WWII in Color: Road to Victory

Whoever is narrating sounds like they are a radio DJ smiling as they speak, which doesn't really fit when they are describing Nazi atrocities. They need to get someone like Brian Cox to do it, that would be a great improvement.

This is a near 10 in terms of docu-series. The videos, interviews, and stories are all top notch. My only gripe here would have to be the atrocious narration. The previous docu-series "Greatest WW2 Events in Color" had a MUCH better narration. That one deserved a 10/10. It's a shame they didn't go with the same because this could've been just as good.

This useful documentary provides the average guy with important bits of history that perhaps he's not aware of. Examples are the greatest dogfight, the greatest tank battle. It also shares with the viewer monumental miscalculations that lose decisive battles, the folly of man, and the grim, steely determination of nations to win a war no matter the cost in human life.

There are vivid footages that drive home the futility and senselessness of conflict. A case in point is the pointless destruction of a 6th century cultural treasure in central Italy, the kamikaze pilots and the young ill-trained German defenders of bombed-out Berlin.

The resource persons also explain, in hindsight, the questionable motives of invading Iwo Jima and Italy.

In the end, the biggest war in human history is the gravest loss to humanity.

This is an engaging film. It examines the great events from both sides of the conflict. Is it wistful thinking to say that we should learn not to repeat it?

First time I have ever reviewed abything on IMBD, but the narrator sounds incredibly cheeky, almost jovial while describing one of the worst wars known to mankind. Would be nice if they remade it with the same narrator as last time.

Did the casting director actually listen to this narrator's audition tape? (The first series with Derek Jacobi was superb - a voice with gravitas, befitting a serious topic.)