Product Details

• Actors: Ronald Reagan, Harold Alexander, George C. Marshall, Archibald Wavell, Ernest J. King
• Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Good Times Video
• DVD Release Date: May 1, 2001
• Run Time: 51 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005OSKZ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #147,000 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Stilwell Road" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Stilwell Road, June 19, 2005

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Steven Hellerstedt "SH" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Stilwell Road (DVD)

Narrated by Ronald Reagan and produced by the Army Signal Corps in 1945, STILWELL ROAD uses stock footage and the ever-popular animated arrows spearheading their ways across maps of the Far East to tell the story of the Allied Armies' mission to reopen the old Burma Road, the overland supply route from India to China.
The Japanese army conquered and occupied Burma by the time America entered the war. `Reopen' is a misleading word to use. The completed road would contain nearly 1,100 miles of newly constructed road - from Ledo in India to Kumning in China - an engineering marvel completed in the face of a hostile enemy, in a land whose torrential monsoons made road construction, not to mention maintenance, a logistical challenge of the highest order in peacetime.
As usual with the documentaries from this period - at least the ones I've seen - STILWELL ROAD is relevant, coherent, and concise. Although it's a little too sketchily drawn to substitute for the written word, this documentary is a wonderful supplement for anyone studying World War II in the Far East. The transfer print is in good to very good condition. A strong recommendation for those interested in the subject.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Horrific task surmounted by unsubduable will., July 10, 2005

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rsoonsa (Lake Isabella, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Stilwell Road (DVD)

An excellent tribute to the 63000 men who constructed the 478 mile road from Ledo, Assam, into East Burma, this documentary depicts many of the extraordinary achievements of military engineering required for the passage's completion, a 26 month ordeal completed in 1945 by bordering massive gorges, overstriding raging rapids and invading some of the world's most impenetrable jungles, with a cost of many lives and 150 million dollars. "We got run out of Burma, and it is humiliating as Hell", early in the film states "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, Commander of troops in the CBI (China-Burma-India) Theatre, and the veteran warrior, serving as Chiang Kai-shek's chief of staff returned with a vengeance at the head of his doughty troops, aided later appreciably by personnel from Australia, New Zealand and India under the leadership of British General Ord Wingate, whom we see just prior to his final, fatal flight. Incisively edited, and briskly narrated by Ronald Reagan, the 51 minute work reveals the ongoing testing endured by the construction crews (28000 engineers), in addition to support personnel such as medical staff, maintenance workers for the heavy machinery, et alia, and is replete with combat footage recording the manner in which the original Ledo Road was expanded into the Stilwell Road (renamed in 1945 by Chiang Kai-shek) despite vigourous Japanese opposition, enabling crucial supplies to move from India to China.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars RONALD REAGAN NARRATES THE GRIPPING STORY OF WWII BURMA, November 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The World in Conflict: Stilwell Road [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Some of the worst fighting of World Ward II occurred in the jungles of Burma. Heat, disease, pestilence worked as allies to the Japanese as General Joseph Stilwell attemped to turn the tide and keep the Japanese out of india, and keep the road to China open.

This gripping story of a great leader caught between an armed and determined enemy and the politics of allied command is narrated by Ronald Reagan