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Mephisto (1981 Film)

Director

István Szabó

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Feature film. A study of Nazi Germany loosely based on personalities of the time. A provincial actor in 1920s and 1930s Germany finds his success is interrupted by Nazism. Based on the novel by Klaus Mann.

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Hitler’s Hollywood (2017)

Director

Rudger Suchsland

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 105 minutes), £11.99

Nazi-cinema was a state-controlled industry, subject to rigid political and cultural censorship. At the same time, it aspired to be "Great Cinema"; it viewed itself as an ideological and aesthetic...

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Hans Westmar, Einer von Vielen (1933 Film)

Director

Franz Wenzler

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This feature film is derived from the book ‘Horst Wessel’ by Hans Heinz Ewers and is typical of early Nazi attempts at entertainment films. It was eventually released under the title HANS WESTMAR because...

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Forbidden Films: The Hidden Legacy of Nazi Film (2014)

Director

Felix Moeller

Subject

Film studies; German studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 94 minutes), £33.99

Director Felix Moeller interviews German film historians, archivists and filmgoers in an investigation of the power, and potential danger, of cinema when used for ideological purposes. Utilizing clips from...

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Tin Drum, The (1979 Video)

aka: Blechtrommel, Die

Director

Volker Schlöndorff

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 157 min., 1999 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

Feature film, based on the novel ‘The Tin Drum’ by Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass, about a young boy growing up in Nazi Germany who decides to stop growing.

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Alfred Kaiser: Decomposing Nazi Phraseology (1975)

Director

Alfred Kaiser

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 54 minutes), £24.99

In the second half of the 1970s Alfred Kaiser was entirely unknown to the film world when he went public with two films, namely A THIRD REICH (1975) and A THIRD REICH FROM ITS REFUSE (1977). Using excerpts...

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Swastika (1973)

Director

Philippe Mora

Producer

David Puttnam

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes + 82 minutes extras), £11.99

Met with a tumultuous reception at Cannes in 1973, Swastika was subsequently banned in Germany until 2010, when it was acknowledged for its significant contribution to understanding Hitler and Nazism; as...

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History Through the Newsreel: The 1930s (4 Parts) (1976 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

1: Introduces the four-part series with a short summary of the social context of the British newsreels, including photographs of contemporary cinemas and figures for cinema attendances, followed by a...

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Night Will Fall (2014)

Director

André Singer

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £19.99

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had...

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Before Hindsight (1977 Film)

Director

Elizabeth Taylor Mead

Producer

Jonathan Lewis

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An examination of the attitudes expressed by the non-fiction British cinema of the 1930s towards the events that led to World War 2, based on research into all the available material for the years 1931-1939...

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