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Colour of War (american story) on Prime TV
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Posted: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 03:32 PM UTC
Hi everyone,
Just posting to inform you that Prime TV is showing a very good series called the Colour of War: The American Story on Sunday at 8:30pm (Sunday just been was the first one) there are 3 left in the series. Though it is the American story there is still some great colour footage.
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Posted: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 09:38 PM UTC
I thought the colour of war has been running for awhile now its been on last three weeks
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Posted: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 09:48 PM UTC
yes you are right........that one was the british Colour of war though (also good too)
I read somewhere that Prime would also be showing the Japanese colour of war after the American one.
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Posted: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 - 07:14 PM UTC
Yeah theya re great stuff really enjoyable

Regards Fordboy
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Posted: Friday, August 26, 2005 - 08:27 PM UTC
If you guys have sky digital, check out the History channel. There is an excellent program called Command Decisions. It covers different phases in WWII and test your strategies based on actual events.

There would be questions mid way through like this one.

Scenario: Hitler is rolling his tanks towards the town of Stalingrad, do you:

1) Lay land mines to slow their advance
2) Arm and train dogs with explosive to crawl under tanks
3) Throw several grenades at each tank

Answer: Stalingrad carried out option 2!

You would be surprised at some of the actions taken in WW2.
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Posted: Friday, August 26, 2005 - 09:14 PM UTC
Thanks for the heads up Jeremy, Unfortunatly I don't have sky digital The parents won't get it. Though I would dearly love to have it.
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Posted: Saturday, August 27, 2005 - 12:07 AM UTC

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Thanks for the heads up Jeremy, Unfortunatly I don't have sky digital The parents won't get it. Though I would dearly love to have it.


That truly is tragic. Do you currently have Sky UHF? The base package includes all the doco channels which is still cheaper than the smallest package in Sky UHF. Try persuading them from that angle and they might give in.

Oh dear this also means you watch delayed forecast of the Tri Nations games....

One more win for the ABs and the tri nations cup comes back to our shores!
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Posted: Saturday, August 27, 2005 - 06:48 PM UTC
I am sorry to say Jeremy we don't even have Sky UHF So yes I had to watch the delayed coverage........BUT what a game!!!!!!!! Good on the AB's........bring on the aussies
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Posted: Saturday, August 27, 2005 - 06:54 PM UTC

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I am sorry to say Jeremy we don't even have Sky UHF So yes I had to watch the delayed coverage........BUT what a game!!!!!!!! Good on the AB's........bring on the aussies


I damn near had a heart attack when the Boks scored on Jerry Collins mistake. I ended up jumping on the table when Kevin scored the final try to seal it.

That referee was blind as......the boks commited so many off sides that went unpunished! Not to mention the mid air tackles on Joe as well.
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Posted: Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 04:31 AM UTC

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Hi everyone,
Just posting to inform you that Prime TV is showing a very good series called the Colour of War: The American Story on Sunday at 8:30pm (Sunday just been was the first one) there are 3 left in the series. Though it is the American story there is still some great colour footage.


and if any of you are desperate to see this and cant find a rental store that has it, you can buy it straight from the history channel site.

Check it out!

There are some really good DVDs up there but like most of you, i dont really want to spend an arm and a leg to get it as thats already reserve for petrol....any clues which rental store have a good collection of these docos? I've already tried Blockbuster with little success. The only one by the HistoryChannel is 'Blunders of WWII' which is very good as well i might add. I would recommend that too.
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Posted: Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 09:13 AM UTC
Jeremy, I don't think that many Rental stores will carry it. My sister works in a video store and they have a poor selection of docos.
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Posted: Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 10:35 AM UTC

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....any clues which rental store have a good collection of these docos? I've already tried Blockbuster with little success. The only one by the HistoryChannel is 'Blunders of WWII' which is very good as well i might add. I would recommend that too.


If you live in the Big Smoke, try VIDEON in Dominion road - the BEST selection of videos in town, probably because they're not part of an Evil franchise like Blockbuster.
They have a major selection of DVDs as well - I know a bloke whose daughter is studying WW2 for school history and she's been able to get DVDs on the subject from Videon.

$0.02

acav out
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Posted: Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 04:37 PM UTC
Hi Guys

At my local Civic video they have a great range of DVD's eg Panther, Tiger Panzer III History of Waffen SS . Only $4.00 for a week.

Hey Andy you poor guy no UHF aerial no broadband leave home and become a boader at our place LOL

Mind you I don't watch enough TV to justify getting sky to busy modelling.

Regards

Fordboy
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Posted: Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 05:56 PM UTC

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Jeremy, I don't think that many Rental stores will carry it. My sister works in a video store and they have a poor selection of docos.


Yeah i seem to be finding that out the hard way. The best selection i have found so far is on www.fatso.co.nz but it is a bit of a pain that they rely on monthly subscriptions as oppose to the casual style of rental. Would recommend them to those of you tv addicts though as a couple of my mates are subscribed to them with no complaints.


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If you live in the Big Smoke, try VIDEON in Dominion road - the BEST selection of videos in town, probably because they're not part of an Evil franchise like Blockbuster.


Is that the only store up here in the Big Smoke? I live out east so its a bit of a drive.
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