The Goebbles Experiment

Name: The Goebbles Experiment
Genre: Biography, History, War, Documentary
Released: August 12, 2005
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 67

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First Run Features | Release Date: August 12, 2005

Summary: This documentary lets the Nazi propaganda mastermind behind Hitler talk directly to you as actor Kenneth Branagh reads pages of the diary he kept without interruption from 1924 to 1945. (First Run Features)

Director: Lutz Hachmeister

Genre(s): Biography, History, War, Documentary

Runtime: 108 min

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Kevin Thomas

A fascinating, veritable self-portrait, masterfully culled from a trove of archival materials. Read full review

Ella Taylor

Brilliantly edited for drama and irony, The Goebbels Experiment juxtaposes little-seen German propaganda films with excerpts from Goebbels' diary. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

A rare and chilling glimpse into a brilliant but toxic mind. Read full review

Wesley Morris

Weirdly enthralling film. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

Would be funny if it weren't so horrifying. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Ultimately, the project suffers from a nearly complete lack of contextualization. We could surely use some background on Goebbels' complicity in mass genocide while listening to him brag about his beautiful, healthy children and happy family life. Read full review

Joshua Land

The master propagandist comes across here as a brooding, insecure megalomaniac--or at times, a bitchy member of a particularly malevolent high school clique, an effect enhanced by some of narrator Kenneth Branagh's English line readings. Read full review

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enes_2314

Oct 3, 2020

You know the drill. Heinrich Himmler is in it, it was very informative and also was very entertaining. Rate this one 88/90 -) 10!

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Costs1129

Oct 25, 2015

At times we overestimate Nazi leaders as dark demagogues that are incomprehensible. Documentaries like these remind us that they were nothing but men; and often even less than that.

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TedW.

Sep 16, 2005

Fascinating.

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