Awesome Offering from Mill Creek
Mill Creek, who specialize in Creative Commons licensed material, have really set the bar with this one. This WWII Documentary is well shot, decent quality, and chock full of things I had never known before. The packaging is nice, and it's just a very enjoyable piece of work teaching about the Great War, World War 2. There are some real gems in here as far as footage and audio goes. Rare stuff, never-before-seen stuff, and more. There are interviews with real WWII vets who reminisce about the experience.
My only critique, and it's probably more a matter of personal preference: I would have preferred a slightly more energetic narrator. Considering that, for not being a PBS or History Channel piece, this is one well-assembled Documentary.
Pretty Good
Bought this for my husband, he liked it well enough, I heard no complaints so it has to be a good history of the darkest days in our world's history
Interesting but falls apart after a while
You should know what you're getting with these budget documentaries (in other words, nobody from the History Channel will be losing sleep over this DVD set). This series about WW 2 starts off respectably enough and I thought to myself "Wow, what a great idea!". Basically Mill Creek have taken loads of PD war footage (usually British and American government propaganda films) re-edited them and overdubbed some decent narration. The editing job is top notch and the narrator, although he's been slammed in other reviews for sounding lifeless, does a credible job. For the first few chapters this is all quite reasonable and the viewer will be left well-informed and entertained. Then, suddenly, it's as if Mill Creek just gave up and our narrator announces that we're just going to watch these government produced films in their entirety and vanishes. That's a shame because the first few parts of this are really compelling and watchable and a step above similar Mill Creek sets about the Civil...
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