The War: A Ken Burns Film

Drafted (2:31)

Soldier's Letter (1:17)

War Status in January 1943 (2:32)

Mobilized Nation (2:55)

North Africa Campaign (2:38)

Rommel Attacks Americans (2:02)

Rommel's Victory (2:02)

Toll of North African Defeat (2:10)

American Response (2:06)

Patton (1:33)

Driving Axis From North Africa (2:33)

War Jobs (1:26)

Mass Production (2:16)

Mobile's War Boom (1:51)

Race and Crowding in Mobile (1:54)

Women in Workforce (2:40)

Social Problems in Mobile (2:29)

Soldier's Confidence of Swift Victory (1:03)

American Civilians in the Philippines (1:58)

Internment Camp in the Philippines (2:36)

Prisoners' Response to Conditions (1:11)

One Japanese-American's Experience of Internment (1:35)

Japanese Internment Camps (1:31)

Japanese-American Response to Internment (1:46)

Death of Air Fighters (3:32)

Earl Burke Wants to Fly Bomber (2:34)

Air Force Strategy (1:25)

B-17 (1:29)

Mortality of Flyers (3:01)

Failed Air Attacks (2:06)

Bomber's Experience (2:43)

Communicating in the Air (1:33)

Anti-Aircraft Fire (3:01)

Toll of Schweinfurt (2:38)

Avoiding New Friendships (1:00)

Home Front Attitudes (2:42)

Support for Troops (2:44)

Blue and Gold Stars (1:00)

POW's Experience (3:05)

Threat to Kill Prisoner (2:21)

Rationing (2:47)

Planned Sicily Invasion (1:33)

Victory in Sicily (2:15)

Strategy in Italy (2:41)

Soldier's Letter from Italy (1:57)

Difficult Terrain in Italy (2:32)

Slow Progress (2:10)

Weakening German Air Force (2:06)

Shrapnel Wound (2:43)

Breaking the German Air Force (1:36)

News of Life Back Home (1:23)

State of the War (2:20)

Credits: When Things Get Tough (January 1943-December 1943) (2:42)

War Photography (3:19)

War Shapes Home Front (1:33)

Status of War (1:23)

Personal Impact of War (2:15)

John Hope Franklin (1:38)

Race and Housing in War Towns (1:37)

Black Economic Advance (1:15)

Racial Violence in Mobile (2:14)

Response to Mobile Riots (1:55)

Racial Violence Throughout Country (1:10)

Soldier's Family's Anxiety (2:50)

Tarawa and American Strategy in the Pacific (1:26)

Assault on Tarawa (2:18)

Victory in Tarawa (2:19)

Showing Americans War Footage (2:07)

Soldier's Letters Home (1:35)

Japanese-American Army Unit (1:49)

Japanese-American Loyalty (1:56)

Building the 442nd (2:31)

Loyalty Tested (1:32)

Life in Waterbury, Connecticut (3:10)

Waterbury Supports Troops (1:37)

Visit to Times Square (2:46)

Determination to Serve (3:04)

First Battle Experience (1:17)

Gustav Line (1:57)

Disastrous Offensive in Italy (3:13)

Allies' Surprise Landing (1:48)

Stalled in Italy (1:55)

Destroying Abby at Monte Cassino (1:41)

Failed Offensive (1:58)

Death of Popular Local (1:32)

Collecting Metal for War Effort (3:03)

Contributing Bacon Fat (1:30)

Segregated Army (2:37)

Forcing Reforms (1:25)

Black Soldier's Marine Experiences (2:15)

Air Force Volunteer (2:26)

Falling in Love while Training (3:03)

Stuck at Anzio (3:16)

Toll of Anzio (1:39)

Cheerful Letters Back Home (3:03)

Hiding Wars Realities from Families (1:50)

Anzio Situation Improves (1:58)

Victory at Monte Cassino (1:48)

Anzio Breakthrough (1:39)

Liberating Rome (3:47)

Family Learns of Death (2:34)

Mother's Devastation (2:09)

Status in June 1944 (1:04)

Last Will (1:10)

Credits: A Deadly Calling (November 1943-June 1944) (2:46)

Introduction: Pride of Our Nation (2:44)

Status of War in Spring 1944 (2:33)

Hope and Dread on Homefront (3:08)

Preparing for Invasion (2:01)

D-Day Plan (1:22)

Run-up to D-Day (2:20)

Purpose of Paratroopers (1:01)

Paratroopers Successes and Failures. (1:40)

Gliders (2:35)

Sainte Mere Eglis (2:09)

Bombing on D-Day (2:41)

D-Day Armada (2:03)

Beachmasters (1:56)

Utah Beach Landing (2:52)

Challenges of Omaha Landing (2:21)

Omaha Landing Starts Badly (3:11)

Stuck on Omaha Beach (2:05)

Improvisation at Omaha (1:54)

Pushing Inland (1:45)

Death Toll and Accomplishment (3:34)

Media on D-Day (2:09)

Homefront on D-Day (1:14)

Roosevelt's D-Day Prayer (1:27)

Learning of D-Day in Philippines (2:31)

Mariana Islands (1:34)

Demolition Team at Saipan (2:30)

Marines Slow Advance (1:42)

Hunger at Santo Thomas (3:03)

Atrocities in Japanese Prison (2:13)

Sabotage by POWs (2:09)

Unburied Bodies on Omaha (1:14)

Air Supremacy (2:37)

Norman Terrain (2:21)

Flying the Wounded to England (1:58)

Seeking Open Ground (1:23)

Credits: FUBAR (September 1944-December 1944) (0:36)

Quentin Quentin Aanenson's Landing (2:49)

Quentin Aanenson Photographed With Plane (1:24)

America's Geography Lesson (2:30)

Misery of War (2:07)

Europe, September 1944 (2:34)

Market Garden (1:29)

CG4A Glider (3:28)

British Delayed (2:01)

German Response (1:52)

Behind Enemy Lines (2:16)

Results of Market Garden (2:19)

A Death (3:10)

Friends Reunited (2:58)

Sledge's Diary (1:38)

Peleliu (1:58)

Battle for Peleliu Begins (3:01)

Night on Peleliu (1:39)

Second Day of Fighting (2:06)

Japanese Defense (1:28)

Black Soldier's Experience (1:53)

Mistreatment of Dead and Near-Dead Japanese (2:48)

Horrors of War (1:34)

Toll of Peleliu (3:18)

Home Front (2:08)

Wartime Sacramento (1:51)

Segregation (2:31)

California Life (3:19)

Sascha Weinzheimer (1:48)

Sascha Sees American Planes (3:30)

MacArthur's Return (1:17)

Battle for the Philippines (1:25)

Experience of War, and Gridlock in Europe (2:13)

Japanese American Battalion (3:16)

Rescue Mission (2:23)

Successful Rescue (2:04)

Glory, Bitterness and the 442nd (2:10)

Returning Veterans (3:07)

Reservoir of Courage (2:09)

German Child Soldiers (2:15)

Allied Assaults in Europe (1:26)

Hürtgen Forest (2:02)

Confusion in Hürtgen (1:52)

Misery in Hürtgen (2:21)

Toll of Hürtgen (1:35)

Thanksgiving (2:10)

Thanksgiving in Hürtgen (1:39)

War and Ethnic Stereotypes (1:45)

Increasing Death Toll (1:39)

Fighter Pilot's Experience (2:30)

Unsent Letter (3:26)

Joseph Medicine Crow (2:55)

Crow at War (2:01)

Crow Becomes Chief (3:43)

Credits: FUBAR (September 1944-December 1944) (2:53)

Extent of German Ambitions (3:30)

Soldiers' Experience (2:57)

War Weariness (2:18)

Hitler's Plan for Victory (2:14)

Preparations for Attack (1:58)

Extracting Bullet from Self (1:41)

Ardennes Before Battle (2:18)

Germans Break Through (1:53)

German Successes (2:08)

Malmedy Massacre (3:03)

Containing the Bulge (1:12)

Taken Prisoner (0:57)

Holding Bastogne (2:01)

Air Force Aids Bastogne (1:30)

Eisenhower's Response to Bulge (1:35)

Sasha Weinsheimer's Journal Entry Christmas 1944 (3:55)

Psychological Impact of Bulge on Homefront (0:51)

Black Skin Signifying American Identity (1:12)

Experience in the Ardennes (2:38)

Frostbitten in Ardennes (1:58)

Retaking Ground (1:45)

Taking No Prisoners (2:52)

Victory at Bulge (1:40)

Eating at War (1:45)

Starvation on the Philippines (3:42)

Medics (4:00)

Soldiers Going Mad (1:10)

Pin-Up Girls (2:50)

Americans Reach Philippine Prison Camp (1:25)

Liberation of Philippine Prison Camp (3:05)

Publicizing Liberation (1:28)

Battle for Manila (2:50)

Reported Dead (2:02)

Yalta (1:34)

Air Assaults on Germany (1:53)

Local Paper Records Soldier's Death (0:49)

Gruesome Experience in Castle (2:26)

Bombing Tokyo (1:52)

Assault on Iwo Jima (2:37)

Experience at Iwo Jima (2:52)

Battle on Iwo Jima (2:00)

Toll of Iwo Jima (2:10)

Firebombing Japan (2:06)

POWs in Japan During Bombing (1:27)

Justification for Firebombing: There Are No Civilians (0:51)

Marines Excited to be Back (2:50)

Crossing the Rhine (2:06)

American Prisoners in Germany (2:13)

Disappointing Rescue Mission (3:01)

Status of the War (2:55)

Experience at Iwo Jima (2:10)

Individual Story from Iwo Jima (1:35)

Going Home (1:30)

Credits: The Ghost Front (December 1944-March 1945) (2:44)

Permanence of Evil (1:44)

Roosevelt Addresses Nation (1:32)

War Drags On (3:03)

Ulithi (2:13)

Okinawa (1:29)

Kamikaze (3:18)

Easy Landing (3:39)

Multiple Kamikazes (2:58)

Prisoners of War (2:16)

Roosevelt Dies (2:51)

442nd Responds to FDR's Death (1:53)

Getting Married on Leave (3:57)

Soviets Advance Toward Berlin (1:41)

Daniel Inouye (1:59)

Operation on Inouye (1:53)

The End for Germany (2:23)

Discovering the Holocaust (2:46)

Soldiers Reach Concentration Camp (3:41)

Medical Experiments (2:00)

Ludwigslust (1:28)

Nazi Murder Toll (2:22)

V-E Day (2:46)

Reaction in Pacific to V-E (1:28)

Stymied in Okinawa (1:52)

Marines Battle on Okinawa (2:03)

Bomber's Detachment from Horrors (0:59)

Marines' Misery on Okinawa (2:07)

Toll of Okinawa (2:05)

Anticipation of Worse Fighting in Japan (2:42)

Demand for Unconditional Surrender (1:33)