'The World at War' is one of my all-time favorite TV series. I watched them all at least once on PBS as a kid. I remember the searing theme music playing as pictures of soldiers and civilians who were victims of the conflict, faded one into the next. The last image is a little boy. Normal at first, his face becomes engulfed in flames and morphs into a skeletal visage over the last dramatic chords.
Movie Muser reports on the upcoming restored Blu-Ray edition of the series. The imagery and sound has been vastly improved with 3.5 million corrections in the 26 episode series.
The first episode begins with colour footage of a deserted town in France. Laurence Olivier’s booming voice explains that the Nazis invaded, took all of the townsmen into a barn and killed them. The women and children were marched up the high street to a church where they too were murdered. “No-one lives here any more” Olivier’s voice explains, “the town was never rebuilt”.
I'll be getting this collection as soon as it's available.
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