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This may have been mentioned on another thread, WW2 perhaps. The UK Television, Channel 4, are doing a program called: D-Day, as it happens. It's as though we go back to D-Day, but with today's communications. You get to see archive footage, from both sides, interspersed with commentary, and computer graphics. Here's the link, but whether they let you open it on your side of the pond, depends on whether they have set it up for sale to other countries.These days, I get a little of that feeling when I'm listening to "The '40s on 4" on the XM satellite radio in my truck. They play mostly music from the 1940s, but occasionally slip in a 1930s number or two. The first time I listened to the station was several years ago, and it must have been December 8th or 9th because they did the entire broadcast--music, commercials, and short news briefs--as though they were following up on the December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor. It was a brilliant bit of programming that gave the listener(s) a taste of what those days must have been like. Sadly, they haven't done that since (not that I've heard, anyway), but I keep hoping.
I apologize for neglecting to thank you for bringing this to my (our) attention. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be available for viewing here in the U.S., but it may eventually become available on DVD so I'll keep an eye open for it.This may have been mentioned on another thread, WW2 perhaps. The UK Television, Channel 4, are doing a program called: D-Day, as it happens. It's as though we go back to D-Day, but with today's communications. You get to see archive footage, from both sides, interspersed with commentary, and computer graphics. Here's the link, but whether they let you open it on your side of the pond, depends on whether they have set it up for sale to other countries.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/d-day-as-it-happens/4od
It is available to you, http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?72266-Experience-D-Day-In-Real-Time&p=1639354