THE WAR - A Ken Burns WWII War Film

[Delvie]

Starting Sunday on PBS for 7 nights.

THE WAR, a seven-part series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four quintessentially American towns. The series explores the most intimate human dimensions of the greatest cataclysm in history — a worldwide catastrophe that touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America — and demonstrates that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.

Throughout the series, the indelible experience of combat is brought vividly to life as veterans describe what it was like to fight
and kill and see men die at places like Monte Cassino and Anzio and Omaha Beach; the Hürtgen Forest and the Vosges Mountains and the Ardennes; and on the other side of the world at Guadalcanal and Tarawa and Saipan; Peleliu and the Philippine Sea and Okinawa. In all of the battle scenes, dramatic historical footage and photographs are combined with extraordinarily realistic sound effects to give the film a terrifying, visceral immediacy.
See film clips http://www.pbs.org/thewar/video_clips.htm


Participate in the  Library of Congress  Vetarans History Project
http://www.loc.gov/vets/thewar.html


To participate in the Community Engagement Initiative http://www.pbs.org/thewar/engagement_popup.htm

Info copied from http://www.pbs.org/thewar/ for promotional reasons & not intended as copyright infringement in any way. (ie. Please don't sue... all I have is lint & some art.)

[kikuchiyo]

Can you say "DVR"? I will have to record these so I can really watch them without child interruption.
Thanks for the info Del.

[Delvie]

I might need you to record it for me. ;)

[dawnsawaking]

i am going to have to see if tj wants that recorded, even tempted to let Alida's History Teacher know about it, he maybe interested in it.  Can't get any better history then accounts like that!  That was one of the bonuses of being a Nurse Aide, getting the stories from the horses mouth on what it was like, I found that more rewarding then my pay!

On another note, when we cleaned Tj's room in MN, he had some of my things that I kept before my Grandma moved to her apartment that were of my Grandpa's and I have rations tickets.  We are looking at putting that in a safety depost box.

[pctchuck]

If it is Ken Burns, you can count on it being interesting, well produced, and worth spending the time on.