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Title from container.
Based on the novel by Len Deighton.
Originally broadcast as single episodes of a television program on the BBC network.
Wide screen (16:9).
Special features: Archer of the yard; Behind-the-scenes; creating the aesthetic of SS-GB.
V. 1. Episodes 1-3 (180 min.) -- v. 2. Episodes 4-5 ; Bonus features (120 min.).
Sam Riley, Rainer Bock, Kate Bosworth, Lars Eidinger, James Cosmo.
What if Germany had won the war? This story explores an alternative timeline in which the United Kingdom is occupied by Nazi Germany, during the Second World War. Based on the novel by acclaimed spy novelist Len Deighton, this exciting mini-series follows detective Douglas Archer as he investigates a murder that draws him in to a web of political intrigue.
DVD, region 1, NTSC, wide screen (16:9); 5.1 surround sound.
Contents: SS-GB.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

strong script submitted by yufamily on July 29, 2019, 8:53pm Entertaining and engaging

Entertaining but many loose-ends. submitted by GJBarnett2 on August 10, 2019, 12:56am Based on an alternate history novel by Len Deighton premised on Britain having lost the Battle Of Britain followed by a successful German invasion and British surrender. A prominent Scotland Yard homicide detective, a widower with an 8-year-old son, is posted to an intelligence department of the German Occupation authorities. A murder investigation leads to the discovery of a battle between the Army and the SS for control of the British Atomic Bomb program complicated by the British Resistance and a lovely American spy. The "McGuffin" is a roll of film of atomic research documents. Some thematic problems. Set in November 1941, the Germans are still pals with the Russians but in "real life," Hitler so hated Communism that, despite having an undefeated England at his back, he launched the invasion of Russia in June 1941, 5 months before this series begins, It seems only logical that, had he conquered Britain as in the series, he still would have invaded Russia, although with stronger forces, particularly Luftwaffe and Panzer since they would have been unnecessary in the West and less well-suited as occupation troops than line infantry. Moreover, his invasion might well have been launched earlier. Consider the delay in Operation Barbarossa made necessary by the dispatch of German forces to bail-out the faltering Italian invasion of Greece had there been no North African campaign and therefore no British support for the Greeks. Since the Germans actually came within sight of Moscow before being stopped by the onset of Winter, a harder blow and a longer campaigning season might have broken the Russian back leaving the US as the only remaining potentially hostile power and without an operational foothold in Europe. No British airbases, no Royal Navy, perhaps the ships of the former RN blockading western Europe against an American invasion and, most important, no "Russian sponge" to absorb the great mass and combat power of the Wehrmacht. And THAT would have been a real game-changer that the series never touches. In addition, its setting in November 1941 raises tantalizing questions about what would have happened the following month in December 1941. Like on December 7, 1941? A short series by American standards, only 5 60 minute episodes that leaves many loose ends which could well support a 2d Season.