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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0720229912112 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: First Run Features Languages: Manufacturer: First Run Features MPN: 912112 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: First Run Features Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 23, 2006 Running Time: 107 minutes Studio: First Run Features Theatrical Release Date: 2004 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: The rise and fall of the Third Reich is chronicled on an intimately personal scale in The Goebbels Experiment, an essential addition to the vast legacy of Nazi-related documentaries. Like no other film before it, this remarkable experiment in archival biography combines two fascinating elements: rare and extensive archival footage and dramatic readings (by renowned British actor Kenneth Branagh) from the personal diaries that Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels kept from 1924 until his suicide in 1945. The net effect is unexpectedly striking: As Hitler's Nazi Party gained social and political momentum in the late 1920s and early '30s, Goebbels' daily life was so thoroughly covered by newsreel cameras, home movies, and Third Reich historians that there is enough existing footage of him to match (or at least approximate) nearly every event mentioned in his diaries. From Goebbels' growing influence as an influential orator to his surprisingly affectionate family life, the meticulously edited footage serves as both point and counterpoint to Goebbels' diaries, revealing a paranoid intellectual capable of breathtaking, if not outright schizoid, shifts from one train of thought to another. A perceptive observer of culture (especially the art of motion pictures), he both loved Hitler and felt repeatedly betrayed by the Fuhrer's perceived offenses against him. Prone to chronic bouts of depression, Goebbels found purpose in his unprecedented orchestration of epic-scale propaganda, but his inner demons haunted him until the very end, when it became obvious that the Nazis had completely lost their power. The final images of Goebbels' partially burned body (along with those of his wife and six children) serve as a chilling reminder that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Having never found a satisfying balance between his personal and professional lives as a top-ranking Nazi, Goebbels' fate seems almost predetermined. As a masterful assembly of archival materials, The Goebbels Experiment is not to be missed. --Jeff Shannon Description: "Arguably the most gifted of Hitler's henchmen, Joseph Goebbels was an enigmatic genius whose successful manipulation of mass political opinion was unprecedented. His rise to power, and that of the Nazi Party itself, will forever stand as one of history's most terrifying examples of the reach of propaganda, a tool with which Goebbels's name is virtually synonymous. In their fascinating documentary, the filmmakers provide a rare and chilling glimpse into a brilliant but toxic mind. Rejecting commentary, they allow Goebbels to speak for himself (in the voice of Kenneth Branagh), via the extensive diaries that he kept from 1924 to1945. Rare clips from German film and television archives illustrate the readings. At a time when much of our news and entertainment media is controlled by a handful of corporations, The Goebbels Experiment is a cautionary reminder that equal access to the machinery of ideas may be society's most critical goal." Average Rating:
 Rating: - remarkable view of 1930s and 1940sA remarkable view culled from exceptional library footage of the 1930s and 1940s. I agree with other "five star" reviewers. Rating: - The Goebbels ExperimentThis is The Goebbels Experiment a movie about the life of Joseph Goebbels and why he did what he did. It is possible to see from the portrayal of his speeches how the German people could have been taken in by such a dramatic orator as Joseph Goebbels. It is a general history of his life and the war. He was a major force behind the Holocaust and as this Movie/documentary tries to demonstate he was also the one behind Adolf Hitler. The music used in the introduction is ... Read More Rating:  - What WAS the Goebbels Experiment?This is an well conceived and executed film. The vintage footage from the Weimar Republic and Third Reich era is gripping, truly giving one, as an earlier reviewer puts it, a "feel" for the period. The selections from Goebbels' diaries focus on many of the pertinent hallmarks in his life, although it's puzzling that Goebbels' reflections on the concentration and death camps, the Americans (and especially FDR), and Aryanism are completely absent from the film's narrative. What's especially ... Read More Rating: - "The Goebbels Experiment" is very strongly recommended viewing "The Goebbels Experiment" is a 107 minute historical documentary focused upon the life and work of Joseph Goebbels, one of the key figures in the Nazi movement that took control of Germany in the late 1930s and was in charge of Hitler's propaganda machine throughout World War II until he took his life rather than fall into the hands of the Russians with the fall of the Third Reich in 1945. Drawing upon rare footage from the archives of German film and television, and interweaving quotations from Goebbels ... Read More Rating: - incomplete portrait of a novel type of crime and its perpetratorThis is another chapter of a 20th century totalitarian saga. From it we get some glimpses at the life of Goebbels. A surviver from his birth, a child and later an adolescent who most probably had to surmount an inferiority complex inversely proportional to the dim picture he cut, Goebbels' coming of age happened to coincide with: the rise of the left in Germany/Europe, the rise of unemployment and inflation, the rise of German resentment, the rise of a fellow whom we all know by the name of Adolf Hitler, ... Read More |
