Miniseries
A six-part French documentary about the Second World War 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.
Cast & Crew
Episode Guide
Colourised footage of Hitler as he visits the Austrian village where he grew up, see the heart-felt good-byes as French soldiers leave loved ones at Gare de l’Est train station in Paris and civilians. Hitler continues his conquest of Europe by invading Holland and Belgium.
Miniseries FAQs
The directors of Miniseries are Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle.
The cast of Miniseries includes Charles de Gaulle as Self (archive footage), Mathieu Kassovitz as Self - Narrator (voice), Winston Churchill as Self (archive footage), Joseph Stalin as Self (archive footage), Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage), Franklin D. Roosevelt as Self (archive footage), Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self (archive footage), Heinrich Himmler as Self (archive footage), Erwin Rommel as Self (archive footage), Hermann Göring as Self (archive footage), and Benito Mussolini as Self (archive footage).
Episodes run about 53 mins. The total runtime is about 5h 19 mins.
Miniseries was released on 08 Sep 2009.
Miniseries has 6 episodes on Fanbiz.