Victory At Sea - 5 DVDset Complete Series Collectors Edition

Hailed as one of the most important series in the history of television, Victory At Sea is a 26 episode World War II documentary of hugh success. Made in 1952, the show went on to win many major awards and even spawning albums featuring the orchestral score by Richard Rodgers (South Pacific).

Produced with the full cooperation of the US Navy, each 26 minute programme consists of black and white wartime film edited to a narration by Leonard Graves. The narration offers a fascinating insight into how America saw WWII in the early 1950s, while the dynamic cutting and often genuinely remarkable wartime footage make Victory at Sea still gripping today.

Each episode contains at least one powerful stand-alone sequence in the tradition of Sergei Eisenstein, these action-suspense set-pieces giving the programmes an urgent, surprisingly modern feel. The emphasis throughout is at least as much on entertainment as information, the factual content delivered in poetic narration, the score transforming the war into a more than usually serious Hollywood adventure.

The documentaries are wide-ranging, covering parts of the land war and including everything from the Atlantic convoys and Uboat Wolfpacks , to war in Alaska, the South Atlantic, the Far East, the Pacific War and the Fall of Japan.

Disc 1: Design for War / The Pacific Boils Over / Sealing the Breach / Midway is East / Mediterranean Mosaic
Disc 2: Guadalcanal / Ring Around Rabaul / Mare Nostrum / Sea & Sand / Beneath the Southern Cross / Magnetic North
Disc 3: The Conquest of Micronesia / Melenasian Nightmare / Roman Renaissance / D-Day, June 6, 1944 / Killers & the Killed
Disc 4: The Turkey Shoot / Two if by Sea / Battle of Leyte Gulf / Return of the Allies / Full Fathom Five
Disc 5: The Fate of Europe / Target Suribachi /The Road to Mandalay / Suicide for Glory / Design for Peace

Remastered with the original Richard Rodgers soundtrack and inlcuding a bonus CD of the full soundtrack