Product Details

• Actors: Joseph Goebbels, Marlene Dietrich, John F. Kennedy, Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler
• Directors: Spiegel
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: International Historic Films, Inc.
• VHS Release Date: August 31, 2001
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000646UB
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #422,579 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

THE THIRD REICH IN COLOR A film by Michael Kloft. This remarkable trove of color footage, assembled from far-flung private and state collections, presents Hitler's Europe as never seen before. Amateur film enthusiasts -- soldiers, tourists, even Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun -- began experimenting with color film in the late 1930s, their camera eye recording the Third Reich from every angle. Some of this film was only recently uncovered in former Soviet-bloc archives; all of it, thanks to digital technology, has been newly transferred to video with surprising clarity. "Home movie" segments -- Hitler with his inner circle, Goebbels' children at play, and a vacationing Marlene Dietrich on the French Riviera with a young John F. Kennedy -- capture the era's leading actors with an often unsettling intimacy. Nazi festivals (including a bizarrely risqué "Night of Amazons" in Munich), Wartime coverage includes new found combat film hidden for almost 60 years. Authentic footage of the execution of partisans.! The brutalities of the Eastern Front and the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto. Day to day life of German soldiers, new weapons in action -- these and more are here presented, uncensored and unrehearsed, with color's startling realism. Our images of this period, long frozen in iconic black & white, will never be the same. Germany, 2001, Color, 100 minutes, English commentary.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars very poor quality for a very big Price, May 10, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The THIRD REICH In Color [VHS] (VHS Tape)

After spending over thirty dollars plus shipping on this product, I found it be a major dissappointment. Although there was some footage that I'd never seen before, most of the film was the same old stuff I'd seen on a dozen other videos including, "The Whole Story", "Eva Braun's Home Movies" and "Good Morning Mr.Hitler". The poor quality of the video and the cracklin in the audio track ranged from fair to very poor. Not recommended!

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor quality, high price, May 16, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The THIRD REICH In Color [VHS] (VHS Tape)

In addition to the poor quality of the film, I was disappointed to find that most of the footage in this video was was taken from various other products on the subject of the Third Reich including "Eva Braun's home movies" and "Good morning Mr.Hitler".Much to [costly] for the poor quality.
Not recommended.