moentimothy

A beautifully done documentary. Lost in the endless shuffle of World War II documentaries unfortunately. Great footage and great editing great writing and great quotations and great narrations.

I honestly think it is one of the best World War II documentaries.

2010. Apparently it is two parts, although I was only able to see the second one.

And it has a view of the war that is just a little bit different than the normal to say the least. It shows the horror of it for all sides.

A very good and honest effort to do some thing first rate.

Tony Call stands out as a very good American narrator. Although I'm sure some people would think it's over done, but I think he is fantastic.

This is to echo the wonderful reviews already here.

A truly incredible find. (Currently available on YouTube).

This was the estimable father and inspiration for the equally high quality World At War documentary series about 10 years later.

Hard to know where to begin in counting its' praises.

Let's begin with the writing. It is first rate... impartial, poetic, informative and moving...as was World At War.

Then there is the unsurpassed archival footage. It must have been a Herculean effort to find, compile and edit this remarkable footage of a disappeared yet so relevant era.

And the narration. Seems obvious that Olivier was heavily influenced by his contemporary Micheal Redgrave when he did World At War ...both are understated yet powerful. Pros like you rarely get anymore.

The Great War was widely and rightly praised at the time and still towers above so many subsequent WW1 docs. But alas it is now unwatched and forgotten I'm sure.

And, as in World At War, many living participants are interviewed which is invaluable.

Watch this and perhaps, just perhaps, think again about enthusiastically sending your sons off to yet another inglorious slaughterhouse.

10 minutes of viewing told me all I needed to know about the question of why Quentin Tarantino would obsess on this and why my instinct about what it really is would be true. I happened to tune in during the scene where a man is forced at gunpoint to eat his own bloody EAR...forced to do so by an extra sleazy/corny stereotype Mexican desperado. That alone is worth the price of admission for Quentin Tarantino I'm sure. This warmed over Spaghetti is most certainly in the category of So Bad It's Good. Admittedly, in the top-tier ...somehow. From the bad dubbing to the bed acting to the bad photography to the bed editing to the bad music to the bad just plain BAD over- the-top-ness...it is sublimely bad. With a weird 70's zeitgeist.