PBS The War by Ken Burns - Part1of7 HDTV Divx avi

640x360 Divx part 1 of 7 THE WAR A Ken Burns Film Directed and Produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick In the spring of 1945, as the war in Europe drew to a close, the CBS radio correspondent Eric Sevareid was troubled. He had been reporting on the fighting for four years, and had done his best to convey to his listeners back home all that he had seen and heard in Burma, France, Italy and Germany. But he was haunted by the sense that he had failed. He told his audience: �Only the soldier really lives the war. The journalist does not -- war happens inside a man -- and that is why, in a certain sense, you and your sons from the war will be forever strangers. If, by the miracles of art and genius, in later years two or three among them can open their hearts and the right words come, then perhaps we shall all know a little of what it was like -- and we shall know then that all the present speakers and writers hardly touched the story.� For the past six years we have striven to create a documentary film series about the Second World War in that spirit. Ours has been, in part, a humbling attempt to understand �the things men do in war, and the things war does to them� (as Phil Caputo so aptly noted). We chose to explore the impact of the war on the lives of people living in four American towns -- Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; and Luverne, Minnesota. Over the course of the film�s nearly fifteen hours more than forty men and women opened their hearts to us about the war they knew -- and which we, their inheritors, could only imagine. Above all, we wanted to honor the experiences of those who lived through the greatest cataclysm in human history by providing the opportunity for them to bear witness to their own history. Our film is therefore an attempt to describe, through their eyewitness testimony, what the war was actually like for those who served on the front lines, in the places where the killing and the dying took place, and equally what it was like for their loved ones back home. We have done our best not to sentimentalize, glorify or aestheticize the war, but instead have tried simply to tell the stories of those who did the fighting -- and of their families. In so doing, we have tried to illuminate the intimate, human dimensions of a global catastrophe that took the lives of between 50 and 60 million people -- of whom more than 400,000 were Americans. Through the eyes of our witnesses, it is possible to see the universal in the particular, to understand how the whole country got caught up in the war; how the four towns and their people were permanently transformed; how those who remained at home worked and worried and grieved in the face of the struggle; and in the end, how innocent young men who had been turned into professional killers eventually learned to live in a world without war. Over the course of seven episodes, we spend a great deal of time in battle -- on the ground, in the air and at sea, in Europe and the Pacific -- examining in countless ways and from many perspectives what one of our witnesses, Paul Fussell, described as �the real war.\" �The rest of it,� he told us, �is just the show-biz war. The real war involves getting down there and killing people. And being killed yourself or just barely escaping it. And it gives you attitudes about life and death that are unobtainable anywhere else.� Throughout the series, one theme has stayed constant, one idea has continually emerged as we have gotten to know the brave men and women whose stories it has been our privilege to tell: in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives. The Second World War was fought in thousands of places, too many for any one accounting. This is the story of four American towns and how their citizens experienced that war.

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oblachubs (2007-10-06)

This one will not play for me. I believe it's corrupt. Part 2-4 do though.

dynasystem (2007-10-24)

This works perfectly for me!! thx a bunch smokeonit!
Great film, absolutely brilliant piece of film work

dpippin01 (2007-11-09)

I can only get part 5,6,7 to play the rest won't on VLC or winamp? What codec or player are you guys using?

mysticganja420 (2008-01-10)

Just go this had same prob on most my players(WMP, BS, WAMP) But there is 2 ways you can go about making it work. The first and easy way is to just go out and download VLC Player it seems to have no probs playing the movie. the 2nd is just reencode the video IE avi to avi with a program or what ever you want. Hope this helps

Mensch1 (2008-02-23)

Don't usually write comments but this one deserves a lot of praise. I have all 7 episodes (seeding) and all work perfect. Great upload---Thanks Smoke

smokeonit (2008-08-24)

thnx guys for all the shouts, sorry to hear that the usual suspects had roblems playing some of these files back:
always use VLC with divx/xvid! if your on a mac you can use the perian plugin for the quicktime player to play back divx/xvid! that way you can watch everything via the built in front row!!!
on mininova there's a complete list if you search for "the war ken burns" and also high def 720p as well as the SDTV rips i seeded...

Layor (2008-12-04)

I downloaded all sections and only 3 and 4 will play for me. The rest are just blank. I tried to re-encode them and burn them and had no luck at all. The two are good though but I wish I knew what the problem was. I just deleted the bad ones and will wait until another posting comes around. Sorry but thanks anyway

GrimmCro (2011-07-03)

A-10
V-10
Great audio and video quality, very high and stable download speed considering the number of seeds.
Kudos for your effort, both to smokeonit and the seeders.

poisomike87 (2011-08-15)

I have added this entire series to my seedbox with the "good for you" tag for torrents that I will seed from home and the seedbox forever! awesome series