The Definitive Front Show Collection - Featuring 9 Front Show Films on One DVD! Nearly 3 Hours Long with New English Narration Track. Includes 6 New, Never Before Seen Front Show Films! One of the rarest cinematic documents to survive the war, Germany's Front Shows offer a unique perspective of Hitler's 1941 Russian campaign. Skillfully blending German frontline footage and captured Soviet combat film, the programs depict the German soldier in battle, on forced marches, building forts and shelters, and coping with .climatic hardships. Censored from the public, the features were screened to recruits to help prepare them for the realities of the east. This program Features: *FS 5/6 "Mountain Troops Battle For a Town" Depicting the assault on Baronowice in Soviet Eastern Poland in 1941. FS 3 "Advance" German infantry and armor traverse Russia's dusty roads, in this lively feature showing the right and wrong ways to move troops behind the front. FS 2 "Russian Construction of Positions" The Red Army's formidable, elaborate defensive belt German propaganda called the "Stalin Line" is shown in detail after capture late in 1941. FS 4 "Infantry on the Attack" Supported by artillery, German infantry and soldiers of the SS Totenkopf division attack Soviet positions near the Valday Heights in late summer 1941. FS 9/10 "Construction of Positions and Shelters for the Fighting Troops or Those in Rest Areas". *FS 7 "Attack by Infantry and Armor Against a Village". FS 13 "Traveling Across Ice Surfaces and Waters with Drifting Ice" *FS 8 "Defensive Battle in Winter" - Filmed by German cameramen on the Leningrad Front 1943 FS 11 "Terrain Difficulties in the East, Winter and Spring" · Note: Deluxe English language version includes three previously marketed Front Show films. DVD SPECIAL FEATURES: Digitally Restored and Re-Mastered Interactive Individual Front Show Selection Menu Switchable English and Original German Narration Tracks Optimal DVD Quality Dual Layer (DVD-9) Single Sided Disk Region 0: Compatible with All DVD Players World Wide The program includes three previously marketed features, digitally re-mastered. Each DVD contains both the actual German sound version and the option of English voice over the original narration. Germany, 1941-1943, B&W, 158 minutes, English voice-over narration.
C**N
Actual Footage
This DVD is comprised of actual footage shot by German camera men to document the action on the Eastern Front in 1941. It was shot, as it happened, no movie stars and fancy dialogue. Many Germans were decent people, and could not be considered Nazis, even though they had to swear allegiance to Hitler. I am not a historian, just a person who is fascinated by the rise and fall of the Third Reich.
J**S
Remarkable footage
Most of the film clips I had never seen before - unusual in a WWII offering
S**T
Historical footage
This is historical footage. I had never seen it before, and some of it was interesting, but none of it was truly revolutionary. The world looked different in 1941 and 1942, that's for sure. Get it to complete a collection of WWII footage, or if you want to watch videos of real battles that you haven't seen before. This is all from the German perspective, of course, and obviously one-sided. The written series breaks are not translated into English, but at least the voice over sound track is. Although one-sided, you will see German troops battle bitter winters and deep mud in Russia, so those hardships aren't papered over.
R**R
Die Frontschau/ The Front Show DVD
An interesting German WW2 film that tried to prepare the young Germans prior to going into combat on the Eastern front.
V**2
Fascinating Look at a War Machine's Self Image
A look inside the German wra machine, which clearely des not view itself as evil, merciless or unprofessional. Makes you wonder how how the U.S. military empire will one day be viewed by the world.We're taught that we're the good guys. German were taught to viw Adolf Hitler's war machine in exactly the same way.
T**G
The Glory of War? Do Your Homework.
I used films like this in a seminar in the “ Art & Culture of Nazi Germany.” Die Frontshau, & films like it, are good examples of the glorification of war. They were featured in cinemas to show civilians how their Führer‘s „brilliant“ military leadership was winning land for Germany‘s Reich (Empire) & subjugating “lesser” peoples. No mention, of course, of those peoples’ fates, or of any atrocities committed by troops (army or Waffen-SS) along the way. Germans at home were gradually losing access to foodstuffs, clothing & other basics that were needed by their boys in the Wehrmacht—films like this, however, made such material lack worthwhile. (The Nazi Bonzen [bigwigs], however, suffered no such decrease in their luxurious lifestyles.). Today’s (ignorant) fans of Hitler & 1920’s fascism find much to admire in films like this.History, however, demands that we view Die Frontschau, & its ilk, in the harsh light of the IMPLICATIONS of what we see, not just the “victorious conquerers” for the Fatherland.
Y**6
Good movie
Excellent
K**R
Training documentary but a dull one
This documentary is pretty dull except that some of the original film is rare. It is essentially a training film for infantry maneuvers which after a while gets repetitive. Couldn't watch the whole thing. Doubt the troops could either.
A**R
misleading description
I read that there was English subtitles in their product description, but there are not.
V**S
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Outstanding. Excellent. Highly recommend. Great piece of history.
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