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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

True whispers : the story of the Navajo code talkers / produced by Valhalla Motion Pictures in association with the Independent Television Service ; produced by Gale Anne Hurd, Valerie Red-Horse ; written and directed by Valerie Red-Horse.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Explores from the Native point of view the complex story of the role that the Native American code talkers and the Navajo language played in secret communications during World War II. No cryptography system proved as effective during the war as did the use of Navajo code talkers using their tribal language to transmit military communiques. Countless American lives were saved because of the service of these brave young Native American Marines.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Series:

WWII, they also served

WWII, they also served.

Subjects:

United States. Marine Corps -- Indian troops.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Indian.

Navajo code talkers.

Navajo language.

Navajo Indians.

Genre:

Films for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Hurd, Gale Anne.

Red-Horse, Valerie.

Macy, William H., 1950-

Valhalla Motion Pictures.

Independent Television Service.

PBS Home Video.

Notes:

Originally produced 2002.

Edited by Bryce Button with Jamie Wallace ; director of photography, Bill Sheehy ; music, Peter Wyoming Bender, Aaron White, Ramilla Cody.

Narrator: William H. Macy.

DVD, full screen; stereo., NTSC.

Closed-captioned.

Contents:

Navajo origins -- Attack on Pearl Harbor -- Leaving the reservation -- Code talkers -- Iwo Jima -- Forgotten heroes -- Recognition -- The struggle continues.

ISBN:

9780793693894

0793693896

Publisher Number:

TWSN601

Other Number:

191046816

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

700183

# Local items in:

0

# System items in:

0

Call Number:

DVD 940.548673 Tru whis