Sforest

Instead of a "shameless tie-in which someone wrote, this documentary was actually better than the Tom Cruise film. The interviews with family members of the plot were outstanding. Good for history students. They said I didn't write enough about this. Okay, I'll repeat it. The attack of "shameless" was totally unfounded. This is an excellent documentary, which, by the way, I tend to prefer to adjusted Hollywood films. If you want a feel for what the families of those involved in the plot went through, and in many ways we could say are still going through, then this is the film to watch. In a relatively short time frame they give you the very essence of what the plot was all about. Not all Germans "went along."

The only problem I have with this version is that it is way too abbreviated, and Richard Basehart is not the narrator! I saw a longer abbreviated version on TNT in the early 1990s, but have never been able to find it. The Wolper office at UC will not release the original 6 hour version for some very unexplainable reason. What a shame for such a great documentary. The person I spoke with on the phone did not give a reason for this. This is a great film version of Shirer's book with the same title. It is a great summary of life in Germany from 1918-1945, a period of unbelievable importance to today's world, a period which indeed did change the world.