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'Knew I'd Killed Men'
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Fighter pilot Quentin Aanenson recalls the first time he knew he'd "killed men."
The War is the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The war touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America and demonstrated that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.
Video description: THE WAR, a seven-part documentary series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, explores the history and horror of the Second World War from an American perspective by following the fortunes of so-called ordinary men and women who become caught up in one of the greatest cataclysms in human history.
Fighter pilot Quentin Aanenson recalls the first time he knew he'd "killed men."
An introduction to the four towns featured in THE WAR – Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; and Luverne, Minnesota.
In Sacramento, soon after Order 9066 was issued, hand-lettered signs went up all over town, saying “Japs must go.”
Wynton Marsalis talks about composing original music for “The War.”
Ray Leopold, Burnett Miller, Dwain Luce and others discuss the horror of the Holocaust and how it haunts them still.
Ken Burns talks about his goal for the film, to discover, “What was it like?”
America needed to take Iwo Jima to secure a base for US Bombers. The Marines landed on Feb 15, 1945 and the fighting would last for nearly a month and cost the United States 6,821 lives.
The filmmakers talk about the process of adding sound to the silent archive video footage they had for “The War.”
In the September 20, 1943 issue, LIFE magazine published the first image of dead American servicemen that American civilians had been allowed to see in the twenty-one months since Pearl Harbor.
Daniel Inouye was preparing to go to church with his family when the attack on Pearl Harbor began.
Mobile's Tom Galloway finds himself on the frozen front lines as the shells start falling in the Battle of the Bulge.
Despite the bravery of African Americans in all of America’s previous wars, despite the argument made by the NAACP and others that “a Jim Crow army cannot fight for a free world,” the armed forces of the United States remained strictly segregated.
Ken Burns talks about his decision to make “The War” and why he was reluctant to make the film.
Filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick talk about why “The War” was such an intimidating project and how they made the film.
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick talk about why WWII will always be remembered.
THE WAR, a seven-part documentary series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, explores the history and horror of the Second World War from an American perspective by following the fortunes of so-called ordinary men and women who become caught up in one of the greatest cataclysms in human history.
On June 6, 1944, D-Day in the European Theater, a million and a half Allied troops embark on one of the greatest invasions in history; the invasion of France.
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