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I would love to see a historian make a documentary out of this with some good voice over commentary. I enjoyed watching some of these clips but couldn't guess a
by BorisMelnik 11y ago
I would love to see a historian make a documentary out of this with some good voice over commentary. I enjoyed watching some of these clips but couldn't guess as to what was the context in a lot of them.
- VLM 11y agoIt would be an extension or cousin of the BBC "World At War" series from the mid 70s, episode 16 which covered life in germany or 18 which covered occupied territory life. I guess better added as an appendix to ep 18. WaW is a truly excellent documentary, however be prepared that it not a new wave American style documentary ... there will be no historical re-enactments, no computer graphics, no nostalgic soundtrack, no camera panning across photographs ... I wish we had more "real" documentaries like WaW, its almost a completely separate genre from the modern american style.
- rurban 11y agoThere are a lot of much better documentaries with proper comments available. Many intellectual Austrians have the DVD set of Hugo Portisch' TV documentaries about Austrians History (Oesterreich I + II), and most have seen it on TV. I have seen most of the pictures from this Smithsonian collection already. Maybe because the Austrian Film Archive worked with them. Esp. the pictures with the huge Swastica flags all over the streets are very well known. But I as Austrian I enjoyed their German wartime video and picture archive, which I haven't seen before.