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“The World at War” narrated by Laurence Olivier is still one of the best I can think of. Definitely some lib brained shit in there but they acknowledge the crucial role the Soviets played and go into great detail about a lot of the higher level political stuff. It’s from the 70s too so a lot of folks were still alive to be interviewed (for better or worse—seeing fuckers like Albert Speer and Traudl Junge still breathing is infuriating, but they also interview a lot of folks from the various resistance movements and Soviet veterans).
The Soviet episodes of this series were not bad honestly. One of the things I really respect about TWAW is how high-production-values are on show, and also that all the footage is in 4:3 and uncolourised, just the way it was GODDAMN FUCKIN MEANT TO BE