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Art of the Third Reich

Type: TV - Single documentary
Released: 1989
Directed by: Peter Adam

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Status

  • Broadcast within UK

Synopsis:

Peter Adam grew up in Hitler's Germany and now, in this documentary, he explores the officially sanctioned artwork of the Third Reich, and which has not been seen by the public since the 1940s. It reveals how all of the nation's arts, including painting, film, and especially architecture, which Hitler saw as the ultimate tool to express absolute political power, were methodically manipulated by the regime into tools of Nazi propaganda. The film received a BAFTA for Best Arts Programme.

Awards

Art in the Third Reich received a BAFTA the Huw Weldon Award in 1989.

Synopsis:
Peter Adam grew up in Hitler's Germany and now, in this documentary, he explores the officially sanctioned artwork of the Third Reich, and which has not been seen by the public since the 1940s. It reveals how all of the nation's arts, including painting, film, and especially architecture, which Hitler saw as the ultimate tool to express absolute political power, were methodically manipulated by the regime into tools of Nazi propaganda. The film received a BAFTA for Best Arts Programme.
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