The World at War Secretary to Winston Churchill), Averell Harriman (US Ambassador to the Soviet Union) and Arthur ""Bomber"" Harris (Head of RAF Bomber Command). The World at War The World at War (1973–74) is a 26-episode British television documentary series chronicling the events of the Second World War. It was at the time of its completion in 1973, at a cost of £900,000 (), the most expensive factual series ever made. It was produced by Jeremy Isaacs, narrated by Laurence Olivier and included music composed by Carl Davis. The book, "The World at War", published the same year, was written by Mark Arnold-Forster
The Great War (TV series) The Great War (TV series) The Great War is a 26-episode documentary series from 1964 on the First World War. The documentary was a co-production of the Imperial War Museum, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Broadcasting Commission. The narrator was Michael Redgrave, with readings by Marius Goring, Ralph Richardson, Cyril Luckham, Sebastian Shaw and Emlyn Williams. Each episode is long. In August 1963, at the suggestion of Alasdair Milne, producer of the BBC's current affairs programme "Tonight", the BBC resolved to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War with