This is a solid, fact-based, historical documentary. The sort of fare that made History Channel what it was at its best. I won't go into how far it's fallen here, but these were better days.
There are only two flaws that I really take issue with here,
#1 is that returning from each commercial break seems to lead to a reiteration of the final 60-90 seconds before the commercial break. This is redundant, and annoying.
#2 is that when the eyewitness is a non-English speaker and requires translation, the volume of the non-English speaker, and the sound effects are higher than the translation, making it very hard to hear and understand the translation. This requires turning on Closed Captioning to be able to understand what's being said.
One humorous element here is the German tanker who repeatedly proclaims how much better their tanks were than the Sherman and how the Sherman had no chance, was easy to defeat, etc. Yet, they LOST!
There are only two flaws that I really take issue with here,
#1 is that returning from each commercial break seems to lead to a reiteration of the final 60-90 seconds before the commercial break. This is redundant, and annoying.
#2 is that when the eyewitness is a non-English speaker and requires translation, the volume of the non-English speaker, and the sound effects are higher than the translation, making it very hard to hear and understand the translation. This requires turning on Closed Captioning to be able to understand what's being said.
One humorous element here is the German tanker who repeatedly proclaims how much better their tanks were than the Sherman and how the Sherman had no chance, was easy to defeat, etc. Yet, they LOST!