A must-see documentary for every American !
Rather than dwell on the "politics and hardware" of World War II, this excellent British-made documentary tries to uncover the "whys". After watching it, you can almost still hear the echo of what may have been America's finest moment on the world stage as she mustered up the Arsenal of Democracy to help defeat two evil empires. You will know more about WW II than you ever did before, and will leave you with a newfound respect for America's ideals. This documentary should be seen and discussed by every high school and college history class. A very, very powerful piece of work .....
Wow, this is how you do historical documentary!
I saw this on cable first and was extremely impressed. I had to have it when it came out to show to friends and family. This is how you do historical documentaries! I've always had a natural interest in history, but never really developed it in high school or college beyond the classes that I took. If there were presentations like this back then, who knows. This should definitely be pitched to high schools and colleges.
The pacing and weaving together of the soundtrack, narration, commentators, graphical re-enactments and fact presentations, fluid top-down perspectives around the world, I've never seen it flow so impressively and with such high quality as here.
I would love to see this kind of effort put into other historical topics and conflicts, from broad overviews down to in-depth .
Cursory overview of the events in WWII
I bought this disk based on previous 4-reviews but quickly realized after viewing it that a more accurate and critical review of this disk is needed.
Essentially, this is a global overview of WWII from the point of view of the US side but sadly missing many salient points of the war (e.g, in the Pacific, the Solomons Campaign including Guadalcanal was omitted while in Europe, the Italian campaign, Operation Market Garden).
Moreover, it also contains many errors in its CGI video (e.g., U-boats firing torpedoes that detonate under the keel of a surface ship, breaking the ship's back and sinking it - these torpedoes are of modern design; Russian SU-152 self-propelled gun landing on the beaches in Normandy during D-Day in Operation Overlord).
Perhaps it is understandable that there will be major and important gaps in the efforts to provide the overview of WWII due to the scope of the subject and the limited time available in a single disk but the glaring...
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