For me The World at War goes down as one of the best
documentary programmes ever made.
The theme tune, the empathetic narration by Laurence Olivier
and the images portrayed combined to create a fantastic TV series, and one that
can still be watched today without sounding or looking dated.
The subject matter alone leads to interesting TV but not
always in a way that informs without coming across as demeaning.
I was 11 years old when it was first broadcast in the UK
so I probably watched it when it was repeated some years later. That said I
think this series should be part of everyone’s education.
The more we learn about what went wrong in the past the
better placed we are to make sure the same mistakes are not repeated in the
future.
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