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Title Victory at sea / [a production of the National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with the United States Navy] ; produced by Henry Salomon ; directed by M. Clay Adams ; written by Henry Salomon with Richard Hanser.

Imprint [Golden Valley, MN] : Mill Creek Entertainment, ©2005.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult DVDs  DVD 940.54 VIC DISC 1-3    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  DVD 940.545 VIC DISC 1-3    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD 940.545 A17V DISC 1-3    Check Shelf
Edition Multi-disk collectors set.
Description 3 videodiscs : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD, remastered.
Performer Narrated by Leonard Graves.
Note Title from container.
Credits Original musical score, Richard Rodgers; music arranged by Robert Russell Bennett conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra; edited by Isaac Kleinerman.
Note Originally produced as an NBC television series in 1952.
"Multi-disk collector's set"--Container.
"All 26 episodes of the groundbreaking series some have called 'The best WWII documentary ever filmed.'"--Container.
Audience Not rated.
Summary The original full-length episodes of the award-winning series made exclusively for television and containing actual live action footage. The videos introduce the campaigns and action of World War II, concentrating on battles and action at sea. Over 13,000 hours of footage gathered from the U.S., British, German and Japanese navies during World War II were perused in the making of these compelling episodes. View the realities and challenges faced by the Allies in every major WWII naval engagement.
Contents Disk 1. Design for war ; The Pacific boils over ; Sealing the breach ; Midway is East ; Mediterranean mosaic ; Guadalcanal ; Rings around Rabaul ; Marenstrum ; Sea and sand -- disk 2. Beneath the Southern Cross ; The magnetic North ; Conquest of Micronesia ; Melanesian nightmare ; Roman renaissance ; D-Day ; Killers and the kill ; The turkey shoot ; Two if by sea -- disk 3. The battle for Leyte Gulf ; Return of the Allies ; Full fathom five ; The fate of Europe ; Target Suribachi ; The road to Mandalay ; Suicide for glory ; Design for peace.
Access For private home use only.
Subject World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations.
Military operations, Naval. (OCoLC)fst01710244
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Genre/Form Documentary television programs. (OCoLC)fst01710387
Nonfiction television programs. (OCoLC)fst01710270
Television series. (OCoLC)fst01710566
War films. (OCoLC)fst01710402
Documentary television programs.
War films.
Nonfiction television programs.
Television series.
War films.
Added Author Graves, Leonard.
Adams, Clay.
Tiede, Herbert, 1915-1987.
Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979.
National Broadcasting Company.
United States. Navy.
Mill Creek Entertainment.
Added Title Victory at sea (Television program)
Standard No. 683904504081
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