World War I America and The Great War

Product Description A generation of innocent young American men with their heads full of high ideals like honor and glory went off to war to make the world safe for democracy. Of all American Doughboys in uniform in 1917-1918, over 53,000 lost their lives in combat and over 200,000 were wounded. This DVD is one of the most accurate interpretations of World War I available, describing the events, causes, trench warfare and the final drive by the American and Allied forces that ended it all on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. This collection of archival footage from sources around the world highlights the battles, the American military leaders, and the remarkable story of the Red Baron, the most feared German pilot who is credited with 80 Allied kills. At the end of the war, after 9 million combatants had lost their lives, the Treaty of Versailles drafted by the Allies, caused enormous bitterness in Germany. This animosity gave rise to Adolph Hitlers Third Reich and World War II, the worst holocaust in human history. Extra Features: The Red Baron; Czar Nicholas II; MacArthur in World War I; World War I and African-American Soldiers; A World Safe for Democracy; World War I Newsreels; World War I Talking Maps. About the Actor Ed Ragozzino - Ragozzino had a lifelong passion for theater, and helped bring about the creation of Eugene Oregons Hult Center for the Performing Arts. Ragozzino taught high school and college drama in Eugene, directed local theater shows and worked as a professional voice talent and actor in movies, television and radio. He campaigned for years on behalf of the performing arts in Oregon in ways both political and personal. Tom Kane - Tom Kane is known for providing the voice of Darwin in The Wild Thornberrys, Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and several other Star Wars titles, Lord Monkey Fist in Disneys Kim Possible, Magneto in Wolverine and the X-Men, Mr. Herriman in Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends, Professor Utonium and Him in The Powerpuff Girls and Ultron in The Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes. About the Director Rolf Forsberg was born on July 12, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Parable (1964), Beyond the Next Mountain (1987), and The Late Great Planet Earth (1979).