The description of Howling with the Angels sounds mind blowing, but the actual product is disappointing & I may rewatch just to make sure it is as poorly executed as I initially thought. First, the majority of the documentary is not devoted to first hand accounts from the resistance fighters, but talking heads mixed with narration that you could get from a book or another documentary. If you have resistance fighters, focus on them. Second, in the middle, the documentary randomly uses clips from a movie or uses a crappy recreation to illustrate one fighters’ story and then uses a shot of the outside with shaky cam to illustrate chaos of fighting. Jarring in a not good way. Seriously, get a film student to do your documentary-that is a rookie mistake that I made in high school. Finally, I watch a lot of documentaries about Europe during WWII, but for some reason, I could barely understand what people were saying because of the accents or the audio needed extra work. I learned more about the topic from reading the description of the movie than actually watching it.
I rewatched the documentary & realized that the main problem of the documentary was a lack of focus. It had many stories to tell: the Czech Jewish population’s suffering under Nazi occupation, particularly the Holocaust, the Czech soldiers fighting with foreign troops against Nazis & one of two narrators briefly relating his grandfather’s role, which was not a part of the most popular attacks against Nazis.