This video is not about individual stories. It's a comprehensive – A must watch animated data-driven documentary about war and peace, The Fallen of World War II looks at the human cost of the second World War and sizes up the numbers to other wars in history, including trends in recent conflicts.
It will also explain how we're living in one of the most peaceful times in human history.
World War II has been burned into history books as one of the deadliest conflicts in human history. The war left a destructive scar on the face of humanity in the form of roughly 70 million deaths, but, as a stat with no context or comparison, it can be hard to fathom really how appalling that number is. That's why filmmaker Neil Halloran created a data-driven documentary to paint a clearer portrait of WWII's human cost.
Clocking in at just under 20 minutes, The Fallen of World War II breaks down all the military and civilian deaths from the war and compares the numbers to those of other notorious atrocities in history. The result is both jaw-dropping and eye-opening. Halloran wrote, directed, narrated, and coded the project, which uses simple visualizations and animation to transform the abstract devastation of WWII into digestible chunks of information that have more meaning and context.
Contrary to the buzz you might be consuming in your media diet, this video also explains how we're living in one of the most peaceful times in human history, statistically and proportionally speaking. You can head to fallen.io to scope out Halloran's interactive version of the piece and to peruse more of the data.
[youtube height=”500″ width=”800″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vjj13l6Pb4[/youtube]
You can also watch the video on Vimeo, the original source of the video
Written, directed, coded, narrated by twitter.com/neilhalloran
Sound and music by twitter.com/Dolhaz
Love this! Very well done animated infographic video.
The stacks of icons shown for each country are 20 across, which is hard for most people to comprehend. We live in a Base-10 society, and showing the icons in rows of 10 would be much easier for audiences to understand.
There are a couple discrepancies as well. For example, the narration mentions that France lost 92,000 in the Battle of France, but the visualization only shows 86,000.
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