Making Of | Wynton Marsalis On Music
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Wynton Marsalis talks about composing original music for “The War.”
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Making Of | Wynton Marsalis On Music
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Wynton Marsalis talks about composing original music for “The War.”
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Preview: S1 | 1m 11s | Ken Burns talks about his decision to make “The War.” (1m 11s)
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Making Of | Why WWII Will Be Remembered
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Preview: S1 | 2m 32s | The filmmakers talk about WWII and why it will be remembered. (2m 32s)
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Preview: S1 | 46s | Ken Burns talks about what makes WWII so memorable. (46s)
Making Of | An Intimidating Project
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Preview: S1 | 2m 21s | Filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick talk about why “The War” was an intimidating project. (2m 21s)
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Clip: Ep6 | 11m 23s | America needed to take Iwo Jima to secure a base for US Bombers. (11m 23s)
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Clip: Ep7 | 7m 45s | Ray Leopold, Burnett Miller, Dwain Luce and others discuss the horror of the Holocaust. (7m 45s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 2m 12s | Sam Hines talks about growing up in Minneapolis in 1941and the excitement of the service. (2m 12s)
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Clip: Ep6 | 1m 50s | Ray Leopold discusses the mixture of food available at meal times. (1m 50s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 4m 39s | Burnett Miller, Ray Leopold and Sam Hynes talk about why they fought. (4m 39s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 5m 12s | Norah Jones sings 'American Anthem.' (5m 12s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 12m 43s | WWII brought an end to the chronic unemployment of Mobile, AL. (12m 43s)
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Clip: Ep4 | 1m 24s | Al McIntosh writes of personal losses the war brought to those in Luverne. (1m 24s)
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Clip: Ep5 | 1m 26s | Young soldier Daniel Inouye comes face-to-face with the enemy. (1m 26s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 7m 22s | During the war everything seemed to be rationed or in short supply: (7m 22s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 2m 47s | Daniel Inouye was preparing to go to church when the attack on Pearl Harbor began. (2m 47s)
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Clip: Ep3 | 9m 56s | On Tuesday morning, May 25, 1943, tensions explode at the Alabama Dry Dock shipyard. (9m 56s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 7m 14s | In Sacramento, soon after Order 9066 was issued, signs went up saying "Japs must go." (7m 14s)
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Clip: Ep4 | 1m 42s | Fighter pilot Quentin Aanenson recalls the first time he knew he'd "killed men." (1m 42s)
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Clip: Ep6 | 5m 22s | Marines Pete Arias and Bill Lansford land on Iwo Jima. (5m 22s)
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Clip: Ep4 | 2m 14s | LIFE magazine published the first image of dead American servicemen in the 9/20/43 issue. (2m 14s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 11m | The four towns featured in THE WAR; Mobile, Sacramento, Waterbury and Luverne. (11m)
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Clip: Ep1 | 1m 29s | FDR speaks to the country following the attack on Pearl Harbor. (1m 29s)
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Clip: Ep5 | 2m 13s | On June 6, 1944 a million and a half Allied troops embark on the invasion of France. (2m 13s)
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Clip: Ep4 | 5m 10s | Al McIntosh writes about D-Day in the Rock County Star Herald. (5m 10s)
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Clip: Ep6 | 51s | Tom Galloway finds himself on the front lines in the Battle of the Bulge. (51s)
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Clip: Ep3 | 5m 52s | Babe Ciarlo never revealed his experiences in his letters home. (5m 52s)
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Clip: Ep3 | 4m 10s | The armed forces of the United States remained strictly segregated. (4m 10s)
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