THE WORLD AT WAR

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• Release Year: 1974
• Genre: Action, Documentary, War
• Plot: More than 30 years after is initial broadcast, THE WORLD AT WAR reminas the definitive visual history of World War II. Unsurpassed in depth and scope, its 26 hour-long programs feature an extraodinary colleciton 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 perspective of the war's pivotal events. Penetrating interviews with eyewitness participants - from Hitler's secretary to Aiger Hiss to ordinary citizens who stood outside the battle lines - add spine-tingling, first hand accounts to an already unforgettable viewing experience. ; ; Inforative and unbiased, THE WORLD AT WAR is the recipient of numerous accolades, including Internation Emmy Award, The National Television Critics' Award for Best Documentary, and knightood for its creator, Sir Jeremy Isaacs. Narrated by Academy Award winner Sir Laurence Olivier and digitally re-mastered for DVD, this is epic history at its absolute best.
• Cast: Laurence Olivier, Sir Max Aitken, Stephen Ambrose, André Beaufre, David Belchem, Christabel Bielenberg, Emmi Bonhoeffer, Robert Boothby, Albrecht Brauning, J.A.H.J.S. Bruins Slot, McGeorge Bundy, Vannevar Bush, Edward Butler, Lord Butler, Michael Calvert, Lord Chandos, Eddy Christiani, J. Lawton Collins, J.R. Colville, Norman Corwin, Peter Cremer, Sir Francis de Guingand, Louis De Jong, Karl Dönitz, James Doolittle, Lawrence Durrell, Ira C. Eaker, Anthony Eden, Lucy Faithfull, Thomas Finch, Mitsuo Fuchida, John Kenneth Galbraith, Adolf Galland, Minoru Genda, Bertie Good, Sir Peter Gretton, Lord Harding, Averell Harriman, Raymond Hart, Wilhelm Herget, Alger Hiss, Ray Holmes, Brian Horrocks, Naoki Hoshino, Otto John, Leon Johnson, Traudl Junge, Toshikazu Kase, Hans Kehrl, Koichi Kido, Tsuyako Kii, Yoshio Kodama, Bernard Kops, Otto Kretschmer, Curtis LeMay, Martin Lindsay, Hartwig Looks, Friedrich Luft, Vera Lynn, Hamish Mahaddie, Tei-ichi Makishima, Ekkehard Maurer, John McBeath, John J. McCloy, Louis Mountbatten, Ian Mutsu, Tadashi Nakajima, Hiroko Nakamoto, Piet Nak, Isamu Noguchi, Sir Richard O'Connor, Teruo Okada, Wilfred Oulton, Yetje Pearl, J.B. Priestley, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Goronwy Rees, William Reid, Otto Ernst Remer, Gilbert Roberts, John Rogan, J.B. Roodbol, Florrie Rost van Tonningen, Sir John Russell, Saburo Sakai, Hisatsune Sakomizu, Yuzuru Sanematsu, Albrecht Schimpf, Paul Schmidt, Heinrich Schmidt-Schmiedebach, Werner Schroer, Richard Schultze-Kossens, Robert Sherwood, Sir J.G. Smyth, Edward Spears, Albert Speer, J.M. Stagg, James Stewart, Rodney Stone, Sir Kenneth Strong, John Pett, Jeremy Isaacs
• Director: John Pett
• Runtime: 22:37
• Company: AETV
• Media Format: Series