utterly brilliant . powerful and evocative . the most compelling documentary series ever make concern war . it tone offer a stark contrast to the often gung ho attitude towards world war 2 that the medium exhibit . rather than opt for scream about the horror of war and it allow sir laurence olivier quiet voice to take a back seat to the true image of war represent corps everywhere and explosion and terrified citizen and soldier and break men and indifferent politician and mistake that cost thousand of life and the suffering of the innocent . most of all it truly bring home that mankind be capable of when all normal rule of civility be remove . there be something distinctly hobbesian about man in a true state of nature and he will return to a more beastly form capable of crime that will still shock and fascinate 60 year on . perhaps there could be a follow up series call the century at war for the twentieth century be truly the century of horror . i feel it be an irony of immense magnitude that it take an event which cause the death of 50 million people to produce such a compelling and excellent series such a this .