Against the storm : Herbert Kline in a darkened Europe.
(Blu-ray)

Title from sell sheet.

Special features: Audio commentary for Crisis, a film of the Nazi way by Thomas Doherty; Audio commentary for Lights out in Europe by film historian Maria Elena de las Carreras; Peace! the four power conference (1938) - a Pathe Gazette newsreel profiling the delegates at the Four-Power conference in munich; The white eagle (1942) directed by Eugeniusz Cekalski, narrated by Leslie Howard, showing the exiled Polish community in Britian; image gallery.

Crisis, Crisis, a film of The Nazi way: Narrated by Leif Erickson.

Lights out in Europe: Narrated by Frederic March.

Flicker Alley is proud to present a pair of new restorations of decisive and timely documentaries by filmmaker Herbert Kline from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Crisis: A Film of 'The Nazi Way' and Lights Out in Europe. Herbert Kline made his breakthrough documentary Crisis: A Film of 'The Nazi Way' as the storm clouds of impending war gathered over Europe in 1938. Narrated by illustrious American stage, film, and television actor, Leif Erickson, the film, which captures with evocative camerawork and ominous clarity the lead-up to the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, was shot at great personal risk to Kline and his crew members. Kline, a Jew born in Chicago and raised in Iowa, was in his late 20s when he began filming in the Sudeten region bordering Germany and took on the hair-raising task of not only passing as a Nazi sympathizer to complete the project but also smuggling the footage out of the Prague airport past Gestapo guards. The result is one of the first anti-Hitler documentaries ever made and a fascinating historical and cinematic document.

Blu-ray, all regions; wide screen; requires Blu-ray player.

English dialogue; English subtitles.