The World at War
The World at War is a documentary television series that aired on British television for a total of 26 episodes and chronicled the events of the Second World War. At a total cost of£900,000, it was the most costly series that had ever been produced when it was finished in 1973. It was narrated by Laurence Olivier, and Jeremy Isaacs was the one responsible for producing it. Carl Davis was the one who composed the score. In 1973, Mark Arnold-Forster published his book titled The World at War, which was intended to serve as a companion piece to the television series of the same name. Since filming had wrapped up, The World at War has garnered praise and is now considered to be a watershed moment in the annals of British television history. After the project was finished, and while the memory of the Second World War was still relatively recent in many people's memories, the producer Jeremy Isaacs was regarded as being ahead of his time in rejuvenating studies of military history. The series concentrated, among other things, on the representation of the devasting human realities of the battle; specifically, how life and death throughout the war years affected soldiers, sailors, and airmen, as well as civilians, the terrible victims of tyranny, and concentration camp inmates.