The Pacific /

The Pacific / Videorecording. Pacific (Television program) Robert Schenkkan; George P Pelecanos; Cherylanne Martin; Todd London, (Television producer); Steven Shareshian. - Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2010. - 6 videodiscs (approximately 530 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Ten part miniseries that originally aired on HBO.
Episode titles from Internet movie database.
Special features: "Profiles of The Pacific" portraits (John Basilone, Eugene Sledge, Robert Lecki, Sidney Phillips, R.V. Burgin, Chuck Tatum); "Making The Pacific" featurette; "Anatomy of The Pacific War" featurette; field guides including maps, historical overviews, bios, and Marines' experiences; interviews with historians and veterans; archival footage and mor Bonus photo book.
Features sweeping photography and maps from the Pacific.

Disc 1. Part 1. [Guadalcanal/Leckie] / written by Bruce C. McKenna ; directed by Tim Van Patten ; Part 2. [Basilone] / written by Bruce C. McKenna ; directed by David Nutter --
Disc 2. Part 3. [Melbourne] / written by George Pelecanos and Michelle Ashford ; directed by Jeremy Podeswa ; Part 4. [Gloucester/Pavuvu/Banika] / written by Robert Schenkkan and Graham Yost ; directed by Graham Yost --
Disc. 3. Part 5. [Peleliu Landing] / written by Laurence Andries and Bruce C. McKenna ; directed by Carl Franklin ; Part 6. [Peleliu Airfield]/ written by Bruce C. McKenna and Laurence Andries and Robert Schenkkan ; directed by Tony To --
Disc 4. Part 7. [Peleliu Hills] / written by Bruce C. McKenna ; directed by Tim Van Patten ; Part 8. [Iwo Jima] / written by Robert Schenkkan and Michelle Ashford ; directed by David Nutter and Jeremy Podeswa --
Disc 5. Part 9. [Okinawa] / written by Bruce C. McKenna ; directed by Tim Van Patten ; Part 10. [Home] / written by Bruce C. McKenna and Robert Schenkkan ; directed by Jeremy Podeswa --
Disc. 6. Special features: Profiles of The Pacific ; Making The Pacific / executive producers, Chris Spencer, Karen Sands ; Anatomy of the Pacific War.

Music by Hans Zimmer, Blake Neely, Geoff Zanelli ; editors, Edward A. Warschilka, Alan Cody, Marta Evry ; production designer, Anthony Pratt ; directors of photography, Remi Adefarasin, Stephen F. Windon ; co-producer, Michelle Ashford ; supervising producer, Tim Van Patten. Music by Hans Zimmer, Blake Neely, Geoff Zanelli ; editors, Edward A. Warschilka, Alan Cody, Marta Evry ; production designer, Anthony Pratt ; directors of photography, Remi Adefarasin, Stephen F. Windon ; co-producer, Michelle Ashford ; supervising producer, Tim Van Patten.

narrator, Tom Hanks.


The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day

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World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Area --Drama. --Campaigns
Sledge, E. B. --1923- --Drama. --(Eugene Bondurant),
Leckie, Robert, -- Drama. --1920-2001

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