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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 9780767065757 Format: Box set, Black & White, NTSC ISBN: 0767065751 Label: A&E Home Video Languages: 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 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:
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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The World At WarrThe 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 WarThe 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 historyI 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 ... Read More Rating:  - Not detailedThis 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 III 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. |
