The World At War 1973 S01E14 BrRip-AVI-720X360 English sub[CBCS][h33t].avi

The World at War



No. of series

1



No. of episodes

26



Producer(s)

Thames Television



Running time

22 hours 32 minutes



Original channel

ITV



Original run

31 October 1973 – 8 May 1974



The series has 26 episodes. Producer Jeremy Isaacs asked Noble Frankland, then director of the Imperial War Museum, to list fifteen main campaigns of the war and devoted one episode to each.



Each episode was 52 minutes excluding commercials; as was customary for ITV documentary series at the time, it was originally screened with only one central break. The Genocide episode was screened uninterrupted.



Episode 1 begins with a cold open describing the massacre at the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane by the Waffen SS. The same event is referenced again at the end of Episode 26 and the series ends with Laurence Olivier uttering the poignant word, "Remember".



14 (of 26 episodes)



"It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow: Burma (1942–1944)" 6 February 1974

The jungle war in Burma and India—what it "lacked in scale was made up in savagery". Interviewees include Mike Calvert, Sir John Smyth and Vera Lynn (the episode title is the name of one of her songs), and Lord Mountbatten of Burma.