Hitler: The Last Ten Days - DVD

Blu-ray. Alec Guinness takes center stage as Adolf Hitler in director Ennio de Concini's (Daniel and Maria) Hitler The Last Ten Days. Leading up to Hitler's suicide, the film recounts the final days of strategizing and infighting among the Fuhrer's closest advisors, as well as his relationship with Eva Braun (Doris Kunstmann, Funny Games) within the confines of the infamous underground bunker. Alec Guinness' performance offers the viewer a rare look inside the mind of a mad man - manic, irrational, contemplative and eventually defeated, as the Third Reich crumbled before his eyes. Director de Concini's Hitler The Last Ten Days, scripted by Gerhardt Bolt, Ennio de Concini, Maria Pia Fusco, Ivan Moffat and Wolfgang Reinhardt, features an international cast that includes Simon Ward (The Three Musketeers), Adolfo Celi (Thunderball), Joss Ackland (The Hunt For Red October), Philip Stone (The Shining), Diane Cilento (Tom Jones) and Sheila Gish (Mansfield Park).

Richard Basehart delivers an incendiary performance as history's most notorious madman in this searing expose of the private life of Adolf Hitler. A semi-factual account of the Fuehrer's rise and fall, this rarely seen film follows Hitler's political career from the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 to his suicide in a Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. Inspired by a 1959 interview with a woman who claimed to be his lover, Hitler mixes his

Based on a true story, this film finds Gen. George S. Patton (George C. Scott) working a desk job for the U.S. military after World War II. In the midst of dealing with the difficulty of adapting to his dramatic change of lifestyle, Patton is involved in an auto wreck that leaves him in critical condition. While his body fails him, Patton introspectively reminisces about his relationship with his spouse, Beatrice (Eva Marie Saint) ; his childhood; and his days on the battlefields of World War I.