General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: FLOOB on January 01, 2016, 11:41:05 AM
Title: What's the best WWII documentary?
Post by: FLOOB on January 01, 2016, 11:41:05 AM
It is the Battlefield series. It is the closest thing there is to a video encyclopaedia of WWII. Simpletons and children may not like it because it doesn't stoop to reenactments or interviews.
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Post by: pipz on January 01, 2016, 05:51:03 PM
That's a great series. I remember when it first aired. I have a number of them on DVD. I may go watch one now! :aok
"The World At War" is very good as well.
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Post by: BuckShot on January 01, 2016, 06:30:24 PM
Agreed. The north African battles are explained well in those.
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Post by: BaldEagl on January 01, 2016, 07:37:03 PM
I really enjoyed WWII The Complete History in 13 approximately 1 hour segments.
The story starts at the end of WWI detailing the political climate that led to the outbreak of WWII. There's a lot of good information on the world leaders, politics, strategy, technology and of course, awesome war footage of every type from every part of the world including several tidbits of information I never knew about.
Here's a link to episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mFG0Du_DKU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mFG0Du_DKU)
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Post by: zack1234 on January 02, 2016, 10:26:15 AM
Floob is very arrogant :old:
Very good program.
The book is better :rofl
I am reading a book of Alfred the Great and i have a certificate to prove i am a simpleton.
Are you a colonial Flood?
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Post by: NatCigg on January 02, 2016, 10:46:01 AM
Battlefield Vietnam was a good series. I think it was french made.
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Post by: zack1234 on January 02, 2016, 12:41:55 PM
My word?
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Post by: Bizman on January 02, 2016, 01:17:43 PM
I am reading a book of Alfred the Great and i have a certificate to prove i am a simpleton.
Are you a colonial Flood?
Captain Ahab was fiction, but peg leg quakers are a real thing. (http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mgv3MOC9ljphXpKq6ypuBqA.jpg) This photo was taken before his several years of secret missions in the vietnam war by the way.
But don't worry this yankee still has both of his legs. And you mistake my keen sense of self awareness as arrogance.
Or maybe I'm german.
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Post by: zack1234 on January 03, 2016, 05:17:05 AM
Do you still have that jumper :old:
You look German :rofl
Soviet storm is also good :old:
But they are commies so are evil :old:
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Post by: Hetzer7 on January 04, 2016, 11:04:15 AM
Agreed, easily the best documetary series on WW2 :aok
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Post by: Maverick on January 04, 2016, 11:28:54 AM
I'm surprised no one nominated the Red Tails and Pearl Harbor films.......
Sarcasm alert (tm) for the sarcasm impaired. :evil:
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Post by: WaffenVW on January 04, 2016, 10:16:19 PM
Best quality documentary series I've seen. Only original film material, in HD and color.
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Post by: Brooke on January 04, 2016, 11:30:56 PM
My favorite is "Clash of Wings". It has the best footage of WWII aircraft of any documentary series I've seen.
Even if you watch lots of documentary series and have seen all of the stuff they typically use and know by memory all of the typical clips used, you will be amazed at the amount of different footage in Clash of Wings.
Other documentary series that I like a lot:
Victory at Sea (an epic series) Air Aces Dogfights Battle 360
Band of Brothers is also nearly a documentary, and it is awesome.
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Post by: danny76 on January 04, 2016, 11:51:07 PM
I wasn't asking you people what the best WWII video history of WWII is, I was telling you.
Don't tell me, I'll tell you! :D
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Post by: BuckShot on January 05, 2016, 06:44:24 AM
Wrong! You must answer in the form of a question.
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Post by: Mister Fork on January 06, 2016, 08:31:20 AM
The World at War (1973) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071075/ is the most complete WWII documentary ever made. A tonne of veteran interviews, live footage all in a step by step sequence of events from the Nazi rise to power to the fall of Japan.
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Post by: Brooke on January 06, 2016, 05:08:38 PM
The World at War (1973) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071075/ is the most complete WWII documentary ever made. A tonne of veteran interviews, live footage all in a step by step sequence of events from the Nazi rise to power to the fall of Japan.
Yep, that is an excellent one.
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Post by: uptown on January 06, 2016, 09:54:56 PM
The War.. a film by Ken Burns on PBS is pretty good.
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Post by: 68ZooM on January 06, 2016, 11:55:00 PM
Ken burns did a real good Documentary On WWll
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Post by: FLOOB on January 07, 2016, 02:31:00 AM
Not really, it lacked the facts per minute rate necessary to be a very effective historical document. And it was chock full of those damn interviews. That's pretty much all it was. It was more entertainment than education.
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Post by: Ack-Ack on January 07, 2016, 06:14:37 PM
Best quality documentary series I've seen. Only original film material, in HD and color.
Apocalypse: First World War is also very good.
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Post by: Ack-Ack on January 07, 2016, 06:19:40 PM
The BBC did a series called "World War 2 People's War" a few years ago, though I don't know if was just in print or both print and a TV docu-series. A few years ago before my wife's uncle died, a historian working with the BBC interviewed him about his escape from an internment camp in Switzerland and returning to the war.