World at War, The. Vol 2 (6 Parts)

Synopsis: 1 DESERT - THE WAR IN NORTH AFRICA 1940-1943 - North Africa, the battle of El Alamein and Operation Torch (producer/writer Peter Batty).
2: Stalingrad, the symbol of the Soviet Union’s stubborn resistance, holds out against Hitler’s besieging armies until the latter are encircled and destroyed (director Hugh Raggett, writer Jerome Kuehl).
Part 4: The battle of the Atlantic (producer/director Ted Childs, writer J P W Mallalieu).
Part 5: The story of the Soviet Union’s massive, lonely war with its 20 million military and civilian casualties (producer/director Martin Smith, writer Neal Ascherson).
Part 6: The bomber offensive on Germany and its effect on industry, on German civilians and on the course of the war (producer/director Ted Childs, writer Charles Douglas Home).
Narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier; music by Carl Davis.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 6 x 52 min.
Year of production: 1973
Availability: Sale
Notes: Broadcast weekly on BBC2 beginning Monday 5 Sept 1994.
The entire series is available on 11 videocassettes as a boxed set (ref. PTWAR 1) priced £74.99 or as a set of 11 DVDs (ref FHEDWAR) containing additional material, for £99.99.
Subjects: History
Keywords: World War II

Director

Hugh Raggett; Martin Smith; Ted Childs

Producer

Martin Smith; Peter Batty; Ted Childs

Writer

Contributor

Carl Davis; Jeremy Isaacs; Noble Frankland

Cast

Laurence Olivier

Title: On our way: America enters the war
Synopsis: Part 1: Roosevelt brings the US into the war and soon wins vital Pacific battles, but Europoe comes first (producer/writer Peter Batty).
Title: Desert: the war in North Africa
Synopsis: Part 2: North Africa, the battle of El Alamein and Operation Torch (producer/writer Peter Batty).
Title: Stalingrad1
Synopsis: Part 3: Stalingrad, the symbol of the Soviet Union's stubborn resistance, holds out against Hitler's besieging armies until the latter are encircled and destroyed (director Hugh Raggett, writer Jerome Kuehl).
Title: Wolf pack
Synopsis: Part 4: The battle of the Atlantic (producer/director Ted Childs, writer J P W Mallalieu).
Title: Red star
Synopsis: Part 5: The story of the Soviet Union's massive, lonely war with its 20 million military and civilian casualties (producer/director Martin Smith, writer Neal Ascherson).
Title: Whirlwind
Synopsis: Part 6: The bomber offensive on Germany and its effect on industry, on German civilians and on the course of the war (producer/director Ted Childs, writer Charles Douglas Home).

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