Die Frontschau (Deluxe Restored Edition) DVD

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.

NTSC Region 0 encoding (Entire World)

Libraries and Institutions Please Note: Educational Editions with PUBLIC PERFORMANCE RIGHTS and DIGITAL SITE LICENSES are available.

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