Lot = 4 VHS Tapes
WW2 History VHS 4 lot documentaries / Movies Peal Harbor - Atomic Bomb & Truce.
Highly recommended for war movie fans who are interested in wartime documentaries.
Condition is "Good". Shipped with USPS Media Mail.All tapes work well. Light wear on outside sleeves.See pictures for more details.
1. Attack: The Battle for New Britain:
The American army prepares to attack the Japanese-held island of New Britain in early 1944.Using extensive footage of the US Infantry training and fighting in the Pacific, flowing arrow battle maps and a sometimes impassioned narration by actor Lloyd Nolan, producer Frank Capra's ATTACK!: THE BATTLE FOR NEW BRITAIN is one of the many fine documentaries he produced during the Second World War. Capra is best known as a documentarian for his Why We Fight series, which were also made during the war and which chronicled Europe's and the Allies' war against Germany.The 60-minute ATTACK! is preceded by a half-hour documentary, don't know the producer, entitled SEA POWER. With stock footage and flowing arrows drawn and ready, SEA POWER provides a short lesson on the balance of power in Asia as it was understood circa 1944. A static defense - fortified island bases - was possible only when complimented by a mobile naval force equal to or stronger than the enemy's. Unimaginative and informative, SEA POWER presents the context in which ATTACK! takes place.ATTACK! uses a great deal of original footage to show the Allies training and fighting. The film centers on the ground troops, and perhaps influenced by field reporters like columnist Ernie Pyle and cartoonist Bill Mauldin, the troops are presented in a homey, unvarnished manner. War is shown as hard, dirty work fought in miserable conditions. Malaria infested stinking jungles aren't dressed up, aboriginals are unashamedly referred to as fuzzy-wuzzies, and the wounded and dead are photographed. Even a captured Japanese soldier is shown- a Jap, in the parlance of the day, who is presented with Nolan's reactionary narration asking us What's this? That's right, it's a Jap soldier waiting for medical care, and smoking an American cigarette while he waits. In other words, the movie seems to be telling us, if you're looking for atrocities we ain't gonna be the one to show them to you. Even though it's the infantry who's the star of this one, the deepest impression is made by the confounding logistical obstacles overcome. After the troops establish a beachhead and push in (including some astonishing, if inconclusive, front-line camera work) we see the tanks and jeeps and trucks unloaded. For every finger pulling a trigger, Nolan intones, there are a hundred others pushing, hauling, and carrying.
2. We take New Guinea:
Narrated by Ronald Reagan. Covers the February 1944 capturing of New Guinea. 86 min.
3. War's end
Author: Charles Sweeney; Kinsale Enterprises.
Publisher: Malden, MA : Kinsale, 1995.
Charles Sweeney recounts his mission as commander of the second atomic strike which dropped the plutonium bomb over Nagasaki, Japan bringing an end to World War II.
4. Truce in the Forest : A true Story
Its Christmas Eve, 1944right in the middle of the Battle of the Bulge! A woman agrees to hide three American soldiers but finds herself in a potentially explosive situation when German soldiers appear at her door. Based upon an actual occurrence, this moving story dramatizes what it actually means to love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
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