The World at War (TV documentary)

[Webb]

Link

The acclaimed 26-episode WWII documentary "The World at War", produced by Thames Television and aired in 1973-1974, is available in full (clocking in at over 22 and a half hours).



I've always liked episode 9 - Stalingrad.

"Now it (the Sixth Army) has a new task. To fight further east than the Wermacht has ever fought before, to cut Russia in two on the Volga."

(Cue dramatic opening music)

[Jetranger]

I'm still stuck on the Movie , Kellys Hero's with Clint Eastwood and Telly Savalas and Donald Sutherland from 1969

[Webb]

Here is something I didn't know.

Winston Churchill was 64 years old when the war started.

[H]

Here is something I didn't know.

Winston Churchill was 64 years old when the war started...
and 164 by the time it ended...

My dad was a medic in the U.S. Army... stress, lack of sleep and combat aged many fast -- and that's not even considering what happened with certain war prisoners...

[C]

A great series, and featuring everyone from Bert (down the pub in the East End o' London - "it was 5 to 5 in the evening, and I walked out onto the veranda - my veranda - and the sky was full o' planes"), to Albert Speer and Anthony Eden, Adolf Galland to Max Aitken. In a few episodes (it's been a while since I've run through them all) there are contributions from an American, long haired, (comparatively) young academic...

...30 years after it was made he was rather more famous, Stephen Ambrose having written a string of books on the war, one of which became the basis for the epic "Band of Brothers" miniseries.

[mustangaroo]

Here goes. I do not know if this will upload but it is personal to me. My father at Hiroshima around Oct. of 45. He and a guy named Marcus Kelts were supposed to keep people out but took pictures of the carnage.. His uniform was confiscated by the 187th Aborne for duty in Hokaido in anticipation of Ruski troublemakers, hence his disheveled appearance. He is still kicking at 88 in the Great White North.

[Hawkeye07]

WOW!! Thanks for posting the link Webb. World At War was one of my favorite series along with the Victory At Sea series and the TV show 12 O'clock High.


Hawkeye