FlossyDFlynt said:

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TheStorm said:

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Not Netflix, but the History Channel starts a 20 episode series entitled "World War II with Tom Hanks" tonight at 8:00. I definitely plan to watch this series. Hope I'm not disappointed, because this could be really good.

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Also, learned they have posted this online for free

https://play.history.com/shows/world-war-ii-with-tom-hanks/season-1/episode-1

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They aired the first three 1 hour episodes Monday night, and they already had them up on my "on demand" option yesterday morning. Fell asleep about halfway through episode 2, Monday night... so went back and rewatched it and episode 3 last evening.

Already can attest that it is the best WW2 documentary that I will ever see. Already have learned 8-9 details of the proceedings that I never knew before - or maybe we just always got the broad brush treatment in the past.

Yep. This one is definitely done right. Showing out on my future on demand offerings, they are showing 2 more 1 hour episodes scheduled for each of the next two Monday nights which would get us through 7 of the 20 episodes pretty quickly.

Got some pressing business this morning, but as I get time, I'll post a reasonably short summary of what they've shown so far.

TheStorm said:

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FlossyDFlynt said:

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TheStorm said:

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Not Netflix, but the History Channel starts a 20 episode series entitled "World War II with Tom Hanks" tonight at 8:00. I definitely plan to watch this series. Hope I'm not disappointed, because this could be really good.

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Also, learned they have posted this online for free

https://play.history.com/shows/world-war-ii-with-tom-hanks/season-1/episode-1

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They aired the first three 1 hour episodes Monday night, and they already had them up on my "on demand" option yesterday morning. Fell asleep about halfway through episode 2, Monday night... so went back and rewatched it and episode 3 last evening.

Already can attest that it is the best WW2 documentary that I will ever see. Already have learned 8-9 details of the proceedings that I never knew before - or maybe we just always got the broad brush treatment in the past.

Yep. This one is definitely done right. Showing out on my future on demand offerings, they are showing 2 more 1 hour episodes scheduled for each of the next two Monday nights which would get us through 7 of the 20 episodes pretty quickly.

Got some pressing business this morning, but as I get time, I'll post a reasonably short summary of what they've shown so far.

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Finished the first three episodes last night. Really enjoyed it overall, but the pacing felt a bit strange on certain parts. Felt like they basically glossed over the Battle of Britain.

That being said, the invasion of Poland part was extremely well done and went to show how absolutely ruthless/barbaric the Nazi's were once they took over.

I am also really enjoying them going in chronological order. I do feel that gives a much better perspective compared to some other documentaries that tend to jump around.

FlossyDFlynt said:

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I am also really enjoying them going in chronological order. I do feel that gives a much better perspective compared to some other documentaries that tend to jump around.

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Just think. Everything we've seen so far happened in the mere span of 28 months.

Never seen Poland detailed like that before.
Norway
Denmark
Netherlands
Belgium
France (in the blink of an eye) *The documentary says they were considered the class of Europe's armies at the time
Great Britain essentially rendered helpless in a very short amount of time
All of the European portions of the Soviet Union on the brink of defeat and Stalin is in hiding sulking away in depression and has basically given up.

Thank god for Hitler's greed, stubborness and that amazing Russian winter. *Molotov* (major behind the scenes player in all of this) - and Japan deciding to focus on the British and French colonies in the Pacific first.

I wonder if they go slightly backwards chronologically once they really bring Japan into it. Really hope they give us some real detail on their China invasion.