Product Details

• Directors: Kevin P. Duffus
• Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: Unrated
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Tapeworm
• VHS Release Date: August 1, 2001
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• ASIN: 1888285176
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #400,522 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Island Breeze, September 2001

Kevin Duffus is a talented historian, researcher, reporter, writer, and film producer, “War Zone” is his best documentary to date.

Product Description

WAR ZONE, by North Carolina filmmaker Kevin Duffus, is two 90 minute videos of archival footage and contemporary inerviews showing Outer Banks people and scenes, war action at sea and the personal stories of witnesses and victims of the German U-boat assault along the East coast of the United States in 1942 with its epicenter at Cape Hatteras.

The United States suffered one of its worst defeats of WWII not in Europe or the Pacific but along the nation's eastern seaboard. Three hundred ninety-seven ships were sunk or damaged and nearly 5,000 people were killed. The loss of lives, ships and raw resources represents one of the greatest maritime disasters in history.

For six months, sixty-five German U-boats hunted Allied merchant vessels practically unopposed within view of American coastal communities. The greatest concentration of these attacks occurred off North Carolina's Outer Banks. War Zone is a story of infamy, irony and innocence lost.

Featured in Part One are the heart-rending stories of torpedoed Merchant sailors and young Coast Guard lifesavers unable to come to their rescue. Viewers will marvel at the courage of a young mother who delivered her newborn son in a lifeboat on the storm tossed waves of the Graveyard of the Atlantic. Learn how Germany surprised America's defenses despite Britain's warnings.

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