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Pride of Our Nation | Preview

Season 1 Episode 4 | 30s

THE WAR, a seven-part documentary series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, explores the history and horror of the Second World War from an American perspective by following the fortunes of so-called ordinary men and women who become caught up in one of the greatest cataclysms in human history.

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Joe Medicine Crow, the last war chief of the Crow Tribe of Montana is profiled in The War.
Germany and the Japanese surrender too and millions try to learn to live without war.
By mid March, 1945, they are across the Rhine, while Russians are 50 miles from Berlin.
Victory in Europe seems imminent.
On D-Day, 1.5 million Allied troops take part in the greatest invasion in history.
Americans are shocked by losses on the Pacific and Allied forces are stalled.
Americans mobilize for total war at home and overseas
Watch a preview of Episode Seven: A World Without War, March 1945 - Dec. 1945.
Watch a preview of Episode Six: The Ghost Front, Dec. 1944 - March 1945.
Watch a preview of Episode Five: FUBAR, Sept. 1944 - Dec. 1944.
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President Johnson escalates the war while promising the public that victory is in sight.
Germany and the Japanese surrender too and millions try to learn to live without war.
By mid March, 1945, they are across the Rhine, while Russians are 50 miles from Berlin.
Victory in Europe seems imminent.
On D-Day, 1.5 million Allied troops take part in the greatest invasion in history.
Americans are shocked by losses on the Pacific and Allied forces are stalled.
Americans mobilize for total war at home and overseas
The lives of Americans are changed forever on Dec. 7, 1941.