Product Details

• Actors: Addison Bell
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording remastered, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: BBC Warner
• VHS Release Date: April 24, 2001
• Run Time: 69 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005AAEG
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,549 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Editorial Reviews

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This documentary produced by the BBC offers a revisionist look at the attack on Pearl Harbor, and it raises some tantalizing questions. It makes the incredibly serious and controversial claim that the U.S. government had definitive knowledge of the imminent Japanese attack, yet Franklin D. Roosevelt and other American leaders deliberately sacrificed Americans lives so they would have an excuse to enter World War II. There's no question that American cryptographers read Japanese communications, but serious historians have long contended that any credible warning of the December 7, 1941, attack on American naval forces can only be discerned when information is pieced together with the help of considerable hindsight. Sacrifice at Pearl Harbor claims otherwise, but the evidence offered, which for the most part consists of interviews with elderly men who claim to remember knowing the attack was coming, isn't always terribly convincing. The stories of pre-war intelligence operations are intriguing, but one could plausibly claim that failure to act on some of the warning signs would be attributable to either honest mistakes or simple ineptitude, not a grandiose conspiracy to force America into the growing war. This documentary presents its material in a dramatic fashion, but ultimately it raises more questions than it answers. --Robert J. McNamara

Product Description

In this authoritative and suspenseful documentary, the BBC takes you inside the secret activities of the Americans, the British and the Japanese as each nation moved fatefully toward the "date that will live in infamy."

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good followup to Pearl Harbor Movie, June 23, 2001

By A Customer

This tape makes you really wonder whether the attack on Pearl Harbor was preventable given the preponderance of intelligence and information that is available now through the freedom of information. 75% of Americans before Pearl harbor did not want to go to war, afterwards, people were volunteering to sign up for war. You have to wonder whether this was Roosevelt's way to get the U.S. into the war with Germany (by way of Japan). This film really makes you wonder. Very captivating.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars History repeating itself!, October 5, 2006

By	HOLLAND - See all my reviews

Ive seen this video several years ago for the first time and after seeing
LOOSE CHANGE regarding the WORLD TRADE CENTER,I can only say
that HISTORY is repeating itself!
P.S. When wil you release this doc on DVD??

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly revealing BBC production about FDR perfidy @ Pearl Harbour. Also try to look up Kimmel's grandson on Net..., June 7, 2006

By	Ricahrd A. Salzer (Chesapeake, Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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Very good expose of criminal Roosevelt
driving us into WWII to help save the
Brits and Churchill! Admiral H.S. Kimmel
was set up, as was Gen. Short to take
the fall...So why that moron at 1600
Penn. Ave. sign the order to exonerate
them? Skull and Bones, I presume. The
oath of secrecy to the New World Odor!