World War II: G.I. Diary (1978– ) User Reviews (2)

A good hard hitting show about World War II

[spitfire-22 · 10/10 · 5 April 2005]

This was a good hard hitting show about World War II Lloyd Bridges voice adds lot feel to the stories. the editing, the narration are absolutely great. Watching this is actually sort of a chilling experience; after awhile you feel as if you've been transported on board the ships, or in the subs, or at Pearl Harbor, or on Iwo Jima--not just sitting in your living room watching it on TV. Even thirty years later this documentary has lost none of its power. Quite the opposite. It serves as a great introduction, for those born after WWII, to an enormous conflict that radically re-shaped the world around us and subjected our grandparents/parents to dreadful hardship.

I would love have them all on DVD set.

TV war doc.

[haildevilman · 8/10 · 20 May 2007]

A new twist on the World At War/Victory At Sea style of documentary.

Lloyd Bridges narrates (excellently I may add) a particular battle or campaign using the words of those who were there. Ther narration is also joined by said soldiers. I don't know if any of the real men were used, but it still worked great.

An intro to a common guy fighting in France/Russia/Saipan/Algeria/The Phillipines and letting him tell the story of how it went. How it REALLY went.

Being TV, it isn't that graphic, but it doesn't hide the facts either. You see the dead. Theirs and ours. Both Asia and Europe were used in as many cases as they could.

Word of warning, the "Road To Berlin" episode will NOT be easy to stomach. That's where the camps were liberated. Be careful there. But it's a great TV doc. that belongs in any war buff's collection.