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RE "good, detailed documentaries" - May I Suggest Lanzmann's 'Shoah', for one? (nt)

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goldenthal

In Reply to: RE: What we really need is... posted by Victor Khomenko on December 12, 2018 at 13:22:13

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Thank you! - Victor Khomenko 13:31:05 12/16/18 (5)
I added it to our queue. I know my wife will not want to see it, and I can't blame her. But I would certainly want to see it.
Will mention it to our friends.

Edits: 12/16/18
- RE Your Wife: Indeed, one needs fortitude and intent to watch it . . . - goldenthal 13:49:53 12/16/18 (4)
  but I don't think there's anything else quite like it.
  
  Available from Criterion: 566 minutes.
  
  Jeremy
  - Started watching "Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads" on Netflix - Victor Khomenko 06:35:50 12/19/18 (0)
    Chilling, and contains some facts that I didn't know. Especially the Holocaust dynamics during the first weeks of the Barbarossa.
    
    One problem with it - it is French production, so there is French voice, English subs - which is generally fine, unless there is English speaker - then there are three ways you need to keep track of. The English guy starts talking, you lock onto him, but then his voice goes down, being replaced by a French one, and you need to switch to the subs. Affects your being absorbed into the film.
    
    I strongly recommend that one.
  - 566 minutes - it's pretty epic - Chris from Lafayette 17:57:21 12/16/18 (1)
    PBS showed it one year (multiple nights) - that's how I saw it.
    - Netflix has it - Victor Khomenko 06:17:48 12/17/18 (0)
      I don't enjoy watching such documentaries, but I consider them important, even for someone who already has good familiarity with the subject. One should not consider history "boring", especially that important part of it.
      I still remember how many people stated they learned a lot about WWII from Saving Private Ryan... that was frightening.
      
      Edits: 12/17/18
  - She already knows way too much about that history - Victor Khomenko 14:22:33 12/16/18 (0)
    Including the fact that her father spent years in nazi camps and finally escaped. Her grandparents all vanished.

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