The War - A Film By Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick
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Director: Ken Burns, Lynn NovickBrand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 900 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS
DVD Reviews of The War - A Film By Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
DVD Review: "The War" A Film by Ken Burns
Summary: 5 Stars
As is always the case with Ken Burns, his hard work and attention to detail keep the viewer locked to the screen.
Its all ther to see. The shock, the horror, the courage, the sacrifice. The world is a much better place to live in because of this "Greatest Generation". This is a "Must See".
DVD Review: Col. Glenn D. Frazier is Amazing!
Summary: 5 Stars
The documentary is wonderful, you definitely won't regret buy this! Col. Glenn D. Frazier is featured in "The War" and has written an amazing book titled "Hell's Guest". I am honestly not really interested in WWII, but I couldn't put his book down! I stayed up all night reading it. I had the honor of meeting him in person and he is honestly the most fascinating person I have ever met. You need to buy his book! If you order it from his website he'll autograph it for you.
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DVD Review: my boys loved it!!! So did I!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is our second Ken Burns series to watch for history. We homeschool and last year we studied the Civil War and watched his series on that war. LOVED IT!!! So, this year, we started on WWII and I checked this series out. I never like history and didn't remember much at all from my days in school(even in college, I thought history was boring and just about dates!) Ken Burns makes my kids ask for history and they talk about what we watched that day. Great presentation and yes, heart-wrenching. DVD Review: Very good!
Summary: 5 Stars
I try to keep myself educated sometimes. This documentary is very well done. Educational and moving.DVD Review: I remember
Summary: 4 Stars
I found the format of "The War" very interesting. I was ten years old when the war ended. I lived in Homer,a small town in upstate New York, and can remember taking part in many projects to help "end the war", such as collecting tin cans, milkweed pods and tinfoil. Nearly everyone had a victory garden. As the Ken Burns film showed, those of us back home were very involved in helping to win the war.
Twenty years later I was in the Army and was stationed in Italy and Occupied Austria. I was then able to see, first hand, some of the places where the war took place. Even though I was fortunate not to have been directly involved in the war, I feel I was touched by it. As fate would have it, I was never touched by war again,even though I spent twenty years in the military.
This film is a "must see" for all Americans.
Description of The War - A Film By Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
The War will be a seven - episode series, produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, that will examine the myriad ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America. By telling the stories of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and the tiny farming town of Luverne, Minnesota - the series will portray this enormous worldwide catastrophe on an intimate, human scale. The War will intertwine vivid eyewitness accounts of the harrowing realities of life on the front lines with reminiscences of Americans who never left their home towns, and who tried their best to carry on with the business of daily life while their fathers and brothers and sons were overseas. The film will honor and celebrate the bravery, endurance, and sacrifice, of the generation of Americans who lived through what will always be known simply as The War.Creating epic documentaries about war is nothing new for Ken Burns, nor is the subject of the Second World War, which never ceases to be a popular subject of films and TV shows. Yet with The War, Burns has definitely succeeded in breaking new ground, exploring in depth the effect of the war on common Americans, and not just the soldiers of The Greatest Generation that fought it. As the narration says at the beginning, "The war affected people in every house, on every street in every town in America." This is nothing less than an attempt to show how the war altered the lives of an entire nation through the portrayal of four individuals from four communities--Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alambama; Luverne, Minnesota; and Sacramento, California--that could represent any town in the country that went through the war. The result is another stunning achievement for Burns and co-director Lynn Novick. Together the filmmaking team succeeds in bringing the war home through the testimonies, letters, and footage of the people from these towns. The storytelling is compelling--Burns and Novick manage to find the most vivid, intimate, and personal dimensions of a global catastrophe--and brought to life with exceptional voice work from marquee stars like Tom Hanks, Alan Arkin, and Samuel L. Jackson. Much of the footage is brilliantly restored; even the most die-hard History Channel buff will see clips here that they've never viewed before. Many old grainy family films look almost as clean and bright as if they were just shot using a modern camera with black-and-white film (keeping in mind that most of the footage was shot without sound, the audio effects work on The War is particularly impressive and should bring attention to the underappreciated work of the foley artist). It took Burns and Novick six years to make this seven-part, 15-hour film--not surprising, really, considering the miles of footage they must have accumulated in the course of their research--and the time and effort shows in the results. The DVD also includes a making-of featurette, deleted scenes, extensive commentaries, and more, in addition to a companion book, The War: An Intimate History. --Daniel Vancini
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