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Target for Today The Eighth Air Force at War Deluxe Edition

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Wow is this an incredible bit of history! Not only do you get to see B-17s and Lancasters plastering Germany in "Target for Today", but I was surprised by "Target Berlin" which is also a really interesting and undervalued movie. These are "lost" films which I saw as a kid, and I'm delighted to finally be able to add them to my video collection.

Another reviewer wrote about the quality of these films...they are pretty much what I remember when I saw them forty years ago...which is crummy combat footage that looks like what it is, shot with a 16mm movie camera by some poor guy freezing his patooties off in a bomber at 40,000 feet. Whatever! The films themselves are amazing.

Had a "Stutter" problem two thirds of the way through this disc. Got a replacement and I have the same problem...
The content I can take or leave, no better or worse than a lot of others...

i just watched this and some of the companion films, made during the second world war. these are really pretty amazing films from amazing times, when the military actively made films to talk about the war and the progress of the war. what you see in these films is i guess a bit dolled up, but it is nevertheless pretty thrilling. so many young americans died in the fight across Germany's skies, and these films are maybe the best living tribute to what happened over there except our real live vets. anyway well worth a look. don't expect a standard history channel documentary though, these are old fashioned films from the 40's.

Well, i bought this DVD as i wanted to see those historical-Aviation- propaganda-documentaries again. They were issued in the 80's on VHS in Europe in the "After the Battle" serie, with a good quality for the time. Now my VHS are more than 20 years old and i hoped to get an as good image as can be expected with a DVD. What a disillusion. These poeple from PERISCOPEFILM have allowed themselves to put a (as they say) Digitl Signal at the right low corner of the screen. It means that you've got a grey circle with a periscope during the whole show. How can they manage to deteriorate theses films this way? Are they so afraid of hacked copy that they prefer to mutilate those documents better than offering their customers a clean and proper vision? By the way, the film restoration is not as good as it could be done techically.
Should i have known all of this, i would have kept my money and tried to have a look and my old VHS.