Release Date

23 Sep, 2007

Total Episode/Season

7/1

Synopsis

The story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The war touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America and demonstrated that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.

Original Title

The War

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Miniseries

23 Sep, 2007

Six years in the making, this epic 15-hour film focuses on the stories of citizens from four geographically distributed American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and the tiny farming town of Luverne, Minnesota. The four communities stand in for - and could represent - any town in the United States that went through the war's four devastating years. Individuals from each community take the viewer through their own personal and quite often harrowing journeys into war, painting vivid portraits of how the war dramatically altered their lives and those of their neighbors, as well as the country they helped to save for generations to come.

Actors

Keith David

Tom Hanks

Josh Lucas

Bobby Cannavale

Samuel L. Jackson

Eli Wallach

Robert Wahlberg

Adam Arkin

Carolyn McCormick

Paul Fussell

Quentin Aanenson

Sascha Weinzheimer

Katharine Phillips

Olga Ciarlo

Robert Kashiwagi

Anne DeVico

Joe Medicine Crow

Sam Hynes

Crew

Ken Burns

Lynn Novick

Ken Burns

Lynn Novick

Arvo Pärt

Paul Barnes

Tricia Reidy

Erik Ewers

Paul Docherty

Daniel J. White

Ryan Gifford