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. |
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"Multi-disk collector's set"--Container. |
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"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
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations.
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Military operations, Naval. (OCoLC)fst01710244
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Chronological Term |
1939-1945
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Genre/Form |
Documentary television programs. (OCoLC)fst01710387
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Nonfiction television programs. (OCoLC)fst01710270
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Television series. (OCoLC)fst01710566
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War films. (OCoLC)fst01710402
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Documentary television programs.
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War films.
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Nonfiction television programs.
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Television series.
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War films.
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Added Author |
Graves, Leonard.
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Adams, Clay.
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Tiede, Herbert, 1915-1987.
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Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979.
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National Broadcasting Company.
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United States. Navy.
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Mill Creek Entertainment.
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Added Title |
Victory at sea (Television program)
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Standard No. |
683904504081 |
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