Apocalypse: The Second World War (2009– )
"Apocalypse - La 2ème guerre mondiale" (original title)

Stars:

Mathieu Kassovitz, David Ritchie

Cast

Series cast summary:
Mathieu Kassovitz	...	Narrator (6 episodes, 2009)
David Ritchie	...	Narrator (english version) (6 episodes, 2009)

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

1940s | bombing | axis | holocaust | warfare | 

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Genres:

Documentary

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [fr]

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

8 September 2009 (France)

Also Known As:

Apocalypse: World War II

Company Credits

Production Co:

CC&C, Établissement de Communication et de Production Audiovisuelle de la Défense (ECPAD), NHK

Technical Specs

Runtime:

312 min 312 min (6 episodes)

Did You Know?

Connections

Spin-off Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler (2011)

User Reviews

Great WW2 films I haven't seen before

Maybe the story is not 100% complete, and maybe it gets a little confusing because so many things happen simultaneously throughout the world, so it's understandable that they didn't cover every single aspect and that it's a little too much "French biased", after all it is a French documentary. For example they didn't cover the Balkans at all, and there was one of the most complicated situations in the whole WW2. Maybe not the most important, but certainly interesting, especially in Yugoslavia, where there was in effect a three-way civil war under Nazi occupation, between royalists, communists and quislings going on simultaneously with the armed resistance to Nazis. So that in itself is a situation that would require it's own documentary, and I can see that the authors maybe did not wan't to get into explaining those difficult circumstances when it may take too much time. But the sheer amount of film material shown, that I've never seen before, is astonishing to say the least. I watched every episode eyes wide open. And it's that WW2 video material itself that makes this documentary worth having in one's collection.