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WWII in HD [Blu-ray]

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The only people to see the war like this were the ones who lived it. Until now…

Seventy years in the making. Three thousand hours of color footage no one knew existed. The first documentary to show World War II from the perspective of both sides in full, immersive HD color, the world premiere HISTORY series WWII in HD uses the diaries of soldiers who fought in the war’s biggest battles to create a personal, introspective and detailed look at life on and off the front lines. Though it was illegal for U.S. soldiers to carry diaries, many hid them away in their packs and recorded their experiences in detail.

Now, through the use of these diaries and other source documents, as well as HD color and on-location shooting around the world, WWII in HD transforms their journey into a tangible piece of history. Culled from rare color archival footage from an exhaustive worldwide search and converted to HD with meticulous technique, WWII in HD provides a picture of World War II as it has never been seen before.

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Product Details

Actors:	Rob Lowe, Justin Bartha, Josh Lucas, Gary Sinise, Rob Corddry
Director:	Frederic Lumiere
Format:	Color, Widescreen, DTS Surround Sound
Language:	English
Number of Discs:	2
Studio:	A&E Home Video
Run Time:	470 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date:	January 26, 2010
Average Customer Rating:	based on 94 reviews

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Peak student curiosity Aug 28, 2010
My team showed about 45 minutes of this video to about 150 students in a kick-off event to study World war II. The kids never lost attention because this video has so much information, in a color film format, paced so well. They picked up so much in just one showing, and it really gave them wonderful background to peak their interest and to which they have connected information. This was a really great purchase for teaching.
There was one section with a veteran who used a swear word or two, but we just lowered the volume momentarily. There was a execution in Austria, I believe, of about 30 innocent townsmen by the Nazis when we opted to cover the lens.
A feature for our purposes was that real veterans were recounting their experiences in WWII. Actor voices often took over for the vets, I believe to improve the quality and strength of the voices against war footage. It was transitioned quite seemlessly.

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A Great Series; Deserves a Better Name Aug 17, 2010
There's not much I can add to the numerous comments, both positive and negative about the series. The important thing is the producers realized that what color footage existed of World War II needed to be located soon and archived in high definition media for future generations to see what one of history's tragedies looked like as close to true life as possible, before it too, became lost to eternity, along with the experiences (and lives) of some of the veterans who fought in this war. The wonderful thing about this series is we now have the recollections of an additional dozen veterans (about half of them still alive) along with those who contributed to earlier WWII television series, such as the British "The World at War" and the PBS Network/Ken Burns' "The War".

I think that this series could probably have benefited from a better name than the one given it. Simply calling it "WWII in HD" doesn't give the series the full scope of the justice it received. Probably something like "WWII as Experienced by Those Who Fought in It" would be better, but that still doesn't quite hit the nail on the head. This series probably goes the furthest of any to document poignantly and as realistically as possible, the experiences of those who were in combat first hand. It dwells on the horrors of war, and doesn't have a political or sociological axe to grind as Ken Burns did in his series. The concluding few minutes of the last episode of the series makes this clear; that WWII was a tragedy for the entire human race, regardless of one's ethnicity or nationality. The concluding comments about WWII in general as made by Tuskegee airman Shelby Westbrook could not have been better put.

This series presupposes some prior knowledge of WWII, and for those who know little about WWII, "WWII in HD" is not the best place to start. The best place to start is probably the British series, "The World at War", providing a good video overview, and is universally recognized as the reference in the visual medium. Other than that, there are innumerable books and multi-volume encyclopedic series on WWII, too numerous to mention here. Ken Burns' "The War" can be viewed as a companion series to "WWII in HD".WWII in HD [Blu-ray]

The best addicting documentary that I've seen Aug 17, 2010
As soon as you pop the disc in your blu ray player you will have probably experienced the best documentary of WW2 in your life.I liked the way the story was told. Just when you think its about to get boring it gets even more insane. None stop action with so much critical information it makes you feel blessed to even live in this time period. One of my friends came over to pick up something he left behind the other day and he literally stayed for the next 4 hours because he got sucked right in. This is a good show for you to watch with friends and family because there is a ton of things to talk about from every aspect of the movie. There are a lot of footage on this show that you will never get to see on T.V or regular WW2 documents. The quality of the picture is amazing because everything is restored and handled delicately. Even the oldest footage looks good.
I highly recommend this to anybody even if they don't like violence and war because if it wasn't for our soldiers and vets we would not have obtain the freedom we have today and watching this lets you understand the arduous lifestyle of the military people and their sacrifice to America.

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Blu-Ray will not play on the S-300 Aug 16, 2010
The first disc on thew Blu-Ray will no play if you have a Sony Blu-Ray player model s-300, it does not matter what firmware you are running. Very disappointing.

Good but... Jul 29, 2010
WWII in HD has very good image quality. Unfortunately, it doesn't lay out the war in detail about what happened when and why, but more follows the the lives of a few people who were involved in the war. It tends to focus on the emotions of war and what certain soldiers were thinking and feeling rather than a full description of the war in detail. Also, it shows a lot of graphic images from the battle field, which for the most part is fine and realistic. Although, the images were slightly more graphic than I preferred. Overall, a great presentation of the war, just not what I was looking for.