The Hitler Chronicles

WER WAR HITLER is a three-part, 460-minute biography of the evil dictator who plunged the world into chaos and caused the deaths of approx. 50 million people. Filmmaker Hermann Pölking conducted some of the most exhaustive research ever for a documentary film, cataloguing 120 archives in 14 countries, reviewing 850 hours of footage, restoring and digitally scanning more than 100 hours of material. Audio was added to many of the mostly silent films, to recreate a historical sound. 125 narrators provided the commentary. WER WAR HITLER uses almost only original sources, hardly relying at all on "talking heads" interviews like most docs. An authentic and exhaustive portrait of the man at the center of the cataclysm that was WW II in Europe. (Filmfest München)