The documentary, WWII-The Lost Color Archives, is a comprehensive 3 VHS tape color film about World War II.  The three tapes are titled as follows: 1) A New World Order; 2) Total War and 3) Triumph And Despair.  The first part of this documentary is reviewed in A New World Order and begins coverage with a 1937 Nazi Party rally complete with all its theater and pre-war passions.  Those passions would soon unleash suffering on a global scale, as witnessed in new-found color combat footage of Hitler's support for Franco's Nationalists in the Spainish Civil War.  Coverage continues in the documentation of the outbreak of World War II and the subsequent ALlied disaster at Dunkirk.  Equally interesting is the personal side of war from American factories churning out war materials to the home movies of Hitler's mistress.  This tape concludes with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor which thrust America into the war.  The second tape, Total War, starts with America mobilizing her formidable industrial and military might to fight on two global fronts.  In the European theater amzing color film records the German push towards Moscow, Serbian insurgents being executed, the inhuman conditions of the Warsaw ghetto, the Battle of Stalingrad and British night bombing missions on German targets.  Meanwhile while plans are being laid for the invasion of Europe, America begins the Pacific island campaigns to recapture territory lost early in the war to the Japanese.  The third tape, Triumph And Despair begins with the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944.  D-day was the largest amphibious assault ever attempted and while successful was filled with major challenges including the assault on Omaha Beach.  Once ashore, the Allied forces are seen in rare color footage  grinding their way through the "hedgerows" to the Battle Of The Buldge, the fall of Berlin and ultimately the disintegration of Hitler's thousand year Reich.  The bloodiest battles of the Pacific War are also fought leading up to the nuclear attack on Japan and their eventual surreander.  Rare color footage also records the war's aftermath including the liberation of Nazi death-camps, the victory celebrations in America.  Full screen in color.  Released in 2000.  Runtime 156 minutes.