WWII. The essential collection : [videorecording (DVD)] the world at war.
WWII. The essential collection : [videorecording (DVD)] the world at war.
Alternate Title
:
World at war
Publication Date
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2010, 1973
Publication Information
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[New York] : History Channel,
Physical Description
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11 videodiscs (ca. 34 hr., 28 min.)
Subject Term
:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean.
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Africa, North.
Stalingrad, Battle of, Volgograd, Russia, 1942-1943.
Genocide.
Geographic Term
:
Japan -- History -- 1926-1945.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
Additional Contributors
:
Olivier, Laurence, 1907- ,
Contents
:
Disc 1. A New Germany, 1933-1939 -- Distant war, September 1939 - May 1940 -- France falls, May-June 1940 --
Disc 2. Alone, May 1940-May 1941 -- Barbarossa, June-December 1941 -- Banzai!, Japan 1931-1942 -- On our way, U.S.A. 1939-1942.
Desert, North Africa 1940-1943 -- Stalingrad, June 1942-February 1943 -- Wolf pack, U-boats in the Atlantic 1939-1944 -- Red star, the Soviet Union 1941-1943.
Whirlwind, bombing Germany September 1939-April 1944 -- Tough old gut, Italy November 1942-June 1944 -- It's a lovely day tomorrow, Burma 1942-1944 -- Home fires, Britain 1940-1944.
Inside the Reich, Germany 1940-1944 -- Morning, June-August 1944 -- Occupation, Holland 1940-1944 -- Pincers, August 1944-March 1945.
Genocide, 1941-1945 -- Nemesis, Germany February - May 1945 -- Japan 1941-1945 -- Pacific, February 1942-July 1945.
Bomb, February - September 1945 -- Reckoning, 1945...and after -- Remember.
Hitler's Germany, the people's community 1933-1939 -- Hitler's Germany, total war 1939-1945 -- Two deaths of Adolph Hitler.
Secretary to Hitler -- Warrior -- From war to peace.
Final solution, part 1 -- Final solution, part 2.
Disc 11. Bonus Documentaries: The [World at war] Making the series, a 30th anniversary retrospective -- Experiences of war.
Performer
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Narrator, Laurence Olivier.
Summary
:
An extraordinary collection of newsreel, propaganda, and home-movie footage drawn from the archives of 18 nations, including color close-ups of Adolf Hitler taken by his mistress, that present an unvarnished prespective of the war's pivotal events. Penetrating interviews with eyewitness participants - from Hitler's secretary to Alger Hiss to ordinary citizens who stood outside the battle lines - and spine-tingling, first-hand accounts to an already unforgettable experience.
Language
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English
ISBN
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14229956267 (set)
General Note
:
DVD.
Col. and b&w.
| Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Copy | Status |
|---|
| Gander (GGR) | Adult NFic DVD | Adult Non-Fiction DVD | 940.53 W89 | discs 1-6 | Checked In |
| Gander (GGR) | Adult NFic DVD | Adult Non-Fiction DVD | 940.53 W89 | discs 7-11 | Checked In |
| Grand Falls-Windsor (CGF) Harmsworth | Adult NFic DVD | Adult Non-Fiction DVD | 940.53 W89 | discs 1-6 | Checked In |
| Grand Falls-Windsor (CGF) Harmsworth | Adult NFic DVD | Adult Non-Fiction DVD | 940.53 W89 | discs 7-11 | Checked In |