It’s the follow-up to the superb World War Two in HD Colour. We can’t wait.
While true crime features like Making A Murderer and Wild Wild Country rightfully pick up praise and acclaim, it’s easy to overlook some of the more ‘history-centric’ documentary features that Netflix have housed in their library.
While every true crime feature is based on historical events, but we’re talking more about documentaries like Ken Burns’ sensational long-form features on The Vietnam War, The US Civil War, and life during the Prohibition Era.
On this note, Deadline are reporting that the online streaming giant have acquired the rights to Greatest Events of World War Two in HD Colour.
The ten-part series will air in 190 territories around the world and it’s going to be packaged as a Netflix Original.
The epic documentary feature is a co-production between Britain’s World Media Rights and Germany’s ZDF Enterprises, which owns a stake in the UK business.
The new documentary is described as “the follow-up to the Robert Powell-narrated World War Two in HD Colour, uses archive footage, much of it previously unseen, acquired from nearly 40 sources including rare library footage from Japan and Russia and processed with state-of-the-art colourisation software.
“From the Blitzkrieg of Germany’s tanks across Europe to the Battle of Britain; from the War in the Pacific to D-Day and the horrors of Hiroshima, this series documents the conflict in unflinching detail, once again bringing the greatest global struggle the world has ever known to a new generation in vivid colour.”
No premiere date has been announced but we’re already looking forward to this one.
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