Product Details

• Actors: Jan van Eyck
• Directors: Hannes Schuler
• Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: KULTUR VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: January 27, 2009
• Run Time: 103 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001KL3H1M
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #169,665 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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HITLERS MUSEUM:SECRET HISTORY OF ART - DVD Movie

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars There are better productions, February 27, 2010

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Z Hayes (TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hitler's Museum: The Secret History of Art Theft During World War II (DVD)

This production basically takes a look at van Eyck's Ghent Altar which is Belgium's most prized relic. During the Second World War, this piece changed hands numerous times, and was moved from place to place. The story of this art treasure's startling journey is presented in a rather disjointed fashion here. The focus is not merely on Ghent's Altar as underlying it is Hitler's great quest to gather all of Europe's great art in a museum in his hometown of Linz, Austria. It also addresses Stalin's plunder of of German art collections. It is worth a look but there are better books and production on the theme of looted artwork during WW II and their fate:
The Rape of Europa
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in HistoryRescuing Da Vinci: Hitler and the Nazis Stole Europe's Great Art - America and Her Allies Recovered It
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Less than stellar, April 11, 2011

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ruralart - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hitler's Museum: The Secret History of Art Theft During World War II (DVD)

This is effectively two different shows on one DVD. The second builds on the first, but includes some of the same material already covered in the first, so if you are watching both it is tedious.

The format did not cover the material as coherently as I had hoped for; the presentation jumped around a good bit, so at times the order things happened in wasn't as clear as it could have been.

I was also disappointed in the lack of depth in the material. While it did cover the Ghent Altarpiece, that was not what most of the time was spent on; it was almost a second thought. Overall the lack of cohesion was a serious problem. Sections were quite good, but overall it was most disappointing.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars DVD - Hitlers Museum, August 16, 2009

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Karl Helft (Oak Hill, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hitler's Museum: The Secret History of Art Theft During World War II (DVD)

The program lacks any of the required organization that surely most have preoccupied Hitler as to how the stolen property was to be centrally gathered and eventually exhibited.