| Description |
11 videodisc (DVD)s (approximately 208 min. each) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 volume (340 pages : illustrations ;22 cm) + 1 serial issue (32 pages :illustrations ;18 cm) |
| Contents |
The making of the world at war -- A new Germany: 1933-1939 -- Distant war: 1939-1940 -- France falls: May-June 1940 -- Alone in Britain: May 1940-June 1941 -- Barbarossa: June-December 1941 -- Banzai: Japan strikes 1941-1942 -- On our way: America enters the war 1939-1942 -- Desert: the war in North Africa 1940-1943 -- Stalingrad 1942-1943 -- Wolfpack 1939-1944 -- Red star: the Soviet Union 1941-1943 -- Whirlwind: bombing Germany September 1939-April 1944 -- Tough old gut 1942-1943 -- It's a lovely day tomorrow 1942-1943 -- Home fires -- Inside the Reich: Germany 1940-1944 -- Morning June 1944 -- Occupation 1940-1943 -- Princers August 1944 -- Genocide 1933-1945 -- Nemesis February-May 1945 -- Japan 1941-1945 -- Pacific February 1942-July 1945: the island to island war -- The bomb February-September 1945 -- Reckoning April 1945 -- Remember -- Secretary to Hitler -- Who won World War II? -- Warrior -- Hitler's Germany 1933-1939 -- Hitler's Germany 1939-1945 -- The two deaths of Adolf Hitler -- The final solution: part 1 -- The final solution: part 2 -- 30th anniversary disc |
| Summary |
Examines the events of World War II using documentary footage, photographs, and reminiscences of individuals involved in the conflict |
| Notes |
Each segment has its own producer, director and writer |
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Numbered limited edition box set containing all 26 original episodes (1973), all 8 follow up specials filmed in 1975, new 3 hour disk containing previously unseen interviews and new interviews with the people behind the original production, a facsimile of 1974 BAFTA Series journal and a special imprint of Mark Arnold-Forster's book 'The World at War' |
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Divided into 5 parts, parts 1-4 have 2 discs, part 5 has 3 discs |
| Credits |
Series producer, Jeremy Isaacs ; film editor, Alan Afriat ; music, Carl Davis ; historical adviser, Noble Frankland |
| Performer |
Narrator : Laurence Olivier ; Specials narrator : Eric Porter |
| Notes |
DVD |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945.
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| Genre/Form |
Video recordings.
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| Author |
Isaacs, Jeremy, 1932-
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Olivier, Laurence, 1907-1989.
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Imperial War Museum (Great Britain)
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