What is your favorite WWII documentary film?

[Doc72]

A few of mine are, The Color of War, D-Day, the total story, The War by Ken Burns, Theirs is the Glory, The bombing of Germany, Battlefield Detectives, Crusade in the Pacific, Greatest Tank Battles (most are during WWII), and Auschwitz-Inside the Nazi State to name a few.

[Guppy35]

"World at War" is the best documentary series on WW2.  Still way ahead of anything since too in my opinion.

For just WW2 airplanes and done in wartime I really like "Fight for the Sky"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB2ntxv9_50

[Baggy]

World at War is by far the best.

The irritating thing about most modern documentaries is the way after a commercial break they repeat what you saw approximately 2 minutes previously just to puff out the time. Dogfights and Greatest Tank Battles are prime examples of this. CGI is ok but you can't beat proper historical footage.

Considering World at War was made when there were far fewer channels and audiences were consequently far larger, I doubt anything like it will be made again. I hope to be proved wrong!

[lulu]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8EkmyoG83Q


 

[texasfighter]

I watched Victory at Sea as a kid. Later as an adult I watched it again whenever it was showed; pbs, military channel, etc. My father served on a Fletcher class, the USS Callaghan, which was the last US DD sunk in combat to this day. One day a few years ago I was watching the Leyte Gulf episode of Victory at Sea on video tape. I was watching the part leading up to the first day of naval combat. I realized that there was a 3 sec clip that apparently showed the Callaghan while escorting one of the "light" carriers (Independence class). At that point in the war the Callaghan served with the USS Essex task group which included the USS Princeton, a "light" carrier. I had never seen anything but still photos of my father's ship. I can't absolutely prove that it is the Callaghan but the camouflage scheme matches that of the Callaghan and I've never seen another one exactly like it. I communicated this find to the Callaghan reunion group. They were appreciative as you might imagine.

It would be great to find the original film but most of those films were destroyed by the navy many years ago probably because of the cost of storage.

[Blooz]

Time-Life did a series called "Battlefield" for WW2 and Vietnam.

They were so good I bought both complete sets.