The War
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| First episode date | September 23, 2007 |
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| Final episode date | October 2, 2007 |
| Narrated by | Keith David |
| Oct 1, 2007 | |
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| Reviews | www.imdb.com |
| Origin releas | September 23 –; October 2, 2007 |
| Product compani | National Endowment for the Humanities |
| Direct by | Ken Burns; Lynn Novick |
| Theme music compos | Wynton Marsalis; "American Anthem" music and lyrics by Gene Scheer; performed by Norah Jones |
| Episodes | EpisodesE07 · A World Without WarOct 2, 2007 E06 · The Ghost FrontOct 1, 2007 E05 · FUBARSep 30, 2007 View 4+ more |
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| ID | 909492 |
About The War
Six years in the making, Ken Burns' seven-part documentary series chronicles the horrifying historical impact of World War II from an American perspective by focusing on the personal stories of private citizens from four American towns: Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota. Together, these four communities serve as a tapestry of the ordeal Americans went through during the four years of the war, as witnesses share their own vivid and often harrowing accounts of how the war dramatically altered their lives as well as those of their friends and neighbours. … MORE
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... This soldier s testimony, however, reveals splits between Ukraine s government and its generals over the state of The War...
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... " " Taxes are higher than at any time since The War, none of which was true in 2010...
Israeli forces reported to be pushing into southern Gaza
... More than 15,500 people have been killed in the strip since The War began, the ministry also said...
Israel-Gaza: UK launches surveillance flights to find Hamas hostages
... The ministry says more than 15,200 people have died in The War in Gaza, sparked by Hamas s attack on Israel on 7 October that killed at least 1,2000 people...
Israel-Gaza war: Residents of Khan Younis say Israeli strikes heaviest since start of war
...By Hugo Bachega in Jerusalem & Adam Durbin in LondonBBC NewsIsrael has carried out intense air strikes on Khan Younis in southern Gaza, with residents describing it as the heaviest bombing of The War...
Bowen: US sets clearer red lines for Israel as ceasefire ends
... " How it does that and what happens next are now the number one preoccupations of Mr Netanyahu, his political allies and enemies in Israel and Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state who has made four trips to Israel and the region since The War started...
UN says end of ceasefire 'nightmare' for people in Gaza
... Israel conducted air strikes on southern Gaza on Friday morning, where hundreds of thousands of people fled earlier in The War to escape fighting in the north...
Why has the Gaza ceasefire come to an end?
... Throughout the week-long ceasefire, Mr Netanyahu has come under pressure, particularly from right-wing elements in his government, to re-start The War - something Israel has continually made clear it intended to do once the agreement had come to an end...
Israeli forces reported to be pushing into southern Gaza
Israeli forces are pushing into southern Gaza around Khan Younis.
The Move , initially reported by Israeli Army Radio , effectively confirms Israel has launched ground operations to the north of Khan Younis.
The Bbc has also verified pictures on Social Media which shows an Israeli tank operating near The City .
The Head of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) later told troops the IDF was also fighting " strongly and thoroughly" in south Gaza.
Lt General Herzi Halevi was speaking to reservists from the Gaza division about military objectives and the IDF's killing of Hamas commanders.
He told The Soldiers : " We fought strongly and thoroughly in the northern Gaza Strip , and We Are also doing it now in the southern Gaza Strip ".
Since a week-long ceasefire ended on Friday, Israel has resumed a large-scale bombing campaign on Gaza, which residents of Khan Younis have described as the heaviest wave of attacks So Far .
The seven-day truce saw Hamas release 110 hostages being held in Gaza In Return for 240 Palestinians being released from Israeli prisons.
A UN official has described a " degree of panic" he has not seen before in a Gaza hospital, after the Israeli military shifted the focus of its offensive to The South .
James Elder, from The Children 's agency Unicef, described Nasser Medical Hospital in Khan Younis as a " warzone".
An adviser to Israel's Prime Minister said Israel is making " maximum effort" to avoid killing civilians.
Mr Elder told The Bbc he could hear constant large explosions close to the Nasser hospital and children were arriving with head injuries, terrible burns, and shrapnel from recent blasts.
" It's a hospital I've gone to regularly and The Children know me now, the families know me now. Those same people are grabbing my hand, or grabbing my shirt saying 'please take us somewhere safe. Where is safe?'"
" They are unfortunately asking A Question to which the only answer is there is nowhere safe. And that includes for them, as they know, that hospital, " He Said .
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says More Than 500 people have been killed since the bombing resumed.
More Than 15,500 people have been killed in The Strip since The War began, the ministry also said.
Israel began its retaliatory bombing of Gaza following Hamas's attacks on southern Israel on 7 October, which saw around 1,200 people killed and 240 taken hostage.
Rockets have also been regularly fired at Israel from Gaza since fighting resumed on Friday. A 22-year-old man in The City of Holon, near Tel Aviv, was treated for minor shrapnel injuries on Saturday.
Hundreds of thousands of people have already fled the fighting to Take Shelter in Khan Younis, after being told to leave the north of The Strip by Israel.
The latest UN update says around 1. 8 million people are internally displaced in Gaza.
Speaking to The Bbc , the UN's Human Rights chief, Filippo Grandi , said Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are being " pushed more and more towards a narrow corner of what is already a very narrow territory".
The IDF has begun posting maps of areas set to be attacked online. It says these maps, along with other measures like phone calls and leaflets being dropped on Gaza by plane, will warn people to evacuate.
Speaking to The Bbc 's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Prime Minister Netanyahu's senior adviser Mark Regev said civilians are not targets and protecting them is made more difficult by Hamas " embedding its military terror machine" in civilian neighbourhoods.
He says the IDF are trying to be " as surgical as we can in a very difficult combat situation" and has given advance warning of attacks.
Separately, the IDF say they have destroyed 500 " terror tunnel" shafts used by Hamas in Gaza, out of the 800 they say have been found So Far .
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