Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Day of days June 6, 1944 : American soldiers remember D-Day / a film by Tim Gray ; produced and directed by Tim Gray.

Publisher, Date:

[Arlington, VA] : PBS, [2014]

[Arlington, VA] : Distributed by PBS Distribution, [2014]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 52 min.) : sound, color with some black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

Widescreen

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

It commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landing by bringing together American D-Day veterans to share their experiences from that fateful day, with their testimony yielding long-buried and often painful, vivid memories. They recount their transformations from boys to men, reveal their uneasiness with the term 'hero, ' and grapple with why they survived when so many others did not.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: Not rated ; rating: TVG.

Subjects:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy.

Operation Overlord.

Normandy (France) -- History, Military.

Genre:

Nonfiction films.

Documentary films.

Historical films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author: