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el toro
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:06 pm    Post subject: The War Reply with quote


anybody else watching this amazing piece of film?
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Black Pope
Lux Exorcist


Joined: 06 Sep 2005
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I've missed it and decided to wait until they either replay it or sell the DVD. Almost every person I've talked to who's seen it has told me its beyond incredible.
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Drifter
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The DVD

I just started on episode #5 tonite, amazing. Over 17,000 soldiers lost on Operation Market Garden alone in nine days. I do believe todays generation is spoiled.
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danmax
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ken Burns and PBS at their best.


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Nimrod7
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Joined: 12 Apr 2007
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Drifter wrote:
The DVD

I just started on episode #5 tonite, amazing. Over 17,000 soldiers lost on Operation Market Garden alone in nine days. I do believe todays generation is spoiled.

Most definitely. Imagine how the war might have turned out if there were embedded reporters with units and FDR hadn't restricted the press.
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Kurtz
Mouth of Madness


Joined: 18 Jul 2005
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nimrod7 wrote:
Imagine how the war might have turned out if there were embedded reporters with units and FDR hadn't restricted the press.


...or if it had been played out on the fields of Lux
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jOnNiE
Lux Hasselhoff


Joined: 11 Dec 2004
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Location: in the bottom of the bottle
PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yeah, I watched it....had some problems with pbs though...lots of digital noise. Still what I saw was great.
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fluffernuffer
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Joined: 05 Jan 2005
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Location: Manchester, Michigan
PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The final episode really put the decision to use the atomic bomb in context.

Watching (and have read about) the battle of Okinawa makes it clear to me that using the atomic bomb was then, and still remains, the correct decision--as horrific as it was.

As for the series...I would have prefered some (not a lot, but some) German and Japanese soldier accounts of some of the battles. The footage and photos are in a word, fantastic. It's Ken Burns best work IMHO.
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Black Pope
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Joined: 06 Sep 2005
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Fluff, I agree with everything you said there.
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