damn, "the world at war" is an amazing documentary

[miscsoc]

70s bbc ww2 documentary, the sheer quality of the footage and the interview subjects...!

download this shit if you have not seen it.

[Iggo]

1. Seen it a bunch.

They used to show it in school, and it was on TV every fricken' weekend for my entire childhood it seems.

The theme music haunts me to this day.

Nothing the Hitler Channel has ever produced measures up to it.

I caught a few minutes of the finale last weekend. Fucking excellent.

Recommend. Recommend. Recommend.

[miscsoc]

4. There is so much interesting stuff there, it's very rewatchable

I watched "The War" recently which inspired me to rewatch the WoW.

The Hitler channel in the UK seems to rerun random episodes of this daily, which is fine by me. This sort of thing takes a lot of money and time. Actually I just read on Wikipedia by chance that it was the most expensive British tv series to date. It's the richness that's the thing, the fact they spend a bunch of resources getting footage and interviews that fit in with the narration more or less perfectly.

My only objection is the Eurocentrism of it - the internal politics of Japan for instance are fairly neglected (iirc, I'm half way through it and last watched it a while ago) - it is a bbc thing after all. Whereas the stuff about Nazi Germany is pretty good. Def. from a British perspective.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. It is the BEST.

We finally got the DVD set when it came out...

Olivier's narration is tops.

Highly recommended!

[miscsoc]

5. I am considering the blu ray set

To watch on my Dad's big hd tv.

[miscsoc]

6. in fact, i just looked on amazon

and apparently it's not good, and is cropped in a hideous way so I will refrain from buying it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Oops, just saw your post here!

Yeah, if they've done bad things to the blu ray set, then skip it...

The regular DVD will be great.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Blu ray is wonderful..

It wasn't out in that mode when we bought it.

[miscsoc]

10. apparently they've just chopped off the top and bottom of the original film

to make it widescreen. pity, it's great seeing old film in hd.

[bikebloke]

19. Were all of your disques alright?

The World at War was one of my early DVD purchases. Only a couple disques didn't play well. Probably a printing goof. One I remember having problems focused on Holland. It kept freezing.

Great series.

[Archae]

3. Absolutely.

I have the whole series on DVD.

[MicaelS]

7. Fabulous, just bought in DVD n/t

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

11. It's very well done

and brings home the message of the futility of it all...

[Adsos Letter]

12. The segment "Remember" is one of the most moving to me.

I've got the whole thing on DVD, but that segment is one of the best.

And the music in that series is great!

[CTyankee]

15. Sir Laurence! He is wonderful...that voice...nt

[old mark]

13. It is great, very informative and very good film...The BBC has several series

of this caliber, including "World War I", which has always struck me as a terrifying war all the way around.

I get "The Military Channel" on Dish, and I watch it often.

mark

[miscsoc]

14. which documentary are you referring to?

I've watched "The First World War", a fairly recent British doc. from Channel 4, but haven't seen a BBC one. I'd be interested to see it if there's another BBC one. There was one in the 60s called "The Great War" on the BBC I haven't seen.

[CTyankee]

16. It's called "The World at War" narrated by Laurence Olivier.

A magnificent treatment of WWII. Go to youtube.com. It's there.

[miscsoc]

17. i know, i started the thread :)

i was asking oldmark which ww1 doc he was talking about in the post above, since i couldn't find a bbc one called world war one

[CTyankee]

18. Oh, yes, sorry. Boy, do I remember that program! It was great...

at one time we had such great TV shows...gone with the wind...or something...

[old mark]

21. That's it _ I assumed it was BBC at one time, I believe it is in the end credits...

Just a great series.



mark

[cwydro]

20. It's fantastic.

Been a fan of that for years.