The War: A Necessary War.
The tranquil lives of American citizens are shattered on December 7, 1941 with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as the United States is thrust into the greatest cataclysm in history. In the Philippines, two Americans, Corporal Glenn Frazier and Sascha Weinzheimer are caught up in the Japanese onslaught, as American and Filipino forces retreat onto Bataan while thousands of civilians are rounded up and imprisoned in Manila.
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The tranquil lives of American citizens are shattered on December 7, 1941 with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as the United States is thrust into the greatest cataclysm in history. In the Philippines, two Americans, Corporal Glenn Frazier and Sascha Weinzheimer are caught up in the Japanese onslaught, as American and Filipino forces retreat onto Bataan while thousands of civilians are rounded up and imprisoned in Manila.
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Ken Burns is a American documentarian and filmmaker (born 1953). On Reelkind, explore the film The War: A Necessary War.
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