The World at War (30th Anniversary Edition)
starring: Laurence Olivier, Anthony Eden, Averell Harriman, Albert Speer, Siegfried Westphal
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This landmark incomparable rememberance of world war ii includes rare interviews with veterans & survivors amazing archive footage & chilling narration by sir laurence olivier.Studio: A&e Home VideoRelease Date: 08/24/2004Run time: 1199 minutesRating: Nr
Amazon.com essential video:
Sir Jeremy Isaacs highly deserves the numerous awards for documentaries he has earned: the Royal Television Society's Desmond Davis Award, l'Ordre National du Mérit, an Emmy, and a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. His epic The World at War remains unsurpassed as the definitive visual history of World War II.
The Second World War was different from other wars in thousands of ways, one of which was the unparalleled scope of visual documents kept by the Axis and Allies of all their activities. As a result, this war is understood as much through written histories as it is through its powerful images. The Nazis were particularly thorough in documenting even the most abhorrent of the atrocities they were committing--in a surprising amount of color footage. The World at War was one of the first television documentaries that exploited these resources so completely, giving viewers an unbelievable visual guide to the greatest event in the 20th century. This is to say nothing of the excellent, comprehensible narrative. Some highlights:
The World at War will remain the definitive visual history of World War II, analogous to Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. No serious historian should be missing The World at War in a collection, and no student should leave school without having seen at least some of its salient episodes. Rarely is film so essential. --Erik J. Macki
This landmark incomparable rememberance of world war ii includes rare interviews with veterans & survivors amazing archive footage & chilling narration by sir laurence olivier.Studio: A&e Home VideoRelease Date: 08/24/2004Run time: 1199 minutesRating: Nr
Amazon.com essential video:
Sir Jeremy Isaacs highly deserves the numerous awards for documentaries he has earned: the Royal Television Society's Desmond Davis Award, l'Ordre National du Mérit, an Emmy, and a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. His epic The World at War remains unsurpassed as the definitive visual history of World War II.
The Second World War was different from other wars in thousands of ways, one of which was the unparalleled scope of visual documents kept by the Axis and Allies of all their activities. As a result, this war is understood as much through written histories as it is through its powerful images. The Nazis were particularly thorough in documenting even the most abhorrent of the atrocities they were committing--in a surprising amount of color footage. The World at War was one of the first television documentaries that exploited these resources so completely, giving viewers an unbelievable visual guide to the greatest event in the 20th century. This is to say nothing of the excellent, comprehensible narrative. Some highlights:
- A New Germany 1933-39: early German and Nazi documentation of Hitler's rise to power through the impending attack on Poland
- Whirlwind: the early British losses in the blitz in the skies over Britain and in North Africa
- Stalingrad: the turning point of the war and Germany's first defeat
- Inside the Reich--Germany 1940-44: one of the most fascinating documentaries that exists on life inside Nazi Germany, from Lebensborn to the Hitler Youth
- Morning: prior to Saving Private Ryan, one of the only unromanticized views of the Normandy invasion
- Genocide: this film is one of the most widely shown introductions to the Holocaust
- Japan 1941-45: although The World at War is decidedly focused more on the European theater, this is an important look into wartime Japan and its expansion--early 20th-century history that lead to Japan's role in World War II is superficial
- The bomb: another widely shown documentary of the Manhattan Project, the Enola Gay, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki
The World at War will remain the definitive visual history of World War II, analogous to Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. No serious historian should be missing The World at War in a collection, and no student should leave school without having seen at least some of its salient episodes. Rarely is film so essential. --Erik J. Macki
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- "The World at War"
This is the best documentary that i have seen of World War Two. The complete set is well worth the price. It will hold you spellbound thru each episode.
Rating: - World at War, a must own series
Next to the "Victory at Sea" series, "World at War" is one of the outstanding documentories of World War 2. Nothing can match actual footage and stories by those who lived through the events of the 1930's and 1940's. I would recomend this video to anyone who has even the least amount of interest in world history, you can't help in getting fascinated with it.
Rating: - Most amazing extensive WWII collection I have ever seen!
This is an amazing WWII collection. It is a must have for history buffs. The footage shown is so extensive I never knew a history of WWII like this was available. Everything is just absolutely amazing. I highly recommend The World at War.
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- Not for the hearing impaired
unfortunately, none of these videos are closed captioned nor do they have subtitles. Again the hearing impaired get left in silence. What a disappointment. I'm selling mine.
Rating: - Now I Know how it all began
I have read heard and seen much about Hitler and the wars. But all I ever heard that he was a devil...and rightly so.
However this box set dawned a new light on events before the rise of Hitler that led to his rule and demise. And most importantly that he did not and could not do it alone. All the carnage, mayhem was hailed at first as an example of good strong government. In the guise of valiant community effort and sheer fright of the people.
Oh how we all love to be led ... Read More
- "The World at War"This is the best documentary that i have seen of World War Two. The complete set is well worth the price. It will hold you spellbound thru each episode.
- World at War, a must own seriesNext to the "Victory at Sea" series, "World at War" is one of the outstanding documentories of World War 2. Nothing can match actual footage and stories by those who lived through the events of the 1930's and 1940's. I would recomend this video to anyone who has even the least amount of interest in world history, you can't help in getting fascinated with it.
- Most amazing extensive WWII collection I have ever seen!This is an amazing WWII collection. It is a must have for history buffs. The footage shown is so extensive I never knew a history of WWII like this was available. Everything is just absolutely amazing. I highly recommend The World at War.
- Not for the hearing impairedunfortunately, none of these videos are closed captioned nor do they have subtitles. Again the hearing impaired get left in silence. What a disappointment. I'm selling mine.
- Now I Know how it all beganI have read heard and seen much about Hitler and the wars. But all I ever heard that he was a devil...and rightly so.
However this box set dawned a new light on events before the rise of Hitler that led to his rule and demise. And most importantly that he did not and could not do it alone. All the carnage, mayhem was hailed at first as an example of good strong government. In the guise of valiant community effort and sheer fright of the people.
Oh how we all love to be led ... Read More
