Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The Perilous fight [videorecording] : America's World War II in color / co-production of TWI, Carlton and KCTS/Seattle ; producers, Greg Palmer, Scott Pearson ; series producer, Martin Smith.

Edition:

Full screen version.

Publisher, Date:

[Alexandria, VA] : PBS Home Video : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, c2004.

Description:

1 videodisc (220 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

"The Perilous Fight ... brings America's wartime experience, on the battlefield and at home, vividly and intimately to life. The series combines original color film footage with compelling passages from diaries and letters written by people who were part of an unforgettable period of history."

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: Not rated, Canadian Home Video: 14A rating.

Subjects:

World War, 1939-1945 -- History.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.

Midway, Battle of, 1942.

Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.

Nonfiction television programs.

Historical television programs.

Educational television programs.

Documentary television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

United States -- History -- 20th century.

Other Author:

Palmer, Greg.

Pearson, Scott.

Smith, Martin, 1939-

Sheen, Martin.

Brady, Shelagh.

Franko, Gale.

Moore, Stephen.

Ticeson, Cleven.

Elliott, Chris.

TWI (Firm)

Carlton Television.

KCTS (Television station : Seattle, Wash.)

PBS Home Video.

Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)

Other Title:

America's World War II in color

Infamy.

Battlefronts.

Wrath.

Triumph.

Notes:

DVD release of the television series originally broadcast in 2003, c2002.

Special features: excerpts from four original World War II documentaries including a Pearl Harbor re-enactment and "The Battle of Midway" by John Ford, and from "Meet the Enemy" and "The last bomb."

Editors, Shelagh Brady, Gale Franko, Stephen Moore, Cleven Ticeson ; original music by Chris Elliott ; narrator, Martin Sheen.

Narrator, Martin Sheen.

DVD, Dolby surround stereo.

Closed-captioned.

Contents:

Infamy: 1919-1942 / written & produced by Martin Smith -- Battlefronts: 1942-1944 / written & produced by Scott Pearson -- Wrath: D-Day to VE-Day / written & produced by Greg Palmer -- Triumph: The Pacific 1943-1945 / written & produced by Martin Smith.

ISBN:

1415701113

9781415701119

Publisher Number:

87781

Other Number:

56994754

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

417699

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 940.54 Perilous

Medium:

[videorecording]