Product Details

• Actors: World War I, Robert Ryan, CBS News
• Format: Box set, Black & White, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 5
• Studio: Fox Home Entertainme
• VHS Release Date: January 26, 1994
• Run Time: 48 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630299358X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #93,493 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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40 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This set of videos is incomplet., December 6, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: World War I [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video set is both compelling and accurate but it is also incomplet. In its original showing, and in a showing on PBS a few years ago, there are 26 episodes. In this set there are only 22 episodes. The missing episodes are: "The Doomed Dynasties", "Year Of Lost Illusions", "The Allies In Russia" and "Tipperary And All That Jazz".

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Best Documentary Availiable on this War, April 19, 2004

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Ryan McMinn "John Q. Public" (Landisville, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: World War I [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A superb and wonderfully narrated documentary on this complex subject. The film footage and its presentation alone make this a superior work. I have seen but few other documentaries on this war and none have covered the entire breadth of the war as powerfully or in more detail than this. Gaps do exist, but for the most part, they do not seriously curtail the quality of this documentary.

Highly recommended for anyone with even an inkling of interest

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars CBS' First World War One Documentary (1964), October 1, 1998

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Thomas Speers (Berkeley, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: World War I [VHS] (VHS Tape)

In 1964, the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the Great War, CBS produced "World War One". The documentary ran to some twenty episodes, with one half-hour program airing each week. Narrated by Robert Ryan, the documentary covered the period immediately before the war began -- the cultures, innovations and nationalistic currents which came together in August of 1914 -- and every major phase of the war through the Armistice and creation of the Versailles treaty. The production also had an exceptional musical score (created by Alfred Neuman or George Bernstein). The documentary was created wholly from archival footage, much of it shown for the first time on television in 1964, and seldom seen after the program's release. The recent 1997 documentary on PBS, "The First World War and the Shaping of the 20th Century" also used this technique. For armchair historians, students of both the period and of film, this thirty-four year-old series has never been equalled.