Reversion Editor
6 x 60′, Flashback Television for Channel 4
TXing October 30th at 8pm
This is the Second World War as you have never seen it before.
The international production team has scoured the film archives of the world for the finest images of World War Two and these have then been digitally colourised in a painstaking process that took three days to colour each minute of film. The result is that the war looks as though it happened yesterday, not seventy years ago.
There have been countless images, newsreels, documentaries and films about the Second World War and many would argue that we have seen all that has to be seen. Apocalypse offers a completely new insight into the war with evocative and provocative footage brought alive in colour, alongside the personal accounts of those who witnessed and fought the war at first-hand.
The digital colourisation has been scrupulously done using existing colour images as guide.
Amongst the most moving segments are extraordinary scenes from the Eastern Front, horrifying images from the Warsaw Ghetto, the battle for Stalingrad, the D-Day landings and barbaric scenes from the Final Solution.
TX Dates:
EP1 WAR BEGINS TX 30/10/10 at 20.00
EP2 BRITAIN STANDS ALONE TX 6/11/10 at 20.00
EP3 INVASION OF RUSSIA TX 13/11/10 at 20.00
EP4 PEARL HARBOUR AND WAR IN THE EAST TX 20/11/10 at 20.00
EP5 STALINGRAD AND EL ALAMEIN – THE TIDE TURNS TX 27/11/10 at 20.00
EP6 FROM D-DAY TO VICTORY TX 4/12/10 at 20.00