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The World At War - Complete Set Reviews
Hasn't Lost Any Of It's Power..
The best documentary series EVER. I originally saw this as a kid in the UK, when it was first screened in the mid-70's on ITV on Sunday afternoons. Those unforgettable B+W images of a time only 30 years gone made a massive impact on me back then.
So naturally I wondered if re-watching this series again now might show it all to be badly dated in the post-MTV age. I couldn't have been more wrong. Just seeing the combination of those haunting opening credits along with Olivier's haunting human narration and Carl Davis's moving score all over again felt like a punch in the stomach. In these dark violent times, this wonderful humanitarian series hasn't dated a bit. Indispensable stuff.
No One Does it Better...
"World at War" continues to be the most comprehensive documentary series of WWII. However, with so many actions occurring simultaneously throughout the globe, it is difficult to capture the war in its truly 3-dimensional nature. Therefore, I found it extremely helpful to watch Professor Thomas Childer's college course "World War II: A Military and Social History" (available on DVD through The Teaching Company)which provides a more extensive strategic overview of the war. Throughout Childer's course, I would stop and watch pertinent episodes of "World at War" which complemented his lectures. This approach has given me a much better overall comprehension of the war, even though I had watched "World at War" a few times in the past.
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