Watching "The World at War" from the 70's. I first watched it in the 80's I believe, on PBS. Was astounded at how superficial our Us public education was about World War II.
Highly recommend this series--Laurence Olivier is the narrator--makes it so mesmerizing to listen to, with subtitles of course!
So glad Amazon Prime has this series. From the comments section, it appears that they screwed up initially in getting all the episodes "uploaded", but they seem to be all there now.
Been noticing over the past couple of months that Amazon Prime has a bunch of PBS shows, both Masterpiece (watching Arthur and George right now--had enough of WWII!) and documentaries. They must have done quite a deal with PBS. I'm such a nerd--I just added "The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements" to my Watchlist.
BTW, PBS seems to be offering their video archives of pretty much all their popular shows if you are a member. They used to have only a limited selection of recent shows available for free.
So with roughly $10 a month going to Netflix streaming, Netflix DVD (for choices not on streaming), Amazon Prime (other benefits included in the membership of course), PBS, and possibly Acorn and Hulu Plus, I might be up to the costs of cable! But the difference is that these subscriptions give me what I really want to watch.
I just added Acorn to our Amazon Prime--an additional $4.99 a month after a free one-week trial. Easy to access Acorn programming within Amazon's site and some interesting shows.
Is anyone getting Dolby Digital soundtrack with any of the Amazon Prime series?
We really liked these too and would like to see the newer seasons. Can Acorn stream HD? Last time we saw Acorn it was very old British TV in the old format....
I also found season 5 and 6 of Vera on Acorn--hurray! And the second season of Detectorists.
Finally, I was happy to find the 3rd and 4th seasons of a show I had watched previously on Prime: The Last Detective. But Prime had only offered the first two seasons for free--had to pay for 3 and 4. This series is from the early 2000's and has Peter Davison (Tristan from All Creatures Great and Small) as the bumbling detective who always get his man (or woman, and maybe he'll finally get back together with his wife?). Anyway, I really like the quirkiness of all these shows.
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Following up on bestwifeever's suggestion of adding Acorn to Amazon Prime: I'm in a state of British TV bliss! Also, New Zealand. If you get Acorn, and like low key murder mysteries, check out Brokenwood Mysteries. Forget moving to Canada after the elections, I'm going to NZ.
The main character in Brokenwood is kinda like Columbo, but more of a teddy bear. And I love his version of country music. They list the songs and artists in the credits, and I looked them up on iTunes. I was ecstatic to find that there were soundtracks from both seasons.
I also found season 5 and 6 of Vera on Acorn--hurray! And the second season of Detectorists.
Finally, I was happy to find the 3rd and 4th seasons of a show I had watched previously on Prime: The Last Detective. But Prime had only offered the first two seasons for free--had to pay for 3 and 4. This series is from the early 2000's and has Peter Davison (Tristan from All Creatures Great and Small) as the bumbling detective who always get his man (or woman, and maybe he'll finally get back together with his wife?). Anyway, I really like the quirkiness of all these shows.
Thanks again to BWE for reminding me about the Acorn option. I am all set for happy viewing.
You're welcome . There are some great programs. I'm glad you mentioned the new season of Detectorists! Really enjoyed season 1 of that quirky little show. One of our blurays has a nice Acorn-within-Amazon interface but the older bluray cleverly hides them so we are always going back and forth and watch-listing them to find certain shows (George Gently season 7, for one).
I borrowed Vera season 5 on DVDs through our public library but confess it was the availability of Vera season 6 that triggered our adding Acorn to our tv options. Brenda Blethyn--omg.