World at War TV series

Discussion in 'Books, Films, TV, Radio' started by Kyt, Oct 31, 2006.

  1. Dan M

    Dan M Active Member

    Does anyone recall another series that came out about the same which covered the 20th century? It was also in b/w but went through the Great War, the inter-war period, the Second World War, Korea and the French-Indo-China War. It may have been a French series because many of the interviewees were recorded in French rather than English. I remember it also being very well done.

    Anyone?

    Thanks,
    Dan.
     
  2. Owen

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  3. OpanaPointer

    OpanaPointer Pearl Harbor Myth Buster

    Sorry, I haven't seen that on this side of the pond. Good hunting!
     
  4. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

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  5. OpanaPointer

    OpanaPointer Pearl Harbor Myth Buster

    The CBS Philharmonic Orchestra did the incidental music for the VICTORY AT SEA series. Well done, too. I can still here the narrator saying "And now, War Under The Northern Lights" will arctic music welling up.
     
  6. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    Agree!



    EDIT:

    All these years I thought it was CBS too but it was the NBC orchestra

     
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  7. Wobbler

    Wobbler Well-Known Member

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  8. Wobbler

    Wobbler Well-Known Member

    I’ve watched it so many times now that, when I spot an episode is on the TV again, I sometimes just turn on for the music and then switch over again. As I said above, I’d never bloody bothered to find out who wrote such an iconic theme.

    It’s showing on one of the channels here again even now, Yesterday, I think.
     
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  9. Owen

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    Youngest son bought the DVD boxed set from a charity shop for £4.50.
     

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  10. OpanaPointer

    OpanaPointer Pearl Harbor Myth Buster

    I have the set as well.
     
  11. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    They are also available on youtube

     
  12. Harry Ree

    Harry Ree Very Senior Member

    Victory at Sea. A superb series which came out in the 1950s.As said a score by Richard Rogers but which was known as I remember first as Under the Southern Cross.

    Some British might remember the ballad from it by singers such as Ronnie Hilton, entitled No Other Love Have I.

    The accompanying series was Victory in the Air, a first class account of how Allied air forces contributed to victory in the Second World War.

    Are these two sets available through the normal channels. I have searched before but was not convinced what was thrown up was pucka.
     
  13. That was Ambrose.
     
  14. Red Jim

    Red Jim Member

    I watched the World at War when it was first aired starting on 31 October 1973 & ending on 8 May 1974. I was only 9 years old when the series started and 10 when it finished. My parents, both who had lived through/served in World War 2 , allowed me to watch it, because I was already a World War 2 enthusiast, however they warned me I might find some of it upsetting. They weren't wrong. Watching this series was a wake up call, it was when I realised that war wasn't a game, it was horrible and real. It was also the first time I developed a real admiration for those who fought to defeat Nazism & Japanese militarism. The World at War remains, for me, the greatest documentary ever made.
     
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  15. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    The best part, for me, was the interviews with the veterans. Many were in their fifties and still quite angry about the whole thing.
     
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  16. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    Bumping this question. Sounds like a good series.
     
  17. Red Jim

    Red Jim Member

    Dave55 couldn't agree more. I often sat watching it with my Dad, an 8th Army veteran, and he would sit, nodding with agreement at the veterans comments. I remember when Mark Clark appeared on the episode " Tough Old Gut", about the Italian campaign, my Dad burst into a tirade of expletives, accusing Mark Clark of everything under the sun. He was very angry.
     
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  18. Mr Jinks

    Mr Jinks Bit of a Cad

    My Grandfather used to speak about a programme on a Sunday afternoon called "ALL OUR YESTERDAYS" events from 25 years previously . If I remember it was 1960`s series as my grandfather said he was only young when he saw it ?

    I looked online and found :-

    " ALL OUR YESTERDAYS -giving an historical account of the 1930s lead-up to the Second World War and to the war itself. It relied on film footage, and may be considered a precursor to the later Thames Television World at War production. "

    A possibility ?

    Kyle
     
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  19. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

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  20. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    As a result of Dave55's bump above (had missed Dan's initial question on the series)

    This one maybe? French yes, Canal production. All 13 episodes on YouTube.

    Kind regards, always,

    Jim.

     

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