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The World at War is a 26-episode British documentary television series that chronicles the events of the Second World War.Produced in 1973 at a cost of £900,000 (equivalent to £13,700,000 in 2023), it was the most expensive factual series ever made at the time. [1]
The single version radio edit was less than 4 minutes. The album version, over 10 minutes long, featured a third verse, a longer intro, a saxophone solo in the instrumental section, and an extended coda featuring an electric guitar solo while War repeatedly sang the song's title before the fade.
The World at War is a 1942 documentary film produced by the Office of War Information's Bureau of Motion Pictures. One of the earliest long length films made by the United States government during the war, it attempted to explain the large picture of why the United States was at war, and the various causes and circumstances which brought the war into being.
Carl Davis CBE (October 28, 1936 – August 3, 2023) was an American-born British conductor and composer. He wrote music for more than 100 television programmes (notably the landmark ITV series The World At War (1973) and BBC's Pride and Prejudice (1995), created new scores for concert and cinema performances of vintage silent movies and composed many film, ballet and concert scores that were ...
The song's popularity among both Allied and Axis troops in the Western Desert front during World War Two was described in the British television program The World at War, a documentary series broadcast in 1973–74 and narrated by Laurence Olivier, in Episode 8, "The Desert: North Africa 1940–1943".
The World Wars is a three-part, six-hour event miniseries by the History Channel that premiered on Monday, May 26, 2014, (Memorial Day) airing for three consecutive nights. An extended version of the series, divided into six episodes with never before seen footage, was subsequently broadcast on H2 and in more than 160 countries on June 22, 2014.
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" was banned for broadcast by the BBC for the duration of the first Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991) due to the song's political themes. [41] For several years, the song was used as the title theme to the political HBO talk show, Dennis Miller Live. [42] [43] [44]
A Family At War is a British drama series that aired on ITV from 1970 to 1972. [1] It was created by John Finch and made by Granada Television for ITV. [ 2 ] The original producer was Richard Doubleday, and with 13 directors during the series.