Perfectly adorable

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

I was flipping channels and came across this dreck a little less than 1/2 way through. I started to watch and within seconds found myself saying, "How did that...?" " When did....?" "That's not right." "I'm not genius or expert, but WHAT THE....?" and so forth.VERY few of the actors looked much like their characters as if the casting director simply said, "If they're white and male, feh, it works. Oh, but put a pair of glasses on that guy."As other reviews have mentioned, poetic license is to be expected to some degree and honestly, with that much of a timespan to cover and all that material, one has to be realistic enough to know that you can't include every detail or you'd end up with a movie almost as long as the war itself. It's just not going to happen. But with that in mind, isn't it in everyone's best interest to get what you ARE covering more than a LITTLE right?The History Channel has become a joke. What was once one of the most fascinating and informative channels for us history buffs has become a hodgepodge of reality crap shows. It's heartbreaking, but my anti-TV executive rants are common in my reviews, so, here's more evidence to back up my beliefs. When they DO an actual history show, I guess we shouldn't expect much more from them than this. And this stinker is now 4 years old. Sheesh, now I'm starting to cry.

Now i will begin by saying I have only watched episode one and it was more than enough to provoke my disappointment in the history channel for making this. While the screenplay, the drama and all were well played the actual history seems to say that McArthur and Patton won the war, Hitler a big player in these series as one would expect was just understated, not to mention Stalin and Lenin's 1 minute segment was just a nod to historical truth as to not let them be totally irrelevant while the great forces of "Murrica" conquered the battlefield's of WWI. This really annoys me as a person who expected a great historical representation for the characters in both the wars. Now one would let the fact that players not as major, i.e. Patton or McArthur to be let into the series, as I expected a more grand point of view, the stories of Roosevelt, Churchil, Hitler and Stalin, to slide but the almost criminal claims that McArthur won WWI for the allies, Hitler being portrayed as this friendless idiot from the beginning just annoyed to be frank. I want to be clear at this stage, I am not an anti- American freedom hating, Nazi commie as most "murricans" would call me, it's just that the facts in this "historical drama-documentary" are used wrongly and misleadingly, which is worse than not having any facts at all. I would call it propaganda but it hardly deserves that, as the most lay historical buff could say that this show just says- "America, **** YEAH". I could cover you in a barrage of historical facts to prove my point but that would just force a stupid debate which will mask the fact that this show is not worth the lines I am writing now. I am sad that this could've been a really awesome presentation into the personalities of Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt and Hitler to show us their points of view and yet it just is a this boring "documentary" which walks on a treaded path trying to earn a buck. I am not angry at the fact that the Americans won the wars (as I am not American or western European) I am actually quite happy even that they won the cold war for reasons too long to explain in this review, however, I am a great believer in historical truth and to be honest this just delivers misconceptions and stupidity to those watching it, oblivious to the facts and wanting to learn more via watch this series. I am greatly disappointed in the History channel and I hope to see real history on it like back in the day and like they are supposed to convey!

I have been studying WWII since I was old enough to read and considering I am now 66, that has been a while.While I feel the mini series was informative for most novices what I found insulting is the footage selected to accompany the narrative being shown. For example; the Battle of Britain footage included the wrong aircraft types including footage of American P-51 fighters, B-17 and B-24 bombers and other aircraft and battles which took place after the Battle of Britain.There is plenty of actual footage of the right type of British aircraft like the British Spitfire and Hurricanes that actually did participate in those epic battles. The use of American footage shows an inattention to detail that is unacceptable and unnecessary. It shows a lack of concern with detail replaced with... I don't know... laziness or, at the very least, a lack of concern for authenticity IF that was the desired result in the first place.The way things are presented can make or break a project. In my opinion World Wars failed when the details became irrelevant which, in turn, made the entire project irrelevant.Whoever decided to cheat the viewing public out of what they professed they were delivering should be ashamed or, at least, get a better informed research staff that actually does some research.Ed BinkleyBetter luck next-time.

This mini-series has a lot of great narration and historical facts. I will give it that much. The first scene really draws you in with Adolph Hitler and the First World War, but that is just about as good as it gets theatrical wise. Everything after that tends to slope constantly. The re-enactments were the most pathetic I've ever seen. Multiple times a ship would be sailing in the ocean with either a British, American, Nazi, and Japanese flag attached to the rear. Each time the ship was the exact same and it had a helipad and satellite dishes all over the main section. Multiple times American Marines from the Pacific theater were show as Italian, French, or Polish soldiers. Half of the time Hitler would speak short sentences in German with subtitles, but when there were full dialogued scenes, he would speak in English. Many scenes with Patton as a Junior officer referred to him as a Captain pre World War I, then as a Lieutenant post World War I while wearing Lieutenant Colonel Silver Oak Leafs. It was a poor representation of the uniform in my respect.