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Preview: Season 1 | 1m 22s
Wynton Marsalis talks about composing original music for “The War.”
Aired: 09/22/07
Video has closed captioning.Corporate funding is provided by General Motors, Anheuser-Busch, and Bank of America. Major funding is provided by Lilly Endowment, Inc.;PBS; National Endowment for the Humanities; CPB; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; The Pew Charitable Trusts; The Longaberger Foundation; and Park Foundation, Inc.
Joe Medicine Crow, the last war chief of the Crow Tribe of Montana is profiled in The War.
Sam Hines talks about growing up in Minneapolis in 1941and the excitement of the service.
Making Of | An Intimidating Project
Filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick talk about why “The War” was an intimidating project.
Ray Leopold, Burnett Miller, Dwain Luce and others discuss the horror of the Holocaust.
Making Of | Why WWII Will Be Remembered
The filmmakers talk about WWII and why it will be remembered.
