A groundbreaking film history of wwii, told entirely through painstakingly colourised archive footage, as shown on channel 4. As broadcast on channel 4, apocalypse is the groundbreaking documentary series that tells the brutal and moving history of world war 2 entirely through colourised archive footage. Three years in the making and gathered from more than 60 national libraries and personal archives, apocalypse tells in amazing, never before seen detail, the key events that shaped the conflict from the blitzkrieg to the allied bombing of berlin and stalingrad, through to the dropping of the atomic bomb on hiroshima. In six one hour episodes, prepare to experience first hand how nations were saved, whole armies lost and heroes made. Almost five hours long, apocalypse provides the opportunity to experience the war as those who fought experienced it – in vivid, shocking colour. Running time 280 minutes region region 2 release date 22 nov. 2010