“Britain and the Blitz” on Netflix

Thanks for the recommendation - I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of WWII documentaries and I haven’t seen many on the Blitz.

It was short and sweet. Didn’t go on and on like many other documentaries. Netflix earned their money with this one.

Sounds like a millions laughs.

How does it end?

I just added this to My List. Glad that it's getting some positive feedback here on the DL. Perhaps this will be my evening watch today.

I think it's odd that Brits use "blitz" to refer to what happens in a blender or food processor. One would think it might bring up unpleasant connotations. But I guess there are few people around who remember the Blitz.

Thanks OP!

I haven't watched it yet but I will, I can't imagine how scary that was for the Brits.

World War II is so insane, it’s no wonder we can’t forget about it. It’s like something you see in a movie and skeptically question whether it could happen in real life.

every person in the US should be forced to watch this and see the cost of isolationism. the US abandoned Europe in lead to WWII. It was only thru back channels and chicanery that FDR and Churchill found workarounds to support the UK before US entered the war.

Trump and his fascist puppets wants the US to return to 1938/39 and stand back as our allies are destroyed by our enemies.

And by building up their armies again, we might have allies destroying each other.

Because colorization catches my attention longer when it comes to Blitzkrieg!!!

Too soon.

I loved it, too, OP!

No narrator - just contemporaneous radio broadcasts mixed with the memories of several Londoners (and others) who survived. Some fantastic film of the flight plotters, who seemed to be mostly young women in the WAAF. And I felt the colorization was tasteful - the technology has come so far since the controversial early colorization attempts and the colors weren’t jarring or sloppy.

I can’t believe the Londoners lived through that for eight months - I said to my husband that would have buckled after a few nights but I guess one meets the challenge as it happens. Still, their will to survive was spectacular and very moving.

I was shocked by the lack of narration. It was almost like I didn’t know what I was watching.

There's plenty of narration, R15. You need to see a good audiologist.

Cool now do Gaza.