| |  | DVD The World at War (30th Anniversary Edition) |  | | | | | | | | | | Rating:  - Deadly... Dubbing
Most of the other reviewers have covered the high points and All together the series does a decent job of covering many of the highlights of the second world war. However, the incredibly oppressive use of dubbing to add explosions along with other repetitive, unnecessary and imminently distracting and mind numbingly false sound effects proves to be extremely detrimental to the experience of watching this series. Dubbing is often done on old reel footage from Big Two, however in this case the experience is so overwhelmingly oppressive and poorly executed that it strays to the obscene. For example in one scene there is a dog attempting to jump into the interior of a bomber and the dubbing "experts" saw fit to add a loud whining sound on loop over the video.
As others have said, the history is good, the narration is illuminating but the sound is so bad that it detracts from the whole experience to teeth grating and ultimately the diminishing of the message with a overriding sense of falseness that this addition of sounds that are not only unnatural but dishonest to the material. Adding to the shoddy sound is the Journalistic nature of the discourse. This is to say that they are only talking about certain portions of the war that are of "interest" to them and many of the things they cover (or more often don't cover at all) leave a somewhat inaccurate impression of the actual war. I'd recommend the BBC history of world war II or simply "The War" much more over this collection.
Rating:  - History of WWII
This was how I learnt about the second world war, this series didn't romantisize the era as many movies and docos did (and still do) As this series was made in the early seventies many of the survivors were still alive to account for the events first hand. It is heavy viewing yet so well written and presented that I don't think this series will ever be obsolete.
Rating: - Essential viewing!
Want to see the best series made about the 2nd World War? Want to know how a documentary series should be made? And the narration! Essential viewing for all generations. Brilliantly made.
Rating: - A Must-Have For WW2 History Coverage.
It has much better coverage of the war in Europe and Russia than American documentaries. However, American documentaries such as "War in Europe" and "War in the Pacific" do a more detail job covering the American side of the war. All three of the mentioned documentaries add up to a good library of WW2.
Rating: - The World at War
Good doc. on WWII how it started and ended including what happened in the public lives and military.
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