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America Goes to War: World War II [VHS]
by America Goes to War
Product Group: Video
Studio: Questar
ISBN: 1568553293
EAN: 9781568553290
UPC: 033937028175
Binding/Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 220 minutes
Original Release Date: 1998-01-01
Theatrical Release Date: 1998
Release Date: 2002-03-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
SKU: LAFU0000434
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Sold with pride. VHS tapes in original case, in very good condition.
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Editorial Reviews
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Amazon.com
America Goes to War: World War II is a singularly fascinating look into the United States of the war years. Though it is not an especially incisive or critical history, and seasoned CBS journalist Eric Sevareid's narration is--at times--uninspired, this is easily overlooked. With this well-produced, four-tape documentary, images and voices jump out at you. Nearly the entirety of it is spent in a parade of eye-grabbing, early-1940s, black-and-white battle and home-front footage, stills, newsreels, commercials, and radio clips. America Goes to War: World War II offers a generous and essential library of these images and voices for the armchair historian, educator, participant in the era, and memorabilia collector alike. Viewing these tapes, you are bombarded with the imagery of the time, from pleasant to horrific: the Hollywood canteen and Dinah Shore, Bob Hope touring overseas with the USO, Armed Forces Radio productions, Private Snafu cartoons, industry turned war machine, food and gas rationing, propaganda posters and comics, a segregated military, Japanese-American internment camps, Hitler, and the Bomb. We watch as the United States is thrust from its stark isolationist stance into a global conflict, emerging at war's end permanently entangled--for good or ill--in the affairs of Europe and Asia. By most accounts, America, in the midst of such turmoil, seemed strangely united in those years. Eric Sevareid leaves us with a poignant final question: "Do the pictures taken then show America as it was or as Americans wished it to be?" --Douglas Dalrymple
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Customer Reviews
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A must that should be in every school in the U.S.A
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-01-07
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This will be the third set I,m buying,I wish I could afford this set for all Americans.It will show you about the fight for civil rights in the sixties and the battle that was fought to achieve those rights. It will show you how Americans fought and sacrificed and rationed to help win World War 11. It will show you when we have to spend so much money on war,we eventually had to ration our own food so there was enough food to give our soldiers strength to fight for our freedom, it will show you how we had to ration gas,so we had enough gas for planes and tanks. It will show you how we had to quit making toys and luxorys because we needed all materials to make things for war. It will show you what it took to make America free and sacrifices we had to make and to make you think,can we do this again as our country is surley headed in this path financally and morally. This should be mandoritory viewing for every fifth grader in school to learn about and do a report on it. It might be one of the best and most important videos you may every be priviledged to see.
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