World War Two, the Greatest Conflict.

This is a very long overview of a series, called War Chronicles.  The DVD using archival footage from the conflict overwhelms.  There are no commercial break, no interviews purely images of the battles with narrative.

Although the DVD provides information, some not known, because it chronicles the entire war from 1937 with Japan's invasion of China, to the ends of the war in Germany and Japan, one feels exhausted and as I said previously very overwhelmed.

If anything this is too much information and too much of the same visual references to absorb.  The pace is too rapid and crushing.  Unlike the BBC Themes production  "The World At War" which was produced in the early 1970's, War Chronicles aka World War Two the Greatest Conflict, has none of the human face of the conflict. 

This is fine if you like nothing but battle footage and dry narrative.  However if you really want to understand what lead to the conflict, the consequences, the toll and even the positive moments, then this is not the DVD for that. 

I can not recommend World War Two, the Greatest Conflict, for it left me empty and not caring about perhaps one of the most significant aspects of history.