The World at War (TV Series) - Broadcast History

Broadcast History

The series was originally transmitted on the ITV network in the United Kingdom between 31 October 1973 and 8 May 1974, and has subsequently been shown around the world. It was first shown in the US in syndication on various PBS stations in 1975. WOR in New York City aired the series in the mid-seventies, although episodes were edited both for graphic content and to include sufficient commercial breaks. PBS station WGBH broadcast the series unedited and in its entirety in the late eighties. The Danish channel DR2 also broadcast the series in December 2006 and January 2007. The History Channel in Japan began screening the series in its entirety in April 2007. It repeated the entire series again in August 2011. The Military History Channel in the UK broadcast the series over the weekend of 14 and 15 November 2009. The Military Channel in the United States aired the series in January 2010, and had shown it regularly since. In Summer 2010, BBC2 in the U.K. transmitted a repeat run of the series. In 2011, the British channel Yesterday started a showing of the series.

Each episode was 52 minutes excluding commercials; as was customary for ITV documentary series at the time, it was originally screened with only one central break. The Genocide episode was screened uninterrupted.

The series was also put on 13 Laservision Longplay videodisks by Video Garant Amsterdam 1980, and included Dutch subtitling for the Dutch television market.