One of the most important series in the history of television. A 26-episode World War II documentary from the American perspective Victory at Sea is one of the most important series in the history of television. Made in 1952 the show was a huge success winning many major awards and even spawning albums featuring the orchestral score by Richard Rodgers (South Pacific). Produced with the full cooperation of the US Navy each 26-minute programme consists of black and white wartime film edited to a narration by Leonard Graves. Each episode contains at least one powerful... stand-alone sequence in the tradition of Sergei Eisenstein these action-suspense setpieces giving the programmes an urgent surprisingly modern feel. The emphasis throughout is at least as much on entertainment as information the factual content delivered in poetic narration the score transforming the war into a more than usually serious Hollywood adventure. The documentaries are wide-ranging covering parts of the land war and including everything from the Atlantic convoys and Uboat 'Wolfpacks' to war in Alaska the South Atlantic the Far East the Pacific War and the Fall of Japan. The narration offers a fascinating insight into how America saw WWII in the early 1950s while the dynamic cutting and often genuinely remarkable wartime footage make Victory at Sea still gripping today. [show more]
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All 26 episodes of the documentary series narrated by Leonard Graves that charts naval warfare during WWII. The documentary features real footage from a number of great sea battles including Midway, Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal to a soundtrack composed by Richard Rodgers. The episodes comprise: 'Design for War', 'The Pacific Boils Over', 'Sealing the Breach', 'Midway Is East', 'Mediterranean Mosaic', 'Guadalcanal', 'Rings Around Rabaul', 'Mare Nostrum', 'And Sea and Sand', 'Beneath the Southern Cross', 'The Magnetic North', 'Conquest of Micronesia', 'Melanesian Nightmare', 'Roman Renaissance', 'D-Day', 'Killers and the Kill', 'The Turkey Shoot', 'And Two If By Sea ', 'The Battle for Leyte Gulf', 'Return of the Allies', 'Full Fathom Five', 'The Fate of Europe', 'Target Suribachi', 'The Road to Mandalay', 'Suicide for Glory' and 'Design for Peace'.
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