I've recently become interested in World War II, and I'm looking for a website that allows one to download footage of Germany during 1919 to the aftermath of world war II (~1946).
However, most videos on youtube that have these videos either have annoying watermarks or names printed onto the video, or have been uploaded by neo-nazis and have distasteful music played with the audio.
Please respond with a link to a website which provides footage (preferably in colour) of the aforementioned time period. Since there isn't any copyright attached to these videos it shouldn't be hard, but I still can't find such a website unfortunately. Thanks everyone
You may want to look into ripping DVDs of classic german art films?
edit: HA! I found it!
I present to you, "Berlin: Symphony of a Great City". It's basically just a sort of documentary of a generic day in Weimar-era Berlin (with some pro-socialist/communist imagery thrown in for good measure.)
But you want to know the best part? It's in the public domain and you can download it right now. Resoution kind of sucks, but it at least gives you a place to start?
Edit 2: Something I should probably warn you about: this isn't an easy film to watch. It has almost no plot, no real characters, and this version does not include the score that is supposed to accompany the film.
That said, it's not just a collection of "stuff happening." When Berlin was filmed, the idea of a montage--creating meaning by juxtoposing two scenes together--was very new, and the filmmakers use it quite a bit. The classic example is when a bunch of men going to work are juxtaposed with cattle.