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利用高清全彩画面、1500小时经过恢复的档案资料和新拍摄的影像素材、此前从未公布的日记和记录以及国会图书馆音频资料，历史频道为观众打开了一个了解这场战争的独特窗口，让观众透过那些在二战中邂逅的一群人的眼睛来审视这场战争。在历史上或历史频道的记载里从来没有一个电视节目能如此生动地捕捉到这场改变世界的战争中极致的恐怖、不屈不挠的精神、平凡琐事以及无上辉煌的荣誉。
这是历史频道至今最为雄心勃勃的纪录片，而且在接受《好莱坞报道》采访时，历史频道称它会“让人感到叹为观止”。作为这部纪录片的制作人兼导演，我自然忙得不可开交。如果只待在工作室里做这个项目肯定无法达到历史频道的目标。我得转战诺曼底、纽约，甚至更多地方。因为跨越多个时区而且各地相距甚远，这个项目更加需要一个可控的工作流程。
历史频道的《WWII in HD》由获奖导演和剪辑师、业界公认的高清制作和后期制作领域的领导人物Frederic Lumiere制作和执导。制作过《The Magic of Fatima》等作品的Lumiere推动了RED数字摄影机的发展并创建了Lumiere HD。
《WWII in HD》由Lou Reda Productions及Lou Reda共同制作，Scott Reda为执行制作人，制作人为Liz Reph和Frederic Lumiere。
《WWII in HD》is the first-ever "World War II" documentary presented in full, immersive HD color. Culled from thousands of hours of lost and rare color archival footage gathered from a worldwide search through basements and archives, WWII in HD will change the way the world sees this defining conflict. Using footage never before seen by most Americans--converted to HD for unprecedented clarity--viewers will experience the war as if they were actually there, surrounded by the real sights and sounds of the battlefields. Along the way they'll meet a diverse group of soldiers whose wartime diaries and journals show in visceral detail what the war was really like.
The only people to see the war like this were the ones who lived it. Until now…
Seventy years in the making. Three thousand hours of color footage no one knew existed. The first documentary to show World War II from the perspective of both sides in full, immersive HD color, the world premiere HISTORY series WWII in HD uses the diaries of soldiers who fought in the war’s biggest battles to create a personal, introspective and detailed look at life on and off the front lines. Though it was illegal for U.S. soldiers to carry diaries, many hid them away in their packs and recorded their experiences in detail.
Now, through the use of these diaries and other source documents, as well as HD color and on-location shooting around the world, 《WWII in HD》transforms their journey into a tangible piece of history. Culled from rare color archival footage from an exhaustive worldwide search and converted to HD with meticulous technique, WWII in HD provides a picture of World War II as it has never been seen before.
