World War I | 
| Actors: World War I, Robert Ryan, Cbs News
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
Buy New: $194.00
New (2) Used (9) from $49.00
Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 15997
Format: Box Set, Black & White, Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 5
Running Time: 539 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 630299358X
UPC: 086162592638
EAN: 9786302993585
ASIN: 630299358X
Theatrical Release Date: September 22, 1964
Release Date: January 26, 1994
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Condition: 5-tape vhs set, Brand new -- sealed in factory shrinkwrap
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 This set of videos is incomplet. December 7, 1998
36 out of 40 found this review helpful
This video set is both compelling and accurate but it is also incomplet. In its original showing, and in a showing on PBS a few years ago, there are 26 episodes. In this set there are only 22 episodes. The missing episodes are: "The Doomed Dynasties", "Year Of Lost Illusions", "The Allies In Russia" and "Tipperary And All That Jazz".
 Excellent July 31, 2000
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
Perhaps the gold standard when it comes to video documentaries of the Great War. Extremely comprehensive and well balanced.
CBS' First World War One Documentary (1964) October 1, 1998
Thomas Speers (Berkeley, CA USA)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
In 1964, the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the Great War, CBS produced "World War One". The documentary ran to some twenty episodes, with one half-hour program airing each week. Narrated by Robert Ryan, the documentary covered the period immediately before the war began -- the cultures, innovations and nationalistic currents which came together in August of 1914 -- and every major phase of the war through the Armistice and creation of the Versailles treaty. The production also had an exceptional musical score (created by Alfred Neuman or George Bernstein). The documentary was created wholly from archival footage, much of it shown for the first time on television in 1964, and seldom seen after the program's release. The recent 1997 documentary on PBS, "The First World War and the Shaping of the 20th Century" also used this technique. For armchair historians, students of both the period and of film, this thirty-four year-old series has never been equalled.
The Best Documentary Availiable on this War April 19, 2004
Ryan McMinn (Landisville, PA United States)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
A superb and wonderfully narrated documentary on this complex subject. The film footage and its presentation alone make this a superior work. I have seen but few other documentaries on this war and none have covered the entire breadth of the war as powerfully or in more detail than this. Gaps do exist, but for the most part, they do not seriously curtail the quality of this documentary.Highly recommended for anyone with even an inkling of interest
I Agree with the Previous Reviewer April 25, 2000
Jerome D. Bloom (Chicago, Illinois)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
CBS's documentary World War 1 is comprehensive and very evocative. The film footage is extraordinary and masterfully edited. I must correct one error in the previous review: the powerful music score is by Morton Gould.
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