| Edition |
Full screen version. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD, Dolby surround stereo. |
| Credits |
Editors, Shelagh Brady, Gale Franko, Stephen Moore, Cleven Ticeson ; original music by Chris Elliott ; narrator, Martin Sheen. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: Not rated, Canadian Home Video: 14A rating. |
| Note |
DVD release of the television series originally broadcast in 2003, c2002. |
| Summary |
"The Perilous Fight ... brings America's wartime experience, on the battlefield and at home, vividly and intimately to life. The series combines original color film footage with compelling passages from diaries and letters written by people who were part of an unforgettable period of history." |
| Note |
Special features: excerpts from four original World War II documentaries including a Pearl Harbor re-enactment and "The Battle of Midway" by John Ford, and from "Meet the Enemy" and "The last bomb." |
| Contents |
Infamy: 1919-1942 / written & produced by Martin Smith -- Battlefronts: 1942-1944 / written & produced by Scott Pearson -- Wrath: D-Day to VE-Day / written & produced by Greg Palmer -- Triumph: The Pacific 1943-1945 / written & produced by Martin Smith. |
| Language |
Closed-captioned. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- History.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
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United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Midway, Battle of, 1942.
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Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary television programs.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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DVD-Video discs.
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| Added Author |
Palmer, Greg.
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Pearson, Scott.
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Smith, Martin, 1939-
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Sheen, Martin. Narrator.
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Brady, Shelagh.
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Franko, Gale.
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Moore, Stephen.
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Ticeson, Cleven.
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Elliott, Chris.
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TWI (Firm)
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Carlton Television.
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KCTS (Television station : Seattle, Wash.)
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PBS Home Video.
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Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
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| Added Title |
America's World War II in color |
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Infamy.
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Battlefronts.
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Wrath.
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Triumph.
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| ISBN |
1415701113 |
| Music No. |
87781 Paramount Home Entertainment |
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