DVD | Ten Days To Victory

Ok, if you don’t get into history or war, then stop right now. There’s no point wasting your time on this review, scroll down to National Treasure. If you do however like history, especially World War Two, then read on….

Ten Days To Victory is an interesting documentary that uses dramatic reconstructions and traditional documentary storytelling techniques to create an informative, interesting look at the last ten days of the war in Europe.

Looking through the eyes of 10 different people we see the war and it’s effects in ways that aren’t normally focussed on. We all know about the 101st Airborne thanks to the wonderful Band of Brothers. But other little know stories like the Canadians trying to prevent the Germans from flooding Holland, and how Mussolini was caught and killed.

There’s also a look through the eyes of ordinary Berliners who feared the Russians (and rightly too) and what they would do to them. Then there’s the Russians them selves who were given the ‘honour’ of taking Berlin, only because the allies figured that street fighting on that magnitude would cost too many Allied lives.

We see that last days of Hitler’s life through the eyes of his telephone operator, the struggle with reality and the dive into insanity.

All in all it’s a very balanced documentary that looks at ten of the most amazing days in modern history, where the true depth of German atrocities were discovered, and how the map of Europe was changed, from being under the control of one cruel dictator, to being under the control of another.