The History Channel is running a three night miniseries entitled The World Wars. The other DrC and I watched the first episode tonight. In spite of an overdose of ads, the first episode was excellent.
The scholars behind this series take the view that the thirty years between 1914 and 1945 constitute a single, interrupted conflict. Others believe one cannot sneer at the 20 years of more-or-less peace that existed between the wars.
Instead of using old newsreel footage, they've restaged various historical events using actors portraying Churchill, Roosevelt, Hitler, Mussolini, Patton, MacArthur, Lenin, and Stalin at various stages in their lives. In episode 1 you see the young Hitler as a corporal in World War I, as well as the young Churchill screwing up Gallipoli as an Admiralty lord, resigning and retooling as an infantry officer in the trenches of France.
