The World Wars
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The World Wars |
| Original title | The World Wars |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 283 minutes in total |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Ealer |
| script | David C. White John Ealer |
The World Wars is a six-part television docu-drama that focuses on the two world wars and the interwar period. "The World Wars" was broadcast on May 26, 2014 on the US History Channel as a world premiere. The information channel N24 showed the docu-drama on three consecutive evenings in double episodes from October 6, 2014 onwards in German for the first time. In 2014 “The World Wars” will be shown in 160 countries.
The docu-drama films the two great wars of the 20th century. What distinguishes them is the mixture of dramatically staged, historically verifiable scenes, archive material and expert interviews. The experts include historians and authors as well as political figures such as the Republican US Senator John McCain , the former British Prime Minister John Major and the former Prime Minister of Italy , Mario Monti .
The production company Stephen David Entertainment produced "The World Wars" for the History Channel, France Télévisions and N24. Stephen David Entertainment won two Emmy Awards in 2013 for the documentary series The Men Who Built America.
"The World Wars" was nominated in three categories at this year's Primetime Emmy Awards.
The world premiere of "The World Wars" on the History Channel was announced with a pre-recorded message from US President Barack Obama .
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The docu-drama "illustrates [...] the 30 historical years that changed the course of our history." It refers to the period from 1914 to 1945, which was largely determined by the two world wars. Both wars are not considered individually, but as a large, coherent whole. The protagonists of the docu-drama are the main political characters of the Second World War : Winston Churchill , Adolf Hitler , Franklin D. Roosevelt , Josef Stalin , Charles de Gaulle , Benito Mussolini , Hideki Tojo and George S. Patton , all of whom (except Roosevelt) were in the First World War I fought on the front lines. "The World Wars" shows the development that made them the politicians they were in World War II:
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In “The World Wars” the main political characters are mimed by a young actor (during the First World War ) and an older actor (during the Second World War).
Interviews
The following people from politics and the military, as well as historians and authors, express themselves as experts throughout the documentation on the respective events:
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Episodes
N24 shows "The World Wars" on three consecutive evenings in double episodes:
| Episode number | title | Director | script | First broadcast | Viewers (in millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The great war | John Ealer | David C. White | October 6, 2014, from 8:05 p.m. | not yet known |
| 2 | Fatal peace | John Ealer | David C. White | October 6, 2014, from 9:05 p.m. | not yet known |
| 3 | Dictators and democrats | John Ealer | David C. White | October 7, 2014, from 8:05 p.m. | not yet known |
| 4th | The Blitzkrieg | John Ealer | David C. White | October 7, 2014, from 9:05 p.m. | not yet known |
| 5 | Global war | John Ealer | David C. White | October 8, 2014, from 8:05 p.m. | not yet known |
| 6th | Victor and vanquished | John Ealer | David C. White | October 8, 2014, from 9:05 p.m. | not yet known |
Nominations
“The World Wars” was nominated for an Emmy Award in the categories “Best Screenplay for a Non-Fiction Program”, “Best Documentary or Non-Fiction Series” and “Best Sound in a Non-Fiction Program”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.emmys.com/shows/world-wars
- ↑ Trailer on N24.de
- ↑ N24 acquires six-part docu-drama "The World Wars". quotenmeter.de
- ↑ a b The World Wars Premiere, Monday, May 26 on History - Ratings | TVbytheNumbers ". TVbytheNumbers.Zap2it.com.
- ↑ http://www.emmys.com/shows/world-wars
- ^ History Orders Six-Hour 'World Wars' Docuseries. hollywoodreporter.com
- ↑ TV Review: History's 'The World Wars'. Variety.com
- ^ Emmy Award Status for 'The Men Who Built America'.
- ↑ President Obama announces History's 'The World Wars'. realscreen.com
- ^ The World Wars' on History Channel a six-hour, three night miniseries. The Denver Post
- ↑ Contributors to imdb.com
- ↑ TV program from October 6th to October 9th, 2014
- ↑ Stephen David Entertainment.com