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The World at War is a 26-episode British documentary television series that chronicles the events of the Second World War and aired between 31 October 1973 – 8 May 1974 on ITV. Produced by Thames Television in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, it took four years to make at a cost of around £880,000 (equivalent to £12,900,000 in 2025), making it the most expensive factual series ever made at the time. It was produced by Jeremy Isaacs, narrated by Lord Olivier and included music composed by Carl Davis. A tie-in book of the same name was written by Mark Arnold-Forster and published in 1973.
- Creator
- Jeremy Isaacs
Who made it
- Creator
- Jeremy Isaacs
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- Release date
- 31 October 1973 · Released
- Runtime
- 52 min
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- British English
- Genres
- Documentary
- Also known as
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- Deutsch
- Die Welt im Krieg
- Español
- El mundo en guerra
- Français
- Le Monde en guerre
- 日本語
- ザ・ワールド・アット・ウォー
- Themes
- World War II ↗
Data from Wikidata (CC0). Description adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): Wikipedia · Series artwork from TVmaze.
