Pearl Harbor 3-DVD Set Review

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(More customer reviews)If you want a Pearl Harbor full length motion picture, keep looking; Otherwise, this may be the package for you. The 3-disc package compiles five features from the 40's, 50's & 60's. Most of these features were U.S. Government / Military projects. Prelude to War (along with the U.S. Army Special Services) won an Academy Award in 1942 in the Documentary category (Special Award). December 7th (along with the U.S. Navy) won the 1943 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).
Contents include...
Disc 1: Prelude to War (from the series "Why We Fight") / Frank Capra, Producer/Director / 1942 / 54 Min. / Documentary / B&W / Catalog No. 04993.
Disc 2: It's War! / B&W / Catalog No. 05003.
Feature #1) Battle Line: Pearl Harbor / Jim Bishop, Actor / 1963 / 26 Min.
Feature #2) Crusade in the Pacific: Pacific in Eruption / 1951 / 26 Min.
Disc 3: Pearl Harbor / B&W / Catalog No. 05013.
Feature #1) December 7th / John Ford & Gregg Toland, Directors / 1943 / 33 Min.
Feature #2) Recognition of the Japanese Zero / Ronald Reagan, Actor / 1942 / 20 Min.

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Pearl Harbor - The View From Japan (2001) Review

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(More customer reviews)This seems to me a worth-while DVD; I don't regret buying it. It is somewhat mis-titled, for it actually briefly covers the entire ill-fated Pacific campaign. It has a strong focus on Admiral Yamamoto himself--his foresight and vision as a military leader, and his reluctance to enter into a fight with the U.S. It is interesting to hear a few words from the Japanese perspective, yet it seems that is all you get--a few words. There is little groundwork laid which might explain more fully Japan's reasons for attacking us. The DVD ends abruptly, with no final words of summary or mention of lessons learned. I suppose one can't blame them; they are, after all, reciting a long painful list of defeats which began only six months after the Pearl Harbor "turkey shoot". Nonetheless, though this overview is brief, it succeeds brilliantly, and makes fine use of map diagrams. One comes away with increased clarity about the scope of events in the war in the Pacific. The narration is dubbed over in English, and is outstanding. The DVD is very attractively packaged, using a semi-clear plastic case. Again, a worth-while purchase.

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Pearl Harbor: December 7th/Recognition of the Japanese Zero Review

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(More customer reviews)This DVD contains two documentaries. The first is John Ford's film about the attack on Pearl Harbor. I had mixed views about this film. I thought the original scenes from the attack were very interesting, and there were some scenes which I've never seen before. However, the scenes which included the plastic models were very poorly done. I realize this film was made over fifty years ago, but I was still disappointed with the poor use of the replicas of the American battleships. It was very easy to tell that they were not real.
The second documentary on this DVD was much better. It deals with the kamikaze attacks against the American fleet off Okinawa. The footage in this documentary is all actual. The viewer gets a true sense of what it was like to fight against an enemy fully intent on diving their plane into an American ship. The skies were literally full of anti-aircraft shells, yet the kamikazes kept on coming. Most never made it to their targets, but some did manage to break through, but thanks to the heroic efforts of the ships' crews, most of the ships were operational after the attack. However, some ships, such as the USS Franklin, suffered a much worse fate.
Overall,I gave this DVD 4 stars; the Pearl Harbor documentary gets 3, while the Okinawa documentary gets 5. Some parts of the Pearl Harbor documentary were very interesting, but I thought the poor use of the models greatly detracted from the overall quality of the film. On the other hand, the Okinawa film was excellent. The footage is all authentic, and the viewer gets a real sense of what it was like to be in a kamikaze attack.
I recommend this video highly. Both documentaries describe two important parts of World War II; one at the beginning of the war, and one at the end. Watch this video and see what it was like to fight the Japanese attackers at Pearl Harbor and survive a kamikaze attack in the waters off Okinawa.

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Attack on Pearl Harbor - A Day of Infamy Review

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(More customer reviews)I have had the pleasure of purchasing several of these documentary series' including "The Great War: WWI," "The Forgotten War: Korea," and "D-Day Code Name: Overlord," by far this set is the most impressive of the lot. The set is wonderfully comprehensive with actual interviews with Japanese pilots and American sailors eyewitnesses and participants who managed to survive that fateful day. Extensive newsreel footage, as well as analysis by military historians explain the reasons why Japan decided to attack the naval base--a decision the Imperial Navy, we learn, would later regret. A second disc details the not often seen footage from recent salvage efforts, what exactly went wrong, and including the hows and whys the U.S. should have been better prepared to meet the Japanese attack. The documentary also analyzes the alleged role Japanese-Hawaiians may have played on the attack as well as the fateful mistakes that were made at every command level from the battlelines to the White House itself. Provoking as many questions as it attempts to answer, this set will shed new light on one of America's darkest days. Of course, this is nowhere in the league of say, "World at War" or Ken Burns' upcoming opus "The War," but for the modest outlay (I purchased mine at Ross-Dress for Less for $4.99) well worth watching.

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