Product Details

• Actors: George Stevens Jr., Dick Kent, Ken Marthey, Ivan Moffat, Hollingsworth Morse
• Writers: George Stevens Jr.
• Producers: George Stevens Jr.
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Turner Home Ent
• VHS Release Date: February 27, 1996
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 078061092X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #322,557 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most extraordinary WW II documentaries..., April 7, 1999

By 

Robert Shapiro (Tucson, Arizona United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: D-Day to Berlin [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I certainly concur with Mr.Meminger's highest rating for this extraordinary documentary. The idea of seeing World War II in color is really quite astounding since our sensibilities are firmly formed in black and white. Showing the horrors of war,and even its poignancy, George Stevens Jr.'s narration along with the musical score by Carl Davis, makes for quite a compelling document. Even after watching this film 25 times or more, I am affected deeply by it with each viewing. I also recommend another documentary comprised of mostly color combat footage (and includes the Pacific theater, which "D-Day..." does not cover),entitled "World War II In Color" (available from Amazon.com), which was released in 1998 (90 min.). Incidentally, another WW II documentary, for which I cannot vouch, is also entitled "D-Day to Berlin"--look for George Stevens Jr.'s name in association with the film in question. "D-Day to Berlin" is, quite simply, indispensable.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding, July 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: D-Day to Berlin [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I purchased this video for my father for Christmas 1999. He watched it three times just on Christmas night! A veteran, he considers it our obligation to educate today's youth about the war...he found this video an excellent means to accomplish this task.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars World War II In Color, November 21, 2005

By 

Marc Flanagan "Reading Through Lunch" (Santa Monica, Ca.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: George Stevens - D-Day to Berlin (DVD)

Director, producer George Stevens spent the war years in uniform. Along with a number of veteran Hollywood cameramen and screenwriters they formed a film unit dedicated to recording the events transpiring in Europe in 1944 and 45. Narrated by his son, we follow "The Stevens Irregulars",as they called themselves, from the landing on Normandy to the Allied Forces trek across enemy territory to Berlin. We see the liberation of Paris and the discovery of the camps at Aushwitz to the fortress in the Alps where Hitler spent much of his time. What is remarkable is that these movies were shot in color. To view the D-Day landings in technicolor makes that events so real, we are not watching grainy black and white film, we are seeing it as it was seen by those who were there those fateful and historic days.. I was stunned seeing them for the first time. It is a time capsule like no other.