fatherpierre

It's the last time it will ever be shown on tv/cable, apparently.

What a brilliant documetary. Made at a time when the veterans were still middle-aged, and able to give a memorable account of what happened (including the surviving Germans), and with the fantasic Laurence Olivier narrating.

Worth buying on DVD to show your kids, their kids, their kids, etc.

We'd be hard pressed as a nation now to have that spirit shown by those massively brave people of that time.

ScoobyDriverWannabe

Quality series they gave the DVDs away in a news paper not so long back

GC8

I was very young when this was first broadcast but even from a pre-school age I remember seeing this on the television (Sunday afternoons in 1974?).

For a 35yr old programme, its extremely hard hitting.

stilover

Yeah, seen it all the way through before. Fantastic series. Maybe the young Chav's of today should be forced to watch it. Make them realise what those old people they like to pick on, had to go through to make sure they don't now speak german.

SJ_Skyline

I remember vividly, watching the episode entitled "Genocide" when I was a child.

Excellent series and it has been good to see it screened again.

mrtheedge2u2

Watched it on many occassions with my farther...... great show!

Leslie

I quite agree, it is an excellent documentary and well worth preserving.

Les

GC8

Curiously, its on UKTV History again right now.....

riiidaa

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Thanks, just slammed it on +1

Jamie

It was on history last year and in the telegraph/mail on sunday and the mirror classic stuff,makes you think how the fvck we actually won both wars

j4ckos mate

it is a great programme,

i sat and watched iot with my dad over a few weeks, whilst we were saving up the deposit for our house.

Jamie

Two weeks deposit how much do you earn ?

fatherpierre

I think it's on pretty much constantly until they've gone through the whole lot of them.

I bought the box-set recently from ebay.

It's a very eery thing to watch with the lights down!!

GC8

As your original post, they stated that it was being played through for the last time over the bank holiday weekend. I think that there are two post war episodes: I watched the last one yesterday. I was surprised to see that they were back with the invasion of Belgium and the routing of the British Expeditionary Force in France again this evening.....

fatherpierre

Yeah, they have a late war one on yesterday and then this morning were playing the invasion of Poland!

Maybe the scheduler's an alcoholic and @rseholed all the time.