Never Forget

My Weekend was spent watching some great docos on History. Here they are neatly packaged in a video with annotation links. For it is important to know history and how it is still applied today.

World War II: The Lost Color Archives
World War II has been seen as a black and white war… until now!
The scenes are authentic. The color is real.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=030CE37A8ED8A05D

Hitler in Colour
This is a series of home movies and other color film showing the period of 1933 to the end of the war in color. The narration is mostly made up of quotes from diaries and speeches from the time.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=ACEF451C5E213CAE

The Last Secrets of the Axis
Fascinating documentary about who was really pulling the strings for the Nazis and the Japanese in the second World War. The secret societies, the black dragons and spies in Pearl harbour
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=70D611BB6E2ED41E

WORLD WAR 2 IN COLOUR
This miniseries makes a point of presenting WWII in period color only, as opposed to the wealth of b&w material we have seen
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8F8F67406ACB140D

The World At War
The most compelling documentary series ever made concerning war. It’s tone offers a stark contrast to the often gung-ho attitude towards World War 2 that the media exhibits. Rather than opting for screaming about the horror of war, it allows Sir Laurence Olivier’s quiet voice to take a back seat to the true images of war
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=94B5722971E4EF68

Dealers in Death 1934
Dealers in Death was a mid-1930s documentary designed to forewarn the public that a second World War would mean the end of civilization. The villains of the piece are those munitions manufacturers to whom war was merely the logical extension of business.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=79C863C80DBA2C4C

D-Day Minus One (ca.1945)
Record of the operations of the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions in the 1944 invasion of France.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E26775F369FBD8DE

Battlefield II Operation Market Garden
This episode tells the tragic story of the “bridge too far” and the ill-fated Operation Market Garden–the Allied operation that was supposed to end World War II in 1944.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3AA953501EB23DCA

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