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World War II - 8-DVD oraz książka 240 stron

Includes: DVD 1: Prelude To War DVD 2: The Nazis Strike DVD 3: Divide & Conquer DVD 4: The Battle Of Britain DVD 5: The Battle Of Russian DVD 6: War Comes To America DVD 1- 6 Directed by Frank Capra; Animation: Walt Disney Productions DVD 7: Fury In The Pacific Directed by John Ford DVD 8: Hiroshima & Nagasaki (The Atom Strikes!, Survival Under Atomic Attack, Duck And Cover) Directed by Anthony Rizzo This 8-DVD collection presents the complex issue of World War II from a hardly known perspective. In a fascinating balancing act between information and propaganda, the first six DVDs explain the background and connections of this topic. The aim of these information films, commissioned by the War Ministry and dating back to the years 1943 to 1945, was to elucidate to the American public why they were sending troops to fight in “far off Europe”. In conjunction with detailed animated footage, the films explain war tactics and connections. One can clearly see that the Disney Studios in California left their unmistakable mark. They managed to present even the most complicated course of events in an easily comprehensible way. The American War Ministry engaged director Frank Capra, renowned for his films such as “Arsenic and Old Lace” and “It’s a Wonderful Life”, who manages to explain the essence of the ideologies, mechanisms and intentions of the aggressors – Germany, Italy and Japan – in a nutshell. He contrasts this with American values and thus creates two worlds, of which only one can continue to exist: “that of the aggressors or that of the free world, our world”. On the seventh DVD, Capra’s colleague John Ford (known, for example, as the director of “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”) continues the series with the documentary “December 7th". The film deals with the events on Hawaii on that historic day when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour. The second film, “Fury in the Pacific”, shows the battles for the Japanese bases in the Pacific, exemplified by the Palau archipelago and one of its islands, Anguar. The eighth DVD is a compilation of four films on the subject “Hiroshima & Nagasaki”. The first film, “Hiroshima Nagasaki, August 1945”, contains material from 1945 which was released by the military: an open look at the suffering and destruction caused by the nuclear bombs dropped in August of that year. The second film, “Nuclear Strike!”, analyses the extent of the destruction. This is followed by an eyewitness report from the Jesuit priest Siemens. In the Civil Defence film “Survival under Atomic Attack” (1950), the US government tries to educate its own population to know what to do in case of an emergency, using the experience gained in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The cartoon “Duck & Cover” rounds off this DVD series. In a frighteningly naïve way, this film from 1951 – that has meanwhile attained a cult status – shows how children should protect themselves against the dangers of a nuclear blast.