Product Details

• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 2
• Studio: DVD Movie Classics, LLC
• DVD Release Date: November 1, 2002
• Run Time: 191 minutes
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• ASIN: B0002US51E
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #226,258 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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3) Target For Tonight: 1941 Academy Award Winner - Best Documentary

(1941-England). Filmed with the co-operation of the Royal Air Force. "This is the authentic story of a bombing raid on Germany...how it is planned and how it is executed. Every person seen in the picture is a member of the Royal Air Force, from Commander-in-Chief to aircraft-hand, re-enacting his own daily life on the job. They are the men and women who actually direct, plan and execute the raids." Matter-of-factly done, but the cumulative effect builds to the explosive climax (literally!). Academy Award Winner - Best Documentary Feature (1941). The film is specifically about Bomber "F For Freddie" on a typical mission to bomb a German oil store depot, but on a broader scale it shows how the RAF organized to save England. Well done. National National Review Board Winner. 50 minutes.

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1) True Glory: 1945 Official USA War Department Film

Introduced by GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. How the Allied Armies defeated Hitlers war machine. Photographed by the combat cameramen of the USA, Canada, France, Poland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Czecheslovakia, Norway and Great Britain. Winner of an Academy Award (Best Documentary Feature); winner of a New York Film Critics Awards Special Prize. Graphically told in the words of the common soldier, stunning visuals abound as extraordinary combat footage is used to tell the story. Recommended. 86 minutes.

2) The Big Picture: 1960 US Army War Documentary

Produced and syndicated by the United States Army. "WORLD WAR II IN THE PACIFIC." Two complete broadcasts. The war against Japan started with Pearl Harbor. This well-produced summary of the major battles and fighting begins with graphic pictures of the devastation caused by the sudden attack. The capture of the Philippines soon followed as did the Bataan "death march." Corregidor falls and MacArthur vows "I shall be back." There are scenes of Doolittles raid on Tokyo early in the war, the decisive battle of the Coral Sea, Guadalcanal, the invasion of the Philippines, the battle of Leyte Gulf (considered "the greatest naval battle in history"), the fighting on Okinawa and many other islands, the A-bomb being dropped on Hiroshima and the signing of the Surrender aboard the battleship Missouri. A well-done overview of the complete war in the Pacific. 56 minutes.