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Title: The War begins without most of the world
Review: Two episodes into The War & I can find absolutely no cohesiveness in this film.Prereading about this series, I read that the producer's viewed over 1000+ hrs. of film. So far a lot of it is stock footage & readily familiar. My disappointment only increased when seeing a German unit at Stalingrad, exposed backwards, or the narrator trying to describe the invasion of Poland with scenes of murdered peasants. This short clip, these dead peasants, were filmed in the Ukraine in the summer of 1941, almost two years later.With these examples, there is a lot to be desired not only in content, but quality control.The producer's have mounted a inward-looking narrative, & so far are succeeding. K. Burns & co. like mirrors, & because of this lose any hope of capturing the true reality, the real scope of something so enormous as WWII.Ken Burns has made premium Americana, but now he's decided to try & go international; I'm afraid The War just won't cut it.
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