Apocalypse
A major reversion by Flashback for Channel 4.
This is the Second World War as you have never seen it before.
The international production team has scoured the film archives of the world for the finest images of World War Two and these have then been digitally colourised in a painstaking process that took three days to colour each minute of film. The result is that the war looks as though it happened yesterday, not seventy years ago.
There have been countless images, newsreels, documentaries and films about the Second World War and many would argue that we have seen all that has to be seen. Apocalypse offers a completely new insight into the war with evocative and provocative footage brought alive in colour, alongside the personal accounts of those who witnessed and fought the war at first-hand.
The digital colourisation has been scrupulously done using existing colour images as guide.
Amongst the most moving segments are extraordinary scenes from the Eastern Front, horrifying images from the Warsaw Ghetto, the battle for Stalingrad, the D-Day landings and barbaric scenes from the Final Solution.
For Flashback:
Narrator – Steven Cree
Production Co-ordinator – Laura Elliott
Production Manager – Polly Plenderleith
Editor – Tom Hannibal
Producer – Taylor Downing