Series · War & Politics, Documentary
Apocalypse: The Second World War (2009)
★ 8.4 · 158 votes1 season · 6 episodesWar & Politics, Documentary2009
A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters and private citizens. The series is shown in color, with the black and white footage being fully colorized, save for some original color footage. The only exception to the treatment are most Holocaust scenes, which are presented in the original black and white.
- Creator
- Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle, Jean-Louis Guillaud, Henri de Turenne
- Writers
- Isabelle Clarke, Henri de Turenne, Jean-Louis Guillaud
- Network
- France 2
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- First aired
- September 8, 2009
- Status
- Ended
- Original title
- Apocalypse : La 2ème Guerre mondiale
Cast
Mathieu KassovitzSelf - Narrator (voice)
Dwight D. EisenhowerSelf (archive footage)
Adolf HitlerSelf (archive footage)
Franklin D. RooseveltSelf (archive footage)
Charles de GaulleSelf (archive footage)
Heinrich HimmlerSelf (archive footage)
Erwin RommelSelf (archive footage)
Joseph StalinSelf (archive footage)
Hermann GöringSelf (archive footage)
Winston ChurchillSelf (archive footage)
Benito MussoliniSelf (archive footage)
Władysław SikorskiSelf (archive footage)
James DoolittleSelf (archive footage)
Episodes
0/6 watched- Episode 1: Aggression (1933–1939)53 min · Sep 8, 2009
- Episode 2: Crushing Defeat (1939–1940)53 min · Sep 8, 2009
- Episode 3: Shock (1940–1941)50 min · Sep 15, 2009
- Episode 4: World Ablaze (1941-1942)53 min · Sep 15, 2009
- Episode 5: The Noose (1942-1943)52 min · Sep 22, 2009
- Episode 6: Inferno (1944-1945)58 min · Sep 22, 2009
