Where is Morgan Freeman when you need him? The guy narrating this series pronounces almost everything wrong. He can't even pronounce "America." Could have been a much better serious.
3 Reviews
A good effort ruined.
mikenmarydusold14 September 2021
One has to admire the labor that went into the compilation, research and editing of this documentary. Unfortunately, to anyone familiar with the history of WWII, it is rendered almost unwatchable by the amateur narration. The precious and deliberate pronunciation of every syllable creates an effect not unlike a robo-call while the uniformed speaker mispronounces character and place names like Vichy, Jodl, and, get ready, Potomac. I say Po-toh-mek and you say Pot-oh-mac. Let's call the whole thing off!
Excellent, exhaustive, and worth watching
lauowolf16 December 2022
Yeah, the narrator provides ample wft pronunciation choices and enunciates... oddly at times. You can get past it easily.
However, the steady, grinding chronological presentation, the masses of historical video footage, and just the sheer scope of the coverage has made what was always a chaotic mess of information into something I can follow. And the geographical thoroughness of the coverage shows me that my US-centric education never really reflected the true international nature of the war.
Altogether it made me appreciate the sacrifices, the losses, the destruction, and just the sheer awfulness of the war. It doesn't editorialize, it just sets it out inexorably.
However, the steady, grinding chronological presentation, the masses of historical video footage, and just the sheer scope of the coverage has made what was always a chaotic mess of information into something I can follow. And the geographical thoroughness of the coverage shows me that my US-centric education never really reflected the true international nature of the war.
Altogether it made me appreciate the sacrifices, the losses, the destruction, and just the sheer awfulness of the war. It doesn't editorialize, it just sets it out inexorably.
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