Steve Madak This is well made. As an avid documentary watcher I saw TONS of footage i'd never seen before. Some time lines i've had a hard time grasping over the years this series straightened out for me. Very good stuff in that regard and my judgment of the series as a technical work is very good.All that being said, Stone puts lots of opinion with no supporting proof. I understand that he's trying to show a different side of history. But if you just state your own fact over the current widely held facts without the smallest attempt at verifying it, it falls on its face.I love a conspiracy theory. Getting behind the scene information about a piece of history is fascinating to me. This series is just a presentation of a laundry list of Oliver Stone's grievances on history. I guess if you want to sit and listen to a made up history, this is the show for you.

Xillx The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone is in the most part a condensed analysis of the causes and consequences of the long-term American imperialism plan following WW2.It briefly covers the atrocities of the other imperialist nations and sets the context for explaining the pivotal moment in history that lead America to present itself as the "police of the world".It is a must see, it is very well structured and narrated.The most shocking aspect of American history is the lack of empathy by the American power structure in regards to the millions of death they've caused in other nations since WW2, as well as an apparent lack of justice for American war criminals.Hitler and Stalin were worse by a huge margin undoubtedly, but this doesn't justify the unjustifiable like Vietnam, Iraq, support of puppet dictators, overthrowing democratically elected governments, arming fanatics, betraying the Geneva convention, lying to the UN, drone bombings of civilians, etc.It seems that after launching the first atomic bombs the United States of America have been governed by less than brilliant megalomaniacs. Even the wisest and most humanist presidents had little power to stop a long-term military plan for world control.

anarky321 this is a review of episode 1 because im not sure i can keep watching this the whole episode on ww2 made me cringe...this isn't some revealing piece about how the war could have been easily avoided or how Churchill was a warmonger, or how FDR forced the USA into the war by provoking both Germany and Japan, or how he disregarded all the basic rules of neutrality, or maybe how Britain had several opportunities to simply stay neutral, or how Stalin was planning on invading Germany in 1943, or how FDR knew and wanted Pearl Harbor...or maybe how the assault on Iwo Jima that cost tens of thousands of lives was utterly pointless....none of this is in here....in fact this is just the 'official' kid-friendly version of ww2....what is untold about it? in addition ironically extremely biased against the axis powers and portrays them as one-sided cardboard bad guys...the research that went into this is abysmally inadequate if you want to watch a far better ww2 documentary watch 'World At War'

christiank7 So we are already being attacked even in this lame forum as to why we regard this series and basically all of STONE's work with a large degree of skepticism. We are the blind patriots or so say the intellectually self anointed thought police of the liberal brainwashed left and their clique of fearful trolls who would rather lie than ever be seen by any liberal as having a mind of their own. They say that we PATRIOTS are blind. That is so funny. So lets get to the meat in the sandwich here. The series attempts to give a REAL historical description of periods in our history that are easily teinted by a person's desire to sensationalize and therefore make money. Stone is a master of this approach. He has made a very healthy living out of story telling and that is a lot of what he does. He tells stories but disguises them as history by the use of borrowed material deftly rearranged to gain validity. There are many historians who actually know what happened that are being very quiet and that is because the liberal machine would crucify them and their jobs would become tenuous. This is the truth about American Universities, they are liberal hotbeds and woe if you do not play the game. It is a bit like the scientific community where any attempt to be NOT ONE OF THE GANG is met with outrageous ridicule and vitriol. That is the truth people whether you like it or not. So back to this series. The real problem with this series is its affect on the brainless in our community who would hardly ever see or be involved in a true historical educational process. They will come away from these shows with a WOW LIKE FACTOR AND HEY PRESTO WHAT STONE SAYS BECOMES HISTORY. Again a bit like CNN and the Times news CREATORS who get a whiff of something from a source somewhere in outer Mongolia and spin it up into a REAL news item within a few hours. Usually it lives and dies on the day but occasionally they are found out and then it is obviously the fault of the original unknown source. Laughable really. So we have a lot of people here extolling the STORIES presented, feels a bit like bed time fairy tales but then that is what feeds the liberal mind which is incessantly seeking the moral upper ground to vanquish the real people and maintain their pseudo control over the masses. FAIL. BIG FAIL. The arrogance of liberalism is unbounded. The damage they do is equally unbounded. The truth is left for others to deal with as long as they are seen to be the GOOD GUYS and the rest of us as the BLIND TROGLODITES. Again - big fail. So why is it that these stories work so well in the general public. They are basically denying the real nature of man for the wanted nature of man that the liberal ueberlords would like us to believe we are, or at least should attain. So much for the joke of it all. Of course our nation has done dirty stuff and so it should - we are in a permanent war and if we wish to stay on the top of the pile of dung rather than unwisely at the bottom then we need to continue to do dirty stuff and that is OK by me as long as we are the big dog on the block. If that is distasteful to you please leave the country for some great nation like North Korea, Greece, or any other poor nation where socialism has destroyed what once was. Get a grip on reality people. I am so happy to tell you that I find the series so full of BS and story telling that it is more comedy than anything else. Good night America and GO TRUMP!