The World at War...

[Lonewolf-McQuade]

Has anyone seen this... I'm thinking of buying it!

http://www.timelife.com/worldatwar

[[JiF]Djsmg]

I would like to watch it, but I think I will wait for it on the History Channel. But I am cheap like that.

[[JiF]Lt Gav]

Considering it was made in the early 70's I am surprised it still airs, but it does. It runs every now & then on one of our History Channels. I guess that is a testament to how good a collection it is.
Can't say I've ever got into watching the whole thing as it is a mammoth series.

[Sir Die-a-lot]

I felt pretty loose with my money about 10 years ago when I bought it. If you are a WWII enthousiast, at that price it is well worth having. And it doesnt't take much more time to watch than going through all the episodes of Band of brothers

[[JiF]zougathefist]

World at War is one of THE definitive histories of WWII, there is tons of stuff in it that you will never haveheard of.
they interview all kind of people, old SS commanders, communist partisans, Resistance members, SOE/OSS operatives, ordinary civilians.
I have watched the whole series about 3 times, we even used to watch it in History lessons at my secondary school.
I would definitely recommend buying it, I have it on VHS ( )
Z

[[JiF]Brick]

Excellent series, buy it

[Lonewolf-McQuade]

LOL VHS?!? What's that!?

[[JiF]Blind Trooper]

Some kind of historic technology. Appeared around the same time as A-tracks and dinosaurs

[seadogs]

It is a fantastic series, well worth buying, shop around though. Ebay often have them at reasonable prices (so does Amazon Marketplace for that matter)

[[JiF]Sgt. hUTCHIE]

I agree it is probably the most factual, comprehensive and least biased documentary on WWII there is, orignally a TV series I always remember the opening titles with the burning photographs.

The version you linked to is a fraction of the price of the full series ( 11 DVDs) so I would suspect it is not complete or they have compressed the series tighter.

The full version is here with reviews.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/World-At-War-Co ... 422&sr=8-1

In 1973 a fair few of the key surviving participants were around to give interviews - but of course not so now.

hUTCHIE

[[JiF]LtWaterboy]

I was going to buy the Activision version...

LT

[seadogs]

You may also like this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Army-Com ... 064&sr=8-1

That is a great series, if you get it, get this aswell to watch AFTERWARDS:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kessler/dp/B000 ... 101&sr=1-1

(the second is about one of the Nazi officers in secret army.)