I bought my set about 6 years back when it was a LOT more expensive :stare:

WWII in HD
 

I know it is hard to believe, but the History Channel is actually showing something on history. :woot:

Anybody check this out on the History Channel?
http://www.history.com/content/wwii-in-hd

It has numerous episodes. I watched a couple last night. There was some pretty good footage and some of it was quite graphic.

:)

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=158259

;)

I got to watch 2 hours last night. It is very good. The narration is great with the mix of the actual person who experienced the events. Last night the showing of Saipan and taking it from the Japanese was excellent. It is astonishing that close to 1000 civilians jumped to their death instead of giving up to the Americans. The Japanese really ingrained into these folks that Americans will do all manners of atrocities to them if caught.

The footage of some of the civilians jumping (And the aftermath) was pretty gut-wrenching.

Aye, and I'm loving the music as well. Easily the best thing to come out of the HC in a while. (I know that says a lot :smug:)

What was more sad was the fact that a Japanese gentlemen was given the mic to a bullhorn to advise these folks that all is well. They would be fed and clothed if the just came forward. Such a shame. What was really gut wrenching was the kids. There was some footage of an Asian boy who was just shivering from fear or cold. An American GI was offering him water. Watching this footage really puts a different face on the war.

Yes, the music is excellent.

I've been catching half of what they play the night before at lunch time. It must start about 11 EST. I think there playing them back to back during the day. Some really good footage.

My bad. :oops:
Please lock.

It is really quite amazing how simple it was for the propaganda specialists to paint whatever picture they wanted to into the minds of so many innocent civilians.

Hate is easy.

I watched some of it last night(episode on the landings on Iwo Jima). A lot of the footage is pretty good and pretty graphic. The stories from the veterans are quite moving, especially the one from the GI from the 84th Infantry Division who got seperated from his unit and ended up slitting a German soldier's throat. To see how that affected him was amazing. :cry:

I'm still waiting on a well rounded documentary on WWII though that doesn't make it seem that the US was the only country fighting the Axis and won the war all by itself.

World at War is the only documentary to really do that. Although dated(made in the early seventies), it is still the best documentary out there. It gave a good history of the war along with the human impact.
It is pretty much the yardstick I measure WWII documentaries with.

:)

Sharkbit,

I think the footage is just from the US camermen and any footage from American GI. I would venture to guess other countries did not get inquires for any footage they might have of their men in battle. I agree though, there were many fronts and many nationalities in the war. I would like to see footage of Russian soldiers defending their cities. From what I read this was the most brutal of the fight.

I think it's pretty tough to cover every nationality in the war sufficiently enough to give a well rounded and accurate portrayal in one show. Take this one for example, it's what ten episodes just to cover the the war from just the US point of view and even that will be incomplete.

I wonder how many more hours would it take to cover, say, the Soviet POV to a similar degree. WW2 in HD would need it's own channel! Hmmm.:hmmm:

Speaking of that, I've read from several sources, that a lot of the Russian footage had been staged.:-?

I have been watching this now and its pretty interesting. I love the first hand stories.