I was given a box set of DVDs at Christmas of the American series Victory at Sea from the early fifties. It has over 10 hours of footage!
Having now seen it all, whilst it may have been a good series at the time, it certainly doesn't meet today's standards for a documentary. The most annoying part is the music, it is constant and loud often drowning out the narrator.
There is some very good rare footage, both from the Allied and Axis sides, obviously pro American, but you'd expect that. Ironically, a lot of the footage of Pearl Harbour comes from the Japanese real footage and also from the movie that the Japanese made shortly after for domestic consumption using models.
The narration is poor, the text is more for dramatic effect than education and the voice of the narrator, an actor called Leonard Graves, grates on you.
The box set comes from Smiths and at £9.99 is a pretty good buy for the footage, If only you could turn the music down or off.