Very probably the best...

Rating: 10/10 (18 April 2009)

It's hard to imagine that an entire nation could be gulled into following a madman on his quest for World Domination. But it happens. Repeatedly. We're nothing if not slow learners. We fold our hands and look the other way. And then we wake up one day and realize what's happening, but it's too late to do anything about it but pick up the pieces and start over. It happened in Germany, too, in the mid-1930s, and this semi-documentary look at the Final Days of "The Thousand-Year Reich" is riveting. There are lessons to be learned, here. Let's just hope that, the NEXT time it happens, we catch it early enough to prevent a tragedy...