American Experience - Victory in the Pacific

original title:
American Experience - Victory in the Pacific
other titles:
(Der Sieg im Pazifik)
country / year of production:
USA / 2005
original length:
2 x 52 min. , color
premiere:
May 2005, PBS
genre:
Documentary
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director:
Austin Hoyt
film script:
Austin Hoyt
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plot synopsis:
This documentary deals with the pacific war between Japan and the USA. The conflict started in December 1941 with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and endet with the drop of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and nagasaki in August 1945. The documentary deals with the events from July 1944 to August 10th in 1945. The film reconstructs military strategies with the help of vitnesses, historicans and pictures from the archives.
keywords:
atomic bomb , sea-battle , air raid , behind enemy lines , Pearl Harbor , Hiroshima
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Conroy, Hilary: Pearl Harbour reexamined : prologue to the Pacific War, Honolulu : Univ. of Hawaii Pr., 1990.

Michael D. Gordin: Five days in August : how World War II became a nuclear war, Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, c 2007.
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Homepage: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pacific/index.html

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