For Christmas last year(I think?), I received a DVD set entitled: "WWII Battlefront". The set includes 5 DVD's in a card-stock folder. The description on the back says "over 7 hours of astonishing COLOR footage, taken from newsreels and captured enemy films". It has been awhile since I viewed it so I thought I recalled it was old B&W newsreels. If anyone is interested I can give a better description.
It was probably a Wal-Mart buy.
But a really great gift that I received this year was a CD lecture series by The Teaching Company, entitled "World War II: A Military and Social History". This set comes in 3 seperate plastic cases(the size of VCR tapes) and each case has 5 CD's. Each CD has 2 lectures of 30 minutes in length. This makes a total of 15 hours of lecture.
Very good review of the causes of the conflict and the connections between different events going on around the various countries and theaters.
For info, you can call 1-800-TEACH-12 or go to www.TEACH12.com .
I know it sounds boring. I wasn't thrilled when my buddy recommended it and said he was sending me a set. I've certainly enjoyed it. (Of course, free things are usually more enjoyable.)
My neighbors may think I'm crazy the day I stayed home to work in the flower bed and I had a CD-player blaring across the street about the Nazi's attacking Moscow.
Steve