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Feuertaufe (1940 Film)

aka: Baptism of Fire

Director

Hans Bertram

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Glorifies the role of the Luftwaffe in Poland in 1939 and the sequences showing bomb destruction in Warsaw are intended to frighten other nations. The music of the film is by the composer of ‘Lili...

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Reichsorchester: The Berlin Philharmonic and the Third Reich (2008)

Director

Enruque Sanchez Lansch

Subject

History; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 90 minutes), £13.61

This documentary explores the Berlin Philharmonic’s controversial relationship with the Third Reich during 1933 to 1945. Featuring first hand accounts of the time from surviving orchestra members Erich...

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Olympia: Festival of Nations: The Story of the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games (1938)

Director

Leni Riefenstahl

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £9.99

Part one of Leni Riefenstahl’s documentary about the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: St Paul’s Again Nazi Target

Date released

17 Oct 1940

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

593A

NoS ID

011212

Story no

6 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: St Paul’s Damaged By Bomb. DESCRIPTION: A bomb tore the upper roof east of the Dome and smashed onto the high altar. SHOTLIST: Shots of the hole in the roof and of the wrecked High...

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Traitors to Hitler (1979 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 62 min.

Documents the course and failure of the plot to assassinate Hitler, showing material on the trials which Goebbels, the propaganda chief, ordered to be filmed with hidden cameras.

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Film Unfinished, A (2010)

Director

Yael Hersonski

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £14.99

At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film, having sat undisturbed in an East German archive, was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May 1942, and labeled simply "Ghetto," this footage quickly became...

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Eternal Jew, The (1940)

aka: Ewige Jude, Der

Director

Fritz Hippler

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 676 minutes), $19.99

This, the most vicious and virulent of all Nazi films, goes through the whole range of anti-semitic attitudes. It attacks Jews for allegedly choosing to live in squalor (in sequences of the Warsaw ghetto),...

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Shylock’s Ghost (2015 Television)

Series

Imagine...

Director

Colette Camden

Documentary. Alan Yentob travels to the ghetto in Venice with novelist Howard Jacobson as he embarks on a retelling of The Merchant of Venice. Through a series of interviews, they examine the charge of...

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Newsbriefs from Russia

Date released

2 Oct 1941

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

41/79

NoS ID

099044

Story no

3 / 5

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Soviet women trained as ambulance girls and other auxiliary services leave for the front. Boys under military age in Gorki organise a voluntary rail repair detachment. Russian armoured train goes into action...

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Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, The (2002)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 182 minutes), £19.99

A documentary on the life and work of Leni Riefenstahl, one of Germany’s most famous, and notorious, filmmakers who directed the Nazi propaganda films TRIUMPH OF THE WILL and OLYMPIA. As a feisty 91 year...

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