Thanks for letting me know. I was considering watching it, but now I’m scratching that off my list of things to watch. Now I feel bad for Leslie Odom Junior for doing this.
Best World War II documentary?
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It is Euro-centric, but that’s not bad considering it was made by the Brits in the 70’s. Plus, if you think of the war as a timeline; the US doesn’t enter until the Euro war is 1/3 over, and for one full year of that Britain and the Commonwealth are the only Allies in the fight.
After watching it you’ll really feel like you went through the whole war! It’s on youtube low-res and broken into bite-sized bits if you’re interested.
Another great series, ‘The Great War’ is still the best WW1 doc out there. It’s a must-see companion piece.
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Frank Capra’s “Why We Fight” series is great.
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The Big Battles was a good one
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The World at War is a must have. The interviews alone make it one of a kind.
Recently I have been watching a show on the Military Channel called Hitler’s Bodyguard some of those episodes are really cool. There is one episode on when Hitler flew, the types of planes and security plans and features, one about his Armored command Train and another about his Automobile’s and his driving security and protection. There is also an entire episode about the Wolf’s Lair.
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been watching that too…pretty good…also i like battle 360 and commanders at war
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I just watched this film and have to say that it is probably the best WW2 documentaries I have seen. It’s not a history lesson…just a real look at what people went through and how they won the war.
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Some of my favourites have already been mentioned, so I’ll go a bit further afield and mention “Attack in the Pacific”. It’s made in a very sober, serious style, without the propaganda hysterics of early war films, and it devotes a lot of time to what goes into the planning and execution of an amphibious assault.
Note by the way that the dates cited for this film are misleading: the Internet Movie Database says it was made in 1944, and the film itself carries the date of (I think) 1950. Both are wrong. It’s clear from watching the film that it was made after the invasion of Okinawa (which is mentioned) but before the atom-bombing of Japan (which isn’t mentioned) or the Japanese surrender (because it’s evident from the closing narration that the war is still going on). My guess is that the war ended before the film could be released and that it was shelved until 1950.
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I just signed up with netflix and I see they have some that I have never seen, looking forward to watching them when I have some time.
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@Young:
I just signed up with netflix and I see they have some that I have never seen, looking forward to watching them when I have some time.
Little hopper, the best series that I have ever seen was called “Battlefield”. It appeared on public television stations. I would really like to find copies of this on dvd.
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‘in europa’ is apperently very good, but haven’t seen it so far
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GREAT DAY. My DVDs of the Battlefield documentarys came today from Amazon.com. Twelve two hour episodes on four blueray discs. (1080HD) Of course I suppose blueray will be of little value with these old WWII films. If you have never seen this series then I am telling you now that they are as good or better than any I have ever seen. And I have been watching WWII docs. ever since Victory at Sea first came out. Which dates back almost to when tv first became available in Indianapolis. I think I was in jr. high school when I first saw Victory at Sea.
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The Big Battles ( very accurate and good facts)
World at War
Victory at SeaThe last two i got the soundtracks and the narration by Lawrence Olivier is the best ever
The narration of Victory at Sea is inspiring to be an American and should be watched every 4th of July.Also the BBC production of World War Two is great as well. 4th place
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Victory at Sea was narrated by Leonard Graves.
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Enterprise360 is also a very good documentary that is fairly recent.
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Enterprise360 is also a very good documentary that is fairly recent.
I enjoyed watching this, but I would have liked it better if the narrator didn’t treat every sentence of his script as if it ended in an exclamation point. I found that part to be a bit overdone.
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Must add “Guadalcanal Island of Death” to the list of documentarys. This is the best information I have ever seen on the Guadalcanal campaign. Running time 230 mins. on 2 DVDs.
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Been watching “The Last Days of WWII” on Netflix. Covers the last 26 weeks of the war.Goes into a little further detail about minor battle you don’t hear much about, but, as the title implies, it’s only the last six months of the war.
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The Color of War (Its all Real COLOR Fotage)
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The Battlefield series (mainly series 1 & 2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_(TV_series)
They go very in depth in terms of the order of battle and the background/leadership of each battle.
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The Battlefield series (mainly series 1 & 2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_(TV_series)
They go very in depth in terms of the order of battle and the background/leadership of each battle.
At last, someone else has seen the Battlefield series.
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