TV Mini Series · 2009 · TV Mini Series · 2000s
Apocalypse: The Second World War
Scored from 32 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2000s (259 peers).
Summary
A six-part French documentary series that recounts the Second World War entirely through archive film — newsreel, military and amateur footage — restored and digitally colourised, with no presenters, interviews or reconstructions. Directed by Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle, it runs chronologically from the rise of Nazi Germany and the invasion of Poland through the fall of France, the Eastern Front and the Pacific war to the final months of 1945. Each fifty-two-minute episode is carried by a single narrator over the images — Mathieu Kassovitz in the French version, Martin Sheen in the English — with a score by Kenji Kawai. It was produced for France 2 and first broadcast in 2009.
Apocalypse: The Second World War is a 2009 documentary, history and war miniseries. It was made in France. A typical episode runs 52 minutes.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 258 2000s miniseries, not against the whole corpus. Only 32 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 32 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Apocalypse: The Second World War lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Mini Series · 2000s (259 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 32.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2000s
