Rating: PG
Length: 132 minutes

Widescreen 2.35:1 Color (Anamorphic)

ENGLISH: Dolby Mono 1.1
FRENCH: Dolby Mono 1.1
SPANISH: Dolby Mono 1.1

English

Watch how the plots and strategies unfold between the United States and Japan prior to and when they took each other on in this famous tide turning battle of World War Two.

There are a couple of things here. First, as far as the battle strategies and series of events go, it is historically correct. The subplots involving a father and his son are fictional. Second, they included a lot of footage that was shot during the war; including a couple of bad landings that anyone that watches WWII documentaries have seen many times.

Simply put, the personal subplot slows the movie down. Yes, it is important that we do not forget how we treated Japanese Americans during the war but it really slows everything down; I would have preferred that time to be used more on the combatants.

• Documentary Featuring New Interviews with Producer Walter Mirisch, Director Jack Smight, Editor Frank J. Urioste and Charlton Heston
• Featurette on Composer John Williams
• Featurette on Sensurround Sound
• Original Featurette
• Production Photographs and Portraits with Score by John Williams
• Additional Scenes Exclusively Shot for the Network Television Version
• Production Notes
• Theatrical Trailer

This is easily one of the most famous WWII movies and is loaded with star power. Every fan of this genre should have a copy of this movie in their collection. Even though there are better WWII movies out there, this one can't be overlooked.

Edward Albert - Ens. Thomas Garth

James Coburn - Capt. Vinton Maddox

[Cross of Iron, Duck You Sucker, The Great Escape, Hell is for Heroes, The Magnificent Seven]

Dabney Coleman - Capt. Murray Arnold

[Domino, Dragnet, Modern Problems]

Henry Fonda - Adm. Chester W. Nimitz

[12 Angry Men, Battle of the Bulge, The Grapes of Wrath, My Name is Nobody, Once Upon a Time in the West]

Glenn Ford - Rear Admiral Raymond A. Spruance

[Superman]

Charlton Heston - Capt. Matthew Garth

[Ben Hur, Planet of the Apes (1968), Soylent Green, The Ten Commandments, Tombstone, True Lies]

Hal Holbrook - Cmdr. Joseph Rochefort

[All the President's Men, Creepshow, The Fog (1980), Magnum Force, Men of Honor, Wall Street]

Christina Kokubo - Miss Haruko Sakura

Monte Markham - Lt. Cmdr. Maxwell F. Leslie

Toshirô Mifune - Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto

[1941, Grand Prix, Shogun]

Robert Mitchum - Vice Adm. William F. 'Bull' Halsey Jr.

[Cape Fear (1962), Dead Man, El Dorado, The Enemy Below, The Longest Day]

Pat Morita - RAdm. Ryunosuke Kusaka

Ed Nelson - RAdm. Harry Pearson

Cliff Robertson - Cmdr. Carl Jessop

[3 Days of the Condor, The Devil's Brigade, Escape From L.A., The Exorcist, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2]

James Shigeta - Vice Adm. Chuichi Nagumo

[Die Hard]

Robert Wagner - Lt. Cmdr. Ernest L. Blake

[The Longest Day, The Towering Inferno]

Robert Webber - RAdm. Frank J. 'Jack' Fletcher

[12 Angry Men, The Dirty Dozen, Revenge of the Pink Panther]