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The World Wars (2014)
The 'History' Channel spouts more drivel
Aside form the historical inaccuracies with regards to the weapons, uniforms and even facts this has to be one of the worst 'documentaries' I have seen on this subject. I am fully aware that the show was made for American audiences to be shown on memorial day but other perspectives of this monumental WORLD conflict would do it justice.
The first episode which focuses on WWI completely forgets to mention France who sacrificed nearly 2,000,000 people to this conflict along with the insurmountable damage caused to the north-west region of the country and merely mentions France as the country where the fighting took place.
The end of the first episode also makes it seem as though Patton and MacArthur won the war on the Western Front alone and that Patton was the only military leader who embraced tanks on the battlefield when it was the British who successfully invented and then used tanks in battle a year earlier.
All in all I was hopeful that the History Channel would live up to its name and was willing to cast aside c**p like Ax Men and their ilk to make a factual documentary film but was once again let down with one sided views which almost amounted to propaganda at points, if you would like to find out any real facts about the wars and the ramifications they caused then I would seriously recommend watching the Century of Warfare as this shows many different perspectives and the lasting consequences which are still being felt to this day.