this socially-awkward, deranged individual--who had previously failed at everything he tried--become for a brief time the most powerful man in the world? The documentary does not ponder this question but it does show Hitler arriving in uniform for any number of ceremonies, accolades and speeches. There are no shortages of either adoring crowds, giving the nazi salute en masse, or of goose-stepping soldiers. There is fair mention of Eva Braun, a distant relative with whom Hitler supposedly had a consensual relationship--something that was at the time an open secret. We also get any number of voice-overs (letters translated to English) from students, politicians, soldiers and ordinary citizens about the state of things. And there are occasional glimpses of concentration camp victims. Overall, however, there is far too little that immediately jolts or connects with viewers. Though "Hitler in Colour" is not a total waste of time, I felt that it should have been more compelling. For a documentary about such a terrifying era, there is a sorely lacking sense of immediacy or drama. The film would have benefited greatly from information about Hitler's childhood, his social milieu, more details about the conditions that fostered his rise to power, or at least more graphic depictions of what was actually happening on the streets of Germany and Austria among the German/Austrian people at this time (riveting historic events such as "Night of the long Knives" or "Night of broken Glass" go largely unmentioned here). Hitler's atrocities remain as vivid today as they were 60 plus years ago and, rightly or wrongly, Germans, I suspect, will forever bear the scars of his misdeeds. Indeed, with the resurgence of German pride (and the perennial neo-nazism) these days, many would no doubt proudly carry on his legacy (several years ago, a German friend of mine who was a nurse described the distaste of meeting an elderly patient who bragged about having shook the hand of Hitler). Spielberg's "Schindler's List" may have been fiction based on fact, but it packed far more of a wallop than this documentary of actual events. Indeed, viewers of "Hitler in Colour" may find themselves feeling strangely distanced from it all and that in itself may be the biggest disappointment--and injustice--of all here.

Reviewed on 2007-06-21 NOT BAD BUT SAME O, SAME O Maybe I am just critical but I have a lot of documentaries on the Third Reich and this video covers a lot of same material. However that being said it still unique to see something in color when BW was more common place. Naration is not all that and can almost put you to sleep.

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