What's with all of the WW2 documentaries in the UK?

[Guitarman]

But a LOT more people died in western europe in WWI! So it deserves to be remembered. I'm old enough to have a grandfather who served in WWI and one who served in WWII. Bothe WWI and WWII were horrible, brutal destructive wars. Nothing like the romantic fiction portrayed in the films.

The difference is the media can push their muslim migrant loving agenda with WWII by analogy to the Jewish holocaust. (i.e. if we don't accept unlimited amounts of Muslims into Europe, we are as bad as Hitler).

This agenda should be resisted by all possible means, even including challenging the Holocaust story.

 

[weambulance]

I'm not saying it doesn't. I think WWI was both fascinating and horrific. The tactics were slow to adapt to the lethality of industrial warfare and it was the meat grinder of all meat grinders.

Many more people died at the Battle of Somme than in the entire American Civil War. More soldiers died on the first day of the Battle of Somme than the west has lost in the Middle East in the last century. Death on that scale is hard to grasp; it is awe inspiring in a terrible way.

But, most people don't care, and the TV stations aren't going to put out shows that the average idiot won't watch. That's all I'm saying.

 

[spokepoker]

There's not much footage from WW1, the documentaries that exist, are good.
I find WW1 much more fascinating than WW2, introduction of air, tanks, proliferation of repeating guns, and how tactics had to change due to all this new tech.

 

[Thoroughbred]

Here's one for ya: http://www.hellstormdocumentary.com/

 

[WalterBlack]

"The British had as many problems, if not more, in recovering from victory as the Germans did in recovering from defeat. The British … what did Britain get out of the war? Not very much … not very much. She lost a great deal. I suppose, if you want to look at it positively, she got a moral claim on the world, as the nation that had stood against Hitler alone for a year and had provided the moral leadership against the Nazis at a time when everyone else was willing to cave in to the Nazis."

Seen at 38m 30s

The World At War is one of the greatest TV documentary series of all time. It was made in the early 1970s so a lot of participants from WW2 were available for interview.

 

[RexImperator]

Yeah I'd like to watch it again. I remember seeing it on PBS as a kid.

 

[El Chinito loco]

So many great aspects of world at war which is the documentary mentioned a lot produced by the BBC. Everyone should watch it because it features interviews from Nazi German officials and Imperial Japanese who still had first person perspective of the events that transpired.

The opening monologue with scenes from Odeur sur glane are amazing and haunting.

The eastern front section is especially heartbreaking. It's the only western documentary i'm aware of that allows humanization and complexity to the eastern front sacrifice of WW2. The Soviets clearly were the pivotal moment that led to the defeat of nazi germany... Without the soviets it's really doubtful the nazis would have been defeated by the western allies of mostly the U.K. and the U.S.

This Soviet poem still haunts me especially with the footage from World at War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait_for_Me_(poem)

Wait for me, and I'll come back!
Wait with all you've got!
Wait, when dreary yellow rains
Tell you, you should not.
Wait when snow is falling fast,
Wait when summer's hot,
Wait when yesterdays are past,
Others are forgot.
Wait, when from that far-off place,
Letters don't arrive.
Wait, when those with whom you wait
Doubt if I'm alive.

Wait for me, and I'll come back!
Wait in patience yet
When they tell you off by heart
That you should forget.
Even when my dearest ones
Say that I am lost,
Even when my friends give up,
Sit and count the cost,
Drink a glass of bitter wine
To the fallen friend -
Wait! And do not drink with them!
Wait until the end!

Wait for me and I'll come back,
Dodging every fate!
"What a bit of luck!" they'll say,
Those that would not wait.
They will never understand
How amidst the strife,
By your waiting for me, dear,
You had saved my life.
Only you and I will know

This is why it's such an abomination to me that western europe is in the state that it is. Literally millions of men in western europe died to secure their ancestral lands and they are giving it away to savage arab muslims, north africans, and subcontinent colonials. Just ridiculous.

 

[Saweeep]

I find these documentaries slightly harrowing. The veterans interviewed are all dead; I think my generation and older are the first in history to have lived among another generation that is now entirely gone, yet still preserved on film. It's an odd sensation.

My Grandmother (RIP) was born in 1919, lost 6 brothers in the Great War and spent 4 years during the Second knowing very little about her husband other than that he was a POW in a German camp. I grew up hearing, first hand, the stories of that generation; the daily struggles and sacrifices they went through, the spirit and resolve and above all else the intense nationalistic pride that swelled from within them.

What amazing people. I don't care if the films of their lives is made and broadcast for "globalist/leftist/I'm-completely-paranoid" agendas or whatever. I am proud of them. They are sorely missed.

We will never see their likes again.

RIP the British Stiff Upper Lip.
RIP The Great Generation.

 

[WalterBlack]

I find these documentaries slightly harrowing. The veterans interviewed are all dead; I think my generation and older are the first in history to have lived among another generation that is now entirely gone, yet still preserved on film. It's an odd sensation.

My Grandmother (RIP) was born in 1919, lost 6 brothers in the Great War and spent 4 years during the Second knowing very little about her husband other than that he was a POW in a German camp. I grew up hearing, first hand, the stories of that generation; the daily struggles and sacrifices they went through, the spirit and resolve and above all else the intense nationalistic pride that swelled from within them.

What amazing people. I don't care if the films of their lives is made and broadcast for "globalist/leftist/I'm-completely-paranoid" agendas or whatever. I am proud of them. They are sorely missed.

We will never see their likes again.

RIP the British Stiff Upper Lip.
RIP The Great Generation.

Here's a fantastic and harrowing BBC documentary about Harry Patch, one of the last British WW1 veterans to pass away - The last Tommy. This was filmed in 2007 when a handful of them were still alive.