THE WAR, a seven-part documentary series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, premiered on KERA in September 2007.  It 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.

Six years in the making, this epic 14-hour film focuses on the stories of citizens from four geographically distributed American towns, which stand in for — and could represent — any town in the United States that went through the war’s four devastating years.

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