Top billed cast

1. 

   John Boyega

   Self - Narrator (voice)

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Current Season

Season 1

2023 | 6 Episodes

Through vividly enhanced archival footage and voices from all sides of the conflict, this docuseries brings WWII to life like never before.

Reviews

A review by swiewior

Written by swiewior on 2024-12-19

Finally a Netflix TV series that isn't all about LGBTQIA+, racial and gender equalities. A great work of image reconstruction, very well componed with sound and music into a complete story. Unfortunately, it's not authentic and nothing new. At times it attempts to mimic the legendary They Shall Not Grow Old, however, it's not unique, never-before-seen footage. The directors didn't even try to break out from the suit and similarly to other WW2 documentaries, failed to show the Soviet Union as a second aggresor on Poland in September 1939, responsible for even more deaths than a Nazi Germany and...read the rest

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Status
Ended

Original Language
English

Original Name
World War II: From the Frontlines

Keywords

• world war ii
• miniseries