Shooting War - World War II Combat Cameramen
by Richard Schickel
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Actor: Dave Quaid, John Ford, Russ Meyer, Stephen Ambrose, Tom HanksDirector: Richard Schickel
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Live, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Movie Reviews of Shooting War - World War II Combat Cameramen
Movie Review: Previously unreleased film documents of Word War II
Summary: 3 Stars
In his book "D-Day", Steven Ambrose mentions that Hollywood film director Ford had collected lots of material taken by several cameramen on the Normandy beaches. Up to the release of Ambrose's book, this material had been searched for without success.
The thought of being able to witness D-Day through the camera lenses of Ford's men made me search the Internet for hints of the mentioned material. Soon I found a Washington Post article which talked about the discovery of previously unreleased film material in one of the archives. "Shooting War" by Richard Schickel is a compilation of this material.
The DVD features a long-bearded Tom Hanks as the anchorman and oral history exerpts of several cameramen who served in various theaters of Word War II. Their comments underline the footage they took more than sixty years ago.
The material covers all of the important war theaters the US Army, Navy and Air Force were involved in. To my disappointment, D-Day coverage makes up only a rather short segment of the whole DVD.
"Shooting War" is in my opinion a good Word War II documentary showing what American soldiers and especially war reporting cameramen went through all over the world. If that's what you're looking for it's worth getting it.
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