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Victory at Sea - The Legendary World War II Documentary (History Channel) |  | Director: M. Clay Adams
Studio: A&E Home Video
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 28218
Format: Box set, Black & White, Color, DVD, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 4
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 690 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.3
MPN: AAED70967D
ISBN: 0767057066
UPC: 733961709674
EAN: 9780767057066
ASIN: B0000AQS3X
Release Date: September 30, 2003
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| • | Considered the most influential documentary in television history, VICTORY AT SEA, in the words of Harper s Weekly, "created a new art form." The 26 half-hour episodes were culled from over 13,000 hours of footage shot by the U.S., British, German and Japanese navies during World War II. Narrated by Leonard Graves and set to a score by Richard Rodgers, this program offered a remarkable look at the |
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Product Description
Winner of 12 major awards, this stirring documentary series, chronicling WWII naval operations in the Atlantic and Pacific campaigns and featuring action footage obtained from Allied and Axis government film vaults, aired on NBC in 1952-53. Richard Rodgers supplied the original music score; Leonard Graves narrated. All 26 episodes are included in this four-disc set. 11 1/2 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo.
Amazon.com
A 26-episode World War II documentary, Victory at Sea is one of the most important series in the history of television. Made in 1952, the show was a huge success, winning many major awards and even spawning albums featuring the orchestral score by Richard Rodgers, best known for his musicals with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. Produced with the full cooperation of the U.S. Navy, each 26-minute program consists of black-and-white wartime film set to a narration by Leonard Graves. The two years leading up to America's entry into the war are dismissed in episode one, while the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor gets a show of its own, the raid depicted in a brilliantly edited montage that almost certainly contains "docu-drama" footage. Each episode contains at least one powerful stand-alone sequence in the tradition of Serge Eisenstein (Battleship Potemkin), these action-suspense set-pieces giving the programs an urgent, surprisingly modern feel. Indeed, the emphasis is at least as much on entertainment as information, the factual content delivered in poetic narration, the score transforming the war into a more than usually serious Hollywood adventure. The documentaries are nothing if not wide-ranging, covering parts of the land war despite the title, and including everything from the Atlantic convoys and U-boat "Wolfpacks" to war in Alaska, the South Atlantic, and the Far East, the Pacific War, and the Fall of Japan. There is an attempt to include other nations--certainly the D-Day episode acknowledges the British far more than Saving Private Ryan--but inevitably the focus is on America's war. The very dated narration gives a fascinating insight into how America saw WWII in the early 1950s, while the dynamic cutting and often genuinely remarkable wartime footage make Victory at Sea still gripping today. Twenty years later, Granada's The World at War would become the definitive television WWII history, but this release offers a unique opportunity to see a series of great importance from the very early days of television. --Gary S. Dalkin
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