Anyone been watching this show? It is STUNNINGLY well done. I've got them all on my DVR and started watching the 1st episode last night after the Rocket game. If you're a history buff like myself, you've GOT to check it out. Some amazing footage in color and a lot of it has never been seen before.
I thought about posting a thread as well...but too many Lady Gaga fans made me decide not to. It is a fascinating series. Although I don't really like how they shuffle around the characters as often as they do. Honestly, if they just stuck to Scheffel, Id be fine. That guy can tell a story. The pacific battles are interesting as well, a lot of which I had never known of.
I wanted to start a thread about it but I didn't think many here would be interested. It is great. The footage is incredible, the sound is great, and the interviews are fascinating.
Thanks for reminding me....I just set my DVR to capture these. As an aside...my wife's maternal grandparents are in bad health. He is a WWII vet. Fought in Europe. He went years without talking about it...then one night...he and I are alone on the porch...and he just unloads. He tells me stories he never told his wife or his kids. Stories of working in a work camp before the war as a teenager to earn enough money so his younger syblings could have shoes....stories about hating leaving his wife and how beautiful she was...stories about laying and pretending to be dead while German troops walked by him....about fighting in the snow...about feeling sorry for German troops they captured ("they was just boys too")...and the most poignant story about arriving back in the US, seeing the Statue of Liberty, and literally wondering if he was dead and in heaven, because he couldn't imagine how he'd survived after seeing so much death. Just amazing. I'm very grateful I've never been put in that position.
You were very lucky Max. My grandpa died too early from a heart attack, but I still doubt he would have ever opened up about it. He was very stubborn, and I tried to pry stuff out, but he would always dismiss it. He fought through North Africa with the British Commandos, but was captured in Italy and spent either 2 or three years in a prisoner of war camp. I really, really miss his tough love. Anyways, I watched the first two episodes and have recorded the rest. I find this one more interesting than the WWII series done on PBS a year ago. I have everything on DVD from Ken Burns, but this one, with the color, never before seen footage...it just amazes me, being a serious history buff and all.
My maternal grandfather never talked about it. All I know is he was a Major in the army, knew Patton, lost his best friend who was in a jeep right in front of him (drove over a landmine), woke up screaming alot, and that he would never, ever let any of his "girls" (wife and daughters) know what he saw or what he did.
Where does this never-before-seen footage come from? Does it just get unearthed in some warehouse somewhere? I always find it weird that decades and decades after the fact somehow people come up with stuff that hadn't been seen before.
http://www.history.com/content/wwii-in-hd/about-the-series WWII in HD is the first-ever World War II documentary presented in full, immersive HD color. Culled from thousands of hours of lost and rare color archival footage gathered from a worldwide search through basements and archives, WWII in HD will change the way the world sees this defining conflict. Using footage never before seen by most Americans--converted to HD for unprecedented clarity--viewers will experience the war as if they were actually there, surrounded by the real sights and sounds of the battlefields. Along the way they'll meet a diverse group of soldiers whose wartime diaries and journals show in visceral detail what the war was really like. This visually astonishing landmark series presents the story of World War II through the eyes of 12 Americans who experienced the war firsthand. Viewers will hear the story of Army nurse June Wandrey, who served from the beginning of the war in North Africa to the liberation of the camps in Germany. They will meet Shelby Westbrook, a young African American from Toledo, who became a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen; Jimmie Kanaya, the son of Japanese immigrants, who served in the U.S. Army and was imprisoned in Europe; and Jack Werner, a Jewish émigré who escaped from Austria before the war and wound up fighting not against Hitler and the hated Nazis, but in the Pacific Theater.
Thanks... I love WWII documentaries. If you want to see a great one, you should watch Ken Burn's WWII. He's a legend in the field. You can probably find it on torrents.
http://www.history.com/video.do?name=Nostradamus_Effect&bclrid=fullepisodes Nostradamus effect on 2012 is very interesting. Enjoy life while we can guys
How can they even show this in HD if HD didn't exist during WWII?!?!?!?! This is preposterous. :grin: Thanks for the reminder... I have been trying to watch the Spartans series.
I watched the episode where they invade Normandy last night. The first scene in Saving Private Ryan always gave me the chills, and the show last night redefined that. Excellent stuff, great presentation.
Oh yeah, don't worry about that. They are replaying it constantly over the next few weeks, I think. Set up a DVR pass now and you won't miss any of it. I was starting to lose my faith in the History Channel, with them showing inane reality shows about truck drivers and pawn shops, but they are really redeeming themselves by showing this series. Yep, my late grandfather fought in Okinawa but never said a WORD to any of us about it. I can remember as a kid, my mom always telling us not to ask him about it. We would ask why and she would just tell us to drop it. I always had the distinct feeling that that came directly from my grandfather. A lot of those men took their stories to their graves. We can only imagine what they must have seen and went through.
