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Who's watching Ken Burns' THE WAR?
    #7475474 - 10/01/07 08:52 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I'm fuckin' fascinated by war history so I've been glued to DC public TV for the past week.

Between that and Band of Brothers and the History Channel's dogfights all weekend long.. I'm OD'd on war footage


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Re: Who's watching Ken Burns' THE WAR? [Re: BrAiN]
    #7475560 - 10/01/07 09:19 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I'm switching between that at the Rockies Padres game.  :grin:


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Re: Who's watching Ken Burns' THE WAR? [Re: BrAiN]
    #7475580 - 10/01/07 09:23 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

It's really good, I like how they have it set up on an organized timeline.

(go padres)


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Re: Who's watching Ken Burns' THE WAR? [Re: BrAiN]
    #7475665 - 10/01/07 09:54 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I'm watching THE GAME. :wink:

Seriously, I plan to check that out. Ken Burns does some amazing work. :thumbup:


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Re: Who's watching Ken Burns' THE WAR? [Re: BrAiN]
    #7476647 - 10/02/07 08:15 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

last night's was fantastic.


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Re: Who's watching Ken Burns' THE WAR? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #7476667 - 10/02/07 08:30 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

the images from the fire bombings were startling.


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Re: Who's watching Ken Burns' THE WAR? [Re: afoaf]
    #7477101 - 10/02/07 11:15 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I think tonight is the final episode.

Time to buy that shit on dvd


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Re: Who's watching Ken Burns' THE WAR? [Re: BrAiN]
    #7479930 - 10/03/07 07:40 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

After hearing about how many civilians died after every battle in the pacific... I'm actually inclined now to think the Bomb was the lesser of two evils (the other being the invasion of the mainland).

I used to question if dropping the bomb was justified... but I never relly knew much about the pacific side of the war. Last night I find out that 200,000 ppl were killed in the battle of Okinawa... and HALF of those were civilians.... and the civilians on the mainland were being taught to attack Americans if they invaded.

Surely millions of Japanese civilians would have died if we hadn't dropped the bomb..


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Re: Who's watching Ken Burns' THE WAR? [Re: afoaf]
    #7479957 - 10/03/07 07:54 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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the images from the fire bombings were startling.




Absolutely, not to mention the whole segment on Iwo Jima. Holy shit.


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Re: Who's watching Ken Burns' THE WAR? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #7479964 - 10/03/07 07:56 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I wonder if all that footage was actually from the war. I saw Ken Burns on the daily show and he said he found massive amounts of footage never shown before and a lot of it was actually in color..

But I got a buddy who says some of the scenes were probably reinactments..


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Re: Who's watching Ken Burns' THE WAR? [Re: BrAiN]
    #7480612 - 10/03/07 11:36 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

what I find most interesting is the enemy footage that he was able
to splice in.

specifically the german footage from the european theater.


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Re: Who's watching Ken Burns' THE WAR? [Re: afoaf]
    #7480998 - 10/03/07 12:59 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Some parts felt like watching Faces of Death


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