

The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color
2003-02-12 · 55 min / episode · ★ 10.0
This four-hour series narrated by Martin Sheen captures America's wartime experience through original color film footage and compelling passages from diaries and letters. Rare color footage-much of it never before publicly screened-presents a vivid and intimate portrait of life on the battlefield and on the U.S. home front.
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