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Mood:
- ContemplativeThought ProvokingDisturbingCaptivating
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Plot:
- Wartime LifeLife is a BitchMilitarySocietySoldierSurvivalBattlesMedia
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Genres:
- HistoricalWarDocumentaryMini Series
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Time/Period:
- World War 2
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Place:
- AlabamaCaliforniaConnecticutUSA
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Praise:
- Award WinnerEmmy WinnerPrestigious Awards
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Style:
- Voice OverArchive Footage
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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The War, 2007
English
USA
Profile of The War
The mood of The War is thought provoking, contemplative, and disturbing. The plot centers around wartime life, military, and themes of life is a bitch. It is a documentary and historical TV show. Stylistically, The War is a mini-series, archive footage, and includes a voice over. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. The War is set in Connecticut, Alabama, and California. The TV show is known for being an Emmy winner.
Summary of The War
After tackling the truly American subjects of jazz and baseball, award-winning documentarian Ken Burns returns to our country's military history with THE WAR. His acclaimed 1991 series, THE CIVIL WAR, was devoted to the War Between the States, while this 2007 production pays the same amount of care and attention to World War II. Rather than keeping THE WAR on the frontlines, Burns and his fellow director Lynn Novick also explore life on the homefront in four towns: Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota. Keith David, who also lent his baritone to KEN BURNS' JAZZ, narrates this documentary series, while actors such as Tom Hanks, Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Lucas, and Adam Arkin give readings of historical accounts of those who fought on the other side of the world, as well as those who were fighting in their own way back home.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 23 September 2007 |
| Runtime: | 60 min |
| Seasons: | 1 |
Cast and Crew
as Himself 7 episodes, 2007
as Reader 7 episodes, 2007
as Reader 7 episodes, 2007
as Narrator 7 episodes, 2007
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