It is OK but has some really obvious goofs such as showing American troops and German troops shooting Lee Enfields.
Also shows Patton chasing Mexicans on a car and (technically they didn’t say that is how he killed them but you clearly are meant to think so) despite the fact that he killed them with a pistol in a gunfight.
They show Churchill with what looks like a .45 auto. I can’t say for sure that he never had one but it would look a lot more authentic if he was using a broomhandle Mauser.
Quite a bit of similar errors tho the history over all may be OK.
Yeah I saw the “German” “Enfields” too.
They get the Russian Revolution wrong. No mention of the February Revolution, so leaving the impression that the Bolshevik coup d’etat in October 1917 was the whole revolution when it was not. They also have Stalin welcoming Lenin at the Finland Station and playing a leading role, when he was barely even there (it was Trotsky who ran that show). Fairly shoddy seems to me, plus the actors playing the leaders, both young and old, are uniformly lifeless and the re-enactments are mostly lame.
Other than that, lotsa fun.
Sgt. Alvin York was supposedly using an Enfield when he won his CMH, but I know the Germans definitely weren't using Enfields.
I thought Churchill fancied the Thompson in .45. At least that’s what the ad in the magazines shows!
TONS of misapplied older film in it.....American planes being used for German ones - same for cars, tanks, much more.
Whoever picked the cuts from other films didn’t know squat about the equipment of WWII.......
FROM THE 1980's!!!
Sorry, but that stands out to me.
At least they pointed out that Hitler choose Red because it was the color of Socialism.
But, Young Hitler Sounded French?
“They show Churchill with what looks like a .45 auto. I can’t say for sure that he never had one but it would look a lot more authentic if he was using a broomhandle Mauser.”
According to reputable written sources his pistol of choice was a 1911 .45ACP.