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  1. The World at War 1973

    Documentary

    A documentary series that gives a historical account of the events of World War II, from its roots in the 1920s to the aftermath and the lives it profoundly influenced.

    The sides of The World at War

    • World War II from its roots to its aftermath
    • Interviews with soldiers, civilians and leaders
    • Archive footage narrated by Laurence Olivier

    Good for you if

    • you want the whole Second World War told in order, front by front.
    • you like hearing soldiers who were there tell what they saw.
    • you like the grave, haunting Carl Davis theme that opens every episode.

    Bad for you if

    • you find 1970s television and black and white archives dated.
    • you can't watch footage of the camps and the dead.
    • you won't commit to twenty six episodes of nearly an hour each.

    About: war · memory · genocide

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  2. A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters and private citizens. The series is shown in color, with the black and white footage being fully colorized, save for some original color footage. The only exception to the treatment are most Holocaust scenes, which are presented in the original black and white.

    The sides of Apocalypse: The Second World War

    • Archive footage shot by soldiers and civilians
    • Black and white images restored in color
    • The whole war in six parts

    Good for you if

    • you want to see the Second World War through the eyes of those who filmed it.
    • you like the whole war told from start to end in six episodes.
    • you want to see black and white archive footage restored in colour.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't face the footage of the Holocaust.
    • you can't watch real combat and real bodies.

    About: war · memory · the Holocaust

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  3. Through vividly enhanced archival footage and voices from all sides of the conflict, this docuseries brings WWII to life like never before.

    The sides of World War II: From the Frontlines

    • Enhanced archival footage of the Second World War
    • Voices from all sides of the conflict
    • Real soldiers and civilians

    Good for you if

    • you want the Second World War told from start to finish.
    • you like seeing the front lines in sharper, restored footage.
    • you want the words of people who lived through it.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real footage of combat and death.
    • the suffering of real victims is too much for you.

    About: war · memory · the cost of conflict

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  4. World War II in Colour 2009

    Documentary

    World War II In Colour is a 13-episode television documentary miniseries recounting the events of World War II narrated by Robert Powell. The show covers the Western Front, Eastern Front, and the Pacific War. It is on syndication in America on the Military Channel. This series is in full color, combining both original and colorized footage.

    The sides of World War II in Colour

    • Archive footage of the Second World War in colour
    • Robert Powell's narration
    • The Western Front, the Eastern Front and the Pacific

    Good for you if

    • you want the whole war told in order, front by front.
    • you like seeing soldiers and battles as real people saw them.
    • you like real footage that feels closer once it's in colour.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand real images of the dead.
    • you find archive footage dated, even colorized.

    About: war · sacrifice · the world order

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  5. D-Day Sacrifice 2014

    Documentary

    Comprised entirely of re-mastered and colorised archive footage from World War II, much of it never before seen, Sacrifice recounts the story of D-Day through the testimonies of those who lived it. These important historical days are seen through the eyes of French civilians and members of the military fighting on both sides. The testimonies of famous individuals like Dwight D. Eisenhower and Erwin Rommel are intertwined with those of anonymous soldiers and citizens, such as film director Samuel Fuller and Eisenhower's chauffeur, Kay Summersby. From the preparations for D-Day all the way through to the liberation of Paris, the accounts of these men and women provide a moving and invaluable retelling of this pivotal time in history.

    The sides of D-Day Sacrifice

    • Colorised archive footage of World War II
    • The Normandy landings
    • Soldiers and French civilians on both sides

    Good for you if

    • you want to follow D-Day from the preparations to the liberation of Paris.
    • you like war seen by soldiers and civilians on both sides.
    • you want real footage and real testimonies, with no actors.

    Bad for you if

    • you find wartime archive footage dated, even in colour.
    • you can't watch real images of dead and wounded soldiers.

    About: sacrifice · liberation · memory

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  6. The Battle of Midway 1942

    Documentary

    The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, in 2006.

    The sides of The Battle of Midway

    • John Ford filming under Japanese bombs
    • Midway atoll in June 1942
    • Color footage from the Pacific war

    Good for you if

    • you want a real battle filmed by someone who was there.
    • you like wartime footage shot in color in 1942.
    • you want something short. It runs eighteen minutes.

    Bad for you if

    • you find 1940s war footage dated.
    • you roll your eyes at patriotic wartime narration.

    About: duty · courage · propaganda

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  7. Band of Brothers 2001

    Series

    Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.

    The sides of Band of Brothers

    • The paratroopers of Easy Company
    • A night jump over Normandy on D-Day
    • The Battle of the Bulge in winter

    Good for you if

    • you want a war story built from the real men's interviews and letters.
    • you like soldiers who become brothers, from training in Georgia to the end.
    • you want to follow one company from Normandy to Bastogne and the end of the war.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch men wounded and killed in combat.
    • you need some lightness, and the cold of Bastogne and the camps are too much for you.

    About: brotherhood · courage · war

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  8. During World War II, airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss, and triumph.

    The sides of Masters of the Air

    • Bomber crews of the 100th Bomb Group
    • Missions over Nazi Germany
    • Airmen shot down and taken prisoner

    Good for you if

    • you want the air war of World War II seen from inside a bomber.
    • you like true stories of the men of the 100th Bomb Group.
    • you want big air battles high above Europe.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch planes torn apart with men inside.
    • you lose track of a large cast of airmen in uniform.

    About: brotherhood · loss · courage

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  9. Dunkerque 2017

    Película

    II Guerra Mundial. Cientos de miles de británicos y tropas aliadas están rodeados por las fuerzas enemigas. Atrapados en la playa con el mar a sus espaldas se enfrentan a una situación imposible mientras el enemigo se acerca. La película relata la Operación Dinamo, también conocida como el milagro de Dunkerque. Se trató de una operación de evacuación de las tropas aliadas en territorio francés, que tuvo lugar a finales de mayo de 1940. La operación permitió el rescate de más de 200.000 soldados británicos y más de 100.000 franceses y belgas.

    Las caras de Dunkerque

    • Soldados atrapados en una playa
    • Pequeños barcos que acuden al rescate
    • Un tictac que nunca se detiene

    Buena para ti si

    • te gusta estar tenso desde el primer minuto hasta el último.
    • te gusta la guerra filmada para la pantalla más grande posible.
    • te gusta una banda sonora que hace tictac como un reloj.

    Mala para ti si

    • quieres conocer a los personajes. Apenas sabemos sus nombres.
    • quieres una historia contada en orden. Se montan tres líneas temporales.

    Temas: la supervivencia · el deber · el rescate

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  10. The Pacific 2010

    Series

    Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.

    The sides of The Pacific

    • Three real Marines in the Pacific war
    • Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa
    • Coming home after the fighting

    Good for you if

    • you want the true stories of Leckie, Basilone and Sledge.
    • you want to understand the war against Japan island by island.
    • you like battle scenes on the scale of a film.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch combat deaths filmed up close.
    • the toll of war on real men's minds is too much for you.

    About: war · brotherhood · trauma

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  11. Apocalypse: World War I 2014

    Documentary

    Colorized historical footage in ascending order of World War 1. Not only the relatively known Flanders and France battles, but also the generally unknown Italian-Austrian, German-Polish-Russian, Japanese-German, Ottoman Empire- Allied and African German Colonies, and other unknown or forgotten fronts and battles.

    The sides of Apocalypse: World War I

    • Archive footage of the Great War in color
    • Fronts from Flanders to Africa and the Ottoman Empire
    • Soldiers and civilians caught in four years of war

    Good for you if

    • you want the whole of World War I told in order, forgotten fronts included.
    • you want to see the trenches as the soldiers lived them.
    • you like real faces from 1914 brought closer by color.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real footage of the wounded and the dead.
    • you can't take the scale of real loss in one evening.

    About: war · memory · loss

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  12. The Vietnam War 2017

    Documentary

    An immersive 360-degree narrative telling the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Featuring testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.

    The sides of The Vietnam War

    • Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's history of the war
    • American veterans, protesters and Vietnamese witnesses
    • From French Indochina to the fall of Saigon

    Good for you if

    • you want the whole war, from the French colonial years to 1975.
    • you like hearing soldiers from both sides describe the same battles.
    • you want witnesses rather than actors.

    Bad for you if

    • ten long episodes is too much for you.
    • you can't stand real footage of combat and the dead.

    About: war · lies of power · memory

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  13. Segunda Guerra Mundial, 1944. Tras el desembarco de los Aliados en Normandía, a un grupo de soldados americanos se le encomienda una peligrosa misión: poner a salvo al soldado James Ryan. Los hombres de la patrulla del capitán John Miller deben arriesgar sus vidas para encontrar a este soldado, cuyos tres hermanos han muerto en la guerra. Lo único que se sabe del soldado Ryan es que se lanzó con su escuadrón de paracaidistas detrás de las líneas enemigas.

    Las caras de Salvar al soldado Ryan

    • El desembarco de Normandía
    • Ocho hombres en busca de uno
    • Un puente que defender

    Buena para ti si

    • quieres sentir cómo es de verdad una batalla.
    • te gusta Tom Hanks como un capitán al que no deja de temblarle la mano.
    • te gusta una batalla que se siente en la butaca. El desembarco de la playa de Omaha abre la película.

    Mala para ti si

    • las heridas de guerra muy explícitas son demasiado para ti.
    • casi tres horas son demasiado para una noche.

    Temas: el deber · el sacrificio · la hermandad

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  14. A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

    The sides of Enemy at the Gates

    • Two snipers hunting each other in Stalingrad
    • Jude Law as Vassili Zaitsev
    • Ed Harris as a German marksman

    Good for you if

    • you like a duel of patience between two snipers in the ruins.
    • you want the Battle of Stalingrad seen from the rubble.
    • you like the huge opening, soldiers crossing the Volga under fire.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand soldiers mown down on screen.
    • you'd rather a war film without a love triangle.

    About: propaganda · rivalry · survival

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  15. Hitler: A Career 1977

    Documentary

    A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.

    The sides of Hitler: A Career

    • Archive footage of Hitler's rise
    • Crowds at Nazi rallies
    • The Weimar Republic sliding into dictatorship

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand how the Weimar Republic fell to the Nazis.
    • you're interested in how crowds are swayed by propaganda.
    • you want the story told through footage from the time.

    Bad for you if

    • two and a half hours of archive footage is too much for you.
    • you can't sit through so many images of Nazi crowds and war.

    About: propaganda · mass psychology · dictatorship

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  16. This documentary series tackles one of history's most horrifying subjects: the Holocaust and the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

    The sides of Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution

    • The history of Auschwitz-Birkenau
    • Testimony from survivors and former perpetrators
    • Reconstructions of Nazi decisions

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand how Auschwitz was built and run.
    • you need to hear survivors and former guards tell it themselves.
    • you want to understand the Second World War beyond the battlefields.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch testimony about mass murder.
    • you need some hope from what you watch.

    About: memory · genocide · responsibility

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  17. La lista de Schindler 1993

    Película

    Oskar Schindler, un hombre de enorme astucia y talento para las relaciones públicas, organiza un ambicioso plan para ganarse la simpatía de los nazis. Después de la invasión de Polonia por los alemanes, consigue, gracias a sus relaciones con los nazis, la propiedad de una fábrica de Cracovia. Allí emplea a cientos de operarios judíos, cuya explotación le hace prosperar rápidamente. Su gerente, también judío, es el verdadero director en la sombra, pues Schindler no tiene el menor conocimiento industrial.

    Las caras de La lista de Schindler

    • Un empresario que salva a sus trabajadores
    • Blanco y negro, y un abrigo rojo
    • Una lista que significa vida

    Buena para ti si

    • te gustan las imágenes potentes en blanco y negro, y una niña con abrigo rojo que no olvidarás.
    • te gusta un villano terriblemente humano.
    • quieres entender una historia real desde dentro.

    Mala para ti si

    • el Holocausto en pantalla es demasiado para ti esta noche.
    • más de tres horas es demasiado para una sola noche.
    • el blanco y negro te echa para atrás.

    Temas: la humanidad · el valor · el mal

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  18. Dynamic reenactments and expert commentaries bring to life the tumultuous history and power struggles of a warring 16th-century feudal Japan.

    The sides of Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan

    • Warlords fighting to unite 16th-century Japan
    • Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu
    • Reenactments mixed with historians

    Good for you if

    • you want the Sengoku period explained clearly from start to finish.
    • you like samurai armies and sieges brought back to life.
    • you like betrayals and alliances decided by who will rule Japan.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch bloody battle reenactments.
    • you can't take ritual suicide shown on screen.

    About: ambition · loyalty · unification

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  19. Shoah 1985

    Documentary

    Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.

    The sides of Shoah

    • Survivors, bystanders and perpetrators interviewed
    • The sites of the camps filmed decades later
    • No archive footage at all

    Good for you if

    • you want the Holocaust told by those who were there.
    • you can sit with long silences and slow train journeys.
    • you can be moved to tears by a barber breaking down as he recalls Treblinka.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't give more than nine hours to one film.
    • you won't read subtitles, and the film moves between many languages.
    • you can't hear first-hand accounts of mass murder.

    About: memory · testimony · genocide

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  20. Oppenheimer 2023

    Película

    Película sobre el físico J. Robert Oppenheimer y su papel como desarrollador de la bomba atómica. Basada en el libro 'American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer' de Kai Bird y Martin J. Sherwin.

    Las caras de Oppenheimer

    • El hombre que construyó la bomba
    • Un pueblo secreto en el desierto
    • Una audiencia que decide su destino

    Buena para ti si

    • te gusta una interpretación protagonista sostenida por la mirada.
    • te gustan las salas llenas de gente brillante discutiendo.
    • quieres sentir la primera prueba en el pecho.

    Mala para ti si

    • tres horas de conversación son demasiado para una sola noche.
    • quieres acción. Son sobre todo reuniones y audiencias.
    • quieres una historia contada en orden. Salta entre épocas.

    Temas: la culpa · el poder · la ciencia

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