World at War

[Fenton]

Although I have the box set I am watching World at War on BBC iplayer


Wasnt this series originally on ITV or has my memory gone haywire?

[fsn]

Thames TV.

BTW you know we haven't heard from Westmarcher for a few days? It's because my hand's gone numb. 

[Steve J]

I hope to catch up during the week whilst at work. Also watching the WWI series on BBC4 which is superb. Both are an example of how documentaries should be made.

[getagrip]

Although I have the box set I am watching World at War on BBC iplayer


Wasnt this series originally on ITV or has my memory gone haywire?

I thought it was on 4 originally

Whatever; stunning series!

[Roy]

I thought it was on 4 originally

Whatever; stunning series!

Channel4 began in 1982; W at W was from the '70s I believe.

[getagrip]

Channel4 began in 1982; W at W was from the '70s I believe.

Thought so, remember watching it with my dad; I was about 12 and it really made WWii real; I looked at war films differently after that.

Inspired choice of narrator.

[jambo1]

I remember watching it avidly every week with my old man who was a mine of information, both him and his brother having served. Great series and has never been bettered in my humble opinion.

[getagrip]

Great series and has never been bettered in my humble opinion.

Completely agree and, hasn't dated massively.

[Fenton]

I think World and War and The Great War are brilliant and done just in the nick of time where a lot of the combatants and personalities involved were still alive

[FierceKitty]

Always makes me wish they'd had modern mass media in the SYW, or the wars of the Successors, or Momoyama Japan, or renaissance Italy, or the Crusades.

[getagrip]

Always makes me wish they'd had modern mass media in the SYW, or the wars of the Successors, or Momoyama Japan, or renaissance Italy, or the Crusades.

Yes and no; would have made bloody ugly programmes 

[Westmarcher]

BTW you know we haven't heard from Westmarcher for a few days? It's because my hand's gone numb. 

Is it still there?

[getagrip]

Is it still there?

Photographic evidence to prove it

[DanJ]

I seem to remember a TV series when I was a small boy called 'All our Yesterdays', I think it was a day by day account of WW2 as the pressenter kept saying "twenty five years ago today..."

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

That one was 25 years on - using Pathe (mostly) newsreel film. Just a tad biased as to commentary, but good stuff. It did get '46, and they tried a 50 year revival.

IanS