Six Theatres Of War - Vol. 2 DVD

The Six Theatres of WWII consists of two DVD sets, each of which contain two individual DVD discs focused on the military campaigns of the Second World War. In-turn, these sets are part of a wider range of double-packages, coming under the overall title of Chronicles of War. Each set offers three documentary films with a total running time of just under three hours. The films contain rare and recently discovered archive film and are packed with vivid combat footage, providing a strong companion series to the television classic The World At War. The material is almost... entirely black and white, and the picture quality, which is dependent on the source materials, is as good as can be expected. Volume 2: "The Sea Campaign" begins with an outline of the British and German navies before WWII began, encompasses action in the North Atlantic and Pacific, covers the battle between the convoys and the U-Boats and concludes with the war in the Mediterranean. "The Jungle Campaign" ranges from the Japanese invasion of Burma and the building of the notorious railway made famous in The Bridge on the River Kwai through Wingate's Chindits and Merrill's Marauders to Operation Rangoon. It is the least action-filled of the six programmes and leads into "The Pacific Campaign", which spans the aftermath of Pearl Harbor to the battle of Midway and the final taking of Japan. There are 11 extra features: four short films about aspects of naval warfare, some modern interview footage with SAS veterans about jungle conflict and six selections of US news archive/propaganda film, two in colour which include the official American Congress declaration of war on Japan. --Gary S. Dalkin [show more]

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