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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
Fabric Type: 9780783107981
Graphics Memory Size: Box set, Black & White, Color, NTSC
Legal Disclaimer: 0783107986
Maximum Color Depth: Hbo Home Video
Maximum Focal Length: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageFrenchOriginal LanguageGermanOriginal LanguageJapaneseOriginal Language
Metal Type: Hbo Home Video
Publisher: 9
Total Firewire Ports: Hbo Home Video
Total Parallel Ports: September 19, 2000
Total S Video Out Ports: 999 minutes
Hbo Home Video
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 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
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This series has no equal. It is due in large part to the thoughtfulness and competent assembly and editing of a huge amount of archival footage. The fact that many of the protagonists, British, German, Japanese and American were still alive to be interviewed was most fascinating. Some of those interviews were absolute coups, such Himmler's adjutant. No amount of documentary film replaces real study, but for getting a lead on a subject one would want to pursue further, this collection is the best ... Read More
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I watched part of this as a teen when was first shown. It made an unforgetable impression on me. This is the most complete WWII documentary series ever made. One part even has the creator explaining the criteria for scope of this project. A must-see for all who are interested in WWII history.
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What can you say that hasn't been said before about The World At War??
The A&E 11 disc set is a bargain, somewhat, and the visual remastering compared to the
original is a marked improvement. But I find it very irritating listening to the
remastered, 'processed' audio track. I've played these dvd's on numerous
systems and their all the same. The audio is not clear, it's muffled and the
volume has to be turned up way past normal, like they 'no noised' it to the
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A valuable source of information on the war although from a British perspective. The narration held my attention. I would recommend the video highly to those individuals interested in viewing the emotional as well as the factual information through period newsreels and newscasts. The coverage is incomplete but then when has the news ever been objective.
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The World at War is the greatest and most accurate documentary of the World War II period of history. This is a no-holds-barred documentary unencumbered by any political correctness or point of view. The choice of Lawrence Olivier to narrate is perfect not only because of his fantastic voice but because he was there in the thick of it.
This should be a required course for every high school student in this country (and beyond) because it removes the glory and valor of war and leaves ... Read More
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