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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0743457168229
Format: Box set, Color, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Goldhil Home Media
Manufacturer: Goldhil Home Media
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Goldhil Home Media
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 24, 2002
Running Time: 673 minutes
Sales Rank: 33996
Studio: Goldhil Home Media
Editorial Review:
Description:
This compelling hit British drama series, produced by London Weekend Television, details the overwhelming pain and frustration experienced by the Channel Islands inhabitants during the German occupation of World War II. The uneasy relationship maintained by the islanders and the Nazi's is continually threatened as constrictive regulations dampen morale, accusations of rape add fear and suspicion, while murders, spying, and a plot to assassinate Hitler, entangle high ranking officials from both sides. This masterfully acted series stars Alfred Burke (The House on Garibaldi Street, Longitude) as the German Military Commandant charged with maintaining order and Bernard Hosfall (Braveheart, Gandhi) as the chosen representative for the islanders, both of whom will make choices that could cause a turn in the direction of the war. Featuring extraordinary writing, period style cinematography and archival footage, Enemy At The Door remains one of the finest World War II dramas ever produced.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - DVD Enemy at the Door
I have enjoyed this series so much. A very human portrayal of every day life under occupation during WWII.
Rating:  - A Great British Series!
"Enemy At The Door" is an excellent British series about a mostly unknown aspect of World War II, at least from the perspective of us on this side of the pond. Excellently acted, well directed, this is a period piece you should see and much better than its ripoff version, "Island At War".
I am going to get the DVD as I understand it is subtitled. Also, let me recommend the season 2 of "Enemy At The Door".
Rating: - I want more!
This is a very good story.
The problem is that it does not really ends.
Are there more then these two volume sets, or collections?
Much as I love the British films I can't understand some of the characters when they speak soooo fast. Oh well, am sure other people as the same problem with such accents.
Bottom line: I want more of these stories and interested to buy all of it.
Rating:  - Masterful execution of an objectionably flawed concept
The acting, character development, period settings and costumes and so on are fully up to English television standards. But the Nazi occupation scenarios have been terribly toned down to make them commercially marketable. Numerous scholastic works and even the better theater all point to Nazi behavior as brutal, bestial and sociopathic, hardly reflective of the diplomacy and even gallantry seen from those in this series. The distortion may be objectionable to those of us who have studied the period, ... Read More
Rating: - Outstanding British WW2 Period Drama!
Set during WW2 on the German-occupied British Channel Island of Guernsey, just a few miles off the coast of France, Enemy at the Door is a compelling, gripping, riveting period drama. I am not a huge fan myself of military drama in general; however, this series captivated our entire family to the point where we eagerly awaited each successive episode. The series was produced between 1977 and 1980, and it is of the same ilk as Upstairs Downstairs, The Duchess of Duke Street (both of which took place in ... Read More
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