Apocalypse: The Second World War

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Apocalypse: The Second World War
Created byDaniel Costelle
Isabelle Clarke
Jean-Louis Guillaud
Henri de Turenne
Narrated by Mathieu Kassovitz - French Martin Sheen - English US Jonathan Booth - English UK
Composer Kenji Kawai
Country of originFrance
No. of episodes6
Production
ProducersCC&C
ECPAD
Running time5 hours 20 minutes
Original release
Network France 2, RTBF, TSR
Release20 August (2009-08-20) 
22 September 2009 (2009-09-22)

Apocalypse: The Second World War (French: Apocalypse, la 2e Guerre mondiale) (2009) is a six-part French documentary by Daniel Costelle and Isabelle Clarke about the Second World War. The music of the documentary was composed by Kenji Kawai.

Contents

The documentary is composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters and private citizens. The series is shown in color, with the black-and-white footage being fully colorized, save for some original color footage. The only exception to the treatment are most Holocaust scenes, which are presented in the original black and white.

It was first aired in 2009 from August 20 and 27 and September 3 on the French-speaking Belgian RTBF then on August 23 and 30 and September 6 on the French-speaking Swiss TSR and finally on September 8 to September 22 on France 2 channel. It was narrated in French by actor/director Mathieu Kassovitz. The documentary was shown on the Smithsonian Channel in the United States, where it was narrated by actor Martin Sheen, [1] on the National Geographic Channel and Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, where it was narrated by actor Jonathan Booth, Canada, the Netherlands, Poland, Australia, Romania [2] and Asia, [3] on YLE Teema in Finland, [4] on Rete 4 in Italy, on IBA, the national public channel in Israel, [5] on RTP2, the national public channel in Portugal, and on La 2, the national public channel in Spain.

Episodes

  1. Aggression (1933–1939): rise of Nazism and the invasion of Poland, Phoney war
  2. Crushing Defeat (1939–1940): Battle of Dunkirk and Battle of France, Battle of Britain
  3. Shock (1940–1941): the North African Campaign, Invasion of Yugoslavia, Battle of Greece and Battle of Crete, Operation Barbarossa, Battle of Smolensk and Battle of Moscow
  4. World Ablaze (1941–1942): Pearl Harbor, Midway and Guadalcanal, Operation Fall Blau
  5. The Great Landings/The Noose (1942–1943): first failures of the Axis, Battle of Stalingrad, El Alamein, Operation Torch, Tunisia, Kursk and Italian campaign
  6. Inferno (1944–1945): liberation of France, invasion of Germany, surrender of Germany, atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and surrender of Japan

Depictions

The documentary includes a series of portraits of the main leaders of World War II.

Germans

French

British

Americans

Soviets

Italians

Japanese

Chinese

Miscellaneous

Some of the people documented in the series:

See also

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