[dfwgator]

Speaking of such channels, what happened to the old-time documentary where you had a live narrator who took you to places and calmly and clearly told you the stories and facts, with an occasional diagram to help things along?

Yep, I got spoiled as a kid watching "The World At War" with Laurence Olivier doing the narration, it is impossible to top what he did.

[Doomonyou]

"The World At War"

"Victory at Sea" was great too. Great sound tract.

[Vroomfondel]

I got spoiled as a kid watching "The World At War" with Laurence Olivier

I hear ya. And just after I put all the DVDs on my Netflix queue, they moved from "short wait" to the "we don't know when we'll order some more of these" status. Grumble, grumble, grumble.