Cheap America Goes to War: World War II (Video) (America Goes to War, Eric Sevareid) Price

America Goes to War: World War II is a singularly fascinating look into the United States of the war years. Though it is not an especially incisive or critical history, and seasoned CBS journalist Eric Sevareid's narration is--at times--uninspired, this is easily overlooked. With this well-produced, four-tape documentary, images and voices jump out at you. Nearly the entirety of it is spent in a parade of eye-grabbing, early-1940s, black-and-white battle and home-front footage, stills, newsreels, commercials, and radio clips. America Goes to War: World War II offers a generous and essential library of these images and voices for the armchair historian, educator, participant in the era, and memorabilia collector alike.

Viewing these tapes, you are bombarded with the imagery of the time, from pleasant to horrific: the Hollywood canteen and Dinah Shore, Bob Hope touring overseas with the USO, Armed Forces Radio productions, Private Snafu cartoons, industry turned war machine, food and gas rationing, propaganda posters and comics, a segregated military, Japanese-American internment camps, Hitler, and the Bomb. We watch as the United States is thrust from its stark isolationist stance into a global conflict, emerging at war's end permanently entangled--for good or ill--in the affairs of Europe and Asia. By most accounts, America, in the midst of such turmoil, seemed strangely united in those years. Eric Sevareid leaves us with a poignant final question: "Do the pictures taken then show America as it was or as Americans wished it to be?" --Douglas Dalrymple

ACTORS:	America Goes to War, Eric Sevareid
CATEGORY:	Video
THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE:	1998
MANUFACTURER:	Questar Inc.
MPAA RATING:	NR (Not Rated)
FEATURES:	Color, Black & White, Box set, NTSC
TYPE:	Documentary
MEDIA:	VHS Tape
# OF MEDIA:	4
UPC:	033937028175