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The War
ThinkTV16 & ThinkTV16HD
September 23-26, 8pm
September 30-October 2, 8pm
The War, a seven-part series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, explores the history and horror of the Second World War from an American pers
Six years in the making, The War focuses on the stories of citizens from four American towns — Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and the tiny farming town of Luverne, Minnesota. These four communities represent any town in the United States that went through the war’s four devastating years. Men and women talk about 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.
“The Second World War was so massive, catastrophic and complex, it is almost beyond the mind’s and the heart’s capacity to process everything that happened and, more important, what it meant on a human level,” said Burns.
By focusing on the personal stories of ordinary Americans who had extraordinary experiences, the film tries to bring one of the biggest events in the history of the world down to a very intimate scale. And in the end, we all begin to see that there are no “ordinary lives.”
The War underwriters: General Motors; Anheuser-Busch; Bank of America;
Lilly Endowment, Inc.; National Endowment for the Humanities; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; The Pew Charitable Trusts; The Longaberger Foundation; Park Foundation, Inc.; Public Television Viewers; PBS; and Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Producers: Florentine Films and WETA Washington, DC. Directors/producers: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Writer: Geoffrey C. Ward. Producer: Sarah Botstein. Co-producers: Peter Miller and David McMahon. Editors: Paul Barnes, Erik Ewers and Tricia Reidy. Cinematographer: Buddy Squires. Narrator: Keith David. Format: CC Stereo Surround Sound HD where available. Online: pbs.org
Repeat Broadcasts
The War episodes are all either two or two and a half hours in duration and will be immediately repeated after the initial broadcast.
The War episodes 1-4 will be rebroadcast again Sunday, September 30 from 11:30am-8pm and episodes 5-7 will be rebroadcast Sunday, October 7 from
2-8pm on ThinkTV16.
The War will be rebroadcast on Wednesdays, October 3-November 14 at 9pm on ThinkTV16.
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