| Description |
11 videodiscs (approximately 1357 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo. |
| Cast |
Narrator, Laurence Olivier ; interviews with: Traudl Junge, Mitsuo Fuchida, Alger Hiss. |
| Note |
Originally broadcast as a television special in 1974. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| Note |
Special features: the making of 'The world at war'; bonus documentary: "Secretary of Hitler"; documentary "The two deaths of Adolf Hitler"; documentary "Warrior"; documentary "Hitler's Germany: 1932-1939"; documentary "Hitler's Germany: 1939-1945"; documentary "The final solution"; documentary "From war to peace"; 30th anniversary feature-length retrospective film; biographies; timeline; gallery of photos from the Imperial War Museum collection. |
| Summary |
An extraordinary collection of newsreel, propaganda, and home-movie footage drawn from the archives of 18 nations, including color close-ups of Adolf Hitler taken by his mistress, that present an unvarnished perspective of the war's pivotal events. Penetrating interviews with eyewitness participants - from Hitler's secretary to Alger Hiss to ordinary citizens who stood outside the battle lines - and spine-tingling, first-hand accounts to an already unforgettable experience. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. New Germany 1933-39 ; Distant war : September 1939-May 1940 ; France falls : May-June 1940 ; Making of the series -- Disc 2. Alone : May 1940-May 1941 ; Barbarossa : June-December 1941 ; Banzai! : Japan 1931-1942 ; On our way : U.S.A. 1939-1942 -- Disc 3. Desert : North Africa 1940-1943 ; Stalingrad : June 1942-February 1943 ; Wolf pack : U-boats in the Atlantic 1939-1944 ; Red star : the Soviet Union 1941-1943 -- Disc 4. Whirlwind : bombing Germany September 1939-April 1944 ; Tough old gut : Italy November 1942-June 1944 ; It's a lovely day tomorrow : Burma 1942-1944 ; Home fires : Britain 1940-1944 -- Disc 5. Inside the Reich : Germany 1940-44 ; Morning : June-August 1944 ; Occupation : Holland 1940-1944 ; Pincers : August 1944-March 1945 -- Disc 6. Genocide : 1941-1945 ; Nemesis : Germany February-May 1945 ; Japan : 1941-45 ; Pacific : February 1942-July 1945 -- Disc 7. Bomb : February-September 1945 ; Reckoning : 1945...and after ; Remember -- Disc 8. Hitler's Germany : the people's community 1933-1939 ; Total war 1939-1945 ; The two deaths of Adolf Hitler -- Disc 9. Secretary to Hitler ; Warrior ; From war to peace -- Disc 10. Final solution pt. 1-pt. 2 -- Disc 11. Making the series : a 30th anniversary retrospective ; Experiences of war. |
| Language |
English dialogue. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Great Britain.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Africa, North.
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Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
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Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.
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Stalingrad, Battle of, Volgograd, Russia, 1942-1943.
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Genocide.
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Japan -- History -- 1926-1945.
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Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
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| Added Author |
Isaacs, Jeremy, 1932-
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Olivier, Laurence, 1907-1989.
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Junge, Gertraud.
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Fuchida, Mitsuo, 1902-1976.
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Hiss, Alger.
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A & E Home Video (Firm)
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New Video Group.
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| Added Title |
World at war (Television program)
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| ISBN |
0767065751 set |
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9780767065757 set |
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076706576X v. 1 |
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9780767065764 v. 1 |
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0767065778 v. 2 |
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9780767065771 v. 2 |
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0767065786 v. 3 |
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9780767065788 v. 3 |
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0767065794 v. 4 |
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9780767065795 v. 4 |
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0767065808 v. 5 |
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9780767065801 v. 5 |
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0767065816 v. 6 |
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9780767065818 v. 6 |
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0767065824 v .7 |
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9780767065825 v .7 |
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0767065832 v. 8 |
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9780767065832 v. 8 |
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0767065840 v. 9 |
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9780767065849 v. 9 |
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0767065859 v. 10 |
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9780767065856 v. 10 |
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0767065867 v. 11 |
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9780767065863 v. 11 |
| Standard No. |
733961713749 |
| Music No. |
AAE-71374-71385 A & E Home Video |
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