Pearl Harbor: The Real Story

A phenomenal documentary with rare footage. Photos and video clips of the attack from both US and Japanese sources, survivors eyewitness accounts and descriptive narrative spots interlace together to make this one solid production. The makers of this film should be proud of themselves. The stories that the men and women who were there recount for us are quite compelling. And equally interesting is the last half hour or so devoted to all the military installations as they looked in 2001, when this documentary was made. They take the viewer underwater at the USS Arizona and Utah memorials as well as to buildings and airstrips that still show damage and spot repairs.

• documentary
• history
• war