Ken Burns' -THE WAR on PBS

SteamWake · 09-24-07, 11:35 AM

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They just said the point of Midway to the japanese was to smash the remainder of the US pacific fleet (OK, true), take Hawaii (!), hold its people hostage and force us to sue for peace. That's the most clueless thing I've heard in a while.

Yup... that was the first time I've heard that theory.

So far it seems a little jingoistic. It will be interesting to see how the end of the war in Europe is handled.

JCC

Its PBS for crying out loud... what do you expect ?

Actually given that it is PBS I would have expected a slightly more left of center approach. This had (at times) a certain Fox Newsy "Let's roll up our sleeves and get 'er DUN, 'Merica!" kind of feel to it.

The personal stuff is interesting though.

JCC

I havent personally seen it. But Im pretty sure that PBS would have screened this befor putting it on the air and their.. uh... censors (for lack of a better word) deemed it 'suitable' for the PBS audience.

But Im making a lot of assumptions not having seen it first hand so Ill just leave it at that.

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