Genre: TV Series
Grade: A
Notable People: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick
Title: The War
Review: Extremely profound and illuminating seven-part, 15 hour mini series from the masters of 21st century documentary- Burns and Novick. The series focuses on World War II in a “bottom up” fashion through the lenses of four “quintessentially American towns”: Luverne, Minnesota, Mobile, Alabama, Sacramento, California and Waterbury, Connecticut The series recounts the experiences of a number of individuals from these communities as they move through the war in the Pacific, African and European theaters, and focuses on the effect of the war on them, their families and their communities. Made in 2007, with the last of an elderly group of dying -off WW II vets. In times like ours, this experience cannot help but rekindle any lost sense of patriotism you may have. I dare anyone to watch these young American and British and their allies liberate the horrors of the camps or march down the Champs Elyse reclaiming Paris to the adulation of the hordes of victims. Extremely emotional experience that I found needed to be done in small segments, but worth every minute.
