Farther and farther away from us are the events of the most crushing and bloody war of the twentieth century. The younger generation is barely aware of the horrors that his ancestors had to endure. The apocalypse of the Second World War turns pale, and only a movie can now return the feeling of a nightmare experienced by that generation.
To remember
A lot of art films and series have been shot, truthfully and not very narrating about those days.
One can dispute the credibility of blockbusters created by Americans or Western directors such as The English Patient, Saving Private Ryan, favored by critics, and showered with many film awards. And you can take them for granted. Russian directors have addressed the topic more than once: “The dawns here are quiet” make you sob today, and Bondarchuk’s “Stalingrad” amazes with its special effects and the thoroughness of the recreated scenery. But the documentary chronicles (an example is the film “Apocalypse: World War II”) are witnesses whose veracity cannot be disputed. It is in these frames that terrible pictures of the Holocaust arise again and again, when the Nazis wanted to destroy the Jewish nation, concentration camps, where inhuman experiments were carried out on their own kind, battles that were not possible to calculate.
Documents certify
The directors of this documentary series "in all its glory" showed what the apocalypse of World War II is.
They collected a lot of archival materials, allowing themselves only to colorize the black and white film. Only the footage narrating about the cruelty of the Holocaust remained monochrome. Two directors, a woman and a man: Isabella Clark and Daniel Casatelle - took as a basis the cadres of
war correspondents and those who were able to capture the horrors of fascism. Sometimes it disturbs us to colorize what should seem to remain black and white. In a TV series featuring the apocalypse of World War II, this is not so important. Of course, maybe the French directors were slightly biased and did not reveal the full power of Slavic patriotism, which especially flourished during the years of that war. It may be insulting for us, Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, those who belonged to the “Union of the indestructible free republics”. Yes, the emphasis is not on the exploits of Alexander Matrosov, the Young Guard or hero pioneers. But here is another task. People simply show the chronicle of events through the eyes of participants in those events.
To not happen again
This National Geographic project, depicting the apocalypse of World War II, is dedicated to landing operations, which played an important role in the development of events, fierce and terrible battles, and a nuclear strike on Japan by the United States. Now we can deny the role of that test of a new, one might say, an experimental bomb on a civilian population. But even this is one of the pages that are difficult to comprehend, which the 20th century is rich in. This was another bullet point put by the United States and, perhaps, made the authority of the state even more solid and indestructible. The blitzkrieg of the Nazis, who were able to conquer many developed countries in Europe, by surprise to catch and hold in their tenacious paws for many years, is shown very clearly. This film is a warning to prevent the Second World War 2 apocalypse from repeating itself.