So last week, I bought the BluRay for “WWII in HD” a TV series documentary that was once shown on the History Channel. I picked it up ’cause as some of you can tell, I am sort of a politics and history kind of guy myself.

I watched this over the weekend. It has actor Gary Sinise hosting the narrative voice overs. It also has actual WWII veterans telling their stories from the past. It has actors like LL Cool J, Amy Smart, Rob Lowe, Steve Zahn, etc. voicing the veterans that are dead.

On with the documentary, it was very interesting stuff. Sad and horrifying at the same time. Before you watch this, be prepared to be grossed out. There’s a lot of gruesome material in this. All the WWII footage you see in the doc is real. You will see actual violence, real dead bodies, real people getting shot and murdered, people committing suicide, etc. They show all of it. It is no fictional movie that’s for sure. They didn’t show much of Hitler and Nazi footage though. It was mostly about the U.S. at war with Japan. It never showed the actual attacks of Pearl Harbor because it was never filmed so that’s why it would never be shown anywhere. The documentary showed battles on land, out in the ocean with battleships and in the air with fighter planes. It even showed the Nazis murdering people known as the Holocaust.

I hate most fictional war movies, why? ’cause I feel they ruin the actual war history by turning war films into pop corn action flicks. Hitler may be a bad man, yes, but I’m pretty sure he wasn’t really what he looked to be in movies like “Inglourious Basterds” and “Valkyrie”. I have seen many WWII documentaries but none of them were as good as this one. Those silly fictional war films like “Platoon”, “Saving Private Ryan”, etc. are nothing like you see in war in real life. Don’t compare fiction to real life.

You could imagine what it would be like to fight in an actual war. Like we’re at war right now against Iraq and Afghanistan. It is very frightening and scary.

I really liked, “WWII in HD”. Picture on BluRay is amazing. Much better and more sharper than regular DVD. For all you history and war buffs out there, I suggest you see this. I’m glad I picked it up and it was worth the purchase.

Kev