The Road to World War II 6 pk-

Product Description This classic documentary series follows the events that inevitably sparked World War II, capturing the drama, the excitement and the juxtapositions of these crucial years between the end of World War I and Pearl Harbor. Former CBS News correspondent and commentator, Eric Sevareid, one of the world's most respected figures in journalism, presents this extraordinary series which features stunning original newsreels, soundtracks, and rare archival footage. It was the era of Lucky Lindy, bootleg, Babe Ruth, Valentino and assembly-line Fords. It was also the time of market collapse, Klan meetings, demagogues abroad, red scares at home and bread lines. The best of times, the worst of times, and the times in which the United States reluctantly moved center stage. The Road to World War II is an innovative 16-part series that examines this crucial time as it progressed from the Armistice in 1918 to the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. You will see the people who made history, hear their voices, and revisit the sites of events where consequence occurred. From the election of Roosevelt, to the rise of Hitler in Germany, it's all here. Disc 1: 1. Versailles: The Lost Peace 2. Return to Isolationism 3. The First Salt Talks. Disc 2: 1. Radio, Racism and Foreign Policy 2. The Great Depression and Foreign Affairs. Disc 3: 1. FDR and Hitler: The Rise to Power 2. FDR and Hitler: The Dynamics of Power. Disc 4: 1. America in the Pacific 2. The Recognition of Russia 3. Latin America. Disc 5: 1. The Italian-Ethiopian War 2. The Spanish Civil War 3. The Phony War. Disc 6: 1. FDR and Churchill 2. Japan Invades China 3. War Comes to Pearl Harbor. Bonus Features: Exclusive Heart Newsreels showcase the era leading up to World War II. Review An exemplary series. --The Washington Post Provocative and certainly worthwhile. --The New York Times About the Actor Eric Sevareid, in full Arnold Eric Sevareid (born Nov. 26, 1912, Velva, N.D., U.S. died July 9, 1992, Washington, D.C.), American broadcast journalist, an eloquent commentator and scholarly writer with Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) News (1939 77) who pioneered a new journalism by introducing opinion and analysis in news reports. After graduating from the University of Minnesota (1935), Sevareid worked as a reporter for the Minneapolis Journal (1936 37), which had hired him as a cub reporter in 1930. He then worked at the New York Herald Tribune in Paris until Edward R. Murrow recruited him to join CBS as a news correspondent to cover the outbreak of World War II in Europe (1939). As one of Murrows Boys, Sevareid was the last American to broadcast from Paris and the first to announce that France was poised to surrender to the Germans (1940). After fleeing Paris with his wife and newborn twin sons, he joined Murrow in London to broadcast during the Battle of Britain bombing raids. In late 1940 he returned to the United States until 1943, when he was assigned to the Far East, where he had to parachute from a plane in China and navigate his crew out of Japanese-controlled jungles. His postwar assignments took him to France, Germany, Britain, and the United States, where he became a celebrity in the 1960s when his commentaries were featured on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. Besides his two-minute television editorials, which aired until his retirement in 1977, Sevareid wrote a weekly syndicated column and published such books as Not So Wild a Dream (1946), In One Ear (1952), Small Sounds in the Night (1956), and This Is Eric Sevareid (1964). About the Director Filmmaker Scott Garen has over twenty years of successful and highly diversified production experience as a writer, director, producer and executive producer of network television specials, documentaries, music videos and dramatic programs. Scotts documentary experience was honed on Between the Wars - the CBS broadcast of a Mobil Showcase Presentation of 16 documentaries, hosted by Eric Sevareid; num