Monday 4 January 2010

Laurence Olivier - narrated Epic Documentary with the Definitive History of the Second World War

The World At War - Episode 1 - A New Germany 1933--1939



"The World At War" was a true heavyweight of archive footage and documentary execution. Produced by Jeremy Isaacs and running for one series of 26 episodes in 1973 for ITV, the programme profiled a superb in-depth chronological history of the rise of Hitler's Germany and the eventual Second War War, from beginning to end. Narrated by 2-time Oscar winning Laurence Olivier.

I watched some of the episodes at High School, and although bearing the age of the documentary at even that time, it was a great one.

The youtube user account also includes a few other World At War episodes, as well as a "making of" documentary. It took 4 years of research to produce it.

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