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Seeing what Hitler's propaganda minister saw, hearing only his diary entries and what he heard, we effectively live inside the monster's head.
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Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Informative and illuminating.
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A man whose name has become a byword for pure evil gets a disarming makeover in The Goebbels Experiment. Far from being the horror show expected from its title, Lutz Hachmeister's cool, almost anti-dramatic docu paints a portrait of an insecure manic-depressive solely through extracts from Joseph Goebbels' own voluminous diaries.
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New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Ultimately, the project suffers from a nearly complete lack of contextualization. We could surely use some background on Goebbels' complicity in mass genocide while listening to him brag about his beautiful, healthy children and happy family life.
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Brilliantly edited for drama and irony, The Goebbels Experiment juxtaposes little-seen German propaganda films with excerpts from Goebbels' diary.
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The master propagandist comes across here as a brooding, insecure megalomaniac--or at times, a bitchy member of a particularly malevolent high school clique, an effect enhanced by some of narrator Kenneth Branagh's English line readings.
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Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
A fascinating, veritable self-portrait, masterfully culled from a trove of archival materials.
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TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Would be funny if it weren't so horrifying.
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Mostly though, The Goebbels Experiment proves that historical figures have the worst perspective on themselves.