The World at War: The Complete Series DVD – Laurence Olivier 

Sir Laurence Olivier and Eric Porter narrate Jeremy Isaacs’ epic documentary series, chronicling the events of the Second World War. The episodes included are: ‘A New Germany – 1933-1939’; ‘Distant War – 1939-1940’; ‘France Falls – May-June 1940’; ‘Alone in Britain – May 1940-June 1941’; ‘Barbarossa – June-December 1941’; ‘Banzai – Japan Strikes – 1941-1942’; ‘On Our Way – America Enters the War – 1939-1942’; ‘Desert – The War in North Africa – 1940-1943’; ‘Stalingrad – 1942-1943’; ‘Wolfpack – 1939-1944’; ‘Red Star – The Soviet Union – 1941-1943’; ‘Whirlwind – Bombing Germany – September 1939-April 1944’; ‘Tough Old Gut – 1942-1943’; ‘It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow – 1942-1943’; ‘Home Fires’; ‘Inside the Reich – Germany 1940-1944’; ‘Morning – June 1944’; ‘Occupation – 1940-1943’; ‘Pincers – August 1944’; ‘Genocide – 1933-1945’; ‘Nemesis – Feb-May 1945’; ‘Japan – 1941-1945’; ‘Pacific – Feb 1942-May 1945 The Island to Island War’; ‘The Bomb – Feb-Sept 1945’; ‘Reckoning – April 1945’; ‘Remember’; ‘Secretary to Hitler’; ‘Who Won World War II?’; and ‘Warrior’; ‘Hitler’s Germany – 1933-1939’; ‘Hitler’s Germany – 1939-1945’; ‘The Two Deaths of Hitler’; ‘The Final Solution – Part 1’; and ‘The Final Solution – Part 2’. Isaacs also presents a special ‘Making of’ feature.

A televisual milestone and the benchmark for all war documentaries that followed, The World at War presents the story of World War Two from its beginnings in Hitler’s pre-war Germany to its horrific climax at Hiroshima. Made with the full co-operation of the Imperial War Museum and narrated by Laurence Olivier, this powerful twenty-six part series combines eyewitness testimony with rare archive footage to tell the unforgettable story of the greatest conflict the world has ever known. A brand-new High Definition restoration, this is The World at War as it is meant to be seen in its original full screen format with the maximum picture area from the original film materials now visible onscreen. SPECIAL FEATURES: All eight supplementary documentaries made by the World at War production team Making of documentaries Experiences of War: unseen and extended interviews Dolby 5.1 mix (as well as original Mono audio) Image Gallery