MEDIA MURMURS
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The Pacific
Interviews and supplemental materials surrounding HBO’s 10-part miniseries, telling the intertwined stories of three Marines in the Pacific Theater.
Jim Dingeman
YEAR
Interview with Douglas Brinkley
Jim Dingeman
Author of How Tom Hanks Became America's Historian in Chief
Richard Frank on The Pacific
Jim Dingeman
Author of Guadacanal and Downfall
Interview with Hugh Ambrose
Historical Consultant to The Pacific
part 1
Jim Dingeman
part 2
part 3
Interview with Philip Beidler
Jim Dingeman
Author of The Good War's Greatest Hits - The WWll Classic and American Remembering
Interview with Bruce C. McKenna
Jim Dingeman
Head Writer of The Pacific
Interview with Jeanine Basinger
Professor at Wesleyn University and Author of The WWll Combat Film
Jim Dingeman
James Delson and Jim Dingeman discuss The Pacific with a focus on Episode 1
Jim Dingeman
Interview with Col Joseph Alexander
Author of Storm Landings
Jim Dingeman
A 1944 documentary by Louis Heyward that used footage taken during the Battle of Tawara. Like The Pacific, With the Marines at Tawaradeals with the 2nd Marine division. It won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject in 1945.