The World at War (30th Anniversary Edition)
starring: Laurence Olivier, Sir Max Aitken, Stephen Ambrose, André Beaufre, David Belchem
directed by: Hugh Raggett, Ted Childs, David Elstein, Martin Smith (VII), John Pett
directed by: Hugh Raggett, Ted Childs, David Elstein, Martin Smith (VII), John Pett
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767065757
Format: Box set, Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 0767065751
Label: A&E Home Video
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 11
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 24, 2004
Running Time: 1357 minutes
Sales Rank: 2219
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1974
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Editorial Review:
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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- Excellent!!!It's a very well made documentary and everyone who is interested in history shouldn't pass this one ... Read More
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- The Truth and False about this Documentary setI watched this set over and over.
Honestly it is the best in the market and I encourage any one ... Read More
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- THE WORLD AT WARThe 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. ... Read More
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- Just the best documentary on WW2This is perhaps the best documentary ever put together on WW2. It combines background information with in depth analysis ... Read More
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