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AN EPIC WWII TV DOCUMENTARY SERIES COMING 23 SEP 07
"WAR, AN INTIMATE HISTORY, 1941-1945"
"Each day one thousand US WWII veterans are now dying." It has only been in the last 10 years that this older generation has been able to open up and give the details of their experiences and their thoughts and feelings. In another 5 years they will likely be gone.
Ken Burns had been talking on the book channel about his new Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) film about WWII. Ken is the person who did the epic series "The Civil War Series" -- it was the highest-watched PBS program series ever. His new series is "War, an Intimate History, 1941-1945." It has to do with an intimate, inside the heads and minds of US WWII vets. Basically it has to do with the thoughts, memories and both the unclose as well as the very personal feelings of people both in the military and at home during those four years. "War happens inside a man."
They now have $10M U.S. donated for doing the advertising on regular, commercial TV and elsewhere to get people's attention about this series.
This is available as a printed book and as an unabridged, 5 CD, 6 hour English language version.
From http://www.pbs.org/thewar/
THE WAR. A KEN BURNS FILM
COMING TO PBS
23 SEP 07
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.
"WAR, AN INTIMATE HISTORY, 1941-1945"
"Each day one thousand US WWII veterans are now dying." It has only been in the last 10 years that this older generation has been able to open up and give the details of their experiences and their thoughts and feelings. In another 5 years they will likely be gone.
Ken Burns had been talking on the book channel about his new Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) film about WWII. Ken is the person who did the epic series "The Civil War Series" -- it was the highest-watched PBS program series ever. His new series is "War, an Intimate History, 1941-1945." It has to do with an intimate, inside the heads and minds of US WWII vets. Basically it has to do with the thoughts, memories and both the unclose as well as the very personal feelings of people both in the military and at home during those four years. "War happens inside a man."
They now have $10M U.S. donated for doing the advertising on regular, commercial TV and elsewhere to get people's attention about this series.
This is available as a printed book and as an unabridged, 5 CD, 6 hour English language version.
From http://www.pbs.org/thewar/
THE WAR. A KEN BURNS FILM
COMING TO PBS
23 SEP 07
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.
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