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| TITLE |
5 STAR WAR DOCOS VOLUME 1 |
| YEAR |
VARIOUS |
| REGION |
ALL |
| RATING |
PG |
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FEATURES |
A compilation a 5 selected war
documentaries. |
| DESCRIPTION |
THE WEAPONS OF WAR: BATTLESHIPS AT WAR
At the opening of the 20th Century, the Royal Navy was the largest in the world.
British Maritime supremacy was by no means unchallenged. The most alarming
threat was perceived to come from Germany. In 1914 the irreconciliable tension
besetting Europe leads to the Great War. Winston Churchill adopts an ambitious
scheme to force his way through the Dardanellos Straits and seize the Gallipoli
Peninsula, thereby hoping to compel Turkey to make peace and gain an ally
against Germany. Adolph Hitler becomes leader of Germany in 1933 and covertly
proceeds in the expansion of his fleet. He orders larger and more powerful
battleships to be built like the Bismarck, Turpett and introduces the "pocket
battleship", easily outclassing any ship built before. Though the German U-boats
took a fearsome toll on the allied ships all through the raging war, it is the
battleships that retain an indubitable status as the primary instrument of sea
power. On the Danzac Harbour in September 1939, a cruise ship was supposedly on
a goodwill visit when suddenly a deep thunder rolled over the wharfs as the
cruise ship fired the first shots of the second World War, igniting the inferno
that would last for over five years. The famous channel Dash took place in
February, 1942, leaving from Brest and crossing Der Kanal to reach the northern
waters, in an attempt to secure Norway as the strategic battle location. The
battle in the Atlantic raged on unabated. Well into 1943, it was scientific
progress that proved decisive, with the British device, "the centrimetric radar"
allowing the tracking and locating of U-Boats at night and in bad weather.
Throughout the war, the battleships were constantly in action as they laid down
preliminary barrages to help soften up enemy-held terrain prior to attack. The
noble battleships have earned unquestionable acknowledgement as the concrete
foundation of defense against any eventual war.
THE WEAPONS OF WAR: AIRCRAFT CARRIERS AT WAR
In December 1941, a radically different and huge armada is assembled under the
command of Admiral Nogumo of Japan. At its core rides a group of six large,
ultra modern aircraft carriers which, between them, can fly off more than 360
war planes. The aircraft carriers gain fame and notoriety, completely
transforming the balance of power in the Pacific. Thus rewriting the rules of
naval warfare and ensuring that in the long, bitter struggle fought across the
thousands of miles of ocean, the carriers will reign pre-eminent. In Spring of
1942, President Rooseevelt and his advisors sanction an unusual and dangerous
undertaking. On April 18th, under the fearless Command of Kernel James
Doolittle, sixteen B-25 Bombers perform the hazardous feat of taking off a
carrier deck. After journeying for more than six hundred miles, Doolittle's
bombers unload their bombs over Tokyo, in a main effort to reach China. Another
fourteen fleet carriers and over seventeen light escort carriers came down
American slipways. Arriving in the Pacific, they flew out from the decks, an
invincible new generation of faster, better aircraft. Radar technology became a
invaluable tool not only in the efficiency of locating the enemy but also for
the warning of his approach. The radar was instrumental in guiding aircraft
safely home to the mother ship. In November 1943, a surprise carrier strike
devastates a large Japanese expeditionary fleet assembled at Rabaul. In late
1944, the Japanese fleet retaliates with their fearsome new weapon the Kamikaze,
consequently it is the men on the carriers that will experience its horror as
the Kamikaze pilots plunge ahead on a suicide mission. Air patrol is increased
while vigilance sharpens as the Japanese Kamikaze airfields are strafed. In an
uncertain world, it is aircraft carriers not, the battleship that holds "pride
of place". The aircraft carrier with its ease and rapidity of development and
its capacity to fulfill many roles remains one of the most flexible and potent
tools of military intervention ever developed.
THE WEAPONS OF WAR: TANKS AT WAR
Hitler's trail of glory was blazed by Panzers: in Poland, Western Europe, North
Africa and Russia. They repeatedly overcame enormous odds by combining radio
communications, tanks and Stuka dive-bombers to wage the Blitzkrieg-lightning
war. Using revolutionary tactics, commanders like Erwin Rommel rewrote the rules
of tank warfare. But Rommel's reverse at El Alamein was the first indication
that the tide was turning - and on the eastern front the German defeat at Kursk
was to confirm it. The Nazi-armoured advance has seemed unstoppable - would
Hitler succeed where Napoleon had failed? The Panzer was a potent symbol of
German invincibility, but it was tactics, not technology that brought success.
In mounting Operation Citadel against Kursk, hitler set up the greatest tank
battle in history. He needed an unqualified triumph to shine like a beacon and
avenge the humiliation of Stalingrad. But he has reckoned without the Soviet
T-34 built in half the time the of a Panzer and easier to maintain in
inhospitable conditions. The German pincer movement was finally mounted in early
June 1943, but after a week both northern and southern armies were at a
standstill. Soviet Packfront tactics - rockets and artillery, backed by tanks
and infantry - proved a costly but effective answer to Blitzkrieg. The world's
biggest ever tank battle at Prokhorova saw 1500 tanks on one battlefield - but
as the dust settled, it was the German's who licked their wounds. The action
ground on for 20 weeks more - but Citadel was doomed, and with it, Hitler's
chances of remaining in Russia. Russia was the anvil on which the war machine
was broken and the Panzers had finally lost their myth of invincibility.
THE TRUE GLORY
A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II
compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the
assembled allied forces plan and train for the D-Day invasion at bases in Great
Britain and covers all the major events of the war in Europe from the Normandy
landings to the fall of Berlin.
AFTER MEIN KAMPF
The greatest shock scene ever filmed! See...unbelieveable but true...the
shocking story of Nazi atrocities! See...Hitler's sadists leave their shameless
mark! Girls used for "scientific" experiments with near prisoners of war! See...
The ravages of Hitler...the rape of the world! See...the crematorium ovens of
Majdanek, Dachau and Auschwitz. |
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EXTRAS |
NONE |
| FORMAT |
PAL |
| SCREEN |
4:3 |
| PICTURE |
COLOUR / BLACK & WHITE |
| SOUND |
DOLBY DIGITAL |
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LANGUAGE |
ENGLISH |
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SUBTITLES |
NONE |
| DURATION |
300 MINUTES |
| CONDITION |
BRAND NEW & SEALED |
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