Fluentiama
Perfect cast and a good story
LouHomey
From my favorite movies..
Ezmae Chang
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Raymond Sierra
The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
wanglese
Watched this. 12 peoples accounts of what they saw and experienced.Not propaganda. There were 2 sides to this conflict. The evidence is all around for anyone who isn't a product of Post WW2 post modernist education.Japan was an absolute agressor, from WAY before 1941 (The Japanese behaviour in China is WELL documented). The Nazis were also known for the horrors they inflicted.Some people started the wars. Thank god the allies ended it so that idiots from Latvia can post nonsense without living in fear of their being rounded up.War is terrible. Sometimes people have to fight them because to not do so contributes to the pitiless oppression of those who want to oppress.This documentary is excellent, real, and gets a 10 out of 10 from me,because it's an account from people who were actually involved, and saw it with their own eyes.
CryptoGuy
I cannot get enough of this series. I think it is the best done thus far. It is much better than Ken Burns's documentary, in my opinion. The footage is unbelievable. The personal stories are heart wrenching. I love the way they go back and forth from the actual people, who are in their 80's now, and the actors voicing the story. Perfect. WWII In HD is well thought out and produced documentary. They could easily take this and turn into a dramatic mini-series. Hmmm, note to self...It also has a great soundtrack. I wonder if they will offer it in stores or online.It's just so moving. Well done. Now let's see one on Korea and Vietnam.
Clay Loomis
This was a superb History Channel documentary following the stories of 12 Americans, eleven men and one woman, through both theaters of World War Two. All ten one hour parts were very compelling.When the first part started I was worried when I saw the credits listed that Rob Lowe, LL Cool J, etc. were going to be in it. I was afraid this was going to be a movie and not a documentary as advertised. I was quickly relieved to find out they were just lending their voices to the words of those that were there. Some of those featured are no longer with us, and needed a voice loan. Others are still with us and their own words flowed seamlessly from older to younger.From Pearl Harbor to V-E and V-J days, and all the horrors of war in between, this documentary covered it all with first person accounts that were aided by a great deal of recently discovered color footage taken during the war. I can't give you any spoilers here. It's history, and everyone knows the basic tale, but the personal experiences of those that lived it are always dramatic, wrenching stories.As is mentioned at the end of the conclusive part 10, over 16 million Americans served in WW II and only about 10 percent of them are alive today. The more of these individual stories that get recorded, the happier I'll be, because we shouldn't forget. There are no more stories coming from WW I vets, and not many of them were put to film. Let's grab the WW II stories while we still can.Not to be missed.
RoundTripTicket
But there's a lot I have. I was hoping for some new color B17 footage, but what they have is nearly all recycled from "Memphis Belle" (the original, not the Hollywood).Some of the footage is clearly black & white that's been rather crudely colorized, but most of it is real color.Although the footage is "restored", I don't see how that was done. A lot of the film is scratched and that is all left in. (Scratches and other defects can be removed by filling in the damage with what's on previous and subsequent adjacent frames.) Overall, though, it is great to see the stuff in color and in HD.It's too bad, though, that nearly all the WW2 documentaries are from the American/British point of view. I'd like to see some from the Japanese, German, Soviet and Italian viewpoints.
