WORLD AT WAR: THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR (5 DISCS)

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• Release Year: 1973
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: There has never been a war like it. And there has never been a documentary series that more fully examines that war.; ; Previously only available on video cassette, the complete THE WORLD AT WAR series is now available for the first time on DVD, featuring brand new digital masters created from new prints struck from the original negatives.; ; Narrated by Sir Lawrence Olivier, THE WORLD AT WAR draws on an extraordinarily wide collection of newsreel, propaganda and home movie footage - including rare footage of Adolf Hitler taken by his mistress Eva Braun - gathered from both the victor nations and the conquered.; ; THE WORLD AT WAR also includes interviews with journalists, housewives, soldiers and historians, Polish, Dutch, Italian and Hungarian Jewish camp survivors, survivors of Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, and the fire-bombing of Dresden; as well as uniquely devastating descriptions by participants as far reaching as:; ; Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary; Karl Wolff, S. S. General and Hitler's adjutant; Marquis Kido, the Emperor Hirohito's chief advisor; Heinz Linge, Hitler's valet; Mitsuo Fuchida, leader of the Pearl Harbor attack; Takeo Yoshikawa, a spy at Pearl Harbor; James Stewart, film actor and US fighter pilot; Alger Hiss, US State Department advisor to President Roosevelt; Paul Tibbetts, a pilot on the Hiroshima-targeted Enola Gay; ; Voices like these, and the extraordinary range of footage that accompanies them, make THE WORLD AT WAR a truly definitive and unique eye witness documentary series on all fronts of the Second World War.
• Cast: Laurence Olivier, Anthony Eden, Albert Speer, Siegfried Westphal, Averell Harriman, J Lawton Collins, Lawrence Durrell, J.R. Colville, Louis Mountbatten, Lord Chandos, David Belcham, R.A. Butler, Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, Adolf Galland, Field Marshal Lord Harding, Hasso von Manteuffel, J.B. Priestley, Walter Warlimont, Rita Boas-Koopman, Noble Frankland, Traudl Junge, Toshikazu Kase, Friedrich Luft, Bill Mauldin, Christa Ronke, Sir Kenneth Strong, Kay Summersby, Jeremy Isaacs, Peter Batty, David Elstein, John Pett, Michael Darlow, Martin Smith, Phillip Whitehead, Jeff Harvey, Peter Lee-Thompson, David Taylor, Beryl Wilkins, Carl Davis, Keith Barber, Nigel Bell, Colin Charles, Sandy MacRae, Brian Rendle, Tony Bulley, Lester Halhed, Ian Kestle
• Director: Jeremy Isaacs
• Runtime: 32:00:00
• Company: Thames Television, HBO
• Media Format: Movie