Combining military, newsreel, and other archival footage, Remember Pearl Harbor takes viewers back to 1930s Asia where Japanese aggression toward Manchuria and China shocked the West but isolationist policies prevented the United States from becoming involved. The events of the next ten years would unfold like a three-way chess match between the U.S., Germany and Japan, with each player trying to outguess, out bluff and outmaneuver the other, with a deadly finish. Covering many of the key elements, events, and players in the prelude to the attack on Pearl Harbor, as well as featuring startling footage of the attack itself early Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, this program goes a step further to cover the “fall-out” of the attack, including addressing the hostility toward American citizens of Japanese decent and their subsequent relocation, and the mobilizing of the American industrial war machine. Also included as a bonus feature is the “shot while it happened” The Battle of Midway, directed by John Ford, a color wartime documentary which won an Oscar for best documentary in 1943. [Note: Priced only $5 higher, the DVD version is four times as long, and includes Ford's Oscar-winning December 7, 1941 and another hour-long documentary on the U.S.S. Yorktown, making the DVD an exceptionally good buy.] Recommended. Aud: H, C, P. (L. Stevens)
Remember Pearl Harbor
(2001) VHS: 60 min., $19.98; DVD: 2 discs, 280 min., $24.99. Questar. PPR. Color cover. Volume 16, Issue 6
Remember Pearl Harbor
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