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Features: DVD
Editor's Note
THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY is a U.S. Navy-sponsored documentary about one of the most famous modern naval battles in the Pacific during World War II. The celebrated director John Ford (Commander John Ford, USNR) presents the battle as it happened with little, if any, post production elements added other than narration. Footage is captured from every possible vantage point, with Ford and his cameramen risking their lives, literally, in the battle zone. (Ford was in fact wounded while filming.) Enemy and friendly planes alike are shot down in this film, in which the loss of American lives is not sugarcoated or censored but grimly presented as a harsh reality of war.
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Features | Region 1 | | Keep Case | | Single Layer | | Full Frame - 1.33 |
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Technical Info
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Goodtimes |
| Release Date: 3/1/2001 |
| Running Time: 50 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1942 | | Catalog ID: 81127 | | UPC: 00018713811271 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: B&W and Color |
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Cast & Crew | Alfred Newman - Composer | | Irving Pichel - Narrator | | James Kevin McGuinness - Narrator | | Donald Crisp - Narrator | | Gregg Toland - Cinematographer | | Jane Darwell - Narrator | | Henry Fonda - Narrator | | Jack Mackenzie - Cinematographer | | John Ford - Director |
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