This "World War II Collector's Set" is an excellent documentary-film collection at a bargain price. If you care to check, you will find that some of the films collected here (Hitler's Britain, Desert Victory, The Nazis Strike, Here Is Germany, The Spreading Holocaust, and How Hitler Lost the War) are sold separately on Amazon for about the same price (individually) as this set. Desert Victory is an Oscar-winning documentary. The Nazis Strike was compiled by master director Frank Capra. Hitler's Britain, while a documentary, asks the "what-if" question: "What course would the Nazis have pursued had they actually overrun England?" The six films are on two disks, and all told they run over six hours.
* * * * * World War II Collector's Set: 6 Films
I bought this set for the movie other than "Hitlers' Britain", and "How Hitler Lost the War", at walmart for $5, cause I don't believe I had seen the others, though I had bought the two latter separately on two dvds in better resolution, and they were well worth having on individual discs. This set has alot of overcompression of the videos causing pixelation, but hey, for the price, I paid five bucks, who cares, I could always go for a better copy individually if really appeal to me more, later.
Of course, I always find our western education that relates everything to war against Nazi germany in WW2 as a war against Hitler himself, a truly ignorant premise. Too many documentaries use the same catchy phrase, like "Hitlers flying machines", or "hitlers uboats", or "Hitlers secret weapons", etc, you get the idea, its getting old so fast its too old, its almost like they are afraid of the "nazi" word, like maybe calling it "Nazi Britain", or "How the Nazis lost the war". I mean, hey, one man didn't do all that mayhem, he had help, ya know, from "THE NAZI'S".
There is some interesting interviews with Adolph Galland and another german flying ace, both of which served in the post war West German air force in one capacity or another, very good, a must have, you'll want the individual dvds after seeing that.
This DVD comes with only one disc and six full-sized documentaries. If you have to realize that the quality is not guaranteed because the films have suffered over time. Please understand how time has harmed the documentaries but they are restored as much as possible. Anyway with a few scratches and signs of imperfection of the early film documentaries, the six documentaries included Academy Award winner, "Desert Victory," which is really just World War II film footage and a narrator talking about the war in Northern Africa.
Everybody knows Frank Capra as the father of "It's A Wonderful Life!," but he was also Colonel Frank Capra for the United States Army. He directed "The Nazis Strike" which features the propaganda messages and Nazi newsreel to brainwash a nation. He also directed "Here is Germany," which shows the country as a hard-working nation of good people. It's another propaganda technique.
"The Spreading Holocaust" displays the horrors of World War II included the concentration camps which killed millions. As the Allied forces invaded occupied Europe, they would soon learn the Nazis horror and inhumane crimes against humanity.
"Hitler's Britain" is perhaps the youngest of the documenaties by a British and Canadian networks. It's the unimaginable if Britain was invaded by the Germans. The documentary features experts and witnesses.
"How Hitler Lost the War" is another analysis of how the Third Reich miscalculated their decisions to invade Poland and the Soviet Union among other fateful decisions. It's an important to realize why they lost and the unimaginable possibility if they had won the war.
This one disc captures unforgettable images of leaders, dictators, evil, and horrors of war that should never happen again in our world. Just imagine if the wrong side won the war.
It was OK. No captioning or subtitles which would have been nice when the background to the narration was shelling or bombing, esp the STUKA dive bombers. My other negative observation is the substantial use of stock scenes, repeatedly. But I'm a WWII buff so I gave it a 4 stars, otherwise it would be no more than a 3.
Hitlers Britain and How Hitler lost the war are fantastic thay share information that few have learnt about extremly interesting, altho some of the other films in the box set are extremely dark and label german people to be a blood thirsty race instead of just being informative.
The films in this collection were made during the war or right after the war. Older materials. Dark and scratchy. More or less propaganda materials for the west.
The low price is the highlight from this collection. - History - Hitler - War Movies - Newsreel'
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