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Between 50 and 60 million people died in World War II. This is how The War begins.
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American soldiers bear witness to the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps in 1945.
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From Luverne to Mobile, Americans pray and wait for word of the D-Day invasion.
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Veterans of Carlson's Raiders, Marines Pete Arias and Bill Lansford face the horror of Iwo Jima.
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Luverne fighter pilot Quentin Aanenson recalls the first time he knew he had killed men.
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Future U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye watched Japanese planes streak overhead on Dec. 7, 1941.
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Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on distilling World War II into a 14-and-a-half-hour film.
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After The Civil War, Ken Burns resisted another war film. Veterans' families changed his mind.
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Wynton Marsalis composed a suite giving each of The War's four towns its own musical voice.
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The archival combat footage in The War arrived silent. Its sound took more than a year to build.
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Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on why World War II, the biggest event in human history, endures.
