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This Saturday at 9:00 Pm on History, catch Season 1 Episode 2 of “Kennedy” titled “The World at War (1940-1946).” This episode delves into Jack’s experiences during World War II, specifically after the United States enters the conflict against Nazi Germany and Japan. Viewers will witness Jack’s enlistment in the Navy and his deployment to the Pacific theater.

As the series unfolds, it provides a factual account of Jack’s life, highlighting key moments and contributions, with a particular focus on his military service during this turbulent period in history. Tune in for an informative and straightforward portrayal of Jack’s wartime experiences, shedding light on an integral part of his journey as documented in “Kennedy” on History.

Release Date & Time: 9:00 Pm Saturday 18 November 2023 on History

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Carl Davis, who composed the scores for The French Lieutenant’s Woman, the BBC miniseries Pride and Prejudice and perhaps most famously Abel Gance’s epic 1927 silent film Napoléon, has died. He was 86.

Davis died Thursday after suffering a brain hemorrhage, his family announced.

“We are so proud that Carl’s legacy will be his astonishing impact on music,” they wrote on Twitter. “A consummate all-round musician, he was the driving force behind the reinvention of the silent movie for this generation, and he wrote scores for some of the most-loved and remembered British television dramas.”

Born in Brooklyn but living in the U.K. since 1961, Davis was hired by documentarians Kevin Brownlow and David Gill to create music for the 13-hour 1980 miniseries Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film and for Napoléon.

“My first score for a silent movie was Napoleon,” he said in 2010. “Five hours of it! It...

Carl Davis, an American-born conductor and composer who had lived in the UK since 1961, has died in Oxford. He was 86.

BAFTA-winner Davis composed music for more than 100 TV programs, created new scores for the concert performance of silent movies, and wrote many ballet and concert works.

He was best known for his work on hit BBC TV series Pride & Prejudice (1995), starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle, and movies including The French Lieutenant’s Woman (for which he won a BAFTA), starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, and Florence Foster Jenkins, also starring Streep.

Davis, who was born in Brooklyn in 1936, also provided the original music for popular UK documentary history series The World at War (1973) for Thames Television and conducted the BBC’s theme song for their coverage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

In the late 1970s, Davis was commissioned to create music for a restored version of Abel Gance’s silent epic Napoleon.

“The Good Night” helmer Jake Paltrow returns to Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival with “June Zero,” his first foreign-language production. In the film – picked up for sales by ICM Partners and Films Boutique – he takes a closer look at the trial and execution of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann, hanged in Israel in 1962.

“My father [television and film director and producer Bruce Paltrow, who died in 2002] was a World War II history obsessive. Some of my earliest memories of watching television are of ‘The World at War,’ which later became something we watched together every year. It was all deeply rooted in his Jewishness,” Paltrow tells Variety ahead of the film’s world premiere.

It was never his intention to focus solely on Eichmann, however, or the much-publicized trial, even though he still finds it “relevant and intriguing,” he says.

“I find it uninteresting and problematic to try and make a ‘character’ out of him. We’ve...

Nearly a decade after his last solo album, Ozzy Osbourne has released “Under the Graveyard,” the first single from his upcoming 2020 LP, Ordinary Man.

In recent years, Osbourne had been iffy about making a new LP, but after dealing with a number of health issues, he was able to turn his attention to his first new music since the 2013 Black Sabbath record, 13.

The track opens with acoustic guitar and Osbourne singing, “Today, I woke up and I hate myself,” as he seems to narrate how he’s been feeling in real time.

With the "March to War" set to begin when The Walking Dead Season 7 returns on AMC, Scopely and Skybound have fittingly launched the "World at War" update in The Walking Dead: Road to Survival mobile game, depicting the intense "All Out War" story arc from Robert Kirkman's comic book series.

Press Release: Scopely and Skybound continue to expand The Walking Dead: Road to Survival mobile game universe with all new interactive experiences available today. The action comes to a head in World at War, the largest update for The Walking Dead: Road to Survival yet. World at War is a massive in-game event that introduces a five-week long story arc reflecting the “All Out War” story arc from the comic series and the bloody and brutal narrative of Season 7 of The Walking Dead TV series, just in time for the mid-season premiere on Sunday, February 12.

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Claire Bailey, Jerry Whelan and Steve Staniland will head up the new sales agent division.

UK distributor Network has added an in-house sales agency to its London office.

Formerly of FremantleMedia, Claire Bailey, Jerry Whelan and Steve Staniland will all join the company to head up its new sales agent team.

They will represent distributors including Medium Rare, Fabulous Films and WWE, as well as Network’s own catalogue.

Network’s 2015 slate includes Pablo Larrain’s Golden Globe-nominated El Club, about a collection of priests living a meagre existence in a small Chilean coastal town.

The news follows the announcement that Network has struck a deal to acquire the rights to the majority of FremantleMedia’s home entertainment catalogue, which includes television titles such as The World At War and Qi.

Ken Burns and Co. made a big splash with this historical docu miniseries that in 1990 gripped the imagination of the whole country. Eleven hours of history are a breeze when presented in what was then a new form: authentic photos and paintings accompanied by actorly recitals of letters and documents from the era. It all comes to life. The people enduring the War Between the States seem just like us, as if it all happened yesterday. The Civil War DVD PBS Video 1990 / Color + B&W / 1:33 flat / 11 hours, 20 min. / 25th Anniversary Edition / Street Date October 13, 2015 / 99.99 Starring Shelby Foote, Ed Bearss, Barbara Fields, James Symington, Stephen B. Oates, William Safire, Daisy Turner and the voices of Sam Waterston, Julie Harris, Jason Robards, Morgan Freeman, Paul Roebling, Garrison Keillor, David McCullough (narrator), Arthur Miller, Charles McDowell, Horton Foote, George Plimpton, Philip Bosco, Jody Powell, Studs Terkel, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.,...

'Henry V' Movie Actress Renée Asherson dead at 99: Laurence Olivier leading lady in acclaimed 1944 film (image: Renée Asherson and Laurence Olivier in 'Henry V') Renée Asherson, a British stage actress featured in London productions of A Streetcar Named Desire and Three Sisters, but best known internationally as Laurence Olivier's leading lady in the 1944 film version of Henry V, died on October 30, 2014. Asherson was 99 years old. The exact cause of death hasn't been specified. She was born Dorothy Renée Ascherson (she would drop the "c" some time after becoming an actress) on May 19, 1915, in Kensington, London, to Jewish parents: businessman Charles Ascherson and his second wife, Dorothy Wiseman -- both of whom narrowly escaped spending their honeymoon aboard the Titanic. (Ascherson cancelled the voyage after suffering an attack of appendicitis.) According to Michael Coveney's The Guardian obit for the actress, Renée Asherson was "scantly...

100 years after the start of World War I, three Austin organizations are teaming up to showcase cinema of or about the conflict. The Paramount Theatre and Austin Film Society are joining the University of Texas Harry Ransom Center, which is holding the current exhibition "The World at War, 1914-1918," to host a combined total of 13 films running May through July.

The screenings at the Ransom Center are free (bear in mind it's not a large theater), but tickets are required for the Afs at the Marchesa and Paramount/Stateside shows. Here's the schedule, which concludes with Lawrence of Arabia shown in 70mm:

Mon, May 5, 7 pm, Stateside at Paramount

Grand Illusion (pictured above), 1937 [tickets]

This moving French classic from director Jean Renoir features Jean Gabin among others at a German Pow camp.  Screens as a double feature with L'Atalante as part of Paramount's 100th birthday celebration.

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to announce

The World at War

40th Anniversary release

Available to buy

on DVD & Blu-ray

from 31st October 2013

“Spectacular series”

Director Oliver Stone

This ‘jewel in the nation’s crown’ is being re-released to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of its first broadcast which took place on 31st October 1973

The World at War is regarded by many to be one of the greatest documentary series of all time. This BAFTA and Emmy Award winning documentary series, which was first broadcast 40 years ago, was the first factual series of its kind to document the full history of World War II. The series was memorably narrated by legendary screen actor and stage icon

Sir Laurence Olivier.

The World at War has been inspiring film makers and historians for the past 40 years including such programmes as the BBC’s ‘Nazis a Warning from History’, produced by Laurence Reece, and...

As a wannabe screenwriter and a full-time college student, I’m constantly on the lookout for exhaustive non-fiction resources on a whole host of topics. One of the very best visual works on World War II, The World at War, has proven invaluable in this regard over the years. It jogs my memory and leads me to books and other materials concerning the conflict – and it often sends me down strange alleyways I might not have discovered otherwise. Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War works in much the same fashion as that epic documentary series.

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Eva Braun was the most intimate chronicler of the Nazi regime, capturing Hitler's private life with her cine-camera. But it was only the obsession of artist Lutz Becker that brought her films to light. Robert McCrum and Taylor Downing uncover the story of the footage that shocked the world

Lutz Becker was born in Berlin, he says, "during the anno diabolo, 1941. Mine was the generation that was sent into a dark pit." Meeting this survivor of the Third Reich, now in his 70s and living in Bayswater, London, it's hard to suppress the thought that Becker, a distinguished artist and film historian, has conducted most of his life in a circle of hell.

Becker's childhood passed in the fetid, terrifying atmosphere of Berlin's air-raid shelters as the Allied raids intensified and the city was reduced to burning rubble. He recalls the radio announcements – "Achtung, achtung, ende ende, über Deutschland sinfe bender.

No other cultural production is as earnest as the ones that revisit World War II. Whether it's fiction like "Saving Private Ryan" or documentaries like the classic "The World at War," most works that look back at Allies vs. Axis approaches the war with hushed tones of reverence and appreciation. Games haven't been any different, with the previous iteration of EA's "Medal of Honor" franchise (created with help from Steven Spielberg) and early "Call of Duty" games as best examples.

But, a new UbiSoft title that debuted at E3 2011 flies in the face of all that rectitude. Developed by Gearbox Software, "Brothers in Arms: Furious 4" gives gamers a quartet of soldiers fighting Nazis in a pulpy, purple shooter that goes way over the top. Just by the official description alone, you already know that Furious 4 will be lass than faithful to the history books:

The story follows four fierce and...

Every day, Amazon offers up "Lightning Deals," limited quantities of various products for a discounted price for a 4-hour window of time. You have to be on the lookout for these deals and once the item runs out within that four hours, the sale is over. Meaning, if you see something on sale that you want, buy it immediately before it's gone.

Typically you don't know what will be on sale until the minute it gets posted, but as part of their Holiday event, Amazon has released this week's Lightning Deal schedule for Movies & TV on DVD and Blu-ray. See list of today's deals here below, along with more information on how these special deals work.

There's also Tons of extremely low prices and great deals on DVDs and Blu-rays right now, so visit the Top Holiday Deals page to see the wide selection.

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This holiday season come Little Fockers the third installment in this blockbuster series (Meet The Parents and Meet the Fockers.) The test of wills between Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro) and Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) escalates to new heights as Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro) and Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) and the family...

Did you perhaps ever wonder, prior to it's rebranding, just what The History Channel was so desperate to emulate with all that unending analysis of World War II that they used to run 24/7? Well, it was this; the now defunct Thames Television's monolithic 26-part serial, The World At War, the depths of which have since served as the benchmark by which all other retrospectives shall be judged.

Supreme in scope, yet personal in detail, The World At War remains an unparalleled achievement in the realm of historical documentary filmmaking. Not least due to it's courageous level of dispassion; commendable for a nation not yet a generation removed from the devastation and one still reeling from the effects of rationing and widespread social unrest. The startlingly simple yet hauntingly effective title sequence - a series of anonymous photographs turned to ash by a naked flame - affirms a commitment to...

The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the Fred Weekend Shopping Guide - your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…

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While my favorite remains The Great Dictator, there’s no denying that Modern Times (Criterion, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$29.95 Srp) is one of the great Charlie Chaplin films, and the new Criterion edition manages to significantly improve both the look and sound of the already stellar DVD special edition that was released on DVD quite a few years back. Add to that an audio commentary, visual essays,...

Ever wanted to see the definitive program on World War II, featuring over 26 hours of content ranging from newsreels to interviews with veterans, known as The World at War? How about seeing it remastered in stunning hi-def? It has everything you could ever ask for including candid interviews with Alger Hiss and an outstanding narration by Sir Laurence Olivier - this is the set to be owned if you consider yourself a student of history. You couldn't ask for a better or more in-depth look at the events of World War II, and JustPressPlay is giving one reader the chance to win a copy of The World at War on Blu-ray. To find out how to win, just read on.

Informative, unbiased and narrated by Academy Award® winner Laurence Olivier, The World at War on Blu-ray is a visually arresting edition featuring over 12 hours of bonus materials and new features,...

DVD Playhouse—November 2010

By Allen Gardner

Paths Of Glory (Criterion) Stanley Kubrick’s 1957 antiwar classic put him on the map as a major filmmaker. Kirk Douglas stars in a true story about a French officer in Ww I who locks horns with the military’s top brass after his men are court-martialed for failing to carry out an obvious suicide mission. A perfect film, across the board, with fine support from George Macready as one of the most despicable martinet’s ever captured on film, Ralph Meeker, and Adolphe Menjou, all oily charm as a conniving General. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Audio commentary by critic Gary Giddins; Excerpt from 1966 audio interview with Kubrick; 1979 interview with Douglas; New interviews with Jan Harlan, Christiane Kubrick, and producer James B. Harris; French television documentary on real-life case which inspired the film; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby 1.0 mono.

Winter’S Bone (Lionsgate) After her deadbeat father disappears,...

Mother

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You can tell a lot about a movie from its opening shot. Here, a glum, rather ordinary woman in her late 60s wanders into a remote area. Checking no one is around to see her, she steals a few precious moments while enjoying a guilty dance. This deceptively simple, low-key shot tells us plenty: this woman has lived a life, and she's a person – not just an "old person". Most of all, it tells us the director really knows what he's doing; this will be a story that, although unconventional in delivery, will be well-told and engaging. That last fact won't be news to anyone who has seen Korean director Bong Joon-ho's previous films, such as the merciless police procedural thriller Memories Of Murder or his off-kilter monster movie The Host. The mother of the title (the incredible Kim Hye-ja) has her life turned upside down...

My father, Ian Warren, who has died aged 96, enjoyed the fine things in life: fast cars, dashing clothes, good food, fine wine and entertaining friends. He also loved music and rugby. He was one of the earliest jazz fans in Britain, had his own band while still a schoolboy (he played the saxophone and clarinet) and jammed with many of the big names of the day at his parents' house in Kensington, west London.

He befriended Duke Ellington and his band, and introduced himself to Louis Armstrong, who offered my father his first – and only – reefer in his dressing room at the Holborn Empire, central London. Later, in the Us, he met George Shearing, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Peggy Lee.

Ian's father was in the army before becoming an Egyptologist, and his mother was a member of the Seligman merchant banking family. Ian was educated at St Paul's school,...

TORONTO -- The upcoming World Congress of History Producers will feature Jeremy Isaacs (The World at War), Peter Snow (Battlefield Britain), Alexandre Trudeau (Embedded in Baghdad) and Al Jazeera's Richard Gizbert as its headline speakers, organizers said Thursday. The annual forum for TV history and biography fare, to be held in London in November, will feature the Emmy award-winning Isaacs as part of its In Conversation With series, while BBC presenter Peter Snow will lead "The Great Debate: Producers vs Academics." In addition, filmmaker Trudeau and journalist Gizbert will take part in the war zone-themed panel "The Dangers of Covering History in the Making." The World Congress of History Producers, which runs Nov. 16-19, will be produced by Toronto-based Achilles Media Ltd., which also runs the the Banff World Television Festival.