The Four Towns
An introduction to the four towns featured in THE WAR – Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; and Luverne, Minnesota.
Made into an enemy
In Sacramento, soon after Order 9066 was issued, hand-lettered signs went up all over town, saying “Japs must go.”
Making Of | Wynton Marsalis On Music
Wynton Marsalis talks about composing original music for “The War.”
The Holocaust
Ray Leopold, Burnett Miller, Dwain Luce and others discuss the horror of the Holocaust and how it haunts them still.
Making Of | 'What was it like?'
Ken Burns talks about his goal for the film, to discover, “What was it like?”
Iwo Jima
America needed to take Iwo Jima to secure a base for US Bombers. The Marines landed on Feb 15, 1945 and the fighting would last for nearly a month and cost the United States 6,821 lives.
Making Of | Adding Sound
The filmmakers talk about the process of adding sound to the silent archive video footage they had for “The War.”
Here Lie Three Americans
In the September 20, 1943 issue, LIFE magazine published the first image of dead American servicemen that American civilians had been allowed to see in the twenty-one months since Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor: The Attack
Daniel Inouye was preparing to go to church with his family when the attack on Pearl Harbor began.
Battle of the Bulge
Mobile's Tom Galloway finds himself on the frozen front lines as the shells start falling in the Battle of the Bulge.
African-Americans Troops Training
Despite the bravery of African Americans in all of America’s previous wars, despite the argument made by the NAACP and others that “a Jim Crow army cannot fight for a free world,” the armed forces of the United States remained strictly segregated.
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