Rent The World at War: Part 2 (1974)
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7h 12min
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- Synopsis:
Sir Laurence Olivier narrates a further eight episodes of Jeremy Isaacs' epic documentaries.
Desert: The War in North Africa - 1940-1943
For two years the 8th Army and Rommel's Afrika Korps fight in the wastes of North Africa - finally the tide turns at El Alamein...
Wolf Pack: 1939-1944
In a war of high technology and animal courage, the German U-boats fight allied merchantmen, hounding them in packs. A German victory at sea will drive Britain from the war...
Whirlwind: Bombing Germany - September 1939 - April 1944Bomber Command are unable to hit precise targets and begin bombing German cities by night. The Americans reinforce the attacks by day; a whirlwind of terror and destruction will win the war...
It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow: 1942-1943
Vera Lynn sang of a lovely day tomorrow, but the war in Burma was mud and monsoon. Britain's largest army learned to master the jungle and fought the Japanese to a standstill...
Stalingrad: 1942-1943
Hitler's early successes in Russia made him reckless and he resolves to capture Stalingrad. The battle lasts six months with the Russians emerging as victors. The Wehrmacht never recovers...
Red Star: The Soviet Union - 1941-1943
For two years, the Soviet Army fights the Germans almost alone. After the greatest land battles in history, the nation survives and triumphs - with a loss of no less than twenty million of its people.
Tough Old Gut: 1942-1943
Churchill called Italy the 'soft underbelly of the crocodile' and thought the Allies could cut through it to the heart of Germany. But the soft underbelly turned out to be a 'tough old gut'...
Home Fires
At home in Britain during the war - a time of gas masks, Winston Churchill, Coventry, Dig for Victory, evacuation, Georgr Formby, ITMA, the Land Army, the Squander Bug and the Beveridge Report...- Actors:
- Laurence Olivier, Anthony Eden, Averell Harriman, Albert Speer, Siegfried Westphal, William Beveridge, Gracie Fields, William Edward Rawlings Eyton-Jones, Christabel Bielenberg, Emmi Bonhoeffer, Eva Braun, Joseph Chamberlain, Joseph Goebbels, Hugh Greene, Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler, Hans Kehrl, Benito Mussolini
- Directors:
- John Pett, Hugh Baggett, Martin Smith, Angus Calder, Ted Childs
- Producers:
- Peter Batty, Ted Childs, John Pett, Martin Smith, Ben Shepherd, Philip Whitehead, Jeremy Isaacs
- Narrated By:
- Sir Laurence Olivier
- Writers:
- Peter Batty, J. P. W. Mallalieu, Charles Douglas Home, John Williams, Jerome Kuehl, David Wheeler, Angus Calder, Neal Ascherson
- Studio:
- PT Video
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Documentaries, TV Political
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