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WWII in HD

Watching it now. Great stuff. Some stuff, especially on the Pacific theater, is a bit graphic.
 
The mass suicides at Saipan were horrifying
 
What with the regular broadcasts and the daily repeat broadcasts it's hard to know which ones I'm seeing. Unlike the series Band of Brothers, for example, they don't list the episode number at the start of each segment.
 
bhkad said:
What with the regular broadcasts and the daily repeat broadcasts it's hard to know which ones I'm seeing. Unlike the series Band of Brothers, for example, they don't list the episode number at the start of each segment.
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I think they play each episode that has been already aired, in order, and they repeat them in series each night, and into the wee morning hours (That's when I catch them the 2nd time around)
 
EpicDude86 said:
I know the premier week is almost over, but History channel will no doubt run this continually for the next few weeks.

This is a vital piece of History as seen through the eyes of 12 young men and women. Narrated by Gary Sinise.


World War 2 in High Definition - History.com
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I thought it was a terrific series.

I do find many of these series tend to look at the war from the perspective of the Americans so as a Canadian, I sometimes find it does not give enough attention to the other allied efforts, but then I appreciate who made it and it was intended to provide the American perspective.

For me though I wish I could find more documentaries that also show what Canada, the British, the Australians, New Zealanders, etc., did.

This series was very moving. Excellent job.

My father served in the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War Two and I had an Uncle serve in the U.S. armed forces and a third cousin serve as a psychiatrist in the U.S. Army in WW2 and half my family came from the Jewish community of Shanghai, China, and so I know much of what happened in the Pacific theatre and in particular how Japan dealt with the British and Canadians in Hong Kong, Shanghai, as well as Chinese nationals.

My mother went to Japan to get over her fear of Japanese before she died. I understand why soldiers who fought in the Pacific (mostly the Americans but Canadians and British and Australians and New Zealanders, Indians, etc.)
can't speak of certain things.

Then again the other half of my family had to deal with the holocaust so either way I look at this war it has an immediate connection and when I look at these soldiers, I can't imagine what would happen if they didn't do what they did.

I think these series are important to remind us of their contribution so we can live the way we do today.

For me what gets me is when you see how young some of those guys were or when I did research to find out just how bad the pow camps were in the Pacific, etc., or the extent of the hand to hand combat, etc., like someone mentioned in battles such as the one on Saipan.
 
Mika-El said:
I thought it was a terrific series.

I do find many of these series tend to look at the war from the perspective of the Americans so as a Canadian, I sometimes find it does not give enough attention to the other allied efforts, but then I appreciate who made it and it was intended to provide the American perspective.

For me though I wish I could find more documentaries that also show what Canada, the British, the Australians, New Zealanders, etc., did.

This series was very moving. Excellent job.

My father served in the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War Two and I had an Uncle serve in the U.S. armed forces and a third cousin serve as a psychiatrist in the U.S. Army in WW2 and half my family came from the Jewish community of Shanghai, China, and so I know much of what happened in the Pacific theatre and in particular how Japan dealt with the British and Canadians in Hong Kong, Shanghai, as well as Chinese nationals.

My mother went to Japan to get over her fear of Japanese before she died. I understand why soldiers who fought in the Pacific (mostly the Americans but Canadians and British and Australians and New Zealanders, Indians, etc.)
can't speak of certain things.

Then again the other half of my family had to deal with the holocaust so either way I look at this war it has an immediate connection and when I look at these soldiers, I can't imagine what would happen if they didn't do what they did.

I think these series are important to remind us of their contribution so we can live the way we do today.

For me what gets me is when you see how young some of those guys were or when I did research to find out just how bad the pow camps were in the Pacific, etc., or the extent of the hand to hand combat, etc., like someone mentioned in battles such as the one on Saipan.
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Even before Call of Duty 3, I have loved everything you Canucks did for the war effort.
 
DrunkenAsparagus said:
Watching it now. Great stuff. Some stuff, especially on the Pacific theater, is a bit graphic.
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"Some stuff?" I thought nearly every bit of it was graphic. it's about a war.

when bullets fly, those are intended to kill. We've been conditioned when seeing something like a mushroom cloud above an occupied city, to not consider it worse than an image of, say, someone's face blown off. But it is much worse than that.

I can understand why they chose to use actor's voices. When that happens in documentaries, typically you don't see the real people. I liked it when they switched over to the real people telling their own stories.
 
niftydrifty said:
"Some stuff?" I thought nearly every bit of it was graphic. it's about a war.

when bullets fly, those are intended to kill. We've been conditioned when seeing something like a mushroom cloud above an occupied city, to not consider it worse than an image of, say, someone's face blown off. But it is much worse than that.

I can understand why they chose to use actor's voices. When that happens in documentaries, typically you don't see the real people. I liked it when they switched over to the real people telling their own stories.
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Yeah, the switching between actual person and actor's voice was an amazing addition to the realism. I felt like I was sitting there listening to them tell their story and then BAM I was right there on the Battlefield.
 
Its nice to see something other than the same old footage.
 
They have indeed been running this new series throughout this last week and I was lucky enough to catch it with my DVR. Spectacular show!
 
I loved the series it was a greet insight in to the war, and the people who fought in the war. I also liked how they did the letters home to peoples family to get more information about how life was like during the wars. It was an awesome series to sit in front of the tv to watch and learn the information about the war I had not even known about.
 
I haven't watched it yet but probably will next time I see it on and I'm bored. I generally don't like the History channel for historical stuff because of the fact that it's generally told from a very American perspective, sometimes to the point of outright lies. I can't tell you how many times I've been watching something on WWII that gives the Americans most/all of the credit and the Russians little/none (to the point where they might not even mention Russia!), when the reality is that the Russians bore the brunt of the war.

It would be interesting to see a version of the story from the Russian perspective on WWII (particularly the build-up to the war and the attempts by Britain/France/USA (to a lesser extent) to "aim" the Nazi's east, but I'm not holding my breath. :)
 
Khayembii Communique said:
I haven't watched it yet but probably will next time I see it on and I'm bored. I generally don't like the History channel for historical stuff because of the fact that it's generally told from a very American perspective, sometimes to the point of outright lies.
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Outright lies like... what?
Can you cite something specific?
 
Khayembii Communique said:
No, I don't remember as I haven't really watched any historical stuff on that channel in some time.
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I'd like to hear the Russian's take on WWII now and what the KGB and "The Party" put out after the war...Oh and on a side note, look who's still here. The USA and most Allied Nations...who's not? The Soviet Union. So we must have done something right...
 
niftydrifty said:
"Some stuff?" I thought nearly every bit of it was graphic. it's about a war.

when bullets fly, those are intended to kill. We've been conditioned when seeing something like a mushroom cloud above an occupied city, to not consider it worse than an image of, say, someone's face blown off. But it is much worse than that.

I can understand why they chose to use actor's voices. When that happens in documentaries, typically you don't see the real people. I liked it when they switched over to the real people telling their own stories.
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Well there was like 5 minutes of stuff about the homefront
 
EpicDude86 said:
I'd like to hear the Russian's take on WWII now and what the KGB and "The Party" put out after the war...
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What?

Oh and on a side note, look who's still here. The USA and most Allied Nations...who's not? The Soviet Union. So we must have done something right...
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What does that have to do with the popular discourse surrounding WWII?
 
Of course the History Channel will focus on the US's role in WWII. It's an American station with mostly American viewers. A Russian station will focus on Russia. The Military Channel, if you get it, has more about the Eastern Front, and is reletively unbiased.
 
Khayembii Communique said:
What?
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I. Would. Like. To. Hear. Russia's (U.S.S.R's). Version. Of. World. War. 2.

And then I'd like to see what kind of literature the Communist Party put out after the War and on into the Cold War in regards to WWII. Point being: Bias is everywhere.

Khayembii Communique said:
What does that have to do with the popular discourse surrounding WWII?
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It was sarcasm. Like, we're still here so we can tell History however we want. :lol:
 
I'd like to see this series. Just don't anybody tell me how it ends, ok? It will ruin it for me.
 
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