The World at War Series is refreshingly unique, with the strong powerful voice of Laurence Olivier as Narrator, it offers an insight into both sides of the war, and best of all, alot of the key witnesses or participants of major events were still alive at the time of this documentary so a phenominal amount of commentary was available making this one of the most coverted History sets ever.
It even goes onto describe the end of the War in Germany, known as Nemesis in the series, it shows not only the human suffering that allied nations faced, but also the civilian and military suffering on the side of the axis.
It covers everything, such as the Holocaust, the Blitz, The U boats, the Burma Campaign, the American Advance in the Pacific, and so forth.
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Re-rated based on Ciao's insistence that such reviews are no longer considered "Off Topic"
eljimbob 11.04.2008 18:18
As below, I'll rerate if you change to category or update with DVD features :¬)
James
Soho_Black 03.04.2008 14:51
I see you've posted this as a DVD review, but you've not mentioned the DVD features. Are there any extras? If so, what are they and are they any good? If you add to this, or if you change it to be posted as a "Film Only" review, which can be done by accessing "edit review" above the review and changing the drop down menu under the "Which format are you reviewing?" question at the bottom, please let me know and I'll re-rate.
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Advantages: Fantastic pooling of archive footage, interviews with eyewitnesses and no sensationalism Disadvantages: Occasionally, Laurence Olivier's excellent commentary can be a little hard to hear
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Advantages: Fantastic pooling of archive footage, interviews with eyewitnesses and no sensationalism Disadvantages: Occasionally, Laurence Olivier's excellent commentary can be a little hard to hear
Advantages: could be controlled on the unwanted war,thrilling people's sentiment. Disadvantages: nothing, but think in proper way for it's positive result.
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