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This is for the complete World ar War Documentary. 22 1/2
hours!!!!
Great quality.
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A New Germany (1933–1939)
The rise of the Nazis in Germany and German territorial gains
prior to the outbreak of war. Interviewees include
Werner Pusch and
Christabel Bielenberg.
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Distant War (September 1939 – May 1940)
The German and Soviet
invasions of Poland, the
Winter War, the sinking of the
Graf Spee
and Britain's apathy during the "
phony war" until Britain's defeat in its
first military engagement with German land units in
Norway, which led to the rise of
Winston Churchill. Interviewees
include
Lord Boothby,
Lord Butler, Admiral
Charles Woodhouse,
Sir Martin Lindsay and
Sir
John "Jock" Colville.
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France Falls (May – June
1940)
France in ferment, the
Maginot Line,
Blitzkrieg warfare, and the
Nazi invasion
of France and the
Low Countries. Interviewees include
General
Hasso von Manteuffel and General
André Beaufre.
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Alone (May 1940 – May 1941)
The
Battle of Britain, retreats in
Greece,
Crete and
Tobruk, and life in Britain between
the
evacuation at
Dunkirk and
Operation Barbarossa. Interviewees
include
Anthony Eden,
J.B. Priestley,
Sir Max Aitken, Lieutenant
General
Adolf Galland and Sir
John "Jock" Colville.
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Barbarossa (June – December 1941)
After dominating southeastern Europe through force or
intrigue, Germany embarks on the massive invasion of
Soviet Union. Despite a string of
lightning victories, the invasion ultimately stalls after a failed
assault on Moscow
in Russia's harsh winter. Interviewees include General
Walter Warlimont,
Albert Speer,
Paul Schmidt and
W. Averell Harriman.
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Banzai!: Japan (1931–1942)
The rise of the Japanese Empire, the
Sino-Japanese war,
Pearl Harbor and the early
Japanese successes, and the
fall of Malaya and
of Singapore.
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On Our Way: U.S.A. (1939–1942)
The opposition by various factions to the United States of
America entry into the war, U-boat attacks on Atlantic convoys and
America's gradiated responses, the mobilization of America after
Pearl Harbor, the fall of the Philippines, the
Doolittle Raid,
Midway and
Guadalcanal. Interviewees include
John Kenneth Galbraith,
John J. McCloy,
Paul Samuelson,
Isamu Noguchi,
Richard Tregaskis and
Vannevar Bush.
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The Desert: North Africa (1940–1943)
The desert war, starting with
Italy's unsuccessful invasion of Egypt and the successive attacks
and counter-attacks between Germany and Commonwealth forces, and
the
Afrika Korps's eventual defeat at
El Alamein. Interviewees include General
Richard O'Connor, Major General
Francis de
Guingand and
Lawrence Durrell.
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Stalingrad (June 1942 – February 1943)
The mid-war German situation in Southern Russia leading to
the
Battle of Stalingrad – and
its ultimate German catastrophe.
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Wolf Pack: U-Boats in the Atlantic
(1939–1943)
The
submarine war focusing mainly on the North
Atlantic. Tracks the development of both the convoy system and
German submarine strategy. Interviewees include Grand Admiral
Karl Dönitz and
Otto Kretschmer.
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Red Star: The Soviet Union (1941–1943)
The rise of the
Red Army, mobilisation of Soviet production,
the
siege of Leningrad, the
Soviet partisans and the
Battle of Kursk.
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Whirlwind: Bombing Germany (September 1939 – April
1944)
The development of British and American
strategic bombing
in both success and setback. Interviewees include Marshal
Sir Arthur
Harris,
Albert Speer,
James Stewart,
William Reid, General
Curtis LeMay,
Werner Schröer, Lieutenant
General
Adolf Galland and General
Ira C. Eaker.
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Tough Old Gut: Italy (1943–1944)
Focuses on the difficult
Italian Campaign
beginning with
Operation Torch in North Africa, the
invasion of Sicily;
Salerno,
Anzio,
Cassino; and the capture of
Rome. Interviewees include General
Mark Wayne Clark, Field Marshal
Lord
Harding,
Bill Mauldin, and
Wynford Vaughan
Thomas.
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It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow: Burma
(1942–1944)
The jungle war in
Burma and
India - what it "lacked in scale
was made up in savagery". Interviewees include
Mike Calvert,
Sir John Smyth
and
Vera Lynn (the episode title is the name of
one of her songs), and
Lord
Mountbatten of Burma.
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Home Fires: Britain (1940–1944)
Life and politics in Britain from post-Battle of Britain to
the first
V-1 attacks. Interviewees include
Lord Butler,
Lord Shinwell,
Lord Chandos,
Tom Driberg,
Michael Foot,
Cecil Harmsworth King, and
J.B. Priestley.
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Inside the Reich: Germany (1940–1944)
German society and how it changes as its fortunes in war are
reversed. Censorship and popular entertainment, the transformation
of German industry, the recruitment of female and foreign labour,
allied bombing, German dissent - including the
20 July plot, and the mobilisation of the
Volkssturm towards the war's end.
Interviewees include
Albert Speer,
Otto John,
Traudl Junge,
Richard Schulze-Kossens, and
Otto Ernst Remer (English translation
spoken by Lawrence Olivier).
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Morning: (June – August 1944)
The development and execution of
Operation Overlord followed by the
allied breakout and battles at
Bocage, and
Falaise.
Interviewees include
Lord
Mountbatten of Burma,
Kay Summersby,
James Martin Stagg and Major General
J. Lawton Collins.
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Occupation: Holland (1940–1944)
Focuses on life in
the
Netherlands under German occupation, when citizens chose to
resist, collaborate or keep their heads down. Interviewees include
Louis de Jong (who also served as adviser
for this episode) and
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.
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Pincers: (August 1944 – March 1945)
The allied breakout in France and the setback at
Arnhem, the
Warsaw Uprising, the
Battle of the Bulge, and the
crossing of the Rhine. Interviewees include Lieutenant General
Brian Horrocks,
Wynford Vaughan
Thomas, General
Hasso von Manteuffel, Major
General
Francis de
Guingand,
W. Averell Harriman and Major
General
J. Lawton Collins.
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Genocide
(1941–1945)
Begins with the founding of the
S.S. and follows the development of
German racial theory. It ends with the implementation of the
Final Solution.
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Nemesis: Germany (February – May 1945)
The final invasion of Germany by both the Western and Eastern
allies, the denouement at Dresden, and the events in the
Führerbunker. Interviewees
include
Albert Speer,
Traudl Junge and
Heinz Linge.
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Japan (1941–1945)
Japan's society and culture during wartime, and how life is
transformed as the country gradually becomes aware of increasingly
catastrophic setbacks including the
Doolittle raid,
defeat at
Midway,
the death of Isoroku Yamamoto, the
Battle of Saipan and the relentless
bombing of Japanese cities.
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Pacific (February 1942 – July 1945)
The successive and increasingly bloody land battles on tiny
islands in the expansive Pacific, aimed towards the Japanese
heartland. Following the
bombing of Darwin, the over-extended
Japanese are progressively turned back at
Kokoda,
Tarawa,
Peleilu, the
Philippines,
Iwo Jima and finally
Okinawa.
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The Bomb (February – September 1945)
The
development of the atomic bomb, the
ascendency of President
Harry Truman, emerging splits in the
Allies with
Joseph Stalin, and the
atomic bombings
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ultimately leading to the
surrender of Japan. Interviewees
include
Toshikazu Kase,
Yoshio Kodama,
Marquis Koichi Kido,
Major General
Charles Sweeney, Brigadier General
Paul Tibbets,
Alger Hiss,
W. Averell Harriman,
Lord Avon,
McGeorge Bundy,
John J. McCloy, General
Curtis LeMay and
Hisatsune Sakomizu.
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Reckoning (April 1945)
The situation in post-war Europe including the allied
occupation of
Germany,
demobilisation, the
Nurenburg trials
and the genesis of the
Cold War. The episode concludes with
summations about the ultimate costs and consequences of the war.
Interviewees include
Charles Bohlen,
Stephen Ambrose,
Lord Avon,
Lord
Mountbatten of Burma and
Noble Frankland.
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Remember
How the war - both good and bad experiences - was experienced
and remembered by its witnesses.
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