Although I have the box set I am watching World at War on BBC iplayer
Wasnt this series originally on ITV or has my memory gone haywire?
Thames TV.
BTW you know we haven't heard from Westmarcher for a few days? It's because my hand's gone numb.
I hope to catch up during the week whilst at work. Also watching the WWI series on BBC4 which is superb. Both are an example of how documentaries should be made.
Quote from: Fenton on 22 February 2015, 02:37:03 PM
Although I have the box set I am watching World at War on BBC iplayer
Wasnt this series originally on ITV or has my memory gone haywire?
I thought it was on 4 originally :-\
Whatever; stunning series!
Quote from: getagrip on 22 February 2015, 04:59:40 PM
I thought it was on 4 originally :-\
Whatever; stunning series!
Channel4 began in 1982; W at W was from the '70s I believe.
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 22 February 2015, 05:04:24 PM
Channel4 began in 1982; W at W was from the '70s I believe.
Thought so, remember watching it with my dad; I was about 12 and it really made WWii real; I looked at war films differently after that.
Inspired choice of narrator.
I remember watching it avidly every week with my old man who was a mine of information, both him and his brother having served. Great series and has never been bettered in my humble opinion.
Quote from: jambo1 on 22 February 2015, 05:47:00 PM
Great series and has never been bettered in my humble opinion.
Completely agree and, hasn't dated massively.
I think World and War and The Great War are brilliant and done just in the nick of time where a lot of the combatants and personalities involved were still alive
Always makes me wish they'd had modern mass media in the SYW, or the wars of the Successors, or Momoyama Japan, or renaissance Italy, or the Crusades.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 22 February 2015, 11:37:57 PM
Always makes me wish they'd had modern mass media in the SYW, or the wars of the Successors, or Momoyama Japan, or renaissance Italy, or the Crusades.
Yes and no; would have made bloody ugly programmes :-\
Quote from: fsn on 22 February 2015, 03:11:21 PM
BTW you know we haven't heard from Westmarcher for a few days? It's because my hand's gone numb.
Is it still
there?
I seem to remember a TV series when I was a small boy called 'All our Yesterdays', I think it was a day by day account of WW2 as the pressenter kept saying "twenty five years ago today..."
That one was 25 years on - using Pathe (mostly) newsreel film. Just a tad biased as to commentary, but good stuff. It did get '46, and they tried a 50 year revival.
IanS
This series used to be part of the schools curriculum. I can remember a huge TV being rolled into the classroom in primary school.
Methinks it should be re-introduced. The school kids today are taught more about the Vietnam War :(
Quote from: Nosher on 25 February 2015, 06:20:22 PM
I can remember a huge TV being rolled into the classroom in primary school.
How brilliant were the TV lessons as a kid?
We were taught GCSE History using certain episodes of Blackadder Goes Forth to help get across the textbook/dictated information.
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 25 February 2015, 08:03:26 PM
We were taught GCSE History using certain episodes of Blackadder Goes Forth to get across the textbook/dictated information.
I often use the final episode when we're looking at Wilfred Owen and Jessie Pope.
Powerful beyond words.
We were also taught during Year 7 (when the Head Teacher decided to take the class) by a woman wearing a white bed sheet, supposedly representing a toga, while she cast herself as Julius Caesar and talked with a dodgy accent.
Thankfully, I was only ever taught history by a proper history teacher after that.
It was a great series, and I am sure was a superb teaching aid. Many, many moons ago, when the world was young, I used the "In Search of the Trojan War" series by Michael Wood as a teaching aid for very bright 12 year olds. The work they produced in response was simply superb, and just made me realise how uninspiring my normal lessons were! The series inspired me, and it certainly inspired them. The only downside was the pressure they put on their parents to buy the book of the series! :D
Mollinary