The California Reich

The California Reich (1975)

A documentary on the roots of nazism In America.

Date of release
1975-01-01
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (8)
Runtime
55m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Walter F. Parkes, Keith Critchlow

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: California
  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

The California Reich is a 1975 documentary film on a group of neo-Nazis in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Tracy, California. They were members of the neo-Nazi National Socialist White People's Party. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Production

According to a report in The New York Times the journalist, John J. O'Connor, the two filmmakers "Spent more than a year with the neo-Nazis before cameras were allowed to record families and rituals." The filmmakers were quoted in the same article that they "Wanted to show the Nazis as members of our society, not as human monsters, but the people next door."

The documentary borrows its style from the French film movement Cinema Vérité where narration was absent through the film and they let the subjects speak for themselves.

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