Product Details

• Format: NTSC
• Language: English, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: CustomFlix
• DVD Release Date: July 13, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000GYI25U
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #214,693 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "AMERICAN REBEL: The Dean Reed Story" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Accurate and Wonderful, February 23, 2007

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CS (Huntsville, AL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: AMERICAN REBEL: The Dean Reed Story (DVD)

This is an accurate picture of Dean Reed's life and life in general behind the "Iron Curtain". This documentary is kept plain and simple and to the point, no opinionated propaganda, just the life of an American socialist (not communist - that is two different things)who lived and stood for and fought for his ideas. Every-day life in (mostly) East Germany is shown through this film. This is a historical document, that perfectly captured the images of the past, a past that is also my own past.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good memory about Dean Reed, October 25, 2009

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Yuri Nemtsev (Newark, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: AMERICAN REBEL: The Dean Reed Story (DVD)

I am Ukrainian guy and American citizen since 2004.
In spite of some disadvantages I'd say, "It was good documentary movie". Disadvantages are no option to turn subtitles ON/OFF and no scene selection feature.
(I wanted subtitles because sometimes I do not catch some words. English is not native language for me.)
However I understand that Ohio River Films did not have a good budget.

I liked listening songs performing by Dean Reed on radio or TV in my late teenager years. (It was beginning of 80-s. I did live in Kiev, Ukraine.) I listened the information about this man from different news. I watched movies "Blood Brothers" and "Sing, Cowboy, Sing" made in German Democratic Republic (It is Eastern Germany.) and translated into Russian. In the United States I rented movie "Adios Sabata."

However this movie, which is "American Rebel", told me much more about him.

"I don't believe the Soviet culture is an enemy to the American people," Dean Reed said. I like he said, "Soviet" not like ignorant people who say, "Russians."
Probably the confusion was the Russian Federation was a biggest republic of the Soviet Union and sometimes residents of other Soviet republics were called Russians, which was not correct. (An example is Ukraine was the Soviet republic but not Russian republic in time of the Soviet Union.) So I liked Dean knew what he said. I am ex Soviet man and agree that Soviets were not enemies to Americans.

Dean Reed said, "I think all people should have a right to see the culture of other forms, nationalities and countries and also defend own culture at the time." I think it is important for average American even now.

I was also impressed when I listened interview about Dean's Reed attitude to religions. We could understand that Dean was an Atheist. However being an Atheist he did not blaspheme. And also, he believed in things that all world religions did. (It means a peace, goodness, and cooperation between nations, ultimate truth, making life better place for men.)

Dean Reed is no longer with us but this movie is a good memory about him.

Although it is not first documentary movie about Dean Reed in the world but
this is the first one created by an American representative. Will Roberts and his assistants from different countries have done a good job.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More precise data on the DVD, October 31, 2009

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StarryNight (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: AMERICAN REBEL: The Dean Reed Story (DVD)

I like Dean Read very much. Yesterday I even saw a guy very alike him, but I was not sure to come to him. May be he was Dean's son?
But I would like to say some on the DVD data on site.
It is stated:'Language: English, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish'. I have expected the movie completely tarnslated into Russian, having 5 different audio tracks. But alas! Only a person, knowing English can watch it, understanding all movie. Where there are other languages besides English, there are given hard subtitles. But no Russian subtitles or a Russian audio track.
So do not be misled with this given on site data on languges. Five languages, but patrtially in different places of the movie. Hard English subs on shots with not English language. Only one audio track. That's it.