even though ian kershaw distance himself from this project due to inaccuracy in regard to hitler life and yes and this be dramatise and but essential . robert carlyle play hitler during his late year and during this documentary that only deal with hitler from boyhood until he become chancellor of germany and include the night of the long knife . this tv film ( also a two part mini series ) show how a series of factor allow hitler to come to power and e. g. the financial disaster of 1930. the series follow hitler and little else and apart from the life of fritz gerlich and ernst hanfstaengl . all in all and valuable and fill with interesting actor and yet i feel it should have be more tightly direct with strong cinematography while most actor be portray in half body shot which ( for me ) make for a theatrical stance and not cinematic . the tempo be at time drowsy and and the film do suffer from it and be approximately 2 and 5 hour long .