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• Hitler - From The Other Side | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-15.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Hitler - A Career chronicles the life of Adolf Hitler from the German perspective with colour and B&W footage taken from the German military archives. Some of the footage is previously unseen and the programme gives an insight into how Hitler seduced most of the German nation into blind obedience. From the influence of the Teutonic knights and Prussian warriors the documentary explains how Hitler allowed Germany to awake and then sleepwalk into disaster.

• Triumph Of The Will (1934) | DVD | (31/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Triumph of the Will is one of the most important films ever made, not because it documents evil--more watchable examples are being made today. And not as a historical example of blind propaganda--those (much shorter) movies are merely laughable now. No, Riefenstahl's masterpiece--and it is a masterpiece, politics aside--combines the strengths of documentary and propaganda into a single, overwhelmingly powerful visual force. Riefenstahl was hired by the Reich to create an eternal record of the 1934 rally at Nuremberg, and that's exactly what she does. You might not become a Nazi after watching her film, but you will understand too clearly how Germany fell under Hitler's spell. The early crowd scenes remind one of nothing so much as Beatles concert footage (if only their fans were so well behaved!).Like the Fascists it monumentalises, Triumph of the Will overlooks its own weaknesses--at nearly two hours, the speeches tend to drone on, and the repeated visual motifs are a little over-hypnotic, especially for modern viewers. But the occasional iconic vista (banners lining the streets of Nuremberg, Hitler parting a sea of 200,000 party members standing at attention) will electrify anyone into wakefulness. --Grant Balfour, Amazon.com

• Olympiad | DVD | (31/12/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After being commissioned by the 1936 Olympic Committee to create a feature film of the Berlin Olympics Riefenstahl shot a documentary that celebrates the human body by combining the poetry of bodies in motion with close-ups of athletes in the heat of competition. Includes the marathon men's diving and American track star Jesse Owens' sprint races at the 1936 Olympic Games. The production tends to glorify the young male body and some say expresses the Nazi attitude toward athletic prowess. Includes the lighting of the torch at the stadium and Adolf Hitler looking on in amazement as Jesse Owens wins an unprecedented four Gold Medals.

• The Third Reich In Colour | DVD | (07/05/2001) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The colour film footage in this documentary has been drawn from public and private archives - including material filmed by Hitler's own pilot home movie footage recorded by Eva Braun and combat film buried by the cameraman and hidden from the Russians for almost 60 years. A valuable visual document which will appeal to all historians of the Second World War.

• Great Mysteries and Myths of the Twentieth Century - Ww2 | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Mysteries And Myths - Mysteries Of World War II