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Video Store for rare German Movies and volksmusik shows.
Please note:
All video tapes are in the American NTSC VHS video
format
and will play on all VCR's in North America. We are drastically reducing our
VHS inventory. This will be your last chance to obtain these beautiful ZDF
music videos and hundreds of classic German movies and heimatfilme. Due to
the limited demand in the USA, most of these movies will unfortunately never
be available on DVD in America.
Once our videos are gone, they're gone.!!!
We have drastically reduced the prices on over 2000 video titles closeout.
Make sure to buy these classics while they last.
WAR DOCUMENTARIES VIDEO TAPES
Suggested for scholarly and educational use.
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The California Reich
USA 1977, English dialogue, 55 min. - Oscar® nominated documentary about
the Nazi party in California today. A shocking report about a fanatic group
of people.
| Order #DO 18 | Buy
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Chameleon Cameraman
Color, 63 minutes, English voice-over and commentary. - This is the extraordinary
story of Henry (Heinz) von Javorsky, a man who has survived and thrived in many
lands and under many regimes because of his skill with a camera. In Nazi Germany
he was able to make a living--and live--despite having a Jewish grandmother,
because he was a specialist in aerial photography-- a skill needed for both
combat photography and filming war movies. At the end of the war his camera
again saved him, for he was able to film SS troops marching Sachsenhausen concentration-camp
survivors past his house and then show these shots to the Soviet conquerors,
who consequently protected him and his family. He then became a newsreel photographer
in Berlin, first for the Soviets and then for the Allies. Finally he ended up
in America in 1952, where he made industrial films for Volkswagen and Sikorsky
and received an Academy Award for his short film about breaking the on-water
speed record. The chameleon somehow always survived. We see Javorsky at his
home near New York City and in and around Berlin as he talks to a film historian,
his son, and coworkers from the past (including Walter Frentz, Hitler's personal
cameraman and the subject of another film directed by Stumpfhaus and distributed
by IHF). As Javorsky's story unfolds, we see a lavish array of clips from his
work. These include films made with Leni Riefenstahl and Luis Trenker, aerial
shots from war movies like Pour le merite, Cologne in flames in 1944, and Soviet
newsreel coverage of the trial of Sachsenhausen concentration camp war criminals.
We also get insights into how Javorsky was able to survive not only physically
but psychically. For example, after carefully taking pictures of the carnage
in Cologne, he realized that "while the camera was whirring", he "turned
to ice". Directed by Jürgen Stumpfhaus.
| Order #CH 653 | Buy
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The Cross and the Star
Documentary, English language, ca. 55 min. - The video finds disheartening echoes
of anti Semitism in the otherwise profound, lyrical gospel of St. John, the
sermons of St. Augustine, the Writings of Martin Luther, and in the voices of
the Crusaders and the Spanish Inquisitors.
| Order # FRF 732 | Buy
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D-Day
60 min. b&w - Actual war report footage with English documentation.
| Order #KU 1612 | Buy
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| Order # BB 9 | Buy
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Dresden, Fire Storm over Dresden
b&w/Color, 77 minutes, English narration. On the night of February
13th 1945, there began one of the most controversial raids of World War Two
- the bombing of Dresden. Witnesses to the raid and its aftermath describe the
events and the terror of what it was like to be in Dresden throughout the night
of the raid.
| Order # CH 742 | Buy
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Todt: Mission and Achievement
At the time of his death in 1942, Dr. Fritz Todt was among the most powerful
men of the Third Reich. By training a civil engineer, Todt first caught Hitler's
attention in 1932 by emphasizing the importance of road building for national
economic recovery. Upon taking power, Hitler made Todt responsible for what
would become Germany's great Autobahn project. Every aspect of Autobahn construction--its
design, aesthetic ("to harmonize with the German landscape"), and
model role in National Socialist labor relations--was stamped with Todt's personality.
As was his other great achievement, the building of the massive network of bunkers
and fortifications known as the West Wall--described here as the "first
battle" in the war against France. With the outbreak of war, Todt's organization
provided German troops an exemplary corps of engineers, filling out Germany's
expanding imperium with new roads, bridges, aircraft fields, and fortifications.
All of this is lavishly documented in this film, which supplies extensive and
often rare footage of Todt's life and work, concluding with remarkable footage
from his state funeral inside the Chancellory in Berlin. Germany, 1943,B &
W, 36 minutes, German commentary, English subtitles.
| Order # CH 682 | Buy
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Dunkirk/France
60 min. b&w - Actual war report footage with English documentation.
| Order # KU 1610 | Buy
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| Order # IH 417 | Buy
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Ein Tag im Juli: Berlin 1945
Germany, 1972, Color, 50 minutes, German commentary - US Air Force cameramen
captured these Berlin scenes on color film in July of 1945. They include conversations
with Berliners, Truman being greeted by Gromyko (who was then serving as an
expert on Germany) while Truman was enroute to the Potsdam Conference, refugees,
views of places that were famous before the War, wood auctions in the Tiergarten,
and rubble being cleared by Truemmerfrauen.
| Order # CH 617 | Buy
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Elite Forces
1990, English language, 60 min. - The paratroops have long been firmly established
as the best-known of all "elite forces". The idea of "parachute
troops" Was originally put forward in 1918, but it was not really until
the Second World War that the modern paratrooper emerged. The first units were
almost entirely the creation of General Kurt Student, Commander of the German
Airborne Forces, whose men carried out some of the most spectacular exployets
of the war. The brilliant early successes of the German paratroops rapidly led
to the creation of similar elite forces by both the British and the Americans.
Three Allied airborne divisions took part in the Normandy landings of June 1944;
and although many of the drops went widely astray, the paratroops went on to
achieve nearly all their objectives. But it is not merely on the dazzling airborne
actions that the paratroops claim to fame is founded. Deployed as elite infantry,
their record is no less impressive, especially in defense - as was demonstrated
so notably by the Germans at Casino, The British at Arnhem, and the Americans
at Bastogne.
| Order # KU 1608 | Buy
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The subject of this film, Walter Frentz, was Leni Riefenstahl's chief cameraman
and a personal cameraman for Adolf Hitler. The director, Jürgen Stumpfhaus,
has woven together interviews with Frentz, excerpts from Frentz's diaries from
the '40s and today, and many samples of his work to depict a man who made countless
carefully-composed pictures ennobling an inhuman regime. Frentz had his first
success with a film about kayaking, which ended up as a supporting program for
Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North. Shortly afterward he worked with Leni Riefenstahl
on Triumph of the Will and was her chief cameraman on Olympia. On Riefenstahl's
recommendation he became Hitler's personal cameraman, filming military sites to
show Hitler conditions there, and filming Hitler, his visitors, and his inner
circle at the Reich Chancellery and Hitler's headquarters. (These pictures were
also often used in the weekly newsreels.) He was with Hitler almost until the
end--this film includes photos of a party in Hitler's bomb shelter taken shortly
before Hitler's death. As Frentz's story unfolds, we hear about his craft-- how,
for example, he used techniques from his kayaking film to photograph Hitler's
motorcade in Triumph of the Will-- and we hear about his encounters with people
like Himmler, Speer, and Eva Braun. And throughout we gain insight into a man
who seems to feel no guilt because he believes he "only reproduced, never
produced" what he saw. This film has received high praise in Europe. The
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, for example, called it an "excellent documentary
with excellent photography". Frentz emerged from the war with an enormous
collection of color photos and film of military installations, dignitaries visiting
Hitler, bombed-out German cities, and a vast array of never-before-seen glimpses
of the Third Reich. This film includes some of these, and IHF will soon be releasing
a film showcasing much more of the Walter Frentz collection. Directed by Jürgen
Stumpfhaus. Color, 61 minutes, English voice-over and commentary.
| Order # CH 652 | Buy
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The Eagle's Nest: Hitler's Secret Center of Power
Netherlands (1987), English language - Above a small Bavarian town lies the
Obersalzberg, the site of Hitler's "Eagle's Nest". This mountaintop
retreat became both the Fuehrer's personal palace and the Reich's second capital.
Here Goering, Speer, von Ribbentrop and Bormann built residences near their
Fuehrer's. And it was here that Lloyd George was duped and here that Hitler
received the news of the German defeat in the East. A rare color footage of
the inner circle of Nazi fanatics, unique contemporary interviews wit Albert
Speer and other survivors, and much more.
| Order # K 1627 | Buy
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| Order # K 1628 | Buy
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| Order # K 1629 | Buy
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| Order # PK 7500 | Buy
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Eva Braun, Hitler's Mistress
color/b&w, ca. 50 min. - Eva Braun, Germany's most infamous woman, rose
from working-class shop assistant to notoriety as Hitler's mistress and died
with him in the bunker only hours after becoming his wife. This video is her
own remarkable legacy - a 'home movie' filmed mostly at the Berghof in Bavaria.
Her years spent in the company of Hitler's inner circle show Eva Braun to have
been uninterested in politics or serious conversation, preferring to amuse herself
with dancing, animals and romantic films. But it was her love of photography
which resulted in this extraordinary and macabre film as we watch the most important
figures of Second World War Germany come and go at Hitler's mountain retreat.
Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Speer, von Ribbentrop, Bormann all appear alongside
Hitler at the house-parties and important conferences held at this alternative
seat of government. This unique documentary allows us an exclusive private view
of the Nazi elite at work and play as it examines the personality and bizarre
life of Eva Braun, whose only ambition was to be a good housewife.
| Order # R 178 | Buy
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The Eye of Vichy
Drama, 1993, French language, English narration, b/w, ca. 110 min. - A brilliantly
chosen compilation of long forgotten film footage and newsreels produced by
the Nazis and French collaborators during World War Two.
| Order # FRF 789 | Buy
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