Two WWII Documentaries and a New Film
When I told a friend I was going to start blogging about World War II her reaction was, “What are you going to do? Type a page out of a textbook everyday day?”
Now that more than 60 years has passed since the end of the war there are those with a tendency to treat WWII as nothing but history dead and gone.
That’s the farthest thing from the truth. Every day more stories come through my RSS reader than I possibly have time to blog about so from time to time I’ll share groups of links to things that have caught my eye. The first are for two upcoming documentaries I’m eagerly anticipating and a new film project in the works.
- Ken Burns says it all in this interview about his new documentary The War, “These people (who lived through World War II) are dying — 1,500 a day is now the statistic.” The more than six-hour program, which looks at the human side of war through the stories of four small towns, will debut on PBS on September 23.
- On July 8 the men who survived the horrific sinking of the USS Indianapolis were honored on July 8. Look for the Discover Channel’s Shark Week to open with the story on July 29.
And while we’re on the subject of film, Spike Lee is tackling the role of African Americans in WWII in a yet-to-be-titled project.
The stories are out there, every day, and I’m doing my best to keep up with them for you.
Ken Burns, USS Indianapolis, Spike Lee, WWII movies
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