War

Year: 2007

Grade: A-

Country: USA

Director: Burns/Novick

Review

WW2 documentary. great look at WW2 over the course of 6 (?) hours. goes over a lot of the critical battles, the homefront, the life of a soldier, etc. could have been 3 times as long, but i’m glad it wasn’t. finally answered for me why we dropped another nuke on japan. according to the documentary we asked for surrender after the first one and they refused so we dropped the second one 3 days later. my perception was always that we did it just because we were assholes. WW2 was probably america at its best internationally. saving the world again by ramping up production the way we did…everyone pulling together. must have been a great time to be a patriot.