Dr. Ralph H. Wolfe Viewing Center

Language: English

Publisher: St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada : Madacy Entertainment, 2001.

Notes: Originally released the single documentary “Kamikaze” (76 min.) in 2001. This videocassette release also contains: “Know your enemy: Japan” by Frank Capra (62 min.); “Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941” directed by John Ford (33 min.); “Now it can be told” (8 min.); “Formal Japanese surrender” (9 min.); “Recognition of the Japanese Zero fighter” (20 min.); “Appointment in Tokyo” (55 min.); “Japan’s air war” (24 min.) Total running time is approximately 5 hrs. 

Summary: “Kamikaze”: A documentary on the Pacific War beginning with Japanese preparations before the attack on Pearl Harbor and ending with the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. “Know your enemy”: A Frank Capra propaganda film that was used to give the American soldier a look into the mentality of the Japanese enemy. “Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941”: A classic recreation of the Pearl Harbor bombing combined with actual footage of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. “Now it can be told”: A newsreel special report of the Pearl Harbor attack. “Formal Japanese surrender”: Newsreel footage of the Japanese surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. “Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter”: An Air Force training film that dramatizes how to identify the Japanese Zero fighter plane and the American P-40 plane. “Appointment in Tokyo”: A documentary covering the entire American Pacific campaign under the leadership of General MacArthur from the Bataan retreat to the surrender of Japan. Some scenes were taken from captured official Japanese newsreels. “Japan’s air war”: From the Asian mainland and newly liberated Pacific islands, American airborne firepower hammers at Japan itself. Film sequences include bombing missions, aerial dogfights and scenes of the aftermath of the atomic bomb.

OCLC #: 43314199

Added: November 30, 2011