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Availability Usually ships in 1-2 business days     Marketplace New  from $54.98 Used  from $43.20     Product Details Aspect Ratio 1.33:1 Audience Rating NR (Not Rated) EAN 9780783119373 Format Box set, Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC ISBN 0783119372 Manufacturer Hbo Home Video Number Of Items 5 Region Code 1 Release Date November 20, 2001 Running Time 1920 minutes Studio Hbo Home Video Theatrical Release Date December 24, 1941 UPC 026359924620 Availability Usually ships in 1-2 business days Product Description The award-winning series narrated by Laurence Olivier. A powerful and devastating historical chronicle of war, composed of penetrating interviews with world leaders, statesmen and the military, along with the experiences of the ordinary men and women of a 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 Customers who bought this item also bought The First World War - The Complete Series Victory at Sea - The Legendary World War II Documentary (History Channel) BBC History of World War II World War 1 in Color The Nazis - A Warning from History Customer Reviews for: The World At War - Complete Set   Rating - The World At Warr The World At War is one of the best documentaries I have seen about World War II. I recommend anyone to watch it that is intersted in this war and Hitler's reign. Rating - The authoritative series on The Second World War The World at War Series is the authoritative review of the Second World War to which all other series must measure up to. It is by far the best! Rating - The definitive account of the worst war in history I mentioned to one of my friends when I ordered this series that I wanted to learn more about World War II. I had always known that World War II was terrible, but watching The World at War, I realised that I had not known the extent of how terrible it truly was. This experience has had a significant impact on me, and is not one that I will forget quickly. The scale of World War II was staggering. 50 million people lost their lives, including 20 million Russians. At least 14 million Jews, Poles, Slavs, gypsies, ... Read More Rating - Not detailed This is a pretty good history of the Word War II period, and a very good compilation of contemporary films. But it's not up to the level of a serious history of the military or political aspects of the conflict. By comparison, the 1994 television series "Battlefield: World War II" is a lot more intelligent and provides better detail of the actual military campaigns. Rating - The best TV serie ever produced, about World War II I saw this amazing TV serie, here in Brazil.This TV serie is about World War II, in Europe and in Asia.Many interviews with germans, japaneses, americans, etc.Perhaps there's a better TV serie about World War II, but I never saw anyone.If you want to see a lot of videos about World War II, please see this TV serie. see more reviews See all movies starring Laurence Olivier, Sir Max Aitken, Stephen Ambrose, André Beaufre, David Belchem See all movies directed by Hugh Raggett, Ted Childs, David Elstein, Martin Smith VII, John Pett 0783119372,026359924620,B00005NOOH,9780783119373,Hbo Home Video,

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