The Cold War: a Trip Report
[er, that is the late 1990s documentary series The Cold War ] Some kind soul a long time ago posted this: a documentary series, produced by CNN and made by the same production staff of ITV's landmark series The World At War . The last month or two I've finally got around to watching it, while working on a bitch bastard whore of a model. (It's that 1/350 Zeppelin Takom released last year. It's been death by photoetch.) TL;DR: It's a great series and I learned a lot Slightly longer: Can you believe that a series that is 26 episodes long and fifty something minutes long each, and it still feels like stuff is left out? That's more the material than any flaw in the series itself - telling the story of the Cold War is like telling the story of the Napoleonic era in history: shit's gonna get left out. That's pretty much the only substantive criticism I can make, though. The series was made in the late 1990s, and the biases it has are that of th...