This Second World War "photo thriller" is a worthwhile documentary from Deutsche Welle.

It's another fine Deutsche Welle documentary, this time with a few uncharacteristic twists. If you're interested in the World War II period, especially the little known Polish side of the story, this one's for you. I enjoyed the film.

A box full of photos from the Second World War serves as the starting point for a historical thriller. It was found by a Polish filmmaker whose grandfather had served in the German army. But what does it mean for Michal Wnuk’s family history?

The photos show prisoners of war in France and Russia - and the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 from a German perspective: Snapshots of the war in black and white. On closer inspection, however, it becomes apparent that Michal Wnuk’s grandfather could not have taken the photos himself, because he never served in those theatres, so Michal sets off to find out where they came from. He discovers that the box belonged to his great uncle, who was in the Polish Home Army. How did he get them? Booty? Evidence? And the films are also puzzling, showing an excursion in the summer of 1939. But who are the people in the pictures? Michal’s search finally takes him to Germany. This German-Polish co-production is a historical thriller, full of riddles and surprising twists, as a hoard of private material turns into a sounding board for great historical events.

Hochkommissar für Konservatismus says, "Make sure I have the right partners."

This fascinating clip contains color film footage from the Reichsparteitag der NSDAP in Nürnberg, or as we refer to these gatherings colloquially, the Nürnberg Rallies.

By the way, Governor Mike Pence was in Jeffersonville last night, and spoke by torchlight.

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So long as they're the right sex of partner, right Mike?

Filson's old Louisville home movies have been restored.

Fascinating stuff.

Early moving film of Lou. in 20s discovered, by Doug Proffitt (WHAS11)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Trolley cars moving up and down Jefferson Street at Fifth. Steamboats chugging through frozen Ohio River in 1933. Charles Lindbergh landing at Bowman Field as part of his triumphant tour of America.

People have seen photographs of early Louisville, but not moving film from this era.
Home movies dating from 1927 to 1933. It was rare for anyone to have a home movie camera at that time.

The film has been sitting in the original film cans since then. Two different families had the movies. The men who shot the scenes left their movies to the Filson Historical Society as part of their last will and testament. The Filson just recently got money from a federal grant to start the process of transferring this delicate film to digital.

More video clips are at the Filson Historical Society site at YouTube. Also, don't forget the Filson Historical Society web site.

The Hitler home movies: The "banality of evil."

Almost seven decades after Adolf Hitler perished, his story still fascinates and repulses. The story of how Lutz Becker found Eva Braun's home movies follows.

The Hitler home movies: how Eva Braun documented the dictator's private life, at The Guardian

Eva Braun was the most intimate chronicler of the Nazi regime, capturing Hitler's private life with her cine-camera. But it was only the obsession of artist Lutz Becker that brought her films to light. Robert McCrum and Taylor Downing uncover the story of the footage that shocked the world

Lutz Becker was born in Berlin, he says, "during the anno diabolo, 1941. Mine was the generation that was sent into a dark pit." Meeting this survivor of the Third Reich, now in his 70s and living in Bayswater, London, it's hard to suppress the thought that Becker, a distinguished artist and film historian, has conducted most of his life in a circle of hell.

Becker's childhood passed in the fetid, terrifying atmosphere of Berlin's air-raid shelters as the Allied raids intensified and the city was reduced to burning rubble ...