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I love movies. I love DVDs. They have allowed me to watch a lot of movies uncut for the first time, with a picture quality that helps recreate the theater experience at home. I have enjoyed this enthusiasm by purchasing over 1200 DVDs (Most bought during the internet bubble when you could purchase DVDs from such extinct places as Reel.com for less than $3.00 or even for free). I have 3 mammoth rotating carousels each holding over 500 DVDs each. I have popular ones, obscure ones, foreign ones, classic ones. The stories we tell one another define our society. Movies have been the method of choice the last century.
DVDs have allowed me to get almost everything Buster Keaton did in the Silent age (at least all that is extant). I have gotten to see important movies that TV never shows. I can watch Yojimbo, Fistfull of Dollars and Last Man Standing and see just how different the same story can be done by Japan, Italy and America.
Well, one I will have to get is called It Happened Here. One of my favorite types of science fiction tales is the alternative history, with 'The Man in the High Castle' one of the best. In that book, a world is envisioned in which Japan and Germany win WWII. It examines one such possible world. 'It Happened Here' is a movie that examines the same sort of thing. It has a world where Germany invaded England successfully. It has a documentary style, probably because it was shot in something approaching today's independent film, only with less money. I'll have to check it out. 1:05:55 PM 
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