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BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

jimel98 I was flipping channels and came across this dreck a little less than 1/2 way through. I started to watch and within seconds found myself saying, "How did that...?" " When did....?" "That's not right." "I'm not genius or expert, but WHAT THE....?" and so forth.VERY few of the actors looked much like their characters as if the casting director simply said, "If they're white and male, feh, it works. Oh, but put a pair of glasses on that guy."As other reviews have mentioned, poetic license is to be expected to some degree and honestly, with that much of a timespan to cover and all that material, one has to be realistic enough to know that you can't include every detail or you'd end up with a movie almost as long as the war itself. It's just not going to happen. But with that in mind, isn't it in everyone's best interest to get what you ARE covering more than a LITTLE right?The History Channel has become a joke. What was once one of the most fascinating and informative channels for us history buffs has become a hodgepodge of reality crap shows. It's heartbreaking, but my anti-TV executive rants are common in my reviews, so, here's more evidence to back up my beliefs. When they DO an actual history show, I guess we shouldn't expect much more from them than this. And this stinker is now 4 years old. Sheesh, now I'm starting to cry.

abhishekkulranjanrao One can really preempt the tenor of the "documentary" when it begins with Obama showering platitudes about sacrifices of the Allied forces and the atrocities of the "Evil Powers" and how history has been redefined.The basic agenda of this documentary is to show American Military as the Salvation Army and they really make no bones about it. With McArthur and Patton shown as some sort of Demi-Gods with unmistakable swagger and pride and Churchill depicted with similar brush, only makes the subtle very obvious.Like any other history buff, I appreciate objective view of history even if it invites lacerating self introspection. Propaganda's weakness lies in its inability to mask the contradictions and this documentary is full of contradictions and haphazard attempts to self aggrandizement. 4/10

Dennis Ver Mulm This production is rife with oversimplification and inaccuracy. As previously noted, important events from both WWI and WWII are missing in their entirety, making it difficult, if not impossible, for an informed viewer to comprehend even the broad strokes of these significant world events. Film clips used to illustrate the narration are often not properly selected and, as a result, do not accurately portray the events being described. The time-line of events is frequently so out of order that it's impossible to establish a coherent chronology of events. Dramatization for effect is one thing, but the creators of this production have employed artistic license to the degree that this documentary is neither informative nor entertaining. The World Wars was obviously written by someone whose knowledge of history is solely a product of the American education system. The writer should have picked up and read a few history texts first! This was absolute garbage. I watched it once and was so steamed, I've deleted all the episodes from my DVR. This won't be part of my library, and I'd suggest that those who haven't seen it save six hours of their lives.

Eric Naughton My title says it all. There are many good aspects to this mini-series. The casting and acting is very good. The interview material is very good. The production value of the recreations is excellent with a few exceptions (the use of some images of modern warships comes to mind). Unfortunately, the accumulation of many small errors and some very large errors is enough for me to say that this show is not worth watching if you want solid information about the time period. Even if many of the factual errors has been corrected, there are many events and personalities that are mischaracterized in the narration. This could have been helped if the script had been vetted by bona fide historians. If it had been reviewed and approved by any historian at all, I would be very surprised.