World At War series - WW1 equivalent???

Spon Farmer

Hello,

The World at War series is still the best documentary made about the second World War.

Does anyone know which of the various series about World War 1 is the best? any that come close to World At War?

Regards

Melodeon

The Great War (1964)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057753/

Absolutely amazing documentary series, and the inspiration/template for the much better known World At War series.

Spon Farmer

Melodeon wrote: »

The Great War (1964)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057753/

Absolutely amazing documentary series, and the inspiration/template for the much better known World At War series.

Thanks for the quick response.

This is good to know. Thank you. I just did a quick Google and this seems to be the very thing I was looking for.

Do you anything about the BBC series from last year - The First World War, 10 episodes?

How does Great war compare to it. I've been searching for the DVD but the BBC don't seem to have released it.

Cheers

EDIT: Holy Smokes, Great War is £200 on Amazon UK

Melodeon

I'm afraid I haven't seen that one so can't offer a comparison, sorry.

The Great War series was re-released by one of the UK newspapers a few years ago and I picked up the complete DVD set at a jumble sale, not knowing what it was exactly.
I was stunned, to say the least!
The entire thing is available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxK-qR14pVg&list=PLdEBPyoq11-7H07u7iwGM_3l-_QfxFj9B

Spon Farmer

Thanks for the Youtube link.

It is for my Dad so I might try to copy them onto a DVD.

Cheers.