Silence Patton

I was very worried this might be a screed with iffy facts. Instead I found it a fascinating convincing and prescient film. Talking heads are used only as necessary, real footage is most of it. Sappy lol Patton in the hospital is like a music chorus. I'm not a military fan unless it's fiction but this was well made. As a child raised in a family that turned FDR into a God it's a revelation. Ignore your fear of being manipulated

This documentary is full of adoration for Patton, and it is interesting. It also is a bit of an anti FDR propaganda film. At one point the narrator outright states the FDR had soviet spies in his cabinet. This is stated without any explanation and the more gullible viewer will swallow it hook line and sinker. To fully endorse this film, one pretty much has to be in the mindset that we should of pursued war against the USSR after defeating Germany, also be a big believer in the domino theory. There's a manipulativeness in this film, the way it drives home it's one sided point.

As a television production this documentary is quite well put together with good narration and a lot of excellent and unusual photographs, however, it's a conspiracy film that goes so far as to use fabricated evidence. The script includes an alleged quote from Stalin encouraging his troops to rape German women. In fact, though such behavior was common, it was absolutely forbidden and Red Army troops that engaged in it were severely punished or even shot if it came to light. In a war against a hated enemy, it's not terribly surprising that some commanders would look the other way, but the commissars and military police certainly did not. Stalin was smart enough to know that if this behavior was encouraged it would be used against the Soviet Union after the war. Though he can certainly be blamed for many atrocities within the Soviet union and postwar Eastern Europe, the rape of German women is not one of them. I gave it two stars for production values, and an additional star for selecting excellent period Photographs. It deserves zero stars on content though

What a joke of a show. I watched the whole thing, but that was because it was like a train wreck in slow motion.

Vague, open-ended claims with zero factual backup, or statements like "it was said that...." fall out of the narrator's mouth left and right with shameless frequency.

It's as much a movie of Hero Worshipping as it is vaguely familiar to those ancient aliens shows: "Could it be....?" Well, sure, it "could be" but it's probably not.

Patton was a problem. He wasn't smeared. He was admired and feared, and was a horribly racist, narrow minded man who was drunk with power.

Sure, he was right about Stalin, but he himself spoke of world domination, saying that the Americans and British were destined to rule the world literally right after he helped defeat a man bent on the same thing.

He was a loose cannon with a genius for showmanship and strategy.

Remind you of anyone, oh, say between 2016 and 2021 and a bad comb over?

Patton was hugely dangerous.

Where is Poland in this documentary?? How can you skip Warsaw uprising,300 tys people murdered skipped, how role of Poland can be just skipped?? with some bloody term eastern Europe.. Sikorski Polish PM murdered in giblartar ahead of Yalta.