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Episode 7 - A World Without War (March - September 1945) (2007)
Directed by Ken Burns
Overview
The War finally reaches its end: the bloody Battle of Okinawa and the kamikaze attacks. The death of President Roosevelt and the assumption of Harry Truman. The Soviets commence their final assault on Berlin. Hitler’s suicide and the fall of the Third Reich. The awful reality of Nazi Germany is discovered with the liberation of the concentration camps and death camps. VE Day following Germany’s surrender. The sinking of USS Indianapolis. Plans for the ultimate, long, and bloody conquest of Japan. The dropping of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The liberation of the American POWs in Japan and VJ Day following the Japanese surrender at the USS Missouri. The episode concludes with the return and reunification of the American fighting men, and the fates of the towns and personalities first featured earlier in this series as they—and the United States—continue with the business of living in a postwar world—in a “world without war”.
Length 124 minutes