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Peanuts: What Have We Learned Charlie Brown [VHS]

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With children of my own now, it's fun rediscovering many of the old Peanuts features with my daughters' fresh eyes. "What Have We Learned Charlie Brown" was a popular video in our house, and has proven to be a useful vehicle for cultivating an interest in history in my home.

This is and awesome video.....Charles Schultz did an EXCELLENT JOB!!!!!......I taped it off of the TV Special over 10 years ago and my kids wore it out!!!....I am ordering a new one for myself and one for my kids' teachers......a great moving experience for young children.....although it is sad in some parts, it's broken up with humorous scenes of the "Peanuts Gang" and their antics. It is a superb way to teach young children the reason for Memorial Day.....the poem "Flanders Fields" is featured and is very moving.....puts a lump in your throat......It tells the story of the battle of Normandy and the men who died there......set in France while the gang is vacationing there.

"What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?" is an excellent video for parents and grandparents to explore and talk about with children. It will hold the imagination of both young and older children and does justice to the WW II experience. Schulz himself was a veteran of WW II and worked hard at not giving the war a cartoon-ish feel. In fact, the short video might frighten some of the youngest viewers.

This is one of the best peanuts tv shows! The review above me is right, this video should be shown in all schools! this is my favorite peanuts tv show. the video takes off from where the movie, "bon voyage, charlie brown" left off. the peanuts gang is trying to get to the hovercraft port to take them back to england, where their plane flight will take them back to the usa. along the way, they stop at the d-day beaches. as the gang wanders on the beach, linus tells them about d-day. after that, the gang stops at yrpes (yrpes was a world war one battle field). As they wander among the old trenches and the graves, linus recites the touching world war one poem, "in flanders fields". what touches me most is when linus is done reciting the poem he and charlie brown look at the graves a long time and linus ask charlie brown the haunting question, "what have we learned, charlie brown?". get this video!

As these words are being written, it's less than 24 hours since Charles Schulz left us. Most people think of "It's Christmas Charlie Brown" when they hear about Peanuts animation, but "What Have We Learned" touched my heart even more. If there's one video that should be shown in every school in America, this is the one.

'What Have We Learned,Charlie Brown,in the Peanuts lore is Charles Schultz's tribute to slain World War 1 and 2 veterans and to D-Day at Normandy beach.The plot is:Charlie Brown himself recalls the events occuring directly after those seen in the film 'Bon Voyage Charlie Brown' in which the gang,ready to leave France,end up camping last night at what turns out to be normandy beach,noted as Linus imagines (seen as animated B&W

battle footage from D-Day)and he proceeds to give a history lesson on the subject.The voice of Dwight Eisenhower is heard and the famous poem 'In Flander's Fields' is recieted.And what have we learned here?Well when I saw this at age eight I learned that war results primarily in one thing-death,for better or worse.

'What Have We Learned Charlie Brown' is by far one of the more serious of the Peanuts television specials.I wouldn't say it was intended for children and I don't think Schultz intended for it to be.It is very historically accurate and wonderfully directed.It does show without any doubt what Vince Guaraldi's classic jazz score of Charlie Brown shows did for their sequencing.I will say one thing in conclusion-as a longtime Peanuts admirer I found this very frightening as a young child-the imagry is very violent at times and the feel of the story is rather depressing as it revolves alot around death and destruction.So I would think the parents should reserve the privilage of their young child to see this.My opinion is that children over 10 perhapes might better understand the graphic nature of this show.It's very well done but taken so far out of context as the other Peanuts film I'm sure opinions very.I like it well enough now but as a child I didn't watch it much.For the most part 'This Is America,Charlie Brown' from later in the decade were a little less heavy handed.

When I saw this special for the first time, I was seven years old. This was my first introduction to World War I and II. This special, along with a discussion with my parents, really helped me to understand the sacrifices the soldiers made in keeping us free.

It is a real shame that this is not available on DVD. I strongly recommend this special for use in the classroom.This special does not talk down to the children, it shows children real places and events-most of which involve D-Day. Linus also does a very nice reading of the beautiful poem, "In Flanders Field".

Charles M.Schulz himself was a WWII veteran and was very proud of that fact. Let us honor him and all the other war veterans by making sure both children and adults see this wonderful special.

One of the more memorable Peanuts films, but definitely geared toward adolescents and adults rather than to children, this particular film has Charlie and his friends visiting various WWI and WWII memorial sites around France. It has "slightly animated" World War II footage, a clip of an historic speech made by Eishehower as well as an excerpt of a poem by John McCrae. It's very moving and worthy of being shown every Memorial Day.

This movie is definitely not aimed at the children's audience. The World War II footage definitely made for a boring movie, and the music was bad. Would not reccomend this movie for children - or anyone for that matter.