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Do you watch any of them? Its not like they are making Hitler out to be a good guy!
The World At War is regarded by some as the finest ever piece of British documentary making. Its brilliant. Narrated by Laurence Olivier. As a side note, I'm stunned to see that it cost over £11m to make in today's money. That's mental!
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As a side note, I'm stunned to see that it cost over £11m to make in today's money. That's mental!
Is it? I'm a long way from being an expert on TV production costs but there are 26 episodes bringing it in at a cost of ~ £420,000 per episode. Once you pay the narrator (who couldn't have been cheap), researchers to go through the hours of historical footage, crews for all of the interviews, historians to oversee the project and editors to pull everything together it strikes me as pretty good value.
Add to that the fact that it is still being shown and therefore licensed world wide almost 50 years later if imagine that there has been a pretty good ROI.
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I'm guessing this was more about programs like Nazi Megastructures, Hunting Nazi Treasure or Supernatural Nazis and the like? Rather than something such as The World At War possibly. They still aren't heaping praise on the Nazi Regime but there is definitely a question of which audience they are there to provide content for.
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The World At War
While there is a lot that's great about it, there's plenty that is a bit iffy.
Just as an eg the episode on French preparation and the invasion of France is full of contradiction and inaccuracies. Overall it very much supports a Anglo-centric world view.
All that said, you've got to consider when and where it was made. The first hand accounts are deeply moving and should form an essential part of our collective memory.
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what about those tv channels that endlessly repeat documentaries about hitler and that whole era
are they history / education programmes, programmes glorifying that regime for those right wing cunts to fap over or just channels under the murdoch broadcasting organisation so standard fayre for them lining up with the bosses politics allegedly .
personally i'd get rid of any programme like that for good, we all know what they did, it must be offensive for some people to have those programmes continually on their tv's