DVD : The World at War (30th Anniversary Edition)

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DVD : The World at War (30th Anniversary Edition)

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767065757
Format: Box set, Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 0767065751
Label: A&E Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
MPN: 71374
Number Of Items: 11
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 24, 2004
Running Time: 1357 minutes
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 M茅rit, 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

Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - If you like history, you are going to love this item
If you are a history fanatic, like my boyfriend is, you will get crazy about these CD’s. Award winning, great series about the pre-war events, and the war seen from different perspectives. A must-have for all history fans.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The definative WWII documentary
I live in the USA now but spent the first 35 years of my life in the UK. I recall as a youngster this series airing on ITV on a Sunday morning. It is one of those memories engrained in my memory about what Sundays were all about.

Mom doing the laundry on a cold winters morning with the doors open and a freezing kitchen (for that is where most peoples washing machines are in Britain), the shouting and appealing of several pub soccer games being played out on the football fields behind … Read More

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Grim. Absolutely grim. The real story.
When I was a kid I was taken by the tales of courage and bravery that the movies and books feed people. I read about the fighter pilots and the Commandos. War was all excitement and friends looking out for friends.

Then one day the theme music of The World at War came on, the program launched straight in to archive footage of real battles, all the horror of mangled and mutilated bodies. I was mesmerized and that was the end of my warm and fluffy view of warfare. You only need to see a … Read More

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - never forget
this should be required in every school everywhere. everyone should know these things so as to not repeat it. very thorough. got it for my favorite war history buff. he loves it. and i have learned much.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The World at War 30th Anniversary Edition
The World at War (30th Anniversary Edition)

I have purchased many DVDs about WW2 and this one sits near or at the top of the list. The 50 minute episodes make it easy to keep track of the many events during WW2. The episodes are interesting and informative. The series has excellent footage and the narration by Sir Laurence Olivier is top notch. The recent price reduction really makes it an exceptional value. I think it is a “must” purchase for any WW2 or history buff.

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