A Ken Burns Film

THE ROOSEVELTS:  AN INTIMATE STORY    Ken Burns and producer Paul Barnes captured the lives and times of the three great Roosevelts  -  Teddy (TR), Franklin (FDR), and Eleanor - seven-part series:

PBS   September 14 - 21,  2014

Part I    Get Action  (1858-1901)
Part 2   In the Arena  (1901-1910)
Part 3   The Fire of Life  (1910-1919)
Part 4   The Storm  (1920-1933)
Part 5   The Rising Road  (1933-1939)
Part 6   The Common Cause  (1939-1944)
Part 7   A Strong and Active Faith  (1944-1962)

I finished watching Saturday night.   I was captivated and wondered at the brave photographers (how they did that was so amazing) who shot the war and action footages that became part of the lives and times of these three historic figures and their family.  Ken Burns must have sifted through most of the footages in the historic archives.  What an excellent documentary.   

Bobblehead Teddy

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An eye-opener for "Don't Know Much History" Americanized Americans. 
What amazing courage and bravery in duty and honor of one's country.

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From: ALTPresident1 THE WAR is another 5-star film by good-looking Producer-Director Ken Burns on PBS.  He's the ever favorite of "Downtown Girl Gloria", our ALT Treas, and mine.  She first  saw him in one of his book signings in downtown Chicago.  In fact, she's alway going to book signing in downtown Chicago including President George W. Bush when he was still campaigning as presidential candidate.  THE WAR is all about World War II.  The film as a whole is the story of soldiers who survived and spared by fate for them to tell straight and as was later on, I think, in order for us born after the war to know the unbearable sacrifices they made and did.  Folks, it cannot be even compared to what happened in Vietnam and Iraq or Afghanistan in my opinion.  The war footages were never seen before by me or anybody else I'm sure and the black and white old films were in good shape.  I even saw an old photo of my school in the Philippines, University of Santo Tomas, when it was used by the Japanese as an interment camp for the captured American soldiers, civilians and their families.  The mention of the food "lugaw" (rice and water) served to the POWs at Camp O'Donnell made me go to my kitchen the next day and cooked my favorite "lugaw" .. this time with pieces of yummy chicken instead of roaches or insects like given to those tortured and hungry Americans.  So far in my watching of the film, all Americans during World War II were united as one, not divided as Democrats or Republicans like of today, with no politics and aspiring ambitious politicians involved and mainly invested in the defeat of America to prove they were right,  Ken Burns obviously stayed away from politics of THE WAR. The film strictly portrayed the heroics of fearful American soldiers, mainly from major four American towns of Sacramento, Luverne, Mobile and Waterbury, marching on to the beaches and towns of Bataan, Guadalcanal, Anzio, and Normandy.    I've been eagerly watching THE WAR, glued to my tube, the new PBS series since Sunday, September 23.  True to PBS form, just in case you miss the early show, a rerun of the series is shown again after the run of the film.  It is a must see and never to be missed! 5th series this Sunday, September 30, 7:00 CST on PBS.

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