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Title: Ken Burn's: The War
Post by: DoNKeY on September 23, 2007, 03:44:07 PM

I don't know a lot about this guys, but my civics/econ teacher mentioned ex cred for watching it, and then I read an article about it in todays paper.  

Apparently tonights, or if not tonight one of the episodes, highlights Quentin Aanenson, a P-47 pilot in WWII, and all he went through.  Sounds interesting actually now that I have looked into it.

Basically it chronicles WW2.

Hopefully it will be good.

http://www.pbs.org/thewar/

Read about each individual part (its like a 7 part thing) here

http://www.kqed.org/programs/tv/program-landing.jsp?progID=16813

Thanks,
donkey

Title: Ken Burn's: The War
Post by: Guppy35 on September 23, 2007, 04:03:59 PM

There was a documentary about Quentin Aanenson's war a few years back.  It was wonderful.

He's a Minnesota guy too :)

Title: Ken Burn's: The War
Post by: DoNKeY on September 23, 2007, 04:19:55 PM

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Originally posted by Guppy35
There was a documentary about Quentin Aanenson's war a few years back.  It was wonderful.

He's a Minnesota guy too :)

Yeah it mentioned that in the article.  1993 or 94, was that the one? (the date it showed).

Title: Ken Burn's: The War
Post by: yanksfan on September 23, 2007, 06:55:10 PM

Wow i'm so glad you posted this, another 15 minutes and i would have missed the first show in the series, TY, "S"

Don

Title: Ken Burn's: The War
Post by: M733 on September 23, 2007, 06:55:36 PM

I saw an article about it in my Newsweek. Is it any good?

Title: Ken Burn's: The War
Post by: Guppy35 on September 23, 2007, 09:47:40 PM

For a long time WW2 history nut, there really wasn't any new ground covered, and I was surprised since they've talked about all the footage they went through, that I didn't really see anything I hadn't seen before.


For someone just starting out though it was very well done.

It covered pre-war through Guadalcanal.  So essentially 39-42 with the focus coming out of 4 towns where they did interviews, Luverne, Minnesota,  Mobile Alabama, Waterbury, Connecticut, and Sacramento, California.

The fuss caused when the Latino community complained about lack of coverage in the documentary was a section added to the end of the show where they talked with two Latino soldiers out of California who both served with Carlson's Raiders.

Title: Ken Burn's: The War
Post by: E25280 on September 23, 2007, 10:41:09 PM

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Originally posted by Guppy35
For a long time WW2 history nut, there really wasn't any new ground covered, and I was surprised since they've talked about all the footage they went through, that I didn't really see anything I hadn't seen before.

That was my reaction too.

At first I was a bit miffed that they condensed Midway into the TV Documentary equivalent of a single paragraph in an encyclopedia.  But, after reflection, considering how Burns does his documentaries, he must not have done any interviews with any eyewitnesses to the battle.