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The Goebbels Experiment

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Udo Samel (Actor), Kenneth Branagh (Actor), Lutz Hachmeister (Director, Writer) Rated:
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3.9 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
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This documentary lets the Nazi propaganda mastermind behind Hitler talk directly to you as actor Kenneth Branagh reads pages of the diary he kept without interruption from 1924 to 1945. (First Run Features)

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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

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.78:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 4 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ AMEX4813
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Lutz Hachmeister
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Closed-captioned, NTSC, Subtitled, Multiple Formats, Widescreen, Black & White, Color
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 48 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ May 23, 2006
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Udo Samel, Kenneth Branagh, Heinrich Brning, Winston Churchill, Engelbert Dollfuss
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ First Run Features
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000EULK1O
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Lutz Hachmeister, Michael Kloft
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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Customers find the documentary's audio quality positive, with one noting that the video matches the narration well. They express interest in the content, with one describing it as a very interesting video about Goebbels.

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Customers appreciate the audio quality of the DVD, with one customer noting that the video matches the narration and another mentioning the terrific English Language narration.

"...Very well and the video matches the narration...." Read more

"...German-language soundtrack and Kenneth Branagh's terrific English Language narration - why the American release of this DVD didn't include the..." Read more

"Hearing the actual words of Josef Goebbels is pretty enlightening. Good footage not normally seen in documentaries." Read more

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Customers find the documentary interesting, with one mentioning Goebbels' unique perspective on people.

"...This is a docudrama from entries in Goebbels own words. Interesting his spin on people including the Love of his Life.....Magda...." Read more

"Very interesting video of Goebbels. Held my attention." Read more

"This is an exceptional documentary in that it is clearly presented with generous use of movie footage, including much which has not been seen before..." Read more

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  • Richard Laughlin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Cleverness is not the same as wisdom
    Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2010
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    It's funny that it has taken this long for someone to do a documentary on Joesph Goebbels. He is an excellent subject for this treatment. He operated in that most public of political operations-propaganda-and he was next to Hitler the prime orater of the Third Reich. Also, he left a rather detailed diary from the 1920's to his death in 1945. The makers of the film wisely let goebbels speak for himself,with an actor reading from the diary through the film. It presents a man who was certainly very clever and ingenious-but to what appaling ends! If ever there was a lesson needed on the difference between even the most brilliant cleverness and wisdom, the life of Joesph Goebbels is a prime example. And the ending, showing footage of Goebbels burned and chared corpse,is the final and inevidable comment. How horroible and completely unneccessary it all was.
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  • Molly
    5.0 out of 5 stars Goebbels Diary~ close up view of the odd man so devoted to Hitler~ 5 stars
    Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2018
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    Goebbels Diary docudrama. Well done.

    This starts with video of Goebbels home as a child and village. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh. This is a docudrama from entries in Goebbels own words. Interesting his spin on people including the Love of his Life.....Magda. We see the mad "devotion" to Hitler and his close up at Goering. Very well and the video matches the narration. Interesting how this homely and odd looking little man climbed to power then helped murder their 6 children because he and Magda could not imagine a life without Hitler in it. 5 stars.
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  • God Ramen
    2.0 out of 5 stars Very disappointing.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2024
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    I received this film and the disk was loose inside the packaging. I was never told it was a used version and the packaging was horribly stickered with library notices all over it.
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  • Ms. Eva A. James
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Goebbels Experiment
    Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2008
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    This 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 highly suitable.
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  • Gregory V.
    4.0 out of 5 stars REVIEW OF THE GOEBBELS EXPERIMENT DOCUMENTARY
    Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2013
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    Interesting biographical treatment. Instead of pure narrative, the film quotes Goebbels' diary and letters coupled with film footage some of which I hadn't seen before. Because the film narrative is basically composed of Goebbels' diary's passages, it does not cover in detail Goebbels' political failures and/or those periods where Goebbels was out of favor with Hitler (when he tried to end his marriage to Magda for example). Goebbels tended not to reveal his failures in his diary entries.
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  • Visa
    5.0 out of 5 stars ... movie showed me a lot and I know WW2 better than I know my family this evil disgusting does ...
    Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2016
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    this movie showed me a lot and I know WW2 better than I know my family this evil disgusting does not get the blame he should he was the smart 1 I'm convinced he wrote all his speeches and spun that propaganda I believe Hitler wasn't smart enough to speak like that on his own this man who is burning in hell as we speak was the brains of The Nazi party
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  • Hopeless with computers
    3.0 out of 5 stars Could have been better
    Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2017
    Not as good as it could have and should have been. Large parts of the War are glossed over or left out altogether while too much time is spent covering moving-making. We don't get Goebbels' reaction to the Battle of the Bulge or the firebombing of Hamburg or Dresden. Goebbels' reaction to D-Day doesn't correctly reflect Hitler's reaction in that Goebbels says the Allied landings came right where the Germans expected them, when Hitler believed the real invasion was going to be at Calais and he waited much too long to release his Panzers into Normandy for them to do him much good. This program also shows Allied aircraft with their D-Day markings long before the program covers D-Day.

    There's practically nothing in the program about Goebbels' philandering and resulting troubled marriage, nor is there much about Goebbels' relationship with Hitler.
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  • Simeon 'Sam' Hovey
    1.0 out of 5 stars The DVD Has Nothing To Do With The Product Description
    Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2019
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    This DVD was a total disappointment, the title The Goebbels Experiment and the product description have almost nothing to do with the content of this DVD. What it contains is a disjointed series of historic films of Herr Doktor Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis, while the narrator reads random excerpts from Goebbels's diaries. I had bought this DVD at a highly marked up price because the product description claims to explain how the Nazis were able to use propaganda in order to get the people of Germany to plunge the western world into the greatest catastrophe in history -- WWII. But this DVD in no way, shape or form attempts to do this. The customer would do better to buy a copy of the Joseph Goebbels' diaries and read them instead of paying $70 for this lame semi-biographic account of Herr Doktor Joseph Goebbels. If this DVD was priced around $15 and given an accurate description that it is a semi-biography of the Nazi minister of propaganda then it would be worth buying. Otherwise the customer should avoid this DVD like the plaque.
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  • Trevor B. Thomas
    5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 24, 2010
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    THIS IS A GREAT DVD USEING ERELY NEVER SOON BEFORE FILM, SOME OF IT SHOWS BERLIN AS IT WAS BEFORE THE WAR VERY INTERESTING.
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  • Stéphane Chauvette
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in Canada on August 14, 2018
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    Great Product! Fast Delivery! AAA+++
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  • T. L. Gordon
    3.0 out of 5 stars Wanted to know about the development of his propaganda machine. Didn't happen.
    Reviewed in Canada on August 3, 2018
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    This documentary exclusively covers Goebbels own journal entries, brilliantly narrated by Kenneth Branagh. To compliment these entries, the audience is treated to combination of mostly vintage footage and some contemporary visits to actual sites where events took place. Perhaps I didn't read the description or the other reviews well enough, but I was eagerly anticipating, due in large to the title of the film, a documentary about how he built up his propaganda machine, with actual footage of his propaganda films. In the era of, dare I imply the comparison, Trump, I am trying to explain to my daughter how an entire nation, if exposed slowly in just the right way, can be lead to believe that "other" human beings are sub-human beings that "infest" ones' country. She cannot even conceive that this is even remotely possible, even though it seems to be "appearing" to be happening slowly right next door. This film was not what I expected and ultimately left me disappointed.
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  • Barry Crawford
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in Canada on May 6, 2016
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    Tremendous documentary. The master of smoke and mirrors.
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