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The World at War (30th Anniversary Edition) 
Actors : Laurence Olivier, Sir Max Aitken, Stephen Ambrose, André Beaufre, David Belchem
Director : Hugh Raggett, Ted Childs, David Elstein, Martin Smith (VII), John Pett
Studio : A&E Home Video
by A&E Home Video
Release Date : 2004-08-24
Publisher : A&E Home Video
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 11
EAN : 9780767065757
UPC : 733961713749
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 207 reviews)
List Price : $99.95
Our Price : $45.99
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Americancivilwar.com essential video |
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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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Excellent!!! |
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It's a very well made documentary and everyone who is interested in history shouldn't pass this one up. |
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The Truth and False about this Documentary set |
I watched this set over and over.
Honestly it is the best in the market and I encourage any one who didn't know about WWII is to start with this.
It collects many newsreels from German Allied sources and builds the entire documentary narration on it! And some times vice versa!
The viewer must note that it doesn't tell the truth all the time; some times they hide important facts; ignore the achievement and greatness of certain people, events and some time it focus on certain unnecessary issues.
Something valuable in it as it shows interview with Nazi leader - generals and high ranking officers whom all died by now. And you feel that their statement is censored to save the purpose of the film and the allied point of view, some of the interviews with normal citizens from Germany are not fair as they are biased and non accountable.
The Sequence of even are nit the great even it is very good and very good quality.
If you wondering what happen in WWII with comprehensive good quality while you drink cup of tea I advice you to watch this set.
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THE WORLD AT WAR |
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The film is very good, as real as it gets. A complete history of WWII. |
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Great documentary, not always accurate. |
As many other reviewers already stated this is a very good summary of WWII, looked at from a British perspective.
Keep in mind that the war is over after volume 7. The remaining volumes are reruns of interviews with some more details.
It was mentioned that at the start of the war The Netherlands capitulated after Rotterdam was bombed.
As far as I know from Dutch historical documents, The Netherlands capitulated before Rotterdam was bombarded, but the bombers were already on their way and the Nazis did not bother to call them back, thus adding another atrosity to their long list of crimes to humanity.
Later there is an interview with historian Stephen Ambrose, who feels that the US profited from the war, since the US lost relative few people and now had Western Europe and Japan under its influence. This justified the occupation of eastern Europe by the Soviet Union, not more then fair. Never mind that there was an agreement with Stalin that all occupied countries should have free elections after the war. This (PBS?)'expert' does not seem to understand that the Eastern European countries were brutally oppressed by Russia, while the western European nations were free democracies.
There are other more interesting interviews with e.g. Hitler's secretary and German and allied commanders. Also with regular soldiers and civilians from Germany, Russia and the occupied countries.
Also footage about live in the occupied countries (Holland, Poland) and Germany during the war.
Overall well worth buying, a good historical overview of the rise and fall of Hitler. Of great historical value for present and future generations.
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Just the best documentary on WW2 |
This is perhaps the best documentary ever put together on WW2. It combines background information with in depth analysis of just about every major action complete with eyewitness testimony and accounts.
Highly recommended. |
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