Review: National Geographic: Britains Nazi King

This doucmentary is about king Edward of the United Kingdom, who ruled for only one year between 1945 and 1946, before he left the throne to marry a woman that had been divorced two times. This documentary claim that king Edward not only was highly inappropiate in is choose of female companionship, but also in relation to political connections. According to the documentary, King Edward supposedly had a close relationship with central players in the nazi-German government, and also connections to fascist movements all over Europe.

I got the impression that documentary based it claims mainly on casefiles from FBI. As we all know, FBI has a shady history when it comes to investigating political abnormalities, and it wouldnt suprise me if the bureau yet again had been a little fast in its conclusions. After all, several historians have proved that many of the people the bureau suspected for being communists in fact was not. I think the documentary should have been more critical towards the documents they used to make it, and preferrably get opinions from people that had the opposit view.

The documentary failed to entertain me, and actually was pretty confusing, because of an unusual big person gallery. It was very hard to keep track on all the names and which role they had in the story that was told. It was also pretty unnecessary in my opionion and its probably only a result of lazy handwork from National Geographic. This doucmnetary is therefore not recommended, and I give it the lowest score so far; 2 out of 6.

Review: National Geographic: The Ghost Ship

This documentary is about a group of scientist from Sweden that searched for wrecks of airplanes from world war 2. On one of their journeys, when they searched for a spyplane wreck, they discovered something weird on their radar; a ship.

It turns out its an very old sailship, loaded with goods and an story, forgotten by time, gets put together by the investigation team. Piece by piece – like a puzzle, they learn more and more about the ships whereabouts.

I thought the documentary was bit boring. I have no interest in the subject what so ever, and think they could have speeded up the story a little bit, because it was a little interesting to hear about the ship. It was only the procesess it took them to get the information that bored me.

Score: 3/6

Review: History Channel: Weird Warfare

I have just finished seeing History Channels "Weird Warfare", which documents the weirdest inventions that is made with intention in using it for warfare. It is over one and a half hour long - a little too long, if you ask me, and I got bored after about 40 mintes, which in my opinion is ideal length for these documetaries.

That said, I laughed a lot. A great deal of the weapons can be classified as "animal cruelty", but they don't show clips with animals suffering. Most of these incidents are also ridicilouse and extremly funny. For instance special trained russian dogs, intended for running under german tanks during world war 2 with bombs. The problem was that the dogs was only trained to run under, and run back. So they did that. With the bombs - back to the trainer! Haha. Funny!

Because of the length, it became pretty boring, but the beging was really entertaining, so I will give this a 3 out of 6. See the begining, and turn it off. It is definetly worth it.