Joseph Medicine Crow
Joe Medicine Crow, the last war chief of the Crow Tribe of Montana is profiled in The War, a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
Wartown
The chronic unemployment that had eaten at Mobile and every other American town for more than a decade during the Depression was over.
Rationing and Recycling
During the war everything seemed to be rationed or in short supply: gasoline and fuel oil and rubber; bobby pins and zippers and tin foil; shoes and whiskey and chewing gum; butter and coffee and nylons and tomato ketchup and sugar; canned goods and cigarettes and the matches needed to light them.
Chocolate Roast Beef
Ray Leopold talks about the strange mixture of food available during meal times.
Growing Up
Sam Hines discusses the excitement of joining up and the opportunity to be somebody more exciting than the kid you were.
Babe Ciarlo in Anzio
Serving on the front lines at Anzio beach, Babe Ciarlo never revealed his experiences in his letters home.
Joining Up
Burnett Miller, Ray Leopold and Sam Hynes talk about joining up and how important the fight was.
FDR: Day of Infamy
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt speaks to the country following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The War Comes Home to Luverne
Al McIntosh writes of personal losses the war brought to those in Luverne.
Mobile Shipyards
On Tuesday morning, May 25, 1943, tensions explode at the Alabama Dry Dock shipyard.
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.”
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