TY  - ADVS
AU  - Arkin,Adam
AU  - Burns,Ken
AU  - Cannavale,Bobby
AU  - Conway,Kevin
AU  - David,Keith
AU  - Hanks,Tom
AU  - Holtz,Rebecca
AU  - Jackson,Samuel L.
AU  - Lucas,Josh
AU  - McCormick,Carolyn
AU  - Novick,Lynn
AU  - Wahlberg,Robert
AU  - Wallach,Eli
ED  - American Lives II Film Project, LLC.
ED  - Florentine Films.
ED  - Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
ED  - PBS Home Video.
ED  - WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
TI  - The war: a Ken Burns film
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - Alexandria, VA, Hollywood, Calif.
PB  - PBS Home Video, Paramount Home Entertainment [distributor]
KW  - City dwellers
KW  - Effects of war on
KW  - United States
KW  - DVD
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - War work
KW  - History
KW  - 1933-1945
KW  - Documentary television programs
KW  - Television programs
KW  - Video recordings for the hearing impaired
KW  - Documentary
KW  - Television series
KW  - migfg
N1  - A seven-episode series; DVD special features - Making the war featurette; Commentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick; Exclusive deleted scenes; Additional interviews; Biographies; Photo gallery; Educational resources; Originally broadcast by PBS in 2007; Six years in the making, this epic 15 hour film focuses on the stories of citizens from four geographically distributed American towns -- Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and the tiny farming town of Luverne, Minnesota. These four communities stand in for -- and could represent -- any town in the United States that went through the war's four devastating years. Individuals from each community take the viewer through their own personal and quite often harrowing journey into war, painting vivid portraits of how the war dramatically altered their lives and those of their neighbors, as well as the country that helped to save for generations to come; Special features: Disc 1: "Making The war" featurette; commentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick; photo gallery; biographies; educational resources ; Disc 3: Commentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick ; Disc 6: Exclusive deleted scenes; additional interviews; educational resources; Disc One -Episode one; A necessary war --; Disc Two -Episode two and three; When things get tough; Deadly calling --; Disc three -Episode four; Pride of our nation --; Disc four -Episode five; Fubar --; Disc six-Episode seven; World without war; Cinematography, Buddy Squires ; editors, Paul Barnes, Erik Ewers, Tricia Reidy ; original music, Wynton Marsalis; Director of photography, Buddy Squires with Allen Moore ; edited by Richard Hankin, Michael Levine ; narrator, Peter Coyote ; music by Matthias Gohl; Narrated by Keith David, with Tom Hanks, Josh Lucas, Bobby Cannavale, Samuel L. Jackson, Eli Wallach, Adam Arkin, Kevin Conway, Rebecca Holtz, Carolyn McCormick, Robert Wahlberg; TV-14; disturbing content, violence
N2  - Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America
ER  -