National Geographic's The Battle for Midway
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792299912
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0792299914
Label: Nat'l Geographic Vid
Manufacturer: Nat'l Geographic Vid
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Nat'l Geographic Vid
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 03, 2001
Running Time: 82 minutes
Sales Rank: 52476
Studio: Nat'l Geographic Vid
Theatrical Release Date: 1998
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Editorial Review:
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One thousand miles from anywhere lies a lonely outpost of coral and sea called Midway. It was here in 1942 where the U.S. and Japan fought one of the greatest naval battles of World War II that changed the course of history. And it is here again where Titanic discoverer Dr. Robert Ballard now leads a team of experts and four World War II veterans on the voyage of their lives. They're on a race against time to do the impossible: find at least one of the five downed aircraft carriers, including U.S.S. Yorktown, more than three miles underwater. Hear the heart-wrenching stories of four remarkable men and how each survived the war despite incredible odds. And join them as they pay their final respects to their fallen comrades in THE BATTLE FOR MIDWAY.
Amazon.com:
The man who found the Titanic, Dr. Robert Ballard, took on the greatest technical challenge of his career when he traveled to the Pacific waters off Midway Island, site of a critical turning point of World War II, in search of the sunken aircraft carrier U.S.S. Yorktown. This documentary not only details Ballard's challenge in finding the Yorktown, which rests three miles below the surface, a mile deeper than the Titanic, but also provides an intelligent and gripping narrative of the Battle of Midway, in which four Japanese carriers were also sent to the bottom in a furious day of fighting that turned the tide of the war in the Pacific. On the expedition with Ballard are four veterans, two Japanese and two Americans, who had been involved in the decisive 1942 battle, and who are at times overwhelmed by emotion as Ballard looks for their old ships. The dogged search for a Japanese carrier is fruitless, but finally Ballard finds a debris field that leads him to the Yorktown. Ballard's remarkable underwater cameras scan the great carrier, which rests upright on the ocean floor, its antiaircraft guns still pointed skyward as if to ward off yet another furious Japanese attack. As one might expect from a National Geographic production, this documentary is both intelligently conceived and beautifully photographed. --Robert J. McNamara
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- mother of all naval battlesUnlike the guy below who said the US would have won the war 3 years later if Japanese had won Midway ... Read More
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- Relive the pivotal battle in the pacific in WWIIGiven that Japan had neither the population or industrial base to wage a successful war against the ... Read More
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- A Nice Piece of WorkThe Battle of Midway was a turning point in the war in the Pacific. As such, the results of that battle ... Read More
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- the quest for the U.S.S. YorktownSearching for the watery grave of the U.S.S. Yorktown, Robert Ballard, who discovered the Titanic as well ... Read More
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- Beautifully DoneNational Geographic has always been known for the quality of its work in all fields, but in this particular ... Read More
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