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Old 05-30-2014, 09:47 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Tomorrow, Tuesday, and Wednesday, The History Channel will show a 3-part series, each 2 hours in length, about the lives of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Adolf Hitler between 1914 and 1945.



For those of you interested in these time periods, you might find them interesting.

I tried to watch The World Wars. But it was impossible. It was clearly a very amateurish sloppy production with GLARING obvious mistakes. Their historical consultants must have been 3rd graders.
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Old 05-30-2014, 12:55 PM
 
Location: Emmaus, PA
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I watched the first episode of "The Sixties". I liked it but that might be because I lived it.
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Old 05-31-2014, 05:38 AM
 
Location: A coal patch in Pennsyltucky
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I tried to watch The World Wars. But it was impossible. It was clearly a very amateurish sloppy production with GLARING obvious mistakes. Their historical consultants must have been 3rd graders.
So please point out these mistakes for those of us who aren't such history experts.
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Old 05-31-2014, 09:19 AM
 
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So please point out these mistakes for those of us who aren't such history experts.
Here's just a few of the top of my head:

WW1 -

No mention of General Pershing. None at all.
Lt Col Patton riding on the back of a WW2 M3 tank into battle.
Gen MacArthur standing in the middle of no-man's land, shouting at PFCs to "keep moving."

WW2 -

No mention of Eisenhower.
German and US troops using British armaments.
Japanese flagged Aegis-class cruiser presented as part of their WW2 fleet.
N African campaign completely ignored.

Overall, for such a heavily advertised mini-series, presented on The History Channel of all places, it was incredibly inaccurate, incomplete, and poorly done.
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Old 06-01-2014, 03:58 PM
 
Location: A coal patch in Pennsyltucky
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Here's just a few of the top of my head:

WW1 -

No mention of General Pershing. None at all.
Lt Col Patton riding on the back of a WW2 M3 tank into battle.
Gen MacArthur standing in the middle of no-man's land, shouting at PFCs to "keep moving."

WW2 -

No mention of Eisenhower.
German and US troops using British armaments.
Japanese flagged Aegis-class cruiser presented as part of their WW2 fleet.
N African campaign completely ignored.

Overall, for such a heavily advertised mini-series, presented on The History Channel of all places, it was incredibly inaccurate, incomplete, and poorly done.
You stated "GLARING obvious mistakes," but how many of these are really glaring obvious mistakes? It was a six hour program that tried to cover both the various leaders through both World Wars and the period in between. Ignoring part of the history is not a mistake; it is just the way the producers decided to write the script.

I agree they did not try very hard to be historically authentic with the use of weapons, ships, tanks, planes and military clothing. I thought the biggest mistake was showing the Battle of the Bulge being fought in the summer when the Germans launched their attack on December 16.

Another glaring error was the way the program described Patton as being reactivated for the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 when in fact Patton's Third Army became operational on August 1, 1944 and he led the advance across France after that point.
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