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BBC History of World War II
Direct from the BBC vaults comes this definitive collection that will refine - and perhaps re-shape - your understanding of World War II.
Item Number: 13271
- Format:
- DVD Fullscreen
- Region:
- 1 - More Details
- Run time:
- About 35 Hours
- Number of Discs:
- 12
- Special Features:
English Subtitles for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired
Three full-length bonus programs: Merchant Seamen, The Indian Army, Burma: The Forgotten War
Interviews, eyewitness testimonies and featurettes
Direct from the BBC vaults comes this definitive collection that will refine - and perhaps re-shape - your understanding of World War II. Through amazing archival footage and eyewitness testimony, this 12-disc set offers answers to such questions as, How could a political party as fundamentally evil and overtly racist as the Nazis come to power? Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor? What are the little-known stories of D-Day? Dig deep and answer many of the wartime riddles that still haunt us.
Programs include: The Nazis: A Warning from History; The Road to War; Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State; Horror in the East; D-Day: Reflections of Courage; War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin; Dunkirk; Battle of the Atlantic; Battlefields; D-Day to Berlin
Programs include: The Nazis: A Warning from History; The Road to War; Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State; Horror in the East; D-Day: Reflections of Courage; War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin; Dunkirk; Battle of the Atlantic; Battlefields; D-Day to Berlin
BAFTA® Awards
1998 –Best Factual Series
1998 –Best Editing (Factual)
1998 –Best Factual Series
1998 –Best Editing (Factual)
In particularly poignant footage, an
elderly American revisits the section of Omaha Beach
he stormed on D-Day and meets an aging German
who, as a teenager, defended it with his machine gun.
