Comments on: Can you recommend documentaries that explain world conflicts?

Question: Can you recommend documentaries that explain world conflicts?

Tarumba — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:17:02 -0800

I just finished watching The First World War and now I want more! Can you recommend your favourite documentaries on History, particularly conflicts/war? I prefer a geopolitical focus (as in maps of the territories, graphic representations of strategies, what countries unied, what empires were divided in to what, etc.)

I can finally say I have at least a clue about how or why the WWI came to happen. I would like to understand other conflicts/revolutions in the same way. I am looking for these subjects in particular, but other recommendations will be appreciated, too..

WWII and the years between WWI and WWII <-- (most wanted)
Yugoslavia and the war in the Balkans
Emancipation of European colonies
Communism in Europe
etc.

Any ideas?

By: pompomtom

pompomtom — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:20:18 -0800

The classic for WWII is The World At War.

By: bruceo

bruceo — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:58:07 -0800

Seconding "The World at War". Narration by Lawrence Olivier. Interviews (in the 70's) with surviving principals. And tons of archival footage. Top notch.

By: rhizome

rhizome — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:09:15 -0800

Check out The Great War if you want more WWI.

By: Bektashi

Bektashi — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:36:57 -0800

The Death of Yugoslavia from the BBC.

By: sien

sien — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:58:21 -0800

The Cold War is very good. There are lots of interviews with people who were important during the time including Castro and Gorbachev.

By: Tamanna

Tamanna — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 07:42:51 -0800

On my phone so can't link, but Band of Brothers. It's a ten-hour miniseries, yes, but it's amazing.