A Guerra dos Samurais

I don't know anything about this subject so I can't speak to the veracity of the information. However, it is overall quite engaging and the mix of dramatized scenes, information from their experts, and narration is good. However, I feel like there could have been better diversity in their "experts". I find it odd that they're essentially all British or American. I can't believe that they weren't able to find more Japanese subject-matter-experts to interview. That strikes me as a real issue with their production decisions.

Worth watching but bit fast paced. More details were required about other war lords... Any techniques of war not explained.

Every battle was tagged as " most critical battle of Japanese History"

Also historians were all non Japanese.. Hence no perspective of Japanese PPL and their thoughts were not included.

Hard to trust non Japanese historians..

Role of emperor was not clear. Warload himself taking decision without consulting emperor was bit strange.

Battle were not shown in detail Actors were good.. but the madness of samurai and the anguish of losses were not shown very clearly.

Over all a good watch.

I primarily watched the first season of this documentary series for the viewing of costumes, interior design, and overall Japanese artistry / craftsmanship. The historical accuracy and narrative quality were secondary or less to me. Many reviewers criticized the historical "inaccuracies" (we don't know this and the reviewers did not provide any credentials) and injection of Western historians, but given the target audience of the series, i.e., Americans, this makes sense. When the series employed an "authentic" Japanese historian, we had to read subtitles, which greatly interrupted with the flow of background re-enactments, etc. If non-citizen historians can be trusted with world history, why not Anglo-American historians with Japan's history? Nevertheless, I give this series an 8/10 in light of all of the reviewers who screamed, "Inaccurate!"

This is a proper doc, polished too the nines. The problem with its polish is it glamourizes and dramatized the period to a Hollywood standard. I am not sure how historically accurate the scenes are. Looks like Last Samurai. But it all sells the story and you def need to stay on top of it because the names will throw you. I would love to now go and read a book about the subject for further details. I am no expert so I have to take the information as factual and thank the producers for one polished historical production. Very similar to the one on Rome which was epic!

Whenever a historian/s talks, in so much detail, i immediately begin to question the source. The whole series is incredibly detailed to even their emotions. It seems more speculative rather than fact.

All in all, its an entertaining series. I would say all the main points and timelins were accurate but everything else was questionable. (Anything for the gram?) Lol

I wish this series was done a bit more accurately but they did a good job. Good productio, good actors and great storytelling even if it was embellished.

A definite watch but take it as a grain of salt and possibly do your own research.