Mark your calendars and set your TIVO! New Ken Burns film soon.

[Blue-Jay]

The War

THE WAR, a seven-part series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four quintessentially American towns. The series explores the most intimate human dimensions of the greatest cataclysm in history — a worldwide catastrophe that touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America — and demonstrates that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.

Throughout the series, the indelible experience of combat is brought vividly to life as veterans describe what it was like to fight
and kill and see men die at places like Monte Cassino and Anzio and Omaha Beach; the Hürtgen Forest and the Vosges Mountains and the Ardennes; and on the other side of the world at Guadalcanal and Tarawa and Saipan; Peleliu and the Philippine Sea and Okinawa. In all of the battle scenes, dramatic historical footage and photographs are combined with extraordinarily realistic sound effects to give the film a terrifying, visceral immediacy.

Click here to watch the trailer.

I was just listening to a Ken Burns radio interview, and this documentary sounds like it's going to be incredible.

EDIT: It begins airing 9/23/07 on your local PBS affiliate. Seven parts/14 Hours.

[Blue-Jay]

1. Ken Burns can breathe fire and cross an Einstein-Rosen bridge with a skip and a hop.

He once dated Larry King, who knocked him up good and proper. The resulting spawn of their love threw my dead grandfather into an alternate reality where he still had a shitty job. Boy, was he ever pissed off about that sick turn of fate.

[terrya]

2. Ken Burns is a superb filmmaker.

The "Baseball" thing...eh.

But I'll watch this one. I was a huge fan of "The Civil War"

Thanks for letting us know. :-)

[Bombero1956]

3. is that the one

where he managed to leave out any mention that Hispanics served during WWII?

[Blue-Jay]

4. Yes, because Ken Burns is a racist.

Do ya feel better now?

Sometimes I wonder why we're (in general) getting dumber, and other times it seems very clear.

[Bombero1956]

5. did I say that?

jeez get a grip. My meaning is to ask how a film maker like Ken Burns can forget to include a group of people that took part in such an important event like WWII. It has been estimated that anywhere from 250,000 to 500,000 Hispanics served in the armed forces during World War II. This represents a range of 2.5 to 5% of all persons who served during the war. If the purpose of this docummentary is to show how the war affected the American people as a whole then why exclude one segment of it. Did you know that Union Admiral David G. Farragut was the highest ranking and most famous Hispanic of the Civil War. His father, a Spaniard, had come to the United States in 1776 and fought for his adopted country in both the American Revolution and the War of 1812. The younger Farragut is best remembered for his command "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!" during his attack into Mobile Bay, Ala., on August 5, 1864 and yet hardly anyone knows if his heritage.